The Biden administration withdrew proposed penalties against schools who enforced biological regulations on transgender athletes. This policy proposal was an amendment to Title IX, the landmark civil rights law that prevents sexual discrimination and one that I have discussed before. The Department of Education said it received more than 150,000 public comments during a 30-day comment period.
The Department of Education stated, “The Department recognizes that there are multiple pending lawsuits related to the application of Title IX in the context of gender identity, including lawsuits related to Title IX’s application to athletic eligibility criteria in a variety of factual contexts. In light of the comments received and those various pending court cases, the Department has determined not to regulate on this issue at this time.”
The Biden administration initially said of the proposed rule, “It is expected that transgender elementary school students will generally be able to participate on sports teams consistent with their gender identity, according to the department’s proposal, while older students — especially at the high school and college level — are expected to be subjected to sex-related criteria that limit their participation in school sports.”
This line of thinking fails to take into account the most basic notions of fairness that Title IX was procured to protect. We need protectors.
We also don’t need the bullshit. And that’s what this is. We all have to compromise the truth and our own sanctity and privacy for the .001% of the population with gender dysphoria?
This week seven San Jose State volleyball players transferred.
Wyoming news broke that a freshman legislator will introduce a bill regarding gender being assigned at birth. The “What Is a Woman Act” is a piece of legislation to legislate common sense back into the jurisprudence. In the bill, females exhibit XX chromosomes and males exhibit XY. It is pretty straight forward. It seems we shouldn’t have to legislate that, but here we are.
The recent oral arguments regarding sex changes for minor children at the United States Supreme Court also showed the same trajectory of a pendulum swing back to rational logic over ideological extremism at the expense of everyone else’s rights. People understand common sense and they are seeking protection under the law, not woke culture layered in levels of political correctness. My freedom of speech and constitutional rights do not end where your game of imagination begins.
These were issues that were huge in the last election cycle. Perhaps the Republicans who voted against the What is a Woman Act last time, will rethink their positions in light of recent law, and common sense. Some of these include Steve Harshman, R-Casper, JT Larson R-Rock Springs, and Bob Nicholas R-Cheyenne.
If Wyoming wants to stay conservative and true, it must enforce right and wrong. Leaving logic aside and allowing private institutions and taxpayer funded universities to push woke agendas in abusive ways, in which only one side is allowed to speak – is Marxist, Orwellian and flies in the face of reality. Wyoming should also consider a DEI bill that models Idaho’s Department of Education Policies that broke news this week. Idaho’s Governor has executed with common sense and results. The education policy focused on maintaining political neutrality and protecting free speech and expression.
In some senses this is a poetic fight. The women of America were oppressed for years. “No” was not a word they could express. Now here we are still. For today, Biden’s lift of the radical policy is a win. But it is back to the drawing board and back to the courtroom, to fight for ever our right to speak light to what they’ve tried to do to us in the dark.
Cassie Craven can be reached at: ccraven.law@gmail.com
