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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
It appears the pundits, the political prognosticators, the Election Day seers and news consultants were wrong when they predicted Joe Biden would not be the 2024 Democrat nominee for president. One recalls how many of them pontificated that Biden would be pulled from the roster at the 11th hour, and how somebody new would take his place: Oprah, Michelle Obama, Governor Newsom, or an unnamed celebrity from The View or Hollywood and Vine.
I recall these “prophets” claiming to know “absolutely” that Biden would not be the Dem candidate, the one pictured smiling and waving under a rain of confetti at the DNC. “I cannot reveal my source,” these pundits often said, “But I can tell you that it will happen: Biden will be replaced.”
Biden will not be replaced barring a miracle or a slip of the shoe as he descends Air Force One. That’s because he is the ideal Dem candidate—his mind is an open funnel waiting to be filled with ideological instructions from his staff of woke advisers. Biden is a man without moral values. He carries a rosary in his pocket but highlights abortion (aka child sacrifice) as his favorite “sacrament.”
Biden praises the policies of the gender ideology and transgender activists, and then transmits that message to ‘middle America’ with a mouth full of mush, blabbering about “equity” when his real intention is to open a window to allow the government to force K-12 trans boys on girls sports teams.
With that end in view, Biden’s morally bankrupt ship of state has added a multi-thousand word addendum to Title IX, in which biological sex is redefined to include gender identities. This fact alone should sound every alarm bell in the nation. The original 1972 Title IX law forbids discrimination based on sex in education, but under the new rules—due to go into effect in August—Title IX will also protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Sexual orientation is one thing, gender identity quite another. They may be distantly related in a left progressive sense but they are hardly kissing cousins. The two placed together like cooing doves illustrates how the Biden administration loves stitching together opposite polarities in order to formulate bold radical agendas. What this agenda wants to do is create a window to allow trans male athletes on women’s sports teams in grades K-12 and up.
Some Republican states were quick to spot the ruse. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, for instance, issued an Executive Order against the administration’s revision of Title IX. Sanders’ order states that Arkansas will follow state laws on gender identity and discrimination, not the new federal law. Arkansas law does not require school officials to use students’ preferred pronouns, and states that trans athletes may be legally barred from competing in sports aligning with how they identify.
“My message to Joe Biden and the federal government is that we will not comply,” Sanders said during the signing. “Arkansas already has several commonsense laws on the books that directly contradict President Biden’s new Title IX rule.”
Supporters of Biden’s Title IX reforms like to say how the additions are okay because they do not include a federal reversal of statewide bans on transgender athletes. While this may be technically true, the fact remains that the transgender section of the reform was merely put on hold, as if the administration opted to wait for possible pushback before proceeding further.
But given that Biden has already made the most radical Title IX adjustment– replacing the word sex with gender in framing the revisions, as well as throwing government support behind the enforced use of pronouns—anyone “with eyes to see” will deduce what lies ahead: a full blown green light for transgender males to occupy women’s sports.
The people, as they say, will not be fooled.
The state of Tennessee has taken the lead among 22 other states in suing the federal government for its weaponization of Title IX to promote what many call “fringe sexual politics.” Twenty states is nearly half the number of states in the nation, proof that something is seriously “rotten in Denmark,” especially the “transgressive” fact that policy making belongs to Congress, not Biden’s executive branch. The Biden administration is clearly guilty of dangerous overreach.
Biden’s Title IX revisions would also require language restrictions on any teacher who wishes to use grammatically correct pronouns. If Johnny, a K-12 student somewhere in Virginia, demands to be referred to as “they,” a teacher who refuses to “obey” Johnny could be fired for violating his civil rights.
Biden’s Title IX revision also allows free access to the bathroom of a student’s choice, depending on the gender the student — at that moment — identifies with. We can easily envision bully sexual athlete Butch X following cheerleader Jennifer into the ladies room because his testosterone levels at that point identify as “female.”
The Advocate, the nation’s leading LGBTQ magazine, quoted a Biden administration official who stated that the transgender clause related to athletics in new Title IX rules “is still ongoing,” which seems to confirm that Biden officials are waiting to see what happens regarding the new rules before pushing for more radical change.
Opposition to Biden’s Title IX revisions continues to mount.
The always outspoken Senator John Kennedy (R-L) said that Biden’s rewriting of Title IX means that, “Activists can weaponize Title IX to force schools to prioritize the comfortable education of the boy with gender dysphoria above the academic and emotional well-being of the dozens of girls who would rather not share a locker room or learn about puberty alongside biological boys.”
