Half of the nation’s governors are asking the Biden administration to either withdraw or delay a proposed rule aimed at preventing schools from barring biological males from participating in female athletics programs.
Led by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, 25 Republican governors submitted a joint comment on May 11 to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona opposing his department’s proposal to expand Title IX protections against sex discrimination to include discrimination based on gender identity.
“We write to submit a joint comment in opposition to the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed new regulation … and respectfully request that it be withdrawn or delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court can address the questions raised in several pending cases that are challenging this administration’s expanded reading of Title IX,” the governors wrote in their letter, which was first obtained by Fox News.
New Rule
The proposed regulation, announced by the Department of Education in April, would prohibit schools that receive federal funding from adopting “one-size-fits-all” policies that require all athletes to participate on sports teams consistent with their biological sex.
Instead, individual sports teams would determine their own eligibility criteria based on “educational” objectives such as ensuring fairness in competition or preventing sports-related injuries.
“Every student should be able to have the full experience of attending school in America, including participating in athletics, free from discrimination,” Cardona said in an April 6 statement. “Being on a sports team is an important part of the school experience for students of all ages.”
Noting the mental, physical, and emotional health benefits of participation in sports, Cardona said the new rule was meant to “support Title IX’s protection for equal athletics opportunity.”
He added, “We welcome and encourage public comment on the proposed regulation and will continue working to ensure Title IX’s effective protection for all students.”
Erasing History
In recent years, several Republican states have sought to crack down on the intrusion of biological males in female sports by passing their own laws on the matter. Despite Cardona’s assurances of equal protection, in their May 11 comment, the Republican governors said they were “gravely concerned” that the new regulation could not only prevent states from enforcing those laws by threatening to withhold funds, but also undermine the purpose of Title IX.
“This administration apparently sees no irony that its policies validate an average male athlete stealing the recognition from a truly remarkable female athlete whose lifelong athletic discipline and achievements are discarded based on a deliberate misreading of a law whose very purpose was to protect, preserve, and encourage women’s athletics.”
Additionally, the governors warned that the rule lacked both legal foundation and congressional authority, holding that the Education Department was pushing for “sweeping rewrites” of Title IX that would “disrupt states and schools and eviscerate the lived experience and achievements of generations of courageous women.”
Further charging that the rule would “erase” the historic achievements of women, they added, “Because of the Department’s lack of authority, the unambiguous limitations of Title IX’s text, and the policy and safety risks posed to women, we request that this proposed regulation be withdrawn and for your Administration to restore the protection of fairness in women’s and girls’ sports.”
Others who signed on to the letter included the governors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
“I’m proud to have led an effort with 24 other Republican governors opposing the Biden Administration’s radical new Title IX rules which would force states to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports,” Reeves commented in a May 12 tweet.
“The Biden Administration is trying to force hardworking female athletes to compete against men,” he added in a subsequent post. “As the dad of three girls who play sports, I’ll continue fighting back for them and all of Mississippi’s daughters!”
Earlier this year, a coalition of more than two dozen organizations, led by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, wrote to Cardona asking that the Education Department abandon its efforts to overhaul Title IX to include protections for gender identity.
“The Department’s view that Title IX extends to gender identity is an extremist position not supported by the purpose, text, structure, or legislative history of Title IX,” said Bob Eitel, president and co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, in a Feb. 21 statement. “More importantly, if the administration proceeds with its radical re-rewrite of Title IX, it will result in severe harm to biological women and girls and cause them to lose positions on athletic teams, awards, scholarships, and prizes, as well as risk bodily harm in certain sports.”
The Epoch Times has contacted the Department of Education for comment.
The destruction of women’s sports. Hey communist Democrats, look at yourselves in the mirror, then spell the words “pervert party” and spell the words “nonbinary / 50,000 genders”, as this will describe your party to a tee.
Since they all worship satan, THEY COULDN’T care less.
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Woke, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, open borders, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender, same sex marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and perversions, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the of Disguise of Democrats versions of “anti-discrimination.”
The longer WE the People allow this Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Woke, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas to continue, the more power we give the disgraceful Democrats. We the People either destroy this Democrat Party or this Democrat Party will destroy our U.S.A..
One can choose to identify with being a duck if they like, act like a duck, walk like a duck and quack like a duck. But don’t try and convince others that you were born with duck genes, just to try and justify your degenerate behavior.
Bigotry is not necessarily always a bad thing. One need not associate with, tolerate or accept every belief or action of another.
“Every student should be able to have the full experience of attending school in America, including participating in athletics, free from discrimination,” Cheaters are to be given equal rights and opportunity to steal honest trophies as those who have sane enough instincts to understand who created them, how they were created, and the purpose of that creation first of which the ability to procreate and allow the human race to continue into future generations. There is no limit to the insanity these self-god, self-made warped smeared ditto copies of Prime functioning properly gendered Human DNA will go to seize the thrones of their own existence with no concern for other men who seek to be Kings in their own castles and Queens up on trophy winning pedestals not bearded ladies in skirts. Apparently, there is only ONE form of mental derangement that these sick twisted minded Democrats will recognize as a legitimate form of insanity,,Trump derangement. Every other imagined warped reality is to be recognized as legitimate so long as the social division created helps them divide and conquer a formerly mind United healthy successful nation from within,,,,within the drugged out windmills of their minds of tilting Democrat Don Quixote’s and border busting coyotes, who think they can legislate morality not to mention redefine what a legitimate gendered real woman is, where Title IX becomes a cat of nine tails to punish our women in unfair competition.
Biden and the Democrats have one agenda, DESTROY AMERICA. This administration and the democratic party is the most anti American and destructive group of clowns in the history of America. It’s obvious they have absolutely NO respect for women and children. They claim to care about people if color but look below the opaque surface and you will find democrats are the most racist people who have ever lived. Anti prayer and pledge of allegiance in schools but now promoting satanic worship.
Don’t believe the satanic worship statement???? Investigate for yourself. Muslims are allowed to pray in school, satanic worship as an extra curricular activity but don’t you dare say a prayer if you are a Christian. I think it should be a law of nature for intentional stupidity to be extremely painful. So sick of what these scumbags are doing to our once beautiful country.
If you were born a biological male, you should NEVER be allowed to compete against women in sports. You will NEVER see a biological female transgender and compete against males in sports. Everything the democrat party does is perverted.
That’s something i have RAISED Many a time..
IF transgenderism is indeed a REAL THING, and not just a made up mental illness, THEN WHY IS IT WE DO NOT Ever see women who ‘became men’, WANTING TO COMPETE against real men?
The “real women” need to unite and boycott any sport/activity that allows those “pretending” to be women being able to participate. The “real women” might lose right now but us “real men” back you up 110% now and in any future boycott you support.
There is a simple solution to this. Stop calling it boys/girls or mens/womens sports and just say XY or XX sports. You play in the division that your DNA matches. That would erase all the issues with a boy who claims to be a girl. If the player has XY chromosomes it doesn’t matter if he has long hair, wears a bra, and calls himself a girl he plays on the XY team.
The only issue is when girls start taking male hormones to ‘transition’ to looking like a boy as they might enhance her ability. That could be addressed by requiring players to show that they do not have predominantly male hormones in their system at higher levels.
Another option would be to have the XX division (for biological girls/women) and all others play in an open division.
I’m not into sports and neither are my daughters but this is crazy to have boys playing against girls. There are basic biological differences and girls/women will lose all the ground they gained over the past 50 years or so because some boys are misguided and being coddled.
Since that is too LOGICAL, the left will be rabidly against it.