Trachman points out potential scenarios in which school officials might have their hands tied by Title IX regulations that cover sexual orientation or gender identity: nonbinary students might demand separate dorms because male and female dorms are insufficient, gender-fluid students might switch back and forth between male and female locker rooms on a daily basis, and schools would be forced to “affirm” students who identify as animals or other strange, made-up genders. These examples might sound crazy, but conservatives were once ridiculed for predicting that federal legalization of gay marriage would lead to societal acceptance of all kinds of immoral sexual behavior.

If the slippery slope argument doesn’t appeal to you, even the basic case of a boy who identifies as a girl demonstrates the problem with these new Title IX rules. Under the Biden administration changes would require schools treat gender identity as conclusive for assigning students “restrooms, locker rooms, shower facilities, housing, athletic teams and single-sex classes.” In practice, this means that schools would be violating federal law if they refuse to allow boys into girls’ locker rooms, bathrooms, showers, dorm rooms, et cetera. It would be entirely illegal to have sex-segregated spaces of any kind. College and high school-aged women have already been forced by some cowardly school administrators to change in front of men. Biden’s Title IX rules would make this ubiquitous. Vulnerable young girls and women across the country would be exposed to members of the opposite sex without their consent.