Kennedy also stated that “President Biden’s new rule defeats the purpose of Title IX. By interpreting Title IX to be about protecting ‘gender identity’ instead of physical gender, President Biden will place countless women and girls in uncomfortable—or even unsafe—learning environments.
In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican who sued the Biden administration on behalf of the state, said that “Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology.” Paxton added that “This attempt to subvert federal law is plainly illegal, undemocratic, and divorced from reality.”
In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis said in a social media video that “Florida rejects Joe Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX. We will not comply, and we will fight back.”
In Oklahoma, Ryan Walters, that state’s superintendent of public instruction, announced that the state is “pursuing all actions to oppose this illegal and unconstitutional move by the Biden administration.”
America is growing more conservative when it comes to transgender issues. A 2023 Rasmussen Report stated that most Americans oppose the transgender agenda—which has nothing to do with loving your trans neighbor or wanting to relegate trans people to second class citizenship—but which has everything to do with what Biden is attempting to do in Title IX. Americans by a 3-to-1 margin oppose gender identity bathrooms, the forced use of pronouns and the participation of biological men in women’s sports.
Even Joe Biden’s beloved liberal, Jesuit pope, Francis of Rome, has called gender ideology “the ugliest danger of our time.”
Pathetic, is what it is, pathetic. Thousands of words written by lawyers who will keep other lawyers wealthy interpreting the words for girls who are victims of rape and sexual abuse by weirdos.
Joe Biden is a stupid old man, and he is worthless.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Congress pass Title IX, and then the prez signed it. How does Jose Dementio get to rewrite the law on his own…..unless, Unless, UNLESS he is a fascist.
“Will Presidential Meddling With Title IX Be the End of Sports?” With respect to college sports, it ended decades ago when academic standards were lowered to bring in unqualified student athletes…while calling it progress & equality. I remember watching college football in the 1960s on TV, and as each starting team was introduced the players would run across the screen and pause while a graphic showed their name and college major. I saw many majors like, physics, English literature, medicine, US history, et al. You would not see more than 1 or 2 of these today if these introductions were replayed.
Someone should demand that the Muslim Women’s Sports Network accepts transwomen. Mr Biden would repeal his new law faster than you could say “Michigan voters”.
You are dead rught
CORRECTION: You are dead RIGHT
LGBTQ is not a monolth. There are plenty of GAYS and LESBIANS who don’t want men in woman’s sports or women’s locker rooms or women’s prisons or shelters for battered wives or grabbing slots, set aside for women, on corporate boards or in the military
Title IX allows free access to the bathroom of a student’s chouce, depending on the gender the student-at that momemt-identifies with. How about allowing free access to a sandbox, for students who identify as cats?
One needs to take a good hard look at Title IX and not simply assume it was ever an unalloyed good. Its practical effect in the early years was to starve many of the lower-profile sports, and that means men’s sports, because college women’s presence in sports was always rather marginal. This is because was little honor or status attached to being a female athlete. Girls in high school and college simply did not pursue athletics as a meaningful avocation or extracurricular activity, whereas boys and college men often played several sports each year and earned two or three letters. Title IX created an artificial pressure on girls to take up sports with a fervor in high school because their performance in swimming or track or lacrosse (forget about football, baseball, basketball) would help get them into Princeton and other top colleges, which were eagerly seeking female athletes to fill out their new Title IX teams.
Title IX was based on misplaced feminist notions that women were being devalued if they were not being encouraged to be ersatz men. This was plain as day 50 years ago, but I wonder if anyone sees it now, the goal of “equality” in sports participation having blinded most people to the unnaturalness of it all.
And now here we are discussing ‘trans’ athletes in high school and college as though that were a grim existential issue, and a serious threat to Title IX’s ideal of unattainable ‘equality.’ But ironically, Title IX is one of the two prime culprits in the mess. By pretending males and females are pretty much fungible, you set the stage for girls who insist on playing (usually as girls) for the male rugby team, as well as boys (generally posing as girls while still male) going out for the girls’ swimming and track and cross-country. And the other culprit? It’s the cult of Diversity®. You mix up different races and species together on a sports team, you create a setting where unfair physical advantage cannot be discussed. This lack of frankness leads to evasive actions and outright deceit. Rather than upsetting the apple cart, you do nothing. It would be a simple matter to declare that all participants on the female (male) swim team must be physically female (male), and have been female (male) for at least five years…but nobody wants to bell that cat. They won’t bell it because it’s about issues of physical differences, and that’s a no-go area, over in the neighborhood of “racism.”