National Review writer Madeleine Kearns, during Friday’s edition of The Editors, called the Biden administration’s portrayal of new Title IX rules “completely disingenuous,” after the president signed off on sweeping changes that she says will negatively affect women and girls.

“The Biden administration,” Kearns said, “likes to downplay just how radical and sweeping these rules are. So during the Obama era, they did a lot of this through ‘Dear Colleague’ letters. You know, it was sort of like under the radar — at least that was the intention. . . . That’s not really going to fly this time with Biden.”

Kearns pointed out how the administration is trying to avoid the sports issue, and said that “they tried to suggest that they were sidestepping the issue of athletics. That’s completely disingenuous.”

She laid out exactly how broad these rules are, saying “they redefine sex-based discrimination to include gender identity. And what does that mean? Well, it means that basically every educational entity across the states that is in receipt of any amount of federal funding is now prohibited from acknowledging biological reality.”

This affects a wide range of areas, like “women’s sports, spaces, scholarships . . . and it’s not just college. . . . It’s K right through college. It’s completely devastating.

“Then there’s parental rights that are going to be affected as well in terms of schools transitioning kids behind parents’ backs. So really, really devastating stuff and all presented within this disingenuous language of moderation when it’s anything but.”

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