Is your nontransgender young daughter made to feel unsafe? The president says: Too bad, get used to it.
On May 13 the federal Education Department issued a “Dear Colleague” letter informing the nation’s schools that they must immediately begin allowing students to use the bathrooms, locker rooms and showers of the student’s choosing, or risk having Title IX-linked funding withdrawn.
Title IX is the 1972 law banning sex discrimination in schools. It has always allowed schools to provide “separate toilet, locker rooms, and shower facilities on the basis of sex.” The Obama administration has unilaterally rewritten Title IX’s core premise. One’s “sex,” says the administration, is no longer defined by biology, but rather reflects one’s “gender identity.” And gender identity is “an individual’s internal sense of gender,” which “may be different from or the same as the person’s sex assigned at birth.”
Not only has the Education Department redefined the word “sex” in Title IX’s prohibition on “discrimination on the basis of sex,” it has also reimagined the meaning of “discrimination.”
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