{"id":1585622,"date":"2022-08-02T19:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585622"},"modified":"2022-08-02T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:03:56","slug":"republican-senators-question-biden-admins-title-ix-revisions-unsafe-and-unfair-for-women-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-senators-question-biden-admins-title-ix-revisions-unsafe-and-unfair-for-women-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Senators Question Biden Admin\u2019s Title IX Revisions: \u2018Unsafe and Unfair\u2019 for Women, Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-senators-question-biden-admins-title-ix-revisions-unsafe-and-unfair-for-women-girls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Six Republican senators are contesting Education Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-miguel-cardona\">Miguel Cardona<\/a> on proposed changes to Title IX regulations, citing a \u201cdisturbing likelihood\u201d that his department\u2019s reinterpretation of those rules would force radical sex and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gender\">gender<\/a> ideologies upon K-12 schools across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Education Department in June announced an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-proposes-title-ix-overhaul-conflates-biological-sex-with-gender-identity_4554143.html\">overhaul of Title IX<\/a>, the federal law that prohibits \u201csex-based discrimination\u201d in federally funded educational settings.<\/p>\n<p>In part, the proposal broadens the definition of \u201csex,\u201d and seeks to establish that failing to accommodate someone\u2019s preferred gender identity in school activities or spaces is harmful enough to constitute a Title IX violation.<\/p>\n<p>In their July 26 letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/services\/files\/5BDFA365-C307-4B3C-AE57-A5A661A9E2D3\">pdf<\/a>) to Cardona, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) argued against the changes, saying such a shift from biological sex to gender identity is particularly bad for women and girls, who will have to accept the presence of biological males in activities and spaces formerly exclusive to women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour interpretation of Title IX will undermine that law\u2019s very purpose by making schools and sports unsafe and unfair for women and girls,\u201d the senators wrote. \u201cEqually disturbing is the likelihood that your department will weaponize Title IX to force a radical gender ideology in K-12 classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators demanded a response by Aug. 15 for 10 questions related to the potential ramifications of Title IX changes. One of the questions references <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/wisconsin-school-district-ends-sexual-harassment-probe-against-boys-accused-of-mispronouning_4517748.html\">a now-abandoned case<\/a> in Wisconsin, where a public school district accused three eighth-grade boys of sexual harassment for addressing another student with biologically correct pronouns instead of the student\u2019s preferred alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould it be a potential violation of Title IX for a student to refuse to call someone by pronouns that do not correspond to their biological sex?\u201d the senators asked.<\/p>\n<p>Another question involves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Republican senators are contesting Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on proposed changes to Title IX regulations, citing a \u201cdisturbing likelihood\u201d that his department\u2019s reinterpretation of those rules would force radical sex and gender ideologies upon K-12 schools across the nation. The Education Department in June announced an overhaul of Title IX, the federal law that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}