A Christian school in Florida will continue to receive federal lunch funding despite rejecting the Biden administration&#8217;s expansion of Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Grant Park Christian Academy in Tampa, Florida, filed a lawsuit against the federal government and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried over the issue. The change was announced just days before a previously scheduled hearing.
&#8220;It shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit to get the government to respect religious freedom,&#8221; Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo, an Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer representing the case, said in a <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/8/florida-christian-school-gets-gender-rule-exemptio/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> shared with the Washington Times.
&#8220;Grant Park Christian Academy treats every child with dignity and respect and never turns away a hungry child. … We will defend other public and private schools across the country who remain under the burden of this unlawful mandate that violates religious beliefs,&#8221; the statement added.
According to court documents, the case threatened to end free meals for 56 low-income students attending the school. The expanded Title IX regulations sought to withhold funding from schools for failing to comply with new requirements related to the use of school restrooms, hiring, and preferred pronoun usage.
The Title IX controversy is one of many facing the nation regarding the issue. In several conservative-led states, the changes have led to the discussion of new legislation, particularly regarding bans against biological males participating in girls&#8217; sports.
In Oklahoma, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt signed the “<a href="http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22%20ENR/SB/SB2%20ENR.PDF">Save Women’s Sports Act</a>” into law last March, which designates sports teams to be based on athletes’ biological sex for kindergarten through college. 
“When it comes to sports and athletics, girls should compete against girls. Boys should compete against boys,” Stitt <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://oklahoma.gov/governor/newsroom/newsroom/2022/march2022/governor-stitt-signs--save-women-s-sports-act--into-law.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “And let’s be very clear — that’s all this bill says.”
The new law has led to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oklahoma-public-schools-require-student-athletes-to-sign-biological-sex-affidavits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent controversy</a> as parents must sign a biological sex affidavit for students participating in school sports.
In another ruling related to Title IX changes last month, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s Title IX guidance on gender identity and sexual orientation.
&#8220;As it currently stands, plaintiffs must choose between the threat of legal consequences — enforcement action, civil penalties, and the withholding of federal funding — or altering their state laws to ensure compliance with the guidance and avoid such adverse action,” U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TennesseeOrderOpinionPI.pdf">wrote</a> in his preliminary injunction.
The legal battles follow proposed changes to Title IX that were announced on the 50th anniversary of the civil rights law in June, which bars schools that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex.
“Over the last 50 years, Title IX has paved the way for millions of girls and women to access equal opportunity in our nation’s schools and has been instrumental in combating sexual assault and sexual violence in educational settings,” said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-proposed-changes-title-ix-regulations-invites-public-comment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
“As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this landmark law, our proposed changes will allow us to continue that progress and ensure all our nation’s students – no matter where they live, who they are, or whom they love – can learn, grow, and thrive in school,” Cardona said.

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Student-athletes competing on Oklahoma public school sports teams must now complete a &#8220;biological sex affidavit&#8221; to determine whether they are eligible.
The requirement comes after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the &#8220;<a href="http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22%20ENR/SB/SB2%20ENR.PDF">Save Women&#8217;s Sports Act</a>&#8221; into law last March, which designates sports teams to be based on athletes&#8217; biological sex. The requirement applies from kindergarten through college. 
&#8220;When it comes to sports and athletics, girls should compete against girls. Boys should compete against boys,&#8221; Stitt <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://oklahoma.gov/governor/newsroom/newsroom/2022/march2022/governor-stitt-signs--save-women-s-sports-act--into-law.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;And let&#8217;s be very clear — that&#8217;s all this bill says.&#8221;
Erin Matson, executive director at the abortion and reproductive rights organization Reproaction, shared on Thursday an affidavit from Woodall Public School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on her social media page, which began making news headlines over the weekend. 
&#8220;Do you understand what is happening? This has nothing to do with encouraging girls to be athletes,&#8221;  Matson said. &#8220;This is totalitarianism. It is the white nationalist agenda. The anti-LGBTQ agenda. The anti-abortion agenda. It is all the same agenda.&#8221;
&#8220;This is real. Shared with permission,&#8221; Matson added.
Ginger Knight, superintendent at Woodall Public Schools, confirmed via email to NBC News that state law requires districts to have students complete the form if they want to participate in athletics.
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Do you understand what is happening? 
This has nothing to do with encouraging girls to be athletes.
This is totalitarianism. It is the white nationalist agenda. The anti-LGBTQ agenda. The anti-abortion agenda. It is all the same agenda.
This is real. Shared with permission. <a href="https://t.co/CGZ1SN5jr2">pic.twitter.com/CGZ1SN5jr2</a>
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Oklahoma has become the first state to require an affidavit proving the student-athletes biological sex. Those under 18 can have their parent or guardian sign the document. Once the student turns 18 years old, they must sign the affidavit themselves. Student-athletes must sign an affidavit before each school year. 
Other Oklahoma public schools have begun creating similar forms for students looking to participate in sports.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to do this — we&#8217;re going to abide by the law,&#8221; Pat Dodson, superintendent of Grove Public Schools, told <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.koamnewsnow.com/oklahoma-schools-now-require-biological-sex-affidavit-for-student-athletes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KOAM News Now</a>. &#8220;But I do think it&#8217;s just a little bit too much, and it&#8217;s an overreach on behalf of our legislators.&#8221; 
Last year the Department of Education issued guidance saying it would interpret Title IX, which protects students in federally funded schools from sex-based discrimination, to include discrimination based on &#8216;gender identity&#8217; and sexual orientation rather than strictly biological markers of sex. 

