“What is a woman?” That seems to be difficult question to some people, as the modern attack on sexual identity continues. Girls and young women continue to be targeted.
Last week, the Biden Administration proved once again that its “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” agenda centered around the LGBT community is more important than the safety, wellbeing, and success of real women.
Biden’s Department of Education announced last week that a decades-old civil rights statute known as Title IX that was initially established to protect women in academia and athletics would be revised to include anyone who feels like a woman or has an alternative sexual orientation. The 1,577-page document uses the term “gender identity” 289 times, when it was not included a single time in any previous version of the law. The Congress that passed the initial legislation in 1972 specifically used “sex.” This is nothing less than an outright attempt to illegally redefine sex on the federal level and force all public universities to comply.
This illegitimate attempt to redefine womanhood yet again fails legal scrutiny, and will undoubtedly become a pressing issue in the courts as this statute goes into effect on August 1st, 2024. (At least one state has already filed a lawsuit.) In Florida, its Governor has issued a public rebuke to the Biden Administration: “We will not comply, and we will fight back.”
Under the new rules, anyone who claims to be a woman – whether they make any attempt to appear female or not – or is homosexual can claim Title IX protections if they feel they have been discriminated against due to “sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.” Unsurprisingly, the new regulations require the lowest standard of proof, the “preponderance of the evidence,” in order to prove a discrimination allegation.
These new standards will not only overwhelm the often understaffed Title IX offices at public universities, but allow innocent students to be reprimanded by their university through suspension, expulsion, or a mark on their transcript over what could be nothing more than an accidental use of allegedly “incorrect” (but biologically accurate) pronouns. Will students be academically prosecuted for exercising their right to free speech and refusing to cave to the “gender identity” agenda which demands they use “preferred” pronouns and language that pleases “queer” students?
Further, this unlawful revision negates the entire purpose of what the Title IX statute hoped to accomplish when it was established in 1972 to protect women from discrimination on the basis of sex in the education system and athletics.
“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,” Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau wrote. “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.”
Additional Resources
- Leanne Payne’s Crisis in Masculinity
- Ryan T. Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally
- Joe Dallas and Nancy Heche’s The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality
- Elizabeth R. Moberly’s Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic
- Note: Moberly says that transgenderism “marks the extreme end of the homosexual spectrum” and is a desire for “gender dislocation” because the same-sex love deficit is so pronounced.
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