How many times have I said that the Republicans think that laws don’t apply to them?
Yeah, he added that from Trump deleting it, do we want Trump again?
These officials know that federal law supersedes state and local laws, but they are Republicans and they can do what they want.
Yeah he didn’t go far enough, but it is a compromise. I much rather have a Democratic landslide in November than Trump in the White House. Because the majority of courts have been in our favor because of the Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board case. Once President Biden wins in November we will hold his feet to the fire then.Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but avoid addressing transgender athletes
AP News
By COLLIN BINKLEY
April 19, 2024The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration.
The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Joe Biden. He had promised to dismantle rules created by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who added new protections for students accused of sexual misconduct.
Notably absent from Biden’s policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes.
The administration originally planned to include a new policy forbidding schools from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes, but that provision was put on hold. The delay is widely seen as a political maneuver during an election year in which Republicans have rallied around bans on transgender athletes in girls’ sports.
Instead, Biden is officially undoing sexual assault rules put in place by his predecessor and current election-year opponent, former President Donald Trump. The final policy drew praise from victims’ advocates, while Republicans said it erodes the rights of accused students.
The new rule makes “crystal clear that everyone can access schools that are safe, welcoming and that respect their rights,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.
Louisiana education chief tells schools to ignore new Title IX rules for transgender students
The Hill
By Brooke Migdon
April 22, 2024Louisiana’s top education official on Monday instructed schools to ignore new Title IX rules unveiled by the Biden administration, warning that extending the civil rights law’s protections to transgender students may violate existing state and federal law.
The Education Department last week issued a final set of sweeping changes to Title IX — which prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded schools — including an expanded definition of sex discrimination that includes sexual orientation and gender identity.
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The new rules, which are set to take effect Aug. 1, drew immediate criticism from Republicans, who slammed the proposal’s transgender student protections as an attack on women’s rights.
In a letter sent Monday to school system leaders and board members, Cade Brumley, Louisiana’s superintendent of education, said the new Title IX rules likely conflict with Louisiana law, and schools “should not alter policies or procedures at this time.”
Then DeSantis felt left behind so he...
The HillBY TARA SUTERApril 25, 2024Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Thursday his state “will not comply” with recently unveiled changes to Title IX by the Biden administration.“Florida rejects [President Biden’s] attempt to rewrite Title IX,” DeSantis said in a video posted to the social platform X. “We will not comply, and we will fight back.”“We are not gonna let Joe Biden try to inject men into women’s activities,” DeSantis continued. “We are not gonna let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents, and we are not gonna let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida.”The Biden administration on Friday unveiled a final set of changes to Title IX that add protections for transgender students to the federal civil rights law on sex-based discrimination. The changes will take effect in early August.“These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.
You know this is something like… what do the call it today? Fear of missing out (FoMO)? Well Louisianan has has a law so Florida should also have a law like that! It is like a game to them, One-upmanship! Who can come up with the most draconian laws.
I thought DeSantis blew away in the wind after he dropped out of the presidential race. Guess I was wrong. I can understand the argument concerning athletic teams, but to ignore rules governing student safety and acceptance? To tell the populace to ignore proper behavior is to encourage bad behavior. I recall the news article concerning the ban on trans-athletes in Utah. Out of 84,000 students playing on sports teams, there were FOUR transgender students and of the four, only one was a "male" on a woman's team. The other three were females on men's teams.
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