CONCORD, N.H. – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Female Athletes United, an association of female athletes, filed a motion Friday with the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire to intervene in Tirrell v. Edelblut to defend New Hampshire’s women’s sports law and two executive orders issued by the Trump administration that protect women’s sports. This is the first legal challenge against the Trump administration’s efforts to protect women’s sports. 

FORT WORTH, Texas – A federal district court Wednesday permanently rejected the Biden administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX across the country in the lawsuit Carroll Independent School District v. United States Department of Education. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent the school district, which challenged the previous administration’s attempt to redefine “sex” in Title IX to include “gender identity,” requiring schools to ignore the biological distinction between male and female in favor of “an individual’s sense of their [sic] gender.” As the court recognized, the attempted rewrite has “no basis in reality.” 

ADF Senior Counsel Matt Bowman:  “Universities are meant to be a marketplace of ideas where students can learn to respect diverse opinions and beliefs and not have to fear punishment or harassment because of their own values. The Department of Education under President Trump rightfully updated its regulations to ensure that institutions of higher education have policies that align with the First Amendment....”