Nina Short, a co-founder of Four-States Youth For Equality, told KOAM News Now that the bill defies federal law. 
&#8220;Not only are they not accepted and safe at home, but they go to school, and they&#8217;re not safe or accepted there,&#8221; Short said. &#8220;And that just further shows that they&#8217;re not accepted that they are discriminated against.&#8221; 
&#8220;Title IX was put in place, and it does not allow sexual discrimination of any kind,&#8221; she added.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/31566391/us-secretary-education-miguel-cardona-backs-transgender-athletes-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN</a> he believes in local and state control. 
However, the department has &#8220;a responsibility to protect the civil rights of students, and if we feel the civil rights are being violated, we will act.&#8221; 
Cardona also said girls competing in high school sports have 1.3 million fewer opportunities than boys. 
&#8220;And we know at the college level — it&#8217;s probably similar,&#8221; Cardona said.
State Senator Julie Daniels (R-OK) said during the signing of the &#8220;Save Women&#8217;s Sports Act&#8221; earlier this year that five decades of Title IX would quickly become undone if sports teams allow &#8220;just a few biological males&#8221; to win awards designed for women.
Oklahoma joined 18 other states that have passed legislation banning transgender athletes from competing in public school sports.

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A new lawsuit accuses both Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration of punishing low-income children attending Christian schools by threatening to take away the children&#8217;s lunches if the school does not adhere to leftist ideological principles, including on gender identity.
Grant Park Christian Academy is a school that serves Tampa, Florida&#8217;s low-income minority students. These students benefit from free meals from the school&#8217;s lunch program — perhaps the only food they eat all day, says the lawsuit, filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Faith Action Ministry Alliance and Grant Park Christian Academy. But under new Title IX interpretations on gender identity, Grant Park Christian Academy may no longer be able to feed these children.
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&#8220;That choice that they are giving us [is] either to comply with this ideology and alter the course of our operations and to violate our own core principles and beliefs, or lose out on the nutrition for the children, lose out on the meals,&#8221; Pastor Alfred Johnson, the founder of Faith Action Ministry Alliance, said in a Wednesday phone interview with The Daily Wire.
&#8220;This is not just pertaining to Grant Park Christian Academy,&#8221; Johnson added. &#8220;You&#8217;re dealing with tens of thousands of students who are going to be impacted by this. Some of these schools are not even aware of how Title IX has been reinterpreted. And so many of them are going to be in violation, probably without even knowing about it.&#8221;
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The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against both the Biden administration and Fried, the state agriculture commissioner running for governor. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has promised that it will interpret “the prohibition on discrimination based on sex found in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 … to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” This would mean that schools that do not allow biological males in girl’s sports, girl’s locker rooms, or girl’s restrooms would be considered to be discriminating against students based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
State and local agencies, as well as program operators and sponsors receiving funds from FNS will be required to “investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation,” the USDA said, and these organizations must update their policies and signage to “include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.”
Since Grant Park Christian Academy receives funding to pay for school lunches through the Department of Agriculture and through the National School Lunch Program (administered by Fried), the school&#8217;s ability to feed the children is at stake, the lawsuit alleges.
The suit also emphasizes that Grant Park Christian Academy never excludes or discriminates against students because of sex, but due to the Biden administration&#8217;s re-defining of the word, Fried is &#8220;poised to block Grant Park Christian Academy’s funding for school lunches this year.&#8221;
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&#8220;If Grant Park Christian Academy complies with the new school lunch mandate, it will suffer harms to its educational mission, free speech, and religious exercise,&#8221; the lawsuit says.
&#8220;It will no longer be able to maintain sex-separated restrooms for boys and girls based on their biological differences; to maintain sex-specific dress code and uniform policies, where, for example, only female students are permitted to wear skorts; to draw its workforce from among those who share and live out its religious convictions; and to refrain from using pronouns that do not correspond to biological sex,&#8221; the suit adds.
When Grant Park Christian Academy told state officials that the lunch mandate is &#8220;not based on an accurate understanding of the law&#8221; and emphasized that regardless, there is a religious exemption to Title IX, Fried’s office allegedly told the school that participating schools &#8220;must comply&#8221; or forgo the lunch program.
&#8220;In short,&#8221; the suit said, &#8220;the Biden Administration and Commissioner Fried’s push to redefine sex in federal law has now reached the point where they will deny school lunches to underprivileged students, just because their school will not violate their religious beliefs.&#8221;
&#8220;Schoolchildren should not have to pay the price for federal and state officials’ misplaced and unlawful agenda,&#8221; the litigation continues. &#8220;As other courts have held, government officials act unlawfully when they seek to rewrite Title IX through an arbitrary rule without public participation and oversight—and with no thought to the chaos and confusion.&#8221;
ADF Legal Counsel Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo told The Daily Wire in a Wednesday phone interview that the Biden administration is asking the school to &#8220;choose between violating its religious beliefs and feeding the children.&#8221;
&#8220;Under Title IX, this religious school has an exemption from having to comply with policies that do not correspond to their Christian convictions,&#8221; Steinmiller-Perdomo continued. &#8220;And the Biden administration is trying to erase that exemption.&#8221;
Fried has ignored the school&#8217;s requests for exemption up to this point, the ADF legal counsel said, noting that the litigation will have the courts weigh in as to &#8220;what&#8217;s the proper application of Title IX.&#8221;

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Lawsuit Accuses Biden, FL Agriculture Commissioner Of Threatening Kid’s School Lunches Over Ideology

