Upcoming Title IX Regulation Will Legalize and Expand the Transgender Agenda in Schools

By Edward E. Bartlett

Title IX is the federal law that bans sex discrimination in schools. Title IX is basically a good law, but in recent years, Leftists have politicized and weaponized Title IX.

In 2011, the Obama Administration issued a campus policy that removed numerous due process protections for students – mostly men – accused of sexual misconduct. The campus disciplinary committees – sometimes referred to as “Kangaroo Courts,” dispensed with the presumption of innocence and expelled hundreds of students. In response, numerous lawsuits were filed against colleges in Maryland and across the nation. In a majority of cases, the accused student won the lawsuit.

Now, the Biden Administration wants to issue a new regulation that will further politicize Title IX. Specifically, the plan is to expand the definition of “sex” to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” You can imagine the chaos this will create:

1. Transgenders will be given full rein to participate in women’s sports. Obviously, transgenders possess significant physical advantages over biological females. The effect will be to eliminate women’s sports as we have traditionally known them.
2. Activist school counselors will be free to approach students to discuss the possibility that they are experiencing “gender dysphoria” and need to “transition” to another gender – without the parents’ knowledge or consent. In one case, this led to the tragic suicide of a California girl. https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2022/march/ca-mom-says-state-pushed-teen-daughter-into-transgender-treatments-leading-her-to-commit-suicide
3. Students will be forced to use the requested gender pronoun, even though forced speech is a violation of free speech. In a recent Wisconsin case, an eighth grade student was charged with “sexual harassment” because he declined to use the desired pronoun of a female classmate. https://cnsnews.com/commentary/edward-e-bartlett/wisconsin-mispronouning-incident-latest-leftist-campaign-speech

Fortunately, 88 organizations, including 15 attorneys general, have called on the US Department of Education to cancel its ill-conceived plan to move ahead with this new Title IX policy. https://www.saveservices.org/2022/05/88-groups-call-on-dept-of-education-to-cancel-plans-for-new-title-ix-regulation/

If all of this seems Orwellian, it truly is.

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Edward E. Bartlett, a long-time resident of Montgomery County, is the president of SAVE, a national policy organization that is working for fairness and due process in schools. Groups that wish to join the coalition to oppose the new Title IX regulation should contact him at: [email protected]

Mid County MoCo Met in Gaithersburg

Legislative District 39 Director and Central Committee Member Greg Decker hosted information night at La Mexicana Restaurant in Gaithersburg. He introduced Republican and Board of Education candidates, showed the old and new political maps - which gave us two more Montgomery County Council Members and one extra partial State district with Delegates and a State Senator - and answered questions from the capacity crowd. This event is a monthly Third-Thursday event, not to be missed.

Meet Dwight Patel

I truly believe in the American dream of pulling one’s self up by the bootstraps. I have heard too many stories within my family and outside of my family of how people came to America with little as $20.00 in their pocket, and through hard work, they achieve the American Dream.

In America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. I think the best thing the Federal, State, or local governments can do it get out of the way of the people.

I have heard too many stories from a former Iceman from Baltimore, with a 7th Grade education to immigrants who come to America with little as $20 dollars in pocket to achieving the American Dream. If your listen to the left today they’d say the “American Dream” is dead, but they are WRONG. There is ONLY an American Dream and it is alive and well. We see it when legal aliens become US Citizens, for many that is the happiest day of their lives.

This is what makes America Exceptional - anyone from anywhere can live the American Dream. Let’s face facts, there isn’t a German, French or English Dream. Its an American Dream, and it is alive and well. The progressive left fails to understand the dream. To be successful you need hard work and opportunity and too many of our policies prevent upward mobilization. Too many policies trap people to a class — keep them in a cycle of poverty and reliance on the welfare of others.

America is a lot like the proverb “…You can take a horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink…” America is the water, plenty and bountiful, but one must take a drink from America.

Everyone who works hard in America, will succeed in America!

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