President Joe Biden’s plan to redefine sex and enable transgender pupils to participate in female sports and use female restrooms in schools has outraged parents.
Parents and ‘concerned individuals’ in droves flocked to voice their opinions on the proposed rule change, arguing that it completely undermines Title IX safeguards for women in sports and academia.
The public comment period opened on July 12 and received a record 184,000 submissions in only two months. The deadline for comments concludes on Monday, September 12.
Although it is unclear how many comments oppose and how many favour the suggested rule change, those who are opposed to it were critical of the Biden administration.
One commenter said, “This law is disgusting and insidiously anti-God and anti-human.”
“Do not let women to be humiliated by biological guys posing as women,” they continued. This is a falsehood that goes against every morality and liberties.
On Monday, Republican Jim Jordan asked if the Biden administration was “actively attempting to eliminate women’s sports” on Twitter.
Representative Tom Tiffany, a colleague of Jordan’s, asked parents to add their comments to the hundreds already in the thread and underlined in a second tweet that the comment session closes on Monday.
According to him, the new regulation “guts Title IX safeguards for women and girls.”
In order to “better align the Title IX regulatory requirements with Title IX’s nondiscrimination mandate, and to clarify the scope and application of Title IX and the obligation of all schools,” the Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Education is the agency that is proposing the new rule.
The regulation would mandate that transgender children be permitted to use the restrooms and participate in the sport for the sex with which they identify in all public schools.
All educational institutions that receive federal financing from the DOE, including elementary schools, secondary schools, postsecondary institutions, and others, would be subject to this.
The sheer volume of postings demonstrates how contentious the issue is, and it seems that the majority of comments urge the DOE not to modify or implement the rule.
Additionally, it seems that a few of the comments were duplicated, indicating that organisations may have encouraged individuals to copy their phrasing and paste it in a remark on the rule change proposal form.
Pastors and churchgoers contributed a number of the postings.
Others contend that the restriction harms women physically, intellectually, and emotionally.
One commenter in the comments section said, “Forcing schools to adopt these extreme interpretations of Title IX is bad — when a biological man is compared to a female, it fundamentally undermines the original aim of Title IX and potentially endanger women.”
Another said that it will damage women’s sports and expose young people to sexual exploitation in locker rooms.
Some even vowed to sue the government if the new regulation was implemented.
One reader said, “You are utilising the non-discrimination rules in an unlawful and unconstitutional manner, and if this reaches my kids’ school, we will file a lawsuit.”
Another commentator argued that the new law will violate the privacy and safety of women. Most egregiously, it would retard children’s development by exposing them to the poisonous gender ideology of the extreme Left.