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration&#8217;s Title IX guidance on gender identity and sexual orientation.
U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley in the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled last week that the administration&#8217;s guidance misquoted the Supreme Court to equate sex and gender identity, likely violating federal law.
The administration&#8217;s guidance effectively forced states to allow biological males to use girls restrooms, forbade states from barring males from participating in female sports, and forced employers to use employees&#8217; preferred pronouns, all at the risk of losing federal funding, according to the state attorneys general who sued the administration. The guidance was released last year by the Education Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“As it currently stands, plaintiffs must choose between the threat of legal consequences — enforcement action, civil penalties, and the withholding of federal funding — or altering their state laws to ensure compliance with the guidance and avoid such adverse action,&#8221; Atchley, a Trump appointee, <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TennesseeOrderOpinionPI.pdf">wrote</a> in his preliminary injunction.
The Biden administration inappropriately invoked the Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, a case that dealt with transgender employment, the judge said.
In the Bostock majority opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch included a caveat about the scope of the court&#8217;s decision.
“They say sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes will prove unsustainable after our decision today but none of these other laws are before us; we have not had the benefit of adversarial testing about the meaning of their terms, and we do not prejudge any such question today,” Gorsuch wrote.
Atchley wrote that, “in applying Bostock to Title IX, the Department overlooked the caveats expressly recognized by the Supreme Court and created new law.”
The judge cited Tennessee&#8217;s laws, which organize school sports teams by &#8220;the student&#8217;s sex at the time of the student&#8217;s birth&#8221; and allow students and employees to sue a school that deliberately allows people of the opposite sex use a single-sex bathroom.
Atchley declared that at least 10 of the 20 states have demonstrated that there is a concrete and imminent threat to their ability to enforce their state laws. That threat is &#8220;fairly traceable&#8221; back to the guidelines, the judge said.
Last week&#8217;s ruling marks a major victory for the group of Republican attorneys general who sued the administration last summer over the guidance. The group is led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slattery.
The Alliance Defending Freedom applauded the ruling. The conservative legal group has filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit on behalf of three female student athletes and a Christian schools association.
“Girls involved in sports deserve the opportunity to compete on a safe and fair playing field against other female athletes. The court was right to find that the Biden administration exceeded its authority in issuing orders that jeopardize fair play,” ADF Senior Counsel Jonathan Scruggs said.
“The Biden administration’s radical push to redefine sex in federal law—and without the required public comment period—threatens to erase women’s sports and eliminate the opportunities for women that Title IX was intended to protect. We are pleased that female athletes will be protected in 20 states while this lawsuit moves forward,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Campaign bashed the ruling, calling it &#8220;another example of far-right judges legislating from the bench.&#8221;
&#8220;HRC will continue to fight these anti-transgender rulings with every tool in our toolbox,&#8221; said the group, the largest LGBT advocacy and political lobbying organization in the country.

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The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) student who was expelled for retweeting a sexually explicit Japanese-style cartoon — known as hentai — from a pseudonymous account has been reinstated following a pressure campaign against the school.
Ash Mikkelsen was expelled after another student complained about an image Mikkelsen retweeted (the image in question is not the same one at the top of this article). Mikkelsen didn’t tag the university or anyone from the university community in the tweet, and didn’t send it to anyone connected to the university — it was simply a retweet, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-art-student-was-expelled-for-retweeting-a-sexually-explicit-cartoon-on-their-personal-pseudonymous-twitter-account">previously reported</a>. Last week, KCAI reversed its decision to expel Mikkelsen.
“I’m relieved that the school has recognized its mistake and rectified its actions,” Mikkelsen said in a <a href="https://www.thefire.org/victory-art-institute-reverses-expulsion-for-student-who-retweeted-sexual-art/">statement</a> published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). “Knowing that standing up for free expression will now allow other students to consume fictitious content without fearing punishment is icing on the cake.”
FIRE program officer Sabrina Conza also weighed in on KCAI’s decision.
“When we have an art school investigating and punishing students for their artistic expression, we have a real problem,” Conza said in a statement. “Ash should have never had their academic future threatened because an art school didn’t like the type of art they shared on their personal social media account.”
A student who saw Mikkelsen’s retweet had complained to KCAI administrators in June, FIRE reported, and the school opened an investigation, claiming Mikkelsen violated the Student Code of Conduct. Assistant Dean of Students Joe Timson sent Mikkelsen a letter on June 15 wanting to speak about “content on social media that has contributed to the development of a hostile environment and reflects potential Sexual Harassment.”
Mikkelsen met with Timson that same day to discuss the allegations. Just 14 days later, on June 29, Timson informed Mikkelsen they were being expelled. Mikkelsen, according to FIRE, was given no meaningful chance to dispute the allegations, but was given five days to appeal. In the wake of the expulsion, FIRE took up Mikkelsen’s case, <a href="https://www.thefire.org/kansas-city-art-institute-expels-student-for-retweeting-sexual-art/">noting</a> that KCAI expelled Mikkelsen for a non-Title IX hostile environment sexual harassment offense under its Student Code of Conduct, but that no definition of sexual harassment exists in that code. Further, the organization noted, Mikkelsen’s tweets don’t meet the legal definition of sexual harassment, which <a href="https://www.thefire.org/what-does-davis-harassment-look-like-heres-an-example/">says</a> discriminatory conduct must be “so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive, and that so undermines and detracts from the victims’ educational experience, that the victim-students are effectively denied equal access to an institution’s resources and opportunities.”
Retweeting hentai wouldn’t meet that definition, FIRE insisted.
KCAI is a private university, so it’s not bound by the same constitutional protections as a public university, but as FIRE noted, the school is morally and contractually required to uphold its own policies.

