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The U.S. Department of Education released on April 19 its long-awaited Title IX regulation. If allowed to stand, the effects of the controversial rule will be numerous, long-lasting, and severe.
Most profoundly, the policy changes the definition of sex to include “gender identity,” allowing biological males to freely participate in women’s sports. And Reason fumed over the rule’s harmful effects on campus due process: “the new rules allow students to be found guilty of assaulting a classmate without ever seeing the full evidence against them”.
In short order, conservative-leaning organizations issued statements condemning the new policy, including the Heritage Foundation, Defense of Freedom Institute, and the National Association of Scholars.
Less anticipated were numerous statements by liberal organizations that also were critical of the regulation:
Gays Against Groomers: The liberal-leaning Gays Against Groomers thundered, “By replacing sex with gender identity, all prior protections put in place will be wiped away. It is a dystopian nightmare, masqueraded as progress”.
ACLU: Four years ago, the ACLU filed a lawsuit opposing the 2020 Title IX regulation that was designed to curb campus Kangaroo Courts. But last week the ACLU did an apparent about-face, criticizing several due process provisions of the new regulation, such as its acceptance of the single-investigator, “judge, jury, and executioner” model, and its removal of the requirement for a live hearing.
Twitter readers expressed their anger and disappointment, as well:
Release of the new regulation does not signal an end to the Title IX controversy. The Independent Women’s Forum promptly announced that it is “preparing to sue the Biden administration to enjoin this unlawful action”. And the Alliance Defending Freedom issued this blunt challenge: “See you in court, @POTUS.”
