Schoolchildren, college students and families wrapping up the school year should enjoy summer while it lasts, because the next school year will be a wild one. More than 20 states, ranging from Georgia to Idaho, have recently filed lawsuits against the federal government for its overreach in attempting to impose gender ideology in education. The lawsuits contest the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education, to include “gender identity.
” The rewrite of Title IX requires states and educational institutions to ignore biological sex and instead make decisions about programs, bathrooms and locker rooms based on gender identity. So much for fairness and the respect for the religious freedom of Americans who believe in biology, and that we are given our sex by God. We should brace ourselves.
The Biden administration’s tangled web of federal rules and guidances, designed to force-feed the nation progressive fantasies about gender, go beyond our schools. They are also corrupting our workplaces, humanitarian efforts and health care. It’s pretty scary stuff, and it’s a fundamental failure of the administration’s obligation to safeguard religious freedom.
How could this have happened without legislative mandates? Unfortunately, it began at the Supreme Court. In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued , a disastrous decision expanding the reach of Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination in.