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Fox News anchor Dana Perino blasted President Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-officially-proposes-extending-title-ix-to-transgender-students/">expand Title IX</a> to include transgender students — and called out the women who had fought so hard to win Title IX protections but were silent as the administration put forth policies that would effectively dismantle them.
Perino made the comments during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Five,&#8221; arguing that Biden&#8217;s plan would erase the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/senator-tuberville-biden-title-ix-modifications-will-destroy-opportunities-for-generations-of-women-and-girls/">protections</a> that many women had fought for — with regard to athletics in particular.
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&quot;They&#39;re erasing gender and women from the statute,&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaPerino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaPerino</a> pans Biden plan to unravel Title IX. &quot;Wokism will be mandatory, if you want to compete or don’t want to be expelled &#8230; That’s why these women who valiantly fought and now are silent, it’s shameful.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Fls3o0q7ck">pic.twitter.com/Fls3o0q7ck</a>
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Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN) opened the conversation with a joke, asking Perino to weigh in since she once beat co-host Jesse Watters in a basketball shooting competition.
&#8220;I really didn’t, but I should have. I was robbed,&#8221; Perino laughed, before turning to the topic at hand.
&#8220;I’ve been baffled by why the women who fought for Title IX have been silent. They benefited tremendously. They gave a lot of women and young girls opportunities for scholarships and opportunities to compete,&#8221; Perino began.
She went on to note that athletes were often better students, and that participation in organized athletics often helped students to learn the skills they might need later in life, whether they went into the corporate world or started their own businesses.
&#8220;You learn about teamwork and loss and winning and being gracious. And you learn so many things from it,&#8221; Perino continued. &#8220;And I’ve been baffled. Like where is everybody that succeeded in this? Now I find – I’m no longer baffled. I think it is shameful. Now you have somebody like Riley Gaines, who has to get up her courage, find her strong voice, and be the one that&#8217;s going to say, &#8216;but what about us?'&#8221;
Perino then addressed the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ahead-of-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix-senator-tuberville-warns-biden-admin-is-hacking-away-at-womens-progress/">proposed rule changes</a> directly, adding, &#8220;They’re erasing gender and women from the statute. So it&#8217;s like you don’t even need a statute anymore. They’re basically saying on the 50th anniversary of Title IX, let’s just do away with it because you don’t need women’s sports. The other thing I would point out, this is going to apply to all public schools and most universities, if the Biden rules go through, that using the wrong gender pronouns will now be considered sexual harassment. So wokism will be mandatory, if you want to compete or don’t want to be expelled. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening out there. And that’s why these women who valiantly fought, and now are silent, it’s shameful.&#8221;

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The Biden administration on Thursday officially proposed extending Title IX&#8217;s protections to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgender</a> students.
The proposed change would &#8220;protect LGBTQI+ students from discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics,&#8221; the Department of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education">Education</a> <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-proposed-changes-title-ix-regulations-invites-public-comment">said</a> in a statement.
The department proposed the Title IX change on the 50th anniversary of the civil rights law, which bars schools that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex. When Title IX was passed half a century ago, it was meant to protect the rights of women and girls in educational settings. Since then, it has been interpreted to apply to other protected classes, including LGBTQ people.
&#8220;Over the last 50 years, Title IX has paved the way for millions of girls and women to access equal opportunity in our nation&#8217;s schools and has been instrumental in combating sexual assault and sexual violence in educational settings,&#8221; said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.
&#8220;As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this landmark law, our proposed changes will allow us to continue that progress and ensure all our nation&#8217;s students – no matter where they live, who they are, or whom they love – can learn, grow, and thrive in school,&#8221; Cardona said.
Along with the changes on transgender students, the proposed rules would also overhaul the process by which schools handle sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations. The overhaul would nix changes made by the Trump administration that were intended to make the process more fair for accused students. While campaigning for president, President Joe Biden said the Trump administration&#8217;s changes &#8220;shame and silence survivors&#8221; and vowed to scrap them.
The new rules will &#8220;restore vital protections for students in our nation’s schools which were eroded by controversial regulations implemented during the previous Administration,&#8221; the education department said Thursday in a <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9nprm-factsheet.pdf">fact sheet</a> accompanying the proposed rule.
&#8220;Those regulations weakened protections for survivors of sexual assault and diminished the promise of an education free from discrimination,&#8221; the department said.
The new rules would rollback constitutional protections for students accused of heinous crimes, including the right to a live hearing, to cross-examine their accuser and the witnesses against them, and allowing a &#8220;single investigator&#8221; model that allows a single person to act as investigator, judge, jury, and executioner. This model would also prevent accused students from learning the evidence against them, such as what the accuser and witnesses are specifically accusing them of, and allow schools to keep individual testimonies hidden, making it more difficult for wrongly accused students to file a lawsuit to protect their civil rights.
Courts have consistently upheld civil rights for accused students in recent years, and legal challenges to the Trump administration&#8217;s regulations all failed.
In 2016, the Obama administration <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/obama-administration-title-ix-transgender-student-rights-223149">issued</a> guidance saying Title IX protections also apply to a transgender student&#8217;s bathroom preference. The next year, however, the Trump administration <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/516664633/trump-administration-rescinds-obama-rule-on-transgender-students-bathroom-use">reversed</a> that guidance, saying the issue should not have been dealt with at the federal level and that there &#8220;must be due regard for the primary role of states and local school districts in establishing educational policy.&#8221;
Over the last year, parents have raised the alarm about biological males in girls bathrooms at school. In some cases, even elementary schools have <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/parents-push-back-against-elementary-schools-trans-bathroom-policy-olentangy-school-district-gender-inclusive-restroom-title-ix-lgbtq-transgender-students-single-sex-spaces">adopted</a> policies allowing transgender-identifying boys to use the girls bathrooms, prompting parents to complain at school board meetings.
The Biden administration did not address what the new rules would mean for transgender students competing on the college sports team of their preferred gender, an issue that has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lia-thomas-teammate-competitor-blast-title-as-illegitimate-in-wake-of-fina-transgender-restrictions">sparked</a> national debate in recent months.
The proposed rule is slated to be published in the Federal Register and will be open for public comment for 60 days afterwards. If approved, the policy would not take effect until next year at the earliest.

