The Biden administration has leaned heavily on the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision to defend its gender-identity directives on sports, pronouns and restrooms, but a federal judge is having none of it.
U.S. District Court Judge Charles Atchley, a Trump appointee in the Eastern District of Tennessee, temporarily blocked anti-discrimination guidances issued last year by the Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, siding with a coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt was among the Republicans who hailed the judge’s order in the lawsuit, which was filed in August.
“We sued the Biden administration to stop it from punishing states that keep men out of women’s sports,” Mr.