{"id":132652,"date":"2024-07-15T03:59:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=132652"},"modified":"2024-07-15T03:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:59:37","slug":"texas-judges-block-biden-protections-for-lgbtq-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=132652","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Texas judges block Biden protections for LGBTQ students&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-news\/texas-judges-block-biden-protections-lgbtq-students-rcna161631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a>: &#8220;Two conservative federal judges in Texas have blocked President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students, preventing the rule from taking effect in the Republican-led state and a school district represented by a Christian legal rights group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday\u2019s rulings by U.S. District Judges Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo and Reed O\u2019Connor in Fort Worth followed decisions by three other Republican-appointed judges in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/kansas-judge-blocks-bidens-lgbtq-student-protections-4-more-states-2024-07-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kansas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/biden-protections-lgbt-students-blocked-six-more-states-2024-06-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kentucky<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-judge-blocks-biden-protections-transgender-students-four-states-2024-06-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louisiana<\/a>\u00a0blocking the regulation in 14 other states.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC: &#8220;Two conservative federal judges in Texas have blocked President\u00a0Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students, preventing the rule from taking effect in the Republican-led state and a school district represented by a Christian legal rights group. Thursday\u2019s rulings by U.S. District Judges Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo and Reed O\u2019Connor in Fort&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132653,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132652\/revisions\/132653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}