Posted on 04/22/2024 5:39:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
Betsy DeVos said the Biden administration's finalized Title IX rule change has "gutted" five decades of protections for women and girls and replaced it with "radical gender theory."
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(The Center Square) - Former secretary of education Betsy DeVos said Friday that the Biden administration's finalized Title IX rule change has "gutted" five decades of protections for women and girls and replaced it with "radical gender theory."
"The Biden administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX guts the half century of protections and opportunities for women and callously replaces them with radical gender theory, as Biden’s far-left political base demanded," DeVos posted on X, formerly Twitter.
The Biden administration’s Department of Education has finalized its long-anticipated Title IX rule that expands the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity and pregnancy.
Critics of the federal rule finalized Friday say that it rewrites the scope of the statute intended to prohibit sex discrimination at federally funded schools and institutions of higher learning. Proponents say the changes are necessary to protect all students.
A separate rule on transgender athletes has not yet been finalized.
The rule is slated to go into effect on Aug. 1. Critics say the Department of Education’s changes to gender identity protections rewrite sex-based protections for women as Congress intended.
In a video posted on X, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said he was proud to “advance the Department of Education’s work to clarify and build upon the legacy of Title IX” which has for more than 50 years “opened doors for generations of girls and women.”
Cardona said the final rules “advance the promise” that “no person should experience sex discrimination, sex-based harassment or sexual violence in federally funded education.”
DeVos said in a thread on X that the changes put women at risk.
"This regulation is an assault on women and girls. It makes it a federal requirement that boys be allowed in girls bathrooms in elementary schools," DeVos wrote. "It makes it a federal requirement that men be allowed to play women’s sports, putting their safety, privacy and competitive opportunity at risk. And it makes it a federal requirement that feelings, not facts, dictate how Title IX is enforced."
The 1,577-page notice of final rulemaking says the changes “provide greater clarity regarding: the definition of ‘sex-based harassment;’ the scope of sex discrimination, including recipients’ obligations not to discriminate based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity; and recipients’ obligations to provide an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex.”
“Additionally, these regulations aim to fulfill Title IX’s protection for students, teachers, and other employees in federally funded elementary schools and secondary schools and postsecondary institutions against all forms of sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment and sexual violence,” the notice of final rulemaking reads.
While the department sifted through over 240,000 comments in response to the proposed rulemaking, the agency did not make changes to scrutinized sections surrounding gender identity, which were targeted by Republican attorneys general and conservative organizations.
Jennifer Braceras, the director of the Independent Women’s Law Center and a former member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, previously told Chalkboard News (which is also owned and operated by the Franklin News Foundation, publisher of The Center Square) that the Biden administration’s changes will completely change the civil rights statute’s implementation and meaning.
The athletic rule received hundreds of thousands of comments and is still under review by the Department. Critics say that would change the way women's sports teams operate.
"Stroke of the pen, law of the land! Kinda neat!" - Paul Begala..........................
BTTT
I really question how much “accomplishment” was achieved in those 50 years.
“Fifty years of accomplishment thrown out the window.”
All because of men who want to dress up as women and be penetrated by other men.
As Chief-of-Staff I armed 39 anti-Communist divisions. Now, with a stroke of a pen, I disarm them."
Yep. Those Leftists sure do love the tyrannical "stroke of a pen".
How does a 1,577 page "notice" clarify anything?
Maybe, they meant obfuscate?
I happen to know the lawyer involved in getting Title IX passed. Very Liberal. Wonder how they feel about this—maybe I will ask : )
*Biden administration*
This phrase is used in the media.. WHO IS THIS??
Biden is incapable..)
Just wait until some big lib’s daughter gets discriminated against in favor of some fag. Then we’ll se how liberal they really are.....................
Typically the law itself because the lazy grandstanders in Congress leave the implementation of the law—the lazy part—to an agency through wording along the lines of "make all necessary rules" so that they can haul said agency officials in front of them at a public hearing—the grandstanding part—and look like BMOCs and BWOCs on TV.
This is true.
First, who did you vote for?
If a Democrat, then....
...it’s perfectly natural and OK for grown naked men to share a locker room with your middle school daughter, right? Or take your high school-aged daughter’s athletic college scholarship? Or your college daughter to be seriously injured when she’s forced to play against men in field hockey, basketball, volleyball, water polo or Lacrosse, right?
I used to think that. I thought as soon as some Democrat’s daughter was forced to share her locker room and shower with some creep pretending to be a woman that would shut this BS down. That did not happen.
Has it actually happened yet?................
A separate rule on transgender athletes has not yet been finalized.
True meaning of the changes telling women to go to hell.
We have been chastised repeatedly that sex and gender are not the same thing. But with a simple statement, it is on the authority of the US government now that sex = gender. So, there are now officially, unlimited sexes.
Co-signing someone else’s mental illness is stupid
Leftists say that they like Scandinavian health care. They should know and be told that both Finland and Sweden banned giving puberty blocking and opposite sex hormones to kids already few years ago.
These laws that some states pass now have already been the rule of the land for years in Scandinavia.
Has it actually happened yet?................“
It has.
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