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Smith College, one of the “Seven Sisters” colleges that educates young women, opened in 1875. Imagine what the founder would think had someone told her that one day, men would attend her women-only educational institution. Not men in suits. Men in dresses and make-up pretending to be women.
We should be just as alarmed now as she would have been then.
The people who run Smith College think nothing of the women who don’t want to change in front of men or share rooms and restrooms with men. Men are still dominating, even at a college created for women.
In fact, women at Smith College who complain about such men could be reported to the Bias Response Team, which responds to “bigotry, harassment or intimidation” incidents.
Organizations like Defending Education (ED) are trying to help women. DE filed a complaint last Friday with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights accusing Smith College of violating Title IX, which guarantees equal opportunities for women in schools and educational programs that receive federal funding. From DE (emphasis added):
At the same time, Title IX also protects single-sex spaces: for example, female students are entitled to sex-segregated intimate spaces, single-sex membership in sororities, single-sex athletic teams, and single-sex admissions where an institution has held itself out to be single-sex and provides substantially equivalent educational opportunities.
DE said that Smith College’s accommodations for “gender identity” impinge on single-sex spaces.
The Obama and Biden administrations attempted to redefine the word “sex” in federal law to include sexual orientation and “gender identity.” Smith College’s so-called Equal Education Opportunity Policy reflects this illegal redefinition. Only the U.S. Congress can create or amend federal laws.
The Biden administration cited Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) in its efforts to violate the privacy and undermine the safety of women in K-12 and colleges and universities.
The Supreme Court in Bostock ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and “gender identity.” Three Trump-appointed justices voted with leftist justices. The case involved a male funeral director at a Christian funeral home who wanted to come to work in drag.
These women have a friend in the Trump administration — whether they want that friendship or not.
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