What Biden’s Title IX Change Means

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What Biden’s Title IX Change Means

The Biden administration recently revised Title IX to include gender identity, potentially affecting sports, prisons, and education. When I first started writing on Title IX in the 1900s (ok, 1999), it was against it because on of it was being used to mandate equality in school spending on sports, which in some instances eliminated sports like football and wrestling because there wasn’t a female equivalent. Now conservatives are sounding the alarm again on why Biden’s rule change is erasing women’s achievement and safety in sports, among other areas.

From Jordan Boyd at The Federalist:

“The final regulations will help to ensure that all students receive appropriate support when they experience sex discrimination and that recipients’ procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sex discrimination are fair to all involved,” the rules claim.

The regulations do even more damage, however, such as by undoing Trump-era due process safeguards for those accused of sexual misconduct, which could include merely using accurate pronouns. They also encroach on parents’ rights and threaten academic free speech by incentivizing schools to censor students and teachers with traditional views on sex and marriage so they don’t lose federal funding.

In a recent article for The Telegraph, Caroline Downey highlighted concerns about transgender policies and their impact on various aspects of society. She wrote:

With this overhaul, any educational institution that receives federal dollars will be forced to allow boys to compete in girl’s sports unless the schools prove that it would compromise safety. In advance of the announcement, several Republican states passed laws to protect the women’s division. But muddying the waters is a hodgepodge of court rulings, federal statutes and regulations, and policies adopted by the various athletics governing bodies. Many of these conflict with each other, making it increasingly necessary for the Supreme Court to intervene.

Gender ideology has disenfranchised women, but it has sacrificed children completely. Following the Biden administration’s cues, progressive states have pushed the medicalisation of gender-confused minors despite growing concern within the international scientific community about its long-term risks.  

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