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The Biden administration is poised to force every recipient of federal grants into transgender policies.The Biden administration is poised to force every recipient of federal grants into transgender policies.Biden administration will soon reinterpret Title IX to strike down Fairness in Women's Sports laws
President Joe Biden's administration will soon take action to overhaul federal civil rights laws and enact a new regime of Title IX rules for college athletics, according to a report.
The U.S. Department of Education is writing new rules that would make discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity illegal under Title IX, a 1972 law that bans sex discrimination in education, the Washington Post reports.
In other words, it would be illegal for states prohibit gender-dysphoric male athletes who present as female from competing against women in college athletics. Schools that receive federal funding must permit transgender athletes to compete according to their self-identified gender or risk losing those funds.
The new rules will be published in April, according to the report. The changes are currently under review by the White House. Next, the government must issue a notice of proposed rulemaking and give the public a chance to comment before they are finalized.
Draft text reportedly reads, "Discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics (including intersex traits), pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
Biden's change to federal law, enacted via executive order, would set up a direct confrontation between the federal government and twelve Republican-run states that have passed "Fairness in Women's Sports" laws banning males who identify as girls or women from participating in girls' and women's sports. These states include Utah, Texas, Florida, Idaho, and South Dakota.
Republicans have argued that male athletes who present as female have biological advantages over girls, but this point is contested by LGBTQ+ advocates.
Debate has raged on this issue as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas — a man who identifies as female — controversially won the NCAA Division I championship in the 500-yard women’s freestyle. Thomas swam for the Penn men's team before beginning to take cross-sex hormones and present as female.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) rejected Thomas' victory as a "fraud," issuing a proclamation that declared second-place finisher, Emma Weyant, a Sarasota resident, the "real winner."
The Biden administration announced its intention to change how Title IX is interpreted last summer and began holding public hearings on the proposal. The decision followed the Supreme Court's 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga., a 6-3 ruling that said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and transgender workers from employment discrimination. The court majority reasoned that people being fired for being gay or transgender were being treated differently because of their sex, which is illegal.
Because Title IX is very similar to Title VII, the Biden administration has argued that the same reinterpretation of illegal sex discrimination should apply in education.
Both supporters and opponents of the change were given an opportunity to make their case to the Education Department during hearings, the Post reported.
“Under the Title IX, every student who wants to should be able to play and feel welcome as who they are,” said Amit Paley, chief executive of the Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth. “By ensuring that LGBTQ young people have access to a welcoming and affirming school environment, the Department of Education can improve student mental health and well-being and ultimately save lives.”
In contrast, Cynthia Monteleone, a world champion sprinter and girls' track coach, told the department that including transgender athletes in women's sports creates unfair competition. She described how her daughter came in second place in a race against a male transgender runner who played volleyball as a boy.
“My daughter trained for two years for this first race. This transgender athlete trained for track for two weeks,” she said.
Stating that as a coach, she teaches girls that hard work pays off, she asked, "How can I continue to teach this … when, quite literally, average boys can change their identity and beat the top female in the competition?”
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New York Democrats are attempting to stop a plan to open Chick-fil-A restaurants at rest stops along a state thruway, claiming that the fast-food franchise has a history of discriminating against LGBT people.
The New York State Thruway Authority is about to begin a $450 million project to modernize 27 service areas along I-90, and Chick-fil-A is one of several food vendors that will be installed at these locations. But on Friday, three openly gay Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter asking that the authority "re-examine the list of approved concessions for these rest spots considering Chick-fil-A's action against the LGBTQ+ community."
"Chick-fil-A and its founders have a long and controversial history of opposing the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals and families," wrote state Assemblyman Harry Bronson (D-Rochester). The letter cites Chick-fil-A CEO Dan T. Cathy's public comments opposing same-sex marriage and claims Chick-fil-A's charity arm, the WinShape Foundation, has "donated millions of dollars to organizations hostile to LGBTQ+ rights." The letter cites a 2017 donation to the Salvation Army as an example.
While the Democrats praised the legalization of same-sex marriage and the adoption of LGBT sexual orientations and gender identities as protected classes in anti-discrimination law in New York, they expressed concerns that opening more Chick-fil-A restaurants would send "a message to LGBTQ+ individuals and families that [the Thruway Authority] doesn't share the same commitment to their civil rights as New York State."
"We are requesting that you re-examine the list of approved concessions for these rest spots considering Chick-fil-A's action against the LGBTQ+ community," the letter concludes.
Bronson said that by leasing state thruway authority property to Chick-fil-A, the state was giving the company an opportunity to make millions of dollars even though it is purportedly anti-LGBT.
"We can't say through those laws and through those policy positions and statements, that we support the dignity and human rights of LGBTQ individuals and their families and at the same time, have a state authority that's willing to enter into a 30-year-lease with a business that has a history of not recognizing the human rights of LGBTQ individuals," he told to WROC-TV.
The Rochester lawmaker has also launched a petition allowing state residents to co-sign the Democrats' letter in a show of solidarity.
After an overwhelming response from our community, my office created a petition allies can use to sign-on to our le… https://t.co/kwOmJctzzV
— Harry B. Bronson (@HarryBBronson) 1625972296.0
In response, the Thruway Authority released a statement emphasizing its support for "an inclusive environment that treats the tens of millions of people that travel our system with dignity and respect."
"Our private partner in the Service Area redevelopment project, Empire State Thruway Partners, explored a selection of restaurants and finalized agreements with specific brands to operate at the redeveloped service areas to enhance and improve the travel experience for our customers. There are no state taxpayer dollars or toll payer funds supporting the redevelopment of the Thruway's 27 service areas," said Jonathan Dougherty, a spokesman for the Thruway Authority.
In a comment to Fox News, Chick-fil-A said it is "excited about the partnership" with New York and emphasized that the company does not have a political agenda.
"We want to be clear that Chick-fil-A does not have a political or social agenda, and we welcome everyone in our restaurants. We are proud to be represented by more than 200,000 diverse team members nationwide, and we strive to be a positive influence in our local communities," Chick-fil-A, Inc. said in a statement.
In 2019, after years of negative headlines in the media and outraged protest from LGBT individuals, Chick-fil-A announced it would stop donating to "anti-LGBTQ" organizations like the Salvation Army or the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The concession has apparently not sated the company's critics, nor have revelations that the company has recently donated to partisan left-wing organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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