Arkansas Gov. Sanders Issues Executive Order Defying Biden Admin’s Title IX Rule

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the Title IX expansion ‘plainly ridiculous.’

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks after taking the oath of office in Little Rock, Ark., on Jan. 10, 2023. AP Photo/Will Newton

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued an executive order on Thursday directing state schools to defy the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX protections to include students identifying as transgender.

The Republican governor’s order, signed on Thursday, asserts the state’s commitment to preserving the traditional understanding of sex as an “immutable characteristic of the human body” firmly “rooted in biology and the created order.”