Advancing American Freedom continues its fight against the Biden-Harris Administration’s reinterpretation of Title IX, leading a coalition of 41 other amici in an amicus brief in Rapides Parish v. Department of Education. Following the disappointing reasoning of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, the Department of Education issued a regulation reinterpreting Title IX’s protections against sex discrimination to fancifully include discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Several cases around the country, including Rapides Parish, are challenging this abandonment of reality. While the rule claims not to apply to sports, its logic basically destroys distinctions between men and women wherever Title IX applies. And the numbers don’t lie. Women and girls need sports and private spaces from which men are excluded. Finally, lurking in the background of the gender debate is the horrifying issue of puberty blockers for children.
“One of the fundamental questions for policy makers and judges is whether we will have laws that comport with reality or not,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “When law and policy try to govern the world as bureaucrats or politicians wish it were, rather than as it actually is, people are inevitably hurt in the process. AAF intends to stand for the truth for its own sake and for all those who will suffer if America fails to live in reality.”
Read the full brief here.
