Men who declare they are women got a kick in the groin from the Supreme Court this week. Specifically, in a 5-4 decision, the Court stopped the administration’s absurd effort to expand protections under Title IX to include transgender students.
The Biden-Harris Title IX expansion would have opened the doors of women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and dormitories to men and boys identifying as female in states where such access has been doggedly challenged.
The Biden Administration disclosed its Title IX revisions in April. Under the new revisions, Title IX would no longer be confined to binary males and females. Instead, it would extend to cover gender identity and illusory sexual orientation—a broadening of the original law that critics say also dilutes it.
The landmark Title IX federal civil rights law was passed in 1972. It required that women and girls have equal access to and treatment in education and athletics. The law has served women and girls well since its passage.
However, in recent years, as the cult of transgenderism has swept the nation, calls to include transgender students—most often men and boys claiming to be women and girls—in Title IX protections grew more boisterous and aggressive.
The world saw just how determined the trans mob was during the recently concluded Paris Olympic Games when two transgender male boxers pounded their female opponents into submission on their way to winning gold medals. This glaring example of athletic unfairness is apparently okay with the International Olympic Committee, which went out of its way to produce the most woke Olympic games in history.
In the U.S., girls and women have long battled against allowing transgender men to compete in such sports as swimming, wrestling, boxing, soccer, rugby, and various track and field events. Women athletes have been equally opposed to allowing men claiming to be women to shower and change with them in women’s locker rooms or to room with them in women’s dormitories.
The Department of Education issued its controversial regulation in April, informing educational institutions that receive federal funding that no person should experience discrimination based on sex — which it defined as sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and transgenderism. The Department said discrimination based on a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity would be treated as a violation of Title IX.
Several states challenged the regulation, arguing that broadening the law’s scope could dilute its intended purpose of protecting women athletes and students from unfair treatment and discrimination.
Many argued that allowing biological men into women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and other areas restricted to women put women and girls in danger of molestation, rape, and worse.
In the past few months, some two dozen Republican attorneys general filed lawsuits, arguing that the Department of Education’s amendments to Title IX would collide with state laws designed to protect the integrity of women’s sports when apparent biological differences could not be so easily brushed aside.
Jonathan Scruggs, who is senior counsel and vice president of litigation strategy for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said in a statement, “The Biden-Harris administration’s radical redefinition of sex turns back the clock on equal opportunity for women, undermines fairness, and threatens student safety and privacy.”
Scruggs added that the Biden administration was “ignoring biological reality, science, and common sense. Female athletes, students, and teachers across the country are right to stand against the administration’s adoption of extreme gender ideology, which would have devastating consequences for students, teachers, administrators, and families. The Supreme Court rightly affirmed the 5th and 6th Circuit decisions to restrain the administration’s illegal efforts to rewrite Title IX while these critical lawsuits continue.”
During a recent rally in Iowa, Donald Trump said if elected on “day one,” he would reverse the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX that prohibits federally funded schools from preventing transgender students from using bathrooms, locker rooms, and pronouns that align with their gender identities.
Trump said he would sign an executive order to “cut federal funding” for schools pushing “critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”
Trump promised to block doctors who provide gender-affirming care from Medicare and Medicaid and to forbid federal agencies from actions to “promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.”
He added that he would ask the Justice Department to investigate the medical industry to see if they “deliberately covered up horrific long-term side effects of sex transitions just to get rich. The left-wing gender insanity being pushed at our children is an act of child abuse.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling this week seems to align with Trump’s views on the woke transgender madness sweeping the nation.
Thank God there are still a few rational adults in the room. They certainly are not in the Biden-Harris administration.
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