Biden Officially Proposes Extending Title IX To Transgender Students

Biden Administration

WASHINGTON — Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/title-ix">Title IX</a> federal civil rights law, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tommy-tuberville">Sen. Tommy Tuberville</a> (R-AL) is warning that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden&#8217;s administration</a> is hacking away at women&#8217;s progress in the name of gender equality.
Passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and signed by President Richard Nixon on June 23, 1972, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/title-ix">Title IX</a> prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or education programs that receive federal funding. The move opened up many opportunities for women and girls to achieve in both academics and in sports.
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,&#8221; read the rule, co-authored by former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Patsy Matsu Mink, the first woman of color elected to Congress.
&#8221;It&#8217;s rare as a legislator that you fight for legislation you believe in and stay around or live long enough to see it come to fruition,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/us/patsy-mink-veteran-hawaii-congresswoman-dies-at-74.html">said Mink in 1995</a> as she met with top U.S. female basketball players. The former congresswoman passed away in 2002.
But the Biden administration recently announced plans to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/30/transgender-discrimination-title-ix-rule-students/">redefine sex</a> to include “sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics (including intersex traits), pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.&#8221; This would ban discrimination based on gender identity, indicating that schools would be prevented from prohibiting biological males from participating in women’s sports.
And critics like Tuberville say the move directly contradicts the good accomplished for women through Title IX.
&#8220;The federal government, you know, we don&#8217;t get a lot right,&#8221; Tuberville, who coached Auburn University football for almost a decade, said during a phone interview with The Daily Wire. &#8220;But they got it right when they passed Title IX.&#8221;
The Alabama senator shared that he also previously coached girls high school basketball before his career as a football coach, saying that the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts will &#8220;be devastating to women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
And most Americans won&#8217;t agree with this move, he added, suggesting that leftist activists and policy makers are focused on gender identity and &#8220;want everybody to kind of be pretty much the same.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re trying to destroy the family,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so expanding the definition of sex is right up their alley, and by allowing biological males to compete in women&#8217;s sports, I think that&#8217;s trying to degrade women.&#8221;
Sarah Cowart, an academic coach who grew up playing sports in Alabama in middle and high school, told The Daily Wire that she started a girls soccer team in high school because her only other option was to play on the boys soccer team — and she knew that she wouldn&#8217;t stand a chance.
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t going to get playing time just because I knew the difference of my size, their size, their skill and speed. It just wasn&#8217;t going to happen. I wasn&#8217;t going to play,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And so I think that&#8217;s what we saw when we were able to start the women&#8217;s soccer team in high school that afforded us the opportunity to be on the same playing field with our peers.&#8221;
&#8220;When you go up against them, you are playing the hardest that you can,&#8221; Cowart explained. &#8220;And when you&#8217;re trying [your] hardest and you&#8217;re playing your hardest, but you still aren&#8217;t being successful, that kills your spirit and thinking, well, I just can&#8217;t do this at all.&#8221;
Cowart celebrated that Title IX had bestowed on her and her teammates the freedom to create and lead such a team.
&#8220;I think about it from a standpoint of accessibility,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Had we not come together as girls, at our age, we wouldn&#8217;t have had that opportunity. We would have had to end up playing with the guys team on a JV level again.&#8221;
Controversy over biological males in women&#8217;s sports has escalated as transgender swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lia-thomas">Lia Thomas</a>, a biological male, competed in the NCAA Women&#8217;s Swimming and Diving Championships this spring, annihilating competitors in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biologically-male-swimmer-annihilates-female-competitors-in-500-free">women&#8217;s 500 freestyle</a>.
On Sunday, the International Swimming Federation (FINA), issued new restrictions on transgender swimmers, stating that only transgender swimmers who transitioned from male to female before age 12 may compete in women’s events.
“I’m very hopeful about it,” an anonymous teammate of Thomas told The Daily Wire on Tuesday of the new restrictions. That teammate was granted anonymity out of fear of backlash.
“I am incredibly happy that Lia Thomas will never be an Olympic gold medalist. I think that’s great. But this doesn’t actually fix the NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association],” she added.
Both Thomas&#8217; teammate and Riley Gaines, a University of Kentucky swimmer, said that they wish the NCAA would rescind Thomas’ championship title.
“I believe Lia is not the fastest female in the 500-yard freestyle, therefore I don’t think she should be awarded as a female national champion,” Gaines told The Daily Wire, adding that the NCAA “needs to take accountability.&#8221;
“FINA prioritized competitive fairness which is more than any other large governing body has done thus far,” Gaines said.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

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Ahead Of 50th Anniversary Of Title IX, Senator Tuberville Warns Biden Admin Is Hacking Away At Women’s Progress

Tuberville Slams Biden Admin For Inhibiting Women's Rights Ahead Of Title IX Anniversary

