Thursday’s decision is a legal victory for six GOP attorneys general, including KY’s Russell Coleman, who sued last spring to block the new rule change from being enforced.

The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s authority.

President-elect Donald Trump was expected to rescind Biden-era rules protecting LGBT+ Americans within his first days in office, with a pledge to “keep men out of women’s sports” and plans to prosecute physicians that provide gender-affirming health care to trans youth.