(The Center Square) – Opponents to President Joe Biden’s rewrite of Title IX gathered outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to decry the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX.
There were a mix of attendees at the press conference, including various state attorneys and parental rights advocates.
Speakers at the press conference included senior legal fellow Sarah Parshall Perry, Solicitor General of Montana Christian Corrigan, Louisiana Superintendent Cade Brumley, Lainey Armistead, former collegiate athlete, Legal Counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom Rachel Rouleau, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Díaz Jr., Independent Women’s Forum Ambassador Paula Scanlan, Kim Hermann, executive director of Southeastern Legal Foundation, Wyoming Superintendent Megan Degenfelder, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Montana Elsie Arntzen, and Tiffany Justice, founder of Moms for Liberty.
“Look, we are here today to reign in abusive power by a federal agency,” Brumley said. “To reign in ideological interest that violate the safety and natural order of a civil society. We’re here in a stand of solidarity, a stand on the right side of history. For us in the state of Louisiana, these reckless changes to Title IX have drawn a clear line in the sand.”
Rouleau spoke about how Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed five lawsuits opposing the Title IX changes.
“The Biden Administration’s unlawful attempt to redefine sex in Title IX to include gender identity will gut women’s equal opportunities, threaten their safety and fairness, and even eliminate fairness in women’s sports,” Rouleau said.
“Girls deserve their own private spaces”, Rouleau added. “They deserve to enter their own locker rooms and bathrooms without being faced with the frightening reality of having to change in front of or shower next to a male. The government should be protecting the privacy and safety of all students, not undermining it.”
Murrill also touched on the lack of privacy rights caused by these Title IX changes during her speech.
“You know, one of the things that I keep going back to when I think about some of the most egregious aspects of this rule is not just the fact, which is bad enough, that women have to change give up their privacy rights, but that they are prohibited from talking about it,” Murrill said. “And this is a rule, this is a law that was passed by congress that was intended to create a vehicle for us to talk about it, to complain about it, and to get redress for sexual harassment and for other kinds of discrimination against women in educational environments.”
“Unfortunately since 2021, the Biden Administration has waged war against women in order to cater to the woke mob,” said Díaz.
Several of the speakers at the press conference, including Degenfelder, emphasized wanting to protect women and girls.
“Our people have spoken, and they demand we protect their girls,” Degenfelder said.
“This is about safety and fairness for biological girls, and they are counting on us,” Degenfelder said. “These rules are yet another example of the Biden Administration’s gross federal overreach, completely circumventing the legislative process here in DC and disregarding the laws and decisions we are making in our states.”
Justice slammed the changes being made to Title IX in regards to sexual orientation.
“The least interesting thing about a child should be orientation,” Justice said. “With only a third of American children reading on grade level in America’s public schools, we must put the focus on increasing academic achievement in our schools, so that we can truly unfold the full potential of every child.”
A born male can choose to identify with being a female duck if they like, act like a female duck, walk like a female duck and quack like a female duck. But don’t try and convince others that you were born with female duck genes, just to try and justify your degenerate behavior.
OneNewsNow June 18, 2014
The latest in scientific research: There is no homosexual gene.
Even the rabid left-wing Guardian newspaper in the UK is retreating like the outgoing tide from the lie that homosexuals are born that way. This blows the entire foundation of the gay “rights” movement completely out of the tub.
Title IX was a law passed by Congress. Biden has no legal authority to change it without congressional approval. So why is he getting away with it? And democrats claim that Trump wants to be a dictator. We have the worst one in our history in office right now
You’ve got that right, Deacon. Joe is even lousy at being a dictator. Most dictators, at the very least, have ideas (plural). Mostly bad ideas but they do possess them all the same.
The last time Joe had an original thought the Secret Service took his car keys away.
HE Cares not what he’s AUTHORIZED to do…
OR more correctly, his HANDLERS don’t.
Must admit, work must be done to address peculiar aspects of this issues. Doesn’t sit well with me when bio- guys compete with bio girls in sports. Not that sport is most important activity but seems girls holding short end.
It appears the woke crowd really longs to be dominated by men in every aspect of their existence.
Lia Thomas is NOT a women. He and his are opportunistic fools and travesties.
Nicely said. STOP BUYING into their insanity and calling IT a she.