Posted on 04/26/2024 11:18:25 AM PDT by ebb tide
The Biden administration published on Friday changes to the Title IX discrimination law to now include “gender identity,” setting the stage for legal fights with nearly half the states, which have passed laws to protect women and children from the transgender ideology.
The newly published Title IX regulations expand the federal government’s prohibition against “discrimination” to now include under its umbrella “discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.”
The move has drawn strong public criticism from conservatives, who have rallied behind the protection of women and children from transgender ideology in schools and public spaces, and the erosion of basic safeguards such as sex-exclusive locker rooms, restrooms, and sports.
READ: Biden admin submits rule to force all public schools to embrace LGBT ‘identities’
Rep. Julianne Young, member of the Idaho legislature who introduced the Gem State’s recent Definition of Sex law (which affirms that “there are only two sexes, male and female”) expressed her outrage at the administration’s abuse of a law originally meant to protect women so that it now does just the opposite.
In comments to LifeSiteNews on Biden’s new changes to Title IX, Young stated, “It is outrageous and unconscionable that the Biden administration is now using civil rights law created to protect women to assault them, undermining their privacy, dignity, and safety!”
Heritage Foundation conservative policymaker Jay Richards, who has worked extensively on legislation regarding transgender issues, told LifeSiteNews that, “The new rule interpreting title IX is, in fact, an assault on the point of the law itself. The law is intended to protect Americans against sex discrimination. But the new rule defines sex – the biological difference between male and female – to include ‘gender identity.’ Gender identity refers to a supposed internal subjective state. It is manifestly not the same as biological sex. This new rule is a paradigmatic example of using the rulemaking process to subvert a law duly passed by Congress. If applied, it will mean the destruction of women’s rights in particular.”
Brandon Showalter, host of the Christian Post podcast Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle, and co-author of the book Exposing the Gender Lie, told LifeSiteNews:
The spirit of the age, the great lie of our time, is rooted in a heinous, false anthropology – that an ineffable ‘gender identity’ known only to the person claiming to have one – defines a human being at the most basic, ontological level. When a material falsehood such as ‘you are whatever you say you feel’ is enshrined in government policy, as it has been in the recently revamped Title IX regulations, there are real-world consequences and women are girls almost always bear the cruelest brunt. Human beings are only ever always either male or female. No one has ever been born in the wrong sexed body and no one ever will be. All people of goodwill must continue to resist the abuse and degradation that gender ideology is wreaking on humanity.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, (R-NC) chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, also strongly condemned the new regulation saying, “This final rule dumps kerosene on the already raging fire that is Democrats’ contemptuous culture war that aims to radically redefine sex and gender.”
Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who oversaw Trump administration reform of Title IX, which strengthened protections for women, told the Washington Examiner in February that Biden’s changes “may well be the most anti-woman regulation of all time.”
“It will be the end of women’s sports, sex-segregated restrooms, locker rooms, sororities, and dorms – all vanquished by an administrative state fiat that almost no one supports, which is why the Biden administration advanced it in the dark of night,” she warned. “Every parent and child should be horrified this rule is moving forward.”
DeVos said the new regulation “returns us to the untenable days where there is no due process on campus and instead radical gender ideologues call all the shots.”
“The rule is sexist, illegal, and unpopular, but appeasing the far-left flank is more important to the Biden administration than doing what’s right for students,” she insisted.
In a press release following the changes to Title IX, Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau said, “The Biden administration’s radical redefinition of sex turns back the clock on equal opportunity for women, threatens student safety and privacy, and undermines fairness in women’s sports. It is a slap in the face to women and girls who have fought long and hard for equal opportunities.”
“The administration continues to ignore biological reality, science, and commonsense, and women are suffering as a result. The administration’s new regulation will have devastating consequences on the future of women’s sports, student privacy, and parental rights, which is why Alliance Defending Freedom plans to take action to defend female athletes, as well as school districts, teachers, and students who will be gravely harmed by this unlawful government overreach,” Rouleau stated.
In May 2023, a group of 22 Republican senators led by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, called on the president to withdraw the proposed changes to Title IX, arguing they ran contrary to Congress’ clear intention in passing the law.
“Congress made clear that its intention in passing Title IX was to prohibit discrimination against women participating fully in all aspects of athletic and academic opportunity at institutions that received federal financial assistance,” the senators wrote. “This proposed rule uses weakly-associated case law and polarizing social concepts to broaden the definition of women and girls to include individuals who identify as women, and in doing so, the intent of the law is destroyed and women are marginalized yet again.”
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Wouldn’t changing a law fall under the purview of Congress?
Is law without legislation like taxation without representation?
pathetic wimpy men who can’t compete with other man now will try to beat up on the women folk....soy boys rise again..
” Ya got to wonder what exactly is a conservative backlash.... “
It’s when “conservatives” pass laws that they were warned would be abused, but they ignored those warnings as a “far right conspiracy theory”.
