Under the leadership of President Joe Biden, the Department of Education proposed a plan last year that would change Title IX to expand the meaning of sex discrimination to include “gender identity” and is planning to specifically protect transgender rights in women’s sports. But one group strongly disagrees with this move.
But this week, a group organized by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Tuesday claiming that these proposed changes “unfairly” punish women and saying that the Department of Education has no authority to make these changes.
“The Department does not have the legal authority to issue regulations that would subvert rather than fulfill the requirements of Title IX by permitting or requiring biological males who identify as females to compete in sex-separated women’s sports and to use the intimate facilities and shared spaces of female students … we anticipate that the coming rulemaking on athletics will similarly conflate gender identity with Title IX’s sex-based protections and degrade those very protections,” the letter said according to Fox News.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is legislation that protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities. The group claims that changing Title IX to include “gender identity” and protect transgender athletes is “an extremist position” that would lead to “severe harm to biological women and girls.”
“The Department’s view that Title IX extends to gender identity is an extremist position not supported by the purpose, text, structure or legislative history of Title IX,” said Bob Eitel, president of the Defense of Freedom Institute. “More importantly, if the administration proceeds with its radical rewrite of Title IX, it will result in severe harm to biological women and girls and cause them to lose positions on athletic teams, awards, scholarships and prizes, as well as risk bodily harm in certain sports.”
[Fox News]
