Posted on 11/04/2015 6:39:05 AM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The Obama administration is continuing its push for transgender teenagers to use facilities of the opposite sex – this time by explicitly threatening to pull federal funding from an Illinois school district and backing a transgender girl's appeal to use boys' facilities in Virginia.
In a letter sent to school officials in an Illinois school district, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education declared that it found "by the preponderance of the evidence that the District is in violation of Title IX for excluding Student A from participation in and denying her the benefits of its education program, providing services to her in a different manner, subjecting her to different rules of behavior, and subjecting her to different treatment on the basis of sex."
Title IX is a 1972 law designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex – which an Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorney says has nothing to do with gender identity.
"A federal court in Pennsylvania recently rejected a similar lawsuit filed by a transgender student seeking access to restrooms at a college," Jeremy Tedesco told LifeSiteNews in June, "ruling that 'separating students by sex based on biological considerations … for restroom and locker room use simply does not violate the Equal Protection Clause.'"
"The court rejected the Title IX claim for the same reason. It also highlighted that Title IX's implementing regulations state that schools do not violate Title IX when they 'provide separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.'"
The ADF attorney said that the change to Title IX "is not legally binding" and was "politically motivated."
"In fact, federal regulations expressly state that 'significant guidance documents' have no binding legal authority," he explained. "Further, the document does not mention access to restrooms and it does not change binding Title IX regulations authorizing schools to create 'separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.'"
"It would take an act of Congress to include 'gender identity' as a protected status under Title IX. The school can defend itself against this lawsuit without losing its federal funding. And it should. Allowing students access to the opposite sex's restrooms would violate the privacy rights of the vast majority of students and trample the rights of parents as well."
The Illinois district had attempted to compromise with a teenage boy who identifies as female by saying the student could use a private changing area. "At some point, we have to balance the privacy rights of 12,000 students with other particular, individual needs of another group of students," said District 211 Superintendent Daniel Cates earlier this year. "We believe this infringes on the privacy of all the students that we serve."
In a statement issued on Monday, Cates called the federal government's decision "a serious overreach with precedent-setting implications." He also told The New York Times that part of the district's compromise included a privacy curtain in the girls' locker room.
The Obama administration has also taken up the case for Gavin Grimm, a girl who identifies as a boy, filing a brief with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Grimm's appeal to use boys' facilities. Grimm sued her school district after the school board voted 6-1 to install gender-neutral bathrooms instead of allowing transgender students to use bathrooms of the opposite sex.
After a public hearing in December 2014, where most people opposed letting females use male restrooms, the board voted to state: "It shall be the practice of the GCPS to provide male and female restroom and locker room facilities in its schools, and the use of said facilities shall be limited to the corresponding biological genders and students with gender identity issues shall be provided an alternative appropriate private facility."
Three unisex bathrooms were subsequently installed, but Grimm and the ACLU said this wasn't good enough, and "subject[ed] [Grimm to discrimination."
Grimm lost her case, which led to the appeal.
I’ve been bearing the answer in my tag for years now. Go embrace the Lion of Judah who will take away your (collectively, I’m not singling out you) current cowardice.
You can NOT get courage any other place. Pride won’t supply it; that is fickle and mutable. Moralizing won’t supply it; that is like pretending that bookkeeping can furnish any money in an account.
It’s God, folks. God. More wonderful than you dared believe, resources that you never knew existed. True supernatural. He will embarrass your pride, shame your moralizing. He is what it deserves to be about.
Be like Dad,
Not like Sis.
Raise the lid
B-4 you wee wee.
And then we’ve got to lower it?
No way! I think raising it is enough.
You’d think sitting on that cold, cold porcelain at 3:00 AM once would be enough for those who sit to tinkle ...
LOL!
I’m always fearful that we’ll give them ideas.
I would hope that the dads would rally together and go to the school. I can’t imagine ANY father, or mother, sending their daughters into such a situation.
It would be interesting to talk to some of the liberal parents and see what they think of the left’s “tolerance” now.
I think any politician or jurist who pushes this should be explicitly identified as a conspirator when and if ANYONE IS molested under the idiotic rules they propagate. The punishment should be meted out as under aggravated circumstances, because the politicians are specifically endangering constituents for political points.
The death penalty isn’t unreasonable under these circumstances.
Yup, my money’s on the Mean Girls’ Club handling the situation as only they can do.
Do you think that some pinhead administrator would change his tune if the father of some young girl who is molested cornered him in a dark alley and beat the living crap out of him? After all, the administrator let it happen didn’t he?
Consequences. Without them there are no lessons.
Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few; Let another take his office.
My suggestion would be for them to get into a circle around him and begin to point and laugh as he undresses. That should pretty much handle the situation for a while.
I'm right there with you!
God hates what has been done to this nation, too, but it started decades ago. He warns and warns. Leviticus 26.
Decades ago (when I was in school) girls were not forced to disrobe and shower in front of boys.
I don't remember there being anything in there about public schools...except, of course, for the clause that assigns to the First Lady the duty of choosing school lunch menus.
What about grown men? Should school janitors be allowed into the girl’s bathrooms? Or male teachers? How about men visiting the school to ‘fix’ something - can they go in and watch?
Obama’s a democrat... that really says it all...
I like that idea, and we really need to expand upon it. The feds can’t threaten you with holding back funds (ie: tax dollars), if you don’t send them funds in the first place.
pull it obama u pervert
That’s hilarious! I am so glad I decided to pull my kids from school 10 years ago! This is truly insane.
No they weren’t. Which made me wonder if the escalating warnings of God weren’t because of the escalation of depravity as we have seen over the last 50 years.
Same here. The school district and the community should tell this whack job administration to take a flying leap.
other districts have done it when it comes to school lunches imposed by the self appointed, but never voted in Michelle, Chewbacca Obama.
Notice this is not all over the media too? If Bush had threatened a school district with taking money away the media would have been all over this and saying Bush does not care about kids getting an education.
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