Last week, as the country was swept up in Caitlin Clark mania, Joe Biden — or whoever was holding his phone — sent out a pandering tweet, asking for compensation parity in women’s sports.
It was a request meant to celebrate the sisterhood, but had little regard for the financial realities of professional sports.
But days later, the Biden administration announced plans to kneecap lady athletes: introducing sweeping, radical changes to Title IX that would trample on fairness for females in locker rooms, sports and other single-sex spaces.
All with absolutely no regard for biological reality.
How has Biden been so wrong on so much in such a short period of time when it comes to women?
Because he and his hyper-progressive handlers keep subverting the truth by using the language of activists. Smuggling in pernicious ideas under the banner of this ever-expanding idea of inclusion and gender ideology.
The Title IX changes introduced on Friday make a mockery of the original law passed in 1972, by rewriting discrimination on the basis of sex to now include the very amorphous concept of “gender identity” — something that is ruled by self-identification.
Essentially: If you say you are a girl yet you have a penis, you are a girl.
“This is a regulation that attacks the definition of sex, due-process rights and free-speech rights,” Inez Feltscher Stepman, a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum, told me.
The new document is a dense1,577 pages long, which Feltscher Stepman warns is packed with “fire alarm fires that affects millions of students.”
“This touches every educational institution that receives federal money — not just universities but every public school in America, and a not insubstantial percentage of private schools, too,” she said. “It forces them all to be blind to the reality of sex difference [in order] to not separate boys and girls in areas we’ve come to expect.”
Biden’s overhaul punts on the specific issue of transgender athletes, but Feltscher Stepman called the changes a “politcal fig leaf. The plain reading of the regulation basically applies to sports as well.”
That means males identifying as women will be protected under federal law to use locker rooms and other single-sex spaces, play girls sports, or take advantage of opportunities like scholarships earmarked for females.
Ladies, once again have to suck it up. The landmark law written to give us equal opportunities and protections is now being weaponized against us.
Feltscher Stepman said the additions also have the potential to curtail parental rights in regard to a child’s gender transition, as well as to enable schools to punish students for not using a classmate’s preferred pronouns.
And if a student has been accused of sexual misconduct, they won’t get a fair shake. The revisions usher in a return to Obama-era kangaroo courts on college campuses and reverses the Trump administration’s return to sanity.
“We’re talking about the most basic due-process rights: the right to know exactly what you’re being accused of, the right to an impartial adjudicator,” Feltscher Stepman said. “A lot of these universities, they want to use a ‘single-investigator model,’ where you have one biased Title IX investigator instead of an impartial judge to figure out what happened between two students.”
She added that anyone accused of sexual misconduct won’t be entitled to have a representative cross-examine their accuser.
“All of those protections are stripped of anyone who is accused.”
No one voted for these changes, not congress nor the American people — a majority of whom don’t believe trans women athletes should be able to participate in girl’s sports. This was the action of bureaucrats and gleefully introduced by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
Feltscher Stepman said the Independent Women’s Law Center and other organizations have already mounted legal challenges and notes the issue will play out in this year’s presidential election.
And this desperate, leftist power grab must be fought every time — or the overreach will have a chilling effect on all aspects of student life.
We have to return to a place of truth and fairness.