On Monday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed formal comment letters with the U.S. Department of Education opposing the Biden administration’s proposed Title IX rule to change the meaning of “sex” to “gender identity.” Opponents argue that this is an attempt to abolish female-only sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms in America’s schools.
“Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits schools that receive federal funding from discriminating ‘on the basis of sex,’ has played an important role in protecting the rights of women for half a century,” said AG Marshall. “Yet, during the 50th anniversary year of this landmark law, the Biden administration has launched an assault on women’s equality by undermining the very foundation of Title IX.”
This effort to do away with gender specificity dates back to the waning days of the Obama Administration. In 2016, the State of Alabama joined a coalition of states to fight guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Education purporting to require public schools to comply with many of the same provisions contained in the proposed Joe Biden rule. That guidance was halted by a federal district judge and was later rescinded by President Donald Trump.
“President Biden’s proposed Title IX rule would erase all the gains made by women over the last five decades, denying them equal access to education programs and activities by allowing anyone who identifies as a woman to enter spaces and join activities designated for women alone,” Marshall commented. “As a result, women will lose opportunities and scholarships, not to mention be subjected to a greater risk for physical assault from potential predators. Equally disturbing, Biden’s proposed new Title IX rule forces schools to allow students to identify as a sex opposite to their biological sex, effectively stripping the right of parents to raise their children how they choose. In one fell swoop, the Biden administration will not only have reinstituted discrimination upon women in America’s schools, but it will have also upended the primary role of the family to safeguard the wellbeing of their children.”
“The Alabama Legislature has already taken strong steps to protect our female students from genderless sports and bathrooms,” Marshall continued. “I will continue to do everything in my power to preserve our state’s sovereignty over these matters and am glad to join my fellow attorneys general and millions of Americans in demanding that the Biden administration immediately withdraw its fundamentally flawed proposed rule.”
Monday’s letter was also signed by the state of Indiana, Tennessee, and Ohio.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville has also recently spoken out against the Biden administration’s radical redefining of gender in America’s schools.
“Congress made clear its intention to establish Title IX as a prohibition on discrimination against women at institutions that received Federal financial assistance,” Tuberville wrote. “By broadening the definition of “sex” based on weakly-associated case law and polarizing social concepts adopted by the progressive left, the intent of the law is destroyed, and women are marginalized yet again,” wrote Senator Tuberville.”
“This proposed rule is a monumental setback for the generations of women who have benefited from Title IX’s enactment over the last fifty years,” Tuberville continued. “The Department should not move forward with this proposed rule, but instead, work with Congress on legislative action meant to strengthen the protections afforded women in the original statute.”
Tuberville, best known for his coaching of college football, began his coaching career coaching girls high school basketball.
Opponents to the radical new rule argue that by allowing students to declare their gender, rather than the sex they were actually born with, males will be able to compete in women’s sports, and actual women will get fewer and fewer scholarships, roster spots, and opportunities to play.
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