States That Care About Girls’ Privacy and Safety Should NOT Comply with the Biden Administration’s New Title IX Rules

Resistance is powerful. Conservatives must learn to do it, and do it well. The people in power in Washington will not protect our children.

Red state governors and lawmakers must step up. At least two of those states seek to enforce immigration laws since the federal government doesn’t seem interested.

It looks like they will have to resist the Biden administration’s determination to circumvent the U.S. Congress. States must refuse to comply with the incoherent, absurd, and immoral “transgender” agenda and protect the privacy and safety of women and girls.

The U.S. Department of Education issued final rules that codified the Title IX “guidance” issued early in the Biden administration to expand the definition of the word “sex” in anti-discrimination law to include sexual orientation and “gender identity” — and no doubt any new nonsensical category of victims the government creates.

What this means in everyday practice is that boys pretending to be girls will have access to girls’ private spaces — whether the girls like it or not. And the Biden administration is still considering whether boys should be allowed to rob girls of sports victories, effectively ending girls’ sports teams.

The new rules also rolled back some of the protections that Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump’s former Secretary of Education, put in place to protect sexual assault accusers and the due process rights of the accused on college campuses. From BCN’s post in 2020 about the changes Secretary DeVos made:

Just like in a court of law, schools must produce evidence of the sexual assault, and the accused must be able to confront the accuser. Among the changes, as FIRE noted, there is an express presumption of innocence and impartial investigators and decision-makers.

The Biden administration’s new rules weakened these protections for the accused by, among other things, expanding the definition of sexual harassment, which the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression said will “threaten expressive rights.”

But voters who want to protect the privacy, safety, sense of modesty, and the due process rights of their children don’t want these changes. Congress has not acted to amend federal law in this way. Governors and lawmakers in every state should understand that this executive action is illegitimate and harmful.

That’s why Dr. Cade Brumley, Louisiana’s superintendent of education, has advised school districts in his state not to comply with the new regulations.

Dr. Brumley wrote in a letter (PDF via Christian Post) to school districts that in addition to boys violating girls’ privacy in restrooms and changing rooms, the new rules “could force educators to reference students by names and pronouns not consistent with their biological sex and also erode parent notification of such student desires.”

The rules also could set up “extensive bureaucracies to police free speech on campus.”

Although the Biden administration hasn’t finalized a rule to essentially destroy girls’ sports teams, it will. A new federal rule would conflict with Louisiana’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.

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