New education-related laws now in effect, one blocked in court

(The Center Square) – Three new education-related laws are now in effect. They require public higher education institutions to allow athletes to compete only according to their biological sex, to ban DEI policies and programs, and to impose restrictions on tenure.

A federal judge blocked one law from going into effect Sept. 1, which would ban and impose restrictions on public school libraries from having sexually explicit books.

The Save Women’s Sports Act prohibits biological men from competing on a team or as an individual against biological women in college sports. One day before Gov. Greg Abbot signed the bill into law, the Office of the Texas Attorney General filed its 50th lawsuit against the Biden administration over changes attempting to be made to Title IX. The 1972 federal law helped make women’s sports and other legal protections for women possible.

Two out of three American voters are not in favor of transgender female student athletes competing on women's and girls' sports teams, according to The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll of 2,500 registered voters across the U.S., conducted last month by Noble Predictive Insights.