(The Center Square) – An Ohio senator wants state lawmakers to send a message to the U.S. Department of Education to exclude sexual orientation and gender identity from Title IX.
U.S. Rep. Andrew Brenner, R-Delaware, recently introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 11 that calls on the Biden administration and Congress to remove all references from sexual orientation and gender identity from Title IX.
The resolution also states that members of the Ohio General Assembly find “the broad expansion of Title IX damaging to all women’s sports.” Before President Joe Biden authorized changes, the 37-word landmark legislation signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1972 was known as the amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act that gave women and girls the right to participate in high school and college athletics.
Senate Democratic Leader Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, called the resolution an attack on the LGBTQ+ community.
“This is yet another exercise in the Legislature bullying members of the LGBTQ+ community in Ohio and wasting taxpayer dollars through yet another lawsuit,” Antonio said. “As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, this heavy-handed and preemptive resolution is outrageous and offensive.”
Antonio also said a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling defined sex in civil rights statutes to include sexual orientation, indicating that protecting LGBTQ+ students as well as trans-athletes is within the scope of what the law understands to be sex discrimination.
The resolution comes as a Franklin County Common Pleas Court continues to have a hold on the state’s recent law that bans gender-affirming health care for youth and bans males, including those professing to be female, from participating on female sports teams.
The restraining order came after the ACLU of Ohio filed a lawsuit saying the bill violates the Ohio Constitution’s single subject rule, the health care provision, the equal protection clause, and the due course of law provision.
In December, Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed the bill and a week later issued an executive order that banned gender-affirming surgeries on minors and developed corresponding health care rules for children and adults.
The Republican-majority Senate and House easily voted to override the veto in January.
Title IX should be renamed title 666, the mark of the beast, except that Joe could never pronounce Hexakosiohexekontahexaphobia, having a hard time functioning in daily life due to overwhelming fear. Removing all references of sexual orientation and gender identity from Title IX would remove his ability to cognitively exist at all, and what is primarily what motivates Joe and Hunter to get up out of bed in the mornings.
Three things here.
1. These LGBQT+ (something like that) people are just plain ignorant and highly offensive.
2. There are two and only two genders – female XY and male XX. Biology 101. Go back to school.
3. You can identify as a grapefruit, a dog (I’ve read some articles about this). Be my guest, I don’t care. Bur that doesn’t make you a grapefruit or a dog. You are still a human being – female or male.
Mass Murderer Richard Speck had an XYY chromosome structure. No doubt a gender confused Democrat.
EVERYTHING designed to protect womens sports is seen by these devil lovers, as an ‘attack on the trans community’..
Keep reminding yourselves that there is no slippery slope. Gays just wanted their “bedroom” activities to be private.
Day after day, the left KEEPS PROVING the slope is OILED AND Very slippery!