Institutionalizing a Lie

According to the Biden administration, Title IX of the Civil Rights Act now requires schools to treat students who suffer, or claim to suffer, from gender dysphoria as though they were the opposite sex. As the Cass Review argues, this is essentially a medical intervention. If you require teachers and students to treat a girl who thinks she is a boy as though she were a boy, you increase the likelihood that she will persist in that belief. The longer she does, the more likely she is to seek sterilizing hormone treatments and mutilating surgical interventions. ...

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In the weeks to come, state attorneys general will file suit. The regulation will almost certainly be enjoined, and then eventually overturned by the Supreme Court. But not before transitioning the default social setting of American public schools to embrace gender ideology.

In the interim, parents should ask school board members whether they plan to comply with Biden’s Title IX regulation. If the answer is yes, then traditionalist parents should look into transitioning their children—to private schools. Parents should also ask Republican state lawmakers if they support universal school choice. If the answer is no, then parents will know that these lawmakers essentially endorse teaching students that gender ideology is true.

Ed Morrissey

This really should become a decision point for Republicans and moderates concerned over the marginalization of biological girls and women in education. It's time to pass follow-the-student funding everywhere we can, especially in Texas, where a few Republicans gummed up the works in the last session. Governor Abbott made six of them pay in this cycle for selling out children and families of modest means. 

No more pussyfooting around this issue. The time is now to force change onto an education bureaucracy that has been fully captured by radicals, including Joe Biden, as this Title IX order demonstrates. 

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