All over America, there's a growing grassroots effort to protect student athletes from the radical transgender movement.
The effort gained momentum in June of 2022. That's when the Biden administration's Department of Education proposed new Title IX regulations that horrified parents and many educators. Title IX is the federal civil rights law that prevents sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions and programs.
Biden's bureaucrats insisted that school facilities that are separated by sex, including locker rooms, showers and bathrooms, must be separated on the basis of gender identity, not biological sex. This meant that a biological male who identifies as a female would be allowed to use girls' facilities in spite of the obvious dangers and violations of women's privacy.
Now the Biden administration is threatening states, schools and universities that want school athletic teams to be based only on biological sex. The new regulations assert that any blanket requirement that students participate only on teams that match their biological gender would be a violation of Title IX.
Instead, they propose a series of vague criteria that describe under what limited circumstances girls' teams and athletes can be protected from biological men. The vagueness is not accidental — it is a strategy. The penalty for violating Title IX is a loss of coveted federal funds. Schools and universities, many of which are led by far-left "woke" officials, will inevitably err on the side of so-called "inclusion" at the expense of the safety and privacy of female athletes.
America's young women deserve our protection. No female athlete should be forced to compete against a biological male. Some women athletes have already suffered serious injuries. Many have lost scholarships to physically bigger and stronger men who simply "identify" as women. No American woman of any age should lose her right to privacy in a bathroom or locker room.
JDFI will join with other concerned organizations, parents, and public officials to use the courts and legislation to protect our wives, sisters, and daughters.