Tommy Tuberville

It is difficult to overstate how controversial it is to try to change Title IX. Or rather, how controversial it is to limit excesses under the law. Generations of Americans associate Title IX with progress for women in education and athletics, and rightly so. For feminists of a certain age, it is the weapon with which they have fought for fifty years, not just to create opportunities for women, but to break down the differences between the sexes. Now, with the advent of the transgender movement, Title IX is being used to abolish the notion of biological sex altogether. Making the law more sweeping than Congress intended was pretty easy—Democratic administrations had been doing it for decades. But reining in excesses under the law—that was hard. 
There are credible legal scholars who argue that Title IX doesn’t apply to sexual harassment cases at all. In fact, the minority opinion in a 5–4 case on the topic before the Supreme Court said Title IX didn’t have such a broad reach. But we chose not to make that argument. My goal was to preserve the integrity of the law, and the advancements for girls and women within it, while at the same time restoring due process to sexual harassment cases. Our strategy was simple: To do the opposite of what we had done nine months earlier with the transgender bathroom rule. The first thing we would do is explain what we were doing and why to the public and provide the rationale for changing a landmark civil rights law. 
We planned a speech announcing that I was pulling the Obama rule and writing a new one. It would be a major address, scheduled to be given at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville in August 2017. The Jefferson rotunda on the UVA campus was a great place to talk about falling short of our ideals but still honoring and pursuing them. There was another reason UVA was a good place to announce our reform of Title IX: The university had recently been tarred with sexual assault allegations that were ultimately discredited. The accuser turned out to be a fraud. And the accused were pronounced guilty until proven innocent. 
In November 2014, Rolling Stone magazine published an inflammatory report under the clickbait headline, “A Rape on Campus.” The article alleged that an undergraduate identified only as “Jackie” had been gang-raped on campus. Investigators later uncovered that the journalist who wrote the piece had been looking for a sexual assault case to show “that there’s this pervasive culture of sexual harassment/rape culture” on campus. She found Jackie, who told a horrifying story of going to a party at the fraternity house, being taken into an upstairs bedroom, and serially raped by seven members of the fraternity. The article immediately went viral, attracting more than 2.7 million views online. 
Literally days after the article was published, Jackie’s account began to fall apart. It was discovered that she fabricated key parts of her story, including inventing a fictional frat brother who took her to the party. Rolling Stone eventually retracted the story and settled defamation lawsuits with both the fraternity and the university. But the damage had been done. The narrative depicted in the article—that university officials are indifferent to widespread rape on campus— had trashed UVA’s reputation.
UVA had been a victim of the rush to judgment that surrounded many Title IX sexual assault claims on campus. It was a perfect venue for us to announce our intention to reestablish justice under the law. We were ready to go. Then Charlottesville happened. 
My speech was scheduled for a just a week after the white supremacist riots. It was a tough time for the administration. UVA dean of students Allen Groves called to say that I was still welcome, but we might want to reconsider coming to Charlottesville just then. Though it was a noble offer from someone who has a spine of steel when it comes to protecting free speech on campus, we told Dean Groves we weren’t going to come. I was a lightning rod, the subject was wildly controversial, and the community was already on edge. Speaking at UVA was simply not a good idea. 
So we went back to the drawing board. But school after school turned us down when we contacted them to host the speech. Many of the same schools that had quietly complained to us how bad the Title IX rules were lost the courage of their convictions when it came to hosting the speech. After eleven tries, we were concerned I wouldn’t be welcome anywhere. We had begun planning to give the speech at the Department of Education when a group of principled and courageous students from George Mason University (GMU) Federalist Society chapter agreed to host the speech at GMU’s Antonin Scalia Law School. 
On the day of the speech, I arrived at the venue in Arlington, Virginia, to a large group of protestors screaming “Stop Betsy DeVos!” Another group of protestors lined the hallway leading to the auditorium screaming “Rape apologist!” in my face. Thankfully, the audience for the speech itself was attentive and respectful. The theme woven through my address was “a better way.” Sexual harassment and assault on campus was a genuine problem, I said, and Title IX had protected students’ right to learn in safety for decades. 
But there had to be a better way. 
I talked about the many students I had heard from since I became secretary whose lives had been forever changed by sexual assault. I talked about the parents who cried as they recounted stories of receiving the phone call from their daughter who had been a victim or their son who had been accused of sexual assault. I talked about being a mom to daughters and sons and trying to imagine what it would be like to receive that call. This was not a problem we could ignore. It was a difficult conversation we had to have. 
“One rape is one too many,” I said. “One assault is one too many. One aggressive act of harassment is one too many.” 
“One person denied due process is one too many.” 
The Obama rules had failed too many students. They forced the hand of schools and tilted the scales of justice. The new rules compelled colleges and universities to step into roles and deal with situations that were beyond their capabilities. So many instances of sexual harassment on campus were “he said, she said” cases in which the truth is difficult for even trained lawyers and investigators to determine—and completely beyond the scope of most college administrators. Alcohol too often clouded memories and distorted motives. Even university officials with the best of intentions were stretched beyond their capabilities by the Title IX rules. In that environment, nobody wins. 
“Any school that refuses to take seriously a student who reports sexual misconduct is one that discriminates,” I told the audience. “And any school that uses a system biased toward finding a student responsible for sexual misconduct also commits discrimination.” 
There clearly was a better way. We were committed to find it by issuing new regulations. We would welcome the feedback of the public, the advice of experts, and the real-world experiences of students. But some lines we would not cross. We would not pit men against women. We would not ignore survivors. We would not cast aside any American’s right to due process. We would not punish speech. And we would seek justice for all students. 
The response to the speech was . . . split. Lawyers, including legal counsels at schools, welcomed the prospect of change. They knew how broken the situation was. Some civil libertarians also welcomed our pledge to restore due process to the accused. But most of the broad Title IX bureaucracy—in Washington, in regional Education Department offices, and at colleges and universities—were vitriolic in their response—extraordinarily so. Catherine Lhamon tweeted absurdly that the new Title IX regulation would be a return “to the bad old days, that predate my birth, when it was permissible to rape and sexually harass students with impunity.” 
There were some positive reviews—one particularly so. At a Camp David retreat for cabinet members a few days after the speech, President Trump held up a Wall Street Journal editorial during lunch. Under the headline “DeVos Pledges to Restore Due Process” was an approving article. Trump brandished the piece and congratulated me. Then he started talking about the Duke University lacrosse scandal. 
In 2006, members of the team hired a woman to dance at a party. The woman subsequently charged three of the players with raping her in the bathroom. Despite the fact that her account of the facts changed multiple times; that she couldn’t identify any of the accused in a lineup; that there was photographic evidence that the event could not have occurred; and that none of the players’ DNA was present on the accuser, the Durham County, North Carolina, district attorney, who was in a close race for reelection, pursued the case for months, permanently scarring the reputations of three men who were eventually declared innocent. 
Trump associated Title IX sexual harassment with the Duke scandal, I think, because he knew the father of one of the lacrosse players. He was a filmmaker. One night Dick and I went to the White House with other cabinet members and spouses for a screening of one of his movies. The president once again mentioned how important it was that I was reforming the Title IX regulation, despite the controversy it caused. As we were leaving, he turned to Dick and said, “She’s tough. She’s tougher than both of us.”
Betsy DeVos served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education from 2017-2021. During her term, DeVos delivered historic reforms to improve education and ensure the protection of civil rights. For more than three decades she’s led the fight for policies that allow students and their parents the freedom to choose the best available educational option.
This post is an excerpt from the author’s new book Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child available June 21, 2022 from Center Street, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group. The book is now available for pre-order on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hostages-No-More-Education-American/dp/1546002014/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2U9511FHJA8EH&amp;keywords=hostages+no+more&amp;qid=1654607722&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=hostages+no+more%2Cstripbooks%2C62&amp;sr=1-1">Amazon.com</a>. 
 