Then conservatives performatively “oppose” what they brought into being.
Title IX - Nixon
1970- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Nixon
EPA - also Nixon
Corporate Average Fuel Economy - Ford
1990 Clean Air Act - Bush
1991 Civil Rights Act - Bush
1990 - Americans with Disabilities Act - also Bush
Note that the names Carter, Clinton and Obama are not on that list.
The Administrative State tyranny on LGBT, trans, gender, CO2, electric vehicles, appliance bans, coal plants shut, oil and gas, anti-white exclusion... and all the rest of it, based on Laws passerby by Republican Presidents.
Biden..... “we gotta keep giving in to Satan!” .../sarc
The DOE 1577-page Title IX ruling is titled Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance.
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf
Contrary to implications of the Bee article, the regulations don’t just cover college sports, but everything that happens in any school from kindergarten on up. In reading the regulations you will discover sexual stereotypes are male and female. In reading you will find court cases sited among comments, and that the DOE makes its own decisions about which to follow. If anyone has a problem, they can appeal to the Administrative Court within the DOE.
Now how does all relate to our Constitution? There is a huge back story here, but let’s begin with FDR. Franklin Roosevelt established a myriad of agencies staffed by unelected, unconfirmed experts who ruled and did not serve citizens.
Instead of legislating, a compliant Congress created legislators residing within impenetrable agencies. Instead of inherent individual liberties constraining government, a host of bureaucrats conferred rights upon and applied constraints to those who were citizens. Later Congresses followed the same path.
The best article I have found so far on the subject is called The History and Danger of Administrative Law by Philip Hamburger. I linked to it below. Such power harks back to discretions of English kings unrestrained by Parliament found in such places as King’s Council and the Star Chamber. Hamburger reminds us the Constitution says, “’All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States”. He then says, “The word ‘all’ was not placed there by accident. The Framers understood that delegation had been a problem in English history, and the word ‘all’ was placed there precisely to bar it”.
The History and Danger of Administrative Law
https://constitutionclub.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/the-history-and-danger-of-administrative-law/
Little remains of our Republic, but all may not yet be lost. On April 14, 2023, the Supreme Court in a 9 to 0 ruling struck a blow supporting our Constitution and individual liberties. The Court acted to reassert the jurisdiction of district and circuit courts and the legislative branch. Justice Elana Kagan delivered the unanimous opinion of the court saying, “One respondent attacks as well the combination of prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions in a single agency….They maintain in essence that the agencies as currently structured, are unconstitutional in much of their work”.
Supreme Court 9, Administrative State 0
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4145682/posts
Until that ruling permeates the Administrative State it looks like daughters and granddaughters are in for some unpleasant experiences from the predatory lizards that dominate government.
“. Until that ruling permeates the Administrative State ...”
So never happening.
By EXECUTIVE ORDER❗❗❗
This is clearly a DICTATORSHIP ✔ and the future of unseating it looks bleak. Let us pray 🛐 and let us all stand UNITED in November and work towards restoring the REPUBLIC🎯👌🗽🙋♂️
So much for women’s rights...
What is it with democrats that they are so obsessed with sex, especially weird, kinky, un-natureal sex?
The nation is crumbling, people can hardly afford groceries and democrats are obsessed with pedophilia, cross dressing trannies and drag queens,
sex change operations, homos, lesbians and sexual perverts of every sort and forcing little girls to share shower rooms and bathrooms with men.
And for a president we have a demented sexual deviatewho made his underage daughter take naked showers with him, openly molests children,
is obsessed with sniffing children’s hair, pinches little girls nipples in public and on video, and walks around the house naked in front of his
male and female Secret Service minders.
He should be in a prison for mentally disturbed sex offenders instead of sitting in the White House.
Inadequate to the actual task......so they talk about it.......to get a thrill.
Exactly this is yet another obama diversion tactic to take peoples minds off of crazy interest rates, high inflation and an open border with thousands of invaders coming in to destroy the country daily.
It’s one more thing Trump will have to deal with when he comes back.
If it’s done by EO it can be undone by EO when Trump returns. Let’s face it we have one chance to save the nation. It all lies with DJT. If he is allowed to win,we know the cheat will be enormous, the country wins. If not.....I don’t want to think about that.
Yes, that is what happened with DJT - he couldn't always get Congress to support much of what needed to be done thus he did it by EO.
But my point is that Genghis Joe has ruled by EO! The Congress hasn't had to put a name to anything, hasn't had to pass practically any laws. Outstanding are the EV mandate and sunsetting fossil fuels - MAJOR social and financial changes to our whole history and no one in Congress has to answer for that.
Just as bad, I have seen NO story of anyone taking this huge power grab to SCOTUS to challenge the Constitutionality of such excesses. ❓❓❓❓ I wish that I could❗
This is evil.
Thank you.
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