Adding to the Title IX Law
What the Biden administration is doing to the Title IX civil rights law, the purpose of which is, among other things, to ensure equality between men’s and women’s sports, reminds me of a childhood game. We kids would sit in a circle and one would whisper something to the one next to them, who would repeat it to the next one and so on. Then the last child would say what she or he had heard. It usually bore little resemblance to what the first whisperer had said. That was the joke.
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Something similar occurs with much of the legislation coming out of Congress. Regulators, who are accountable to no one, slip in things that expand the law beyond its original intent.
Regulators are adding a new regulation to Title IX that”prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics in federally funded education programs…” said the Education Department fact sheet. As reported by The Washington Times, “the final rule takes effect Aug. 1.” (just in time for the new school year). The department stressed that the regulation “do(es) not address transgender eligibility in scholastic sports, which will be covered in a separate rule