As part of a push to make radical gender ideology mandatory in schools across the country, President Biden's Education Department has finalized new regulations that would prohibit discrimination based on a person's so-called “gender identity.”
The new regulations, promulgated on April 19, go into effect on August 1 and have a significant impact on Alaska's K-12 school system and on universities and colleges that accept minimal federal funding. There is a possibility of giving.
The new “gender identity” mandate states: “Sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sexual stereotypes, sexual characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”
Specifically, the new rules make clear that all educational institutions that accept federal funds cannot treat people differently based on their biological sex, except in limited circumstances for some religious schools. .
The new rules do not set out specific obligations regarding “transgender” athletes participating in women's sports, so state laws and regulations that limit women's sports to biological women are now subject to the newly interpreted Title IX statute. It is unclear whether this is a violation.
We also discuss how the updated rules will impact state laws that restrict access to restrooms and locker rooms based on a person's biological sex, and require employees to use that person's preferred pronouns. It is also unclear whether this will be mandatory.
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The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom says the rule wreaks havoc on Title IX, threatens the future of women's sports, and prohibits men who identify as women from undressing in women's locker rooms. He said he would allow traumatized women to sleep next to men in women's shelters. Treating students as the gender they choose without their parents' knowledge or consent, punishing students and professors at public universities who refuse to use their gender identity pronouns, giving women equal opportunities, and more.
Sarah Parshall Perry, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Education, also said the new rules undermine Title IX's original purpose of “protecting women and girls and providing equal educational opportunities.” He vehemently criticized it.
“Under the new rules, girls and women will no longer have access to separate toilets, changing rooms, accommodations and other educational programs. Women's sports are also likely to be in jeopardy. Even nominally, federal “All educational institutions, including many private schools that receive funding, will be affected by this rule,” Parshall-Perry said. “Lawmakers should not allow this radical government to erase women's spaces, educational opportunities, and sports.”
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