WASHINGTON / December 7, 2023 – On March 8, 2021 President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order directing the Department of Education (DOE) to draft a new regulation redefining the meaning of sex to include “gender identity.” (1) The DOE issued a draft regulation on June 23, 2022 (2), but without explanation, missed two self-imposed deadlines to release the final version in May and October of 2023. (3)
In the meantime, attorneys general filed several lawsuits, and dozens of federal and state lawmakers voiced strong opposition to the Biden proposal (4).
The new regulation is feared to have far-reaching and harmful effects on due process for the falsely accused, free speech, gender transitioning of children, and parental rights (5).
In particular, the policy’s impact on women’s sports has sparked considerable debate. Over the past two years, public opinion has shifted away from support for transgender participation in women’s sports. The most recent Gallup poll found that 69% of Americans say that persons should only be allowed to play on sports teams that match their birth sex. These numbers include pluralities of Republicans (93%), Independents (67%), and Democrats (48%). (6)
Opposition to the Title IX regulation has further accelerated in recent months.
First, presidential candidates Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Donald Trump issued calls for the abolition of the Department of Education (7).
In September, 59 organizations signed a letter calling for the resignation of Office for Civil Rights director Catherine Lhamon for repeated and willful violations of the U.S. Constitution: Article 1 regarding the legislative powers of Congress, the First Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment (8).
In November, Rep. Lisa McClain, chairwoman of the Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Health Care, along with House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, sent a letter of concern to DOE Secretary Miguel Cardona. They wrote,
“The Committees are concerned that your efforts to gut due process protections for accused and accusing students, redefine ‘sex discrimination’ to include ‘gender identity,’ and otherwise abandon established regulations protecting women and girls are improperly motivated and destructive to American students.” (9)
On December 5, the House Oversight Committee convened a hearing on “The Importance of Protecting Female Athletics and Title IX.” The hearing highlighted cases in which female athletes had been injured by their male-bodied competitors (10).
“Reckless” can be defined as actions taken without thinking or caring about the consequences. Accordingly, the Biden Administration’s proposal to revamp the Title IX law must be seen as reckless in the eyes of political candidates, federal and state lawmakers, and the American public.
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GENDER IDENTITY IS EASY! . . . YOU ARE THE SEX YOU ARE BORN INTO! Your Brain WILL VERIFY what your Eyes will see!
The Dept of Education needs to be eliminated. If not, at least rename it to better reflect it’s true purpose The Department of Brainwashing.
I would like to see Biden go up against a trans. One on one. And then call it fair and equal.
When, supposedly, highly educated individuals do not promote the concept of purpose in everything that they do, they promote ignorance, willfully. This defeats the very purpose of education gives way to the cravenness of addictions which foster crime for diverse reasons.
Government has a constitutional obligation to promote and fulfill the purposes for which it is constituted, which purpose is far more than a temporary job in a failing corporation. However, consistent with this denial of purpose would be the logical elimination of the Department of Education at the federal level and, while they are at it, they might eliminate every federal-level department, agency, bureau, and office for which one, already, exists at the state level. This will, effectively, reduce the waste at the federal level and cut the size of the needless, federal government.