Christmas with the Presidents
Jerry Newcombe
In April I wrote, “it is no longer safe to be a young woman in America. We are not protected.”
This was my deeply held conviction when the Biden-Harris administration made sweeping changes to Title IX, allowing males to enter female bathrooms, locker rooms, and living facilities.
Praise be to God that just as the school year starts, the Supreme Court has struck down this dangerous attempt to invade women’s spaces!
The result is that the new Title IX regulation is blocked in 26 states and at least some schools in every other state.
Title IX is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities. Enacted in 1972, Title IX was a huge victory for second-wave feminists as it enacted positive steps to protect women from sexual harassment and gave females equal opportunities in education.
Since then, progressives have pushed for radical changes, seeking to undermine the scientifically recognized and biblically based understanding of male and female sex differences. To the secular progressive, sex and gender do not equate. One’s sex is a set of biological characteristics, while one’s gender is a socially constructed concept that refers to a person’s roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities.
This has led to the expansion of the rainbow coalition, with a special emphasis on transgenderism, seeking to create cultural acceptance and legal protections for those who claim a transgender identity or those who aim to divorce their gender identity from their biological sex.
Because modern progressives have fractured the biological reality of sex from “gender identity,” they now believe Title IX was left incomplete. As such, the Biden-Harris administration amended Title IX through the Department of Education by issuing an updated policy. The new regulations included protections “against discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.”
Expanding Title IX to encompass protections for gender identity opened up a host of potential problem scenarios for schools including men in female spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports (just as I wrote about a few short months ago).
Quickly, more than two dozen Republican attorneys general challenged the policy change. Various lawsuits arose and injunctions were issued in the lower courts. In fact, the Biden administration lost nearly every legal battle over the new regulation in the lower courts, thus escalating it to the Supreme Court for review.
With the Supreme Court ruling 5-4, efforts by the Biden administration fell flat. The court won’t stop states from blocking Title IX changes. This is good.
Despite this victory, the fight to protect women in intimate spaces continues. This particular decision is not a final ruling, as cases will return to lower appeals courts and the matter could eventually return to the Supreme Court once again.
The progressive left will use every available avenue to advance their cause. This includes but is not limited to the courts, the states, Congress, and of course the Executive Branch. We should be mindful of this, especially in a presidential election year.
The ACLU states, “… one of the most significant and powerful ways for a Harris-Walz administration to support the needs of trans people is to issue an executive order on day one… we expect Harris to work with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to use litigation to protect trans people across the country from discriminatory state laws.”
As long as leftists continue to divorce sex from gender, cultural chaos will ensue — and this will disproportionately impact young women due to the very biological realities progressives pretend are false.
Christians should keep a wary eye on this rapidly changing landscape where young women could be left vulnerable. As long as there are those who seek to divorce sex from gender, cultural chaos will ensue – and this will disproportionately impact young women.
The battle is far from over. We must be aware and stand ready to proclaim the truth about God’s design for gender. Secular progressives will not relent, so we must not either.
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