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The United States supreme court late last week blocked the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from enforcing its controversial rewrite of Title IX – a landmark 52-year-old women’s rights statute. Biden and Harris have sought to formally reimagine Title IX protections for woman – applying them to anyone who believes they are female. This would usher in a wave of institutional discrimination against women – allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports and to dress and shower in the same restrooms as their female competitors. The rewritten law would also make the use of “preferred pronouns” mandatory.
Insane, right? Welcome to the culture wars, people…
To be clear: The supreme court has not determined the legality of Biden and Harris’ proposed Title IX rewrite. Its justices have simply blocked them from enforcing the new law for the moment.
“All members of the court today accept that the plaintiffs were entitled to preliminary injunctive relief as to three provisions of the rule, including the central provision that newly defines sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” the justices noted in the order (.pdf).
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Adopted in 1972, Title IX (.pdf) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex at any academic institution or within any education program which receives federal funding. Intended to protect women from discrimination, its original intent has been turned on its ear by the trans movement – which is now using it to actively discriminate against female competitors.
This problem was brought to the fore two years ago when Lia Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania – a biological male – was awarded the NCAA women’s 500-yard freestyle national championship. Thomas had previously competed as a male, ranking No. 462 nationally.
As a “woman,” she ranked No. 1.
My media outlet blasted the NCAA in no uncertain terms for its decision to let Thomas compete against women, encouraging female competitors on the receiving end of such overt discrimination to stand up for their rights.
“It is my sincere hope that the female athletes and institutions deprived of their rightful places on the podium by Thomas and other trans athletes will explore their options under Title IX,” I noted in my excoriation of the NCAA.
Wary of such challenges, Biden and his bureaucrats sought to rewrite the law – and to effectively outlaw any dissent of the new orthodoxy. Under the guise of “reducing the occurrence of sex discrimination,” Biden’s Department of Education (DOE) promulgated regulations which eviscerated Title IX’s protections for women – and sought to impose compulsory “compliance” with the new woke orthodoxy.
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Most federal judges who have heard cases related to the attempted rewrite have correctly ruled that Biden and Harris are unconstitutionally subverting Title IX by attempting to elevate gender identity above actual gender in assessing discrimination.
Not all, but most…
Republicans heralded the high court’s ruling.
“Unlike Democrats, Republicans know what a woman is, and we know Title IX was written to protect the rights of women,” House speaker Mike Johnson wrote on X. “We applaud the Supreme Court keeping the lower courts’ injunction in place. For now, the Court has stopped the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempts to undermine women’s rights and allow men to compete in women’s sports.”
“Mediocre men should NEVER steal opportunities from exceptional women,” South Dakota governor Kristi Noem noted on her X account. “SCOTUS sided with the states and blocked the Biden-Harris unconstitutional rewrite of Title IX. That’s great news for young women everywhere!”
This media outlet – while welcoming all intelligent views on any issue we cover – has pulled no punches in rebuking the attempted Biden/Harris bastardization of Title IX.
“The hill I will die on every time is this absurd notion that inherent unfairness can somehow promote equality,” I noted four years ago. “That aspirational inclusion can somehow justify actual exclusion. And that those who refuse to fall in line with this insane new orthodoxy are somehow morally inferior to those attempting to foist it upon us and our children.”
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THE RULING…
(U.S. Supreme Court)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the owner and founding editor of FITSNews. Prior to founding his own news outlet, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina, bass guitarist in an alternative rock band and bouncer at a Columbia, S.C. dive bar. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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Seems to me if these guys were so sure they knew what a woman was, their big names wouldn’t be getting sued by a female Olympic athlete for calling her a man.
Assuming you’re talking about boxer Khelif, blame the (hmmmm) Russian led IBA who claimed they tested her and had evidence she had XY chromosomes. She is a beast as a boxer but there’s no real evidence she’s a he except for the IBA’s assertions. She’s something like 46-9 in competition and not really all that special when compared to the current #1 female pro Raquel Miller who is 13-0 with half being KOs.
BS
“blame the (hmmmm) Russian led IBA”
Russia hoax! Russia hoax!