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The Biden administration earlier this week withdrew a proposed rule that would have mandated schools and educational programs that receive federal funding to allow boys and men pretending to be girls and women to play on female sports teams.
Notwithstanding the obvious safety issues, girls and women would no longer have equal opportunity to compete fairly.
The Obama and Biden administrations “reinterpreted” federal civil rights laws to include sexual orientation and “gender identity” in the word sex. The mandate would have extended to single-sex facilities like restrooms and changing rooms. Any boy pretending to be a girl would have access to spaces where girls expect privacy and safety.
Fortunately, a federal court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s illegal rewrite of federal law to expand the definition of sex.
“The entire point of Title IX is to prevent discrimination based on sex,” the court wrote. “Throwing gender identity into the mix eviscerates the statute and renders it largely meaningless.”
The ruling applies nationwide. From Alliance Defending Freedom (emphasis added):
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent a West Virginia high-school female athlete and Christian Educators Association International in the lawsuit alongside the state of Tennessee. The district court ruling applies nationwide and to every part of the Biden Title IX rule, meaning the rule is completely invalidated, and the U.S. Department of Education is unable to enforce it—anywhere.
From Alliance Defending Freedom on X: “As stated by the court: ‘[W]hen Title IX is viewed in its entirety, it is abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of being a male or female.'”
As AFL said, girls and women have suffered harassment by males in their space. A girl named Blake Allen, who was fourteen at the time, felt humiliated when a boy allowed in the girls’ locker room watched the girls in their bras while changing clothes. The school suspended Blake after she complained. Her parents filed a lawsuit on her behalf. The school district settled the lawsuit and paid $125,000 for damages and attorneys’ fees.
Photo credit: Alliance Defending Freedom
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