CV NEWS FEED // The Biden-Harris administration’s controversial pro-LGBTQ rewrite of Title IX went into effect this week. Critics of the rewrite have long held that its changes undermine women’s sports.
“This is pretty wild, the Biden-Kamala Title IX rewrite goes into effect TODAY,” radio host Clay Travis wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Thursday morning.
Travis noted that the rewrite “erases sex for gender identity, essentially saying men pretending to be women are women and should be able to compete in women’s athletics.”
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In the months since the rewrite was first announced back in April, multiple states and pro-parent groups sued the Biden-Harris administration, challenging the new rules.
In June, a federal judge in Louisiana temporarily blocked the rewrite’s enforcement in four red states.
The judge called the rewrite a “threat to democracy” and “abuse of power by executive federal agencies,” alleging that the administration circumvented the country’s “separation of powers and system of checks and balances.”
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In a 2022 explainer on Title IX, CatholicVote’s Erika Ahern cautioned that Title IX, written 50 years earlier to protect women’s sports, could ultimately be used to “destroy women’s sports entirely.”
“In the ‘ends justify the means’ world of DC politics, the bill has now become a bludgeon for coerced cultural change,” Ahern wrote. “It ended up helping create a new America, where the very women it was intended to protect are slowly being erased.”
Also in 2022, three American bishops called out the Biden-Harris administration’s then-proposed changes to Title IX.
The statement by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, and Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane warned:
[B]y adding self-asserted ‘gender identity’ to the prohibition against sex discrimination, the rule may foreshadow a threat to women’s athletics, sex-separate spaces, and the right of students, parents, and teachers to speak the truth about the nature of the human person.
