Posted on 07/29/2022 10:31:49 AM PDT by bitt
The Biden administration’s new Title IX guidance, released last month, is a radical and almost certainly unconstitutional distortion of the original statute — one that threatens free speech, due process, women’s rights, and even parental rights. It even threatens schools’ ability to provide for and feed students in need.
The updated guidance changes the definition of “sex” to include “gender” and “gender identity” and expands the definition of “sex-based harassment” to include any action that prevents a student from participating in an education program or activity “consistent with their gender identity.” This means that government-funded schools and universities will have no choice but to allow boys who identify as girls into girls’ restrooms, locker rooms, and dormitories, teachers will be forced to use preferred pronouns, and fellow students will be expected to accommodate their gender-confused peers’ demands or risk being accused of creating a “hostile environment” within the school.
If a school refuses to abide by these new expectations, the Biden administration has made sure that it will suffer serious consequences. In May, for example, the Department of Agriculture announced that it will apply President Joe Biden’s new Title IX guidance to its National School Lunch Program, which provides funding to schools so they can provide free lunches for low-income students. The USDA instructed that all state agencies and Food and Nutrition Act program operators must “expeditiously review their program discrimination complaint procedures and make any changes necessary to ensure complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation are processed and evaluated as complaints of discrimination on the basis of sex.”
In other words, if a school refuses to allow boys to compete on its female sports teams or prevents a male from using the female locker room, it could be found in violation of the Education and Agriculture departments’ new standards and could have its school lunch funding pulled as a result.
This ultimatum is absurd on its face, not least because it punishes low-income children who have no control over school policy.
Take, for example, Grant Park Christian Academy, a school in Florida that for years has served primarily low-income, minority students, in part because of funding from the National School Lunch Program. Every single one of the 56 students enrolled at Grant Park this fall semester comes from a family below the federal poverty level. But because of the Biden administration’s new rules, the school might not be able to care and provide for them the way it has in the past. Grant Park is being forced either to accept a sweeping and radical redefinition of sex, one that violates the school’s religious beliefs and puts at risk the safety and privacy of its female students, or lose the ability to feed its students altogether.
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I keep thinking it can’t get any worse.
And yet...
Gender identity is crazy. Why pander to mentally ill people? They need treatment, not government protection. The inmates are running the asylum.
Here’s a thought:
A) Do away with Title IX
and
B) Do away with Federal lunch money.
and
C) Do away with the entire Federal Department of “Education”. It should never have existed in the first place
I will say it again. This administration is pure evil.
Easy choice for most. They are already doing what xiden wants
All great ideas!
Once again, food is used as a weapon of war by the democrats.
Schools have no business being in the “food chain” for students. It is the responsibility of the parents to feed their get. If tax payers wish to feed the children of the poor, let the government give the parent(s) of the child enough money to subsist to include the child’s lunch at school. If the parent fails to provide for the child, well....
Pack a lunch.
I have an idea! Let the parents either pack their children’s lunch or give them lunch money.
They should do neither. If a parent is unable to feed his child, then I’d favor some basic assistance. If they are unwilling, they should lose custody.
The only food-related assistance that schools should provide is a slice of nutraloaf for any kid that has no other food that day. This business of providing three meals a day all year is ridiculous.
This devout Catholic insists on supporting murdering babies and perverting children. How does this differ from actual Satan worshiping?
My daughter said the school lunch menus are a lot better this year because they don’t have to provide free lunch to everybody.
And when a republican votes for a 9% percent increase instead of the democrat proposed 10% increase it is “cuts that will starve children and minorities.”
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