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Secretary DeVos: Restoring Due Process To Title IX And Fighting False Claims Of Campus Sexual Harassment

Readers Pass

Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem vowed Thursday to protect women&#8217;s sports from the Biden administration&#8217;s threats to defund lunch programs for schools that do not adopt the president&#8217;s interpretation of Title IX policies.
“President Biden is holding lunch money for poor Americans hostage in pursuit of his radical agenda,&#8221; Noem said in a statement Thursday morning. &#8220;He is insisting that we allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports or else lose funding for SNAP and school lunch programs.&#8221;
“South Dakota will continue to defend basic fairness so that our girls can compete and achieve. I would remind President Biden that we have defeated him in litigation before and are ready to do so again,&#8221; Noem added, referencing her state&#8217;s lawsuit against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccine mandate, which the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf">struck down</a> in January.
&#8220;Mr. President,&#8221; the governor warned, &#8220;we’ll see you in court.”
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Noem&#8217;s warning draws on a promise from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) that it will interpret &#8220;the prohibition on discrimination based on sex found in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 &#8230; to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.&#8221;
This would mean that schools that do not allow biological males in women&#8217;s sports, women&#8217;s locker rooms, or women&#8217;s restrooms would be considered to be discriminating against students based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
&#8220;Under the leadership of the Biden-Harris Administration, USDA and FNS are issuing this interpretation to help ensure its programs are open, accessible and help promote food and nutrition security, regardless of demographics,&#8221; the USDA said.
&#8220;This action is in line with President Biden’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation/">Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation</a>, and is consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, in which the Court held that the prohibition on sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,&#8221; the department said in a release.
State and local agencies, as well as program operators and sponsors receiving funds from FNS will be required to &#8220;investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation,&#8221; the USDA said, and these organizations must update their policies and signage to &#8220;include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.&#8221;
The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said in a statement that the USDA &#8220;is committed to administering all its programs with equity and fairness, and serving those in need with the highest dignity.&#8221;
&#8220;A key step in advancing these principles is rooting out discrimination in any form – including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” Vilsack said. “At the same time, we must recognize the vulnerability of the LGBTQI+ communities and provide them with an avenue to grieve any discrimination they face. We hope that by standing firm against these inequities we will help bring about much-needed change.”
Jay Richards, Director of the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, told The Daily Wire that Noem &#8221; has this exactly right.&#8221;
&#8220;<a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/the-white-house-plan-make-gender-ideology-central-theme-the-american-experiment" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/the-white-house-plan-make-gender-ideology-central-theme-the-american-experiment&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1654269577061000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2HLXwB9mAg4GZC29r2CBgD">Biden told us last November</a> that gender ideology would be a central theme of his administration, and he’s making good on that promise,&#8221; Richards said. &#8220;States such as Florida, Alabama, and South Dakota are starting to push back against this ideology, as least when it comes to kids.&#8221;
Richards noted that many GOP states have begun introducing laws to &#8220;reserve girls&#8217; sports for girls.&#8221;
&#8220;The Biden White House is committed to fighting such states who resist the gender juggernaut,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The threat from the USDA, to withhold funding for poor public school students in states that don’t surrender, shows just how radical the Biden Administration is on this question. And it’s a terrific opportunity for politicians who claim to defend families and parents’ rights to show their mettle.&#8221;
The Daily Wire first <a href="https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Sen.-Tuberville-Title-IX-Letter-to-ED-Sec.-Cardona-5.31.22.pdf">obtained a May 31 letter </a>sent by Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in which Tuberville warned the Biden administration that its modifications to Title IX will destroy “opportunities for generations of women and girls at the behest of liberal extremism.”
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The senator noted that at least 13 states have enacted legislation banning biological males from women’s sports, warning that the policy reversal would fundamentally affect how women and girls approach athletics going forward.
“It is my understanding that the Department of Education is currently considering a proposed regulation that would modify Title IX implementation to adhere to the progressive priorities of the Biden administration,” Tuberville wrote in the letter.
“Any such weakening of current Title IX protections would amount to a reversal of 50 years of progress for women and girls in sports and an offense to every woman who has ever benefited from the enactment of the law,” he continued. “Title IX has fostered generations of female athletes who would otherwise never have been afforded the same opportunities as their male counterparts.”
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‘We’ll See You In Court’: Kristi Noem Vows To Defend Girls Sports As Biden Admin Threatens Funding For Schools

