Conservative courts poised to block new transgender student protections

More than a dozen Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration over new Title IX regulations that add protections for transgender students, setting up a legal battle with the White House over enforcement of the decades-old civil rights law and increasing the likelihood that the measures will be blocked in court before taking effect this summer. 

The Education Department last month unveiled a final set of sweeping changes to Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in...