… Of the federal government. The Trump administration is continuing the attack on us with all their hate and bigotry. Their wrapped belief with the simple notions of 1950 biology that gender is not sex.
I woke up this morning reading this in the Hartford Courant...
The Trump administration is using everything in its power to discriminate not only against us but also against Latinos, Muslims and anyone else who are not “like us.”
This morning is a meeting at the Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman office on inclusion of LTC facilities and right after lunch I am going to jail to do training for their staff.
I woke up this morning reading this in the Hartford Courant...
Federal Office of Civil Rights agrees to investigate Connecticut’s high school transgender athlete policyThere are dozen of trans athletes here in Connecticut and only two of them won, but that was enough for the Christian right lawyer’s to step into the fray and find support from the anti-LGBTQ+ Trump administration.
By Dan Brechlin
August 8, 2019
Connecticut’s policy that allows transgender high school athletes to compete as the gender with which they identify is being investigated by the federal Office of Civil Rights.
The families of three high school track athletes filed a complaint with conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom to the Office of Civil Rights earlier this year, alleging that the girls were discriminated against because they had to compete against two athletes who are biologically male but identify as female. The complaint states that the rule violates Title IX and prevented them from top finishes and potentially from college scholarships.
“Please note that opening the complaint for investigation in no way implies that OCR has made a determination on the merits of the complaint,” wrote Adrienne M. Mundy-Shephard, who is the acting regional director at the Office of Civil Rights, in a letter to Roger Brooks, a lawyer with the Alliance Defending Freedom. “During the investigation, OCR is a neutral fact-finder, collecting and analyzing relevant evidence from you, the CIAC, the [Glastonbury school district], and other sources, as appropriate."
Exclusive: Emails show DOE rushed to take up complaint from anti-LGBT groupThe Trump administration was champing at the bit to get a case where they can attack trans people and they think they found one in trans athletes.
The Washington Blade
By Chris Johnson
August 8, 2019
The Department of Education rushed to take up an investigation over an anti-trans complaint filed by female athletes in Connecticut without having a solid understanding of the legal framework to accept jurisdiction, according to emails leaked exclusively to the Washington Blade.
The emails detail a behind-the-scenes exchange among officials in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights just before announcing it would take up the investigation, which was in response to a complaint filed by Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of three female track athletes seeking to challenge Glastonbury School District’s trans-inclusive policy.
In one email dated Aug. 5, Lisa Chang, an enforcement director within the Office for Civil Rights, says she “just met” with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement Randolph Wills.
With urgency, Chang says, “We must have a draft LON [Letter of Notification] for Ken’s review tomorrow.”
That email was sent just two days before the Education Department ultimately announced on Wednesday it would take up the case.
The Trump administration is using everything in its power to discriminate not only against us but also against Latinos, Muslims and anyone else who are not “like us.”
This morning is a meeting at the Connecticut Long Term Care Ombudsman office on inclusion of LTC facilities and right after lunch I am going to jail to do training for their staff.
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