Kristi Noem Promises To Challenge Biden Title IX Rules Banning Schools From Protecting Women's Sports

Kristi Noem

South Dakota

Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is warning President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration that its modifications to Title IX will destroy &#8220;opportunities for generations of women and girls at the behest of liberal extremism.&#8221;
The Daily Wire first <a href="https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Sen.-Tuberville-Title-IX-Letter-to-ED-Sec.-Cardona-5.31.22.pdf">obtained Tuberville&#8217;s letter</a> to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, which comes after the administration announced that the department would follow through on its December 2021 proposition to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/30/transgender-discrimination-title-ix-rule-students/">redefine sex</a> to include  “sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics (including intersex traits), pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Title IX rules <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/30/transgender-discrimination-title-ix-rule-students/">focus on discrimination</a> on the basis of sex, specifically in education. The Biden administration&#8217;s policies would specify that students could not be discriminated against based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Tuberville&#8217;s letter draws on reports that the Biden administration modifications would allow biological males to participate in women&#8217;s sports — a phenomenon which Tuberville notes &#8220;has already received criticism from across the country.&#8221;
“It is my understanding that the Department of Education is currently considering a proposed regulation that would modify Title IX implementation to adhere to the progressive priorities of the Biden administration,&#8221; Tuberville wrote in the letter.
&#8220;Any such weakening of current Title IX protections would amount to a reversal of 50 years of progress for women and girls in sports and an offense to every woman who has ever benefited from the enactment of the law,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Title IX has fostered generations of female athletes who would otherwise never have been afforded the same opportunities as their male counterparts.&#8221;
The senator notes that at least 13 states have enacted legislation banning biological males from women&#8217;s sports, warning that the policy reversal would fundamentally affect how women and girls approach athletics going forward.
“The entire country is watching while this Administration destroys opportunities for generations of women and girls at the behest of liberal extremism,&#8221; he added.
Tuberville, a retired football coach, has previously called on the Senate to pass the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, legislation which he co-sponsored that would require the definition of “sex” in Title IX to be based “solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
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Senator Tuberville: Biden Title IX Modifications Will Destroy ‘Opportunities For Generations Of Women And Girls’

Tuberville Pushes Back Against Biden Title IX Modifications Allowing Biological Males In Women's Sports 

Miguel Cardona

A group of 22 GOP House leaders sent a letter on Thursday to Biden Administration Education Department Secretary Miguel Cardona opposing the plan to change the definition of Title IX to include gender identity.
The Daily Caller first shared the report regarding the letter led by Oklahoma Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin.
“This change in definition will negate the very foundation on which this protection is based,” Mullin said in a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/house-republicans-markwayne-mullin-letter-biden-miguel-cardona-democrats-compromising-progress-womens-sports-title-ix/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to the Daily Caller. “There will be no level playing field as 50 years of history and progress are erased. Since its introduction, there has been a significant increase in the number of women who participate in sports and go on to pursue them at a collegiate level. It’s a shame the president’s leftist agenda is willing to compromise this,&#8221; he added.
The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/570956191/DAILY-CALLER-OBTAINED-Title-IX-Letter-to-Sec-Cardona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> urged Cardona to stop biological males from being eligible to compete in women&#8217;s sports at the collegiate level.
&#8220;When women are forced to compete against biological males, the level playing field that Title IX created is obsolete,&#8221; the Republican House members wrote.
&#8220;In one year, 275 high school boys ran faster times than the lifetime best of World Champion sprinter Allyson Felix. Earlier this year, Lia Thomas, University of Pennsylvania swimmer and biological male, won the NCAA D1 500-meter National Championship,&#8221; the letter added. &#8220;Your proposed changes to the Title IX rule would make this the norm and would fundamentally erode the very protections it was designed to provide.&#8221;
The communication follows a similar <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/567482760/DAILY-CALLER-OBTAINED-Final-Letter-to-Emmert-on-NCAA-Title-IX-Violations-3-31-22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> sent by House Republicans in March to National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert that urged the NCAA to prohibit biological males from competing in women&#8217;s athletics.
&#8220;In recent years, the NCAA has taken numerous steps to promote women&#8217;s sports. Yet, all these measures are worthless if you are unwilling to ensure a level playing field for biological women,&#8221; the group of GOP leaders wrote.
Several states have recently passed laws to ban biological males from participating in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports. Some, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-signs-bill-banning-biological-males-from-girls-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Dakota&#8217;s recent law</a>, have included sports at the college level. The legislation could come into legal disputes in connection with the Education Department&#8217;s effort to redefine gender to include gender identity.
South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem addressed the transgender controversy in a January <a href="https://news.sd.gov/newsitem.aspx?id=28842" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from her office that later led to signing the state&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Fairness in Sports bill in February.
“One way a young girl exercises her liberty is on the fields and in the gyms of South Dakota: playing basketball, swimming competitively, and running track, just to name a few popular sports here in the Mount Rushmore State,” the governor said in the statement.
“It is in playing sports that a young girl can learn how to achieve and how to succeed. But some in our society want to take those opportunities to succeed away from our young women.  Some schools and organizations across the country have sought to take away their freedom to achieve by changing the rules of the games,” she added.

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