Female student athlete, teacher assocation challenge Biden admin. over Title IX rule changes
May 9, 2024
The Biden administration’s regulations amending Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation under its definition of sex discrimination is being challenged by a West Virginia student athlete.
The Christian Post reports that the Alliance Defending Freedom is representing a 15 year old female track runner named Adaleia who alleges that she is losing out on opportunities by being forced compete against a biological male.
On Monday, the ADF tweeted: “Adaleia has also endured that student’s vulgar, sexual comments while on the team. Under Biden’s rule changes to #TitleIX, males who identify as female can access girls’ sports and locker rooms across the country, threatening privacy and safety.”
According to the Christian Post, the legal group has filed a memorandum in support of the motion to intervene in the case of Tennessee v. Cardona in which six states are suing the Biden administration over the Title IX changes.
The memorandum states:
“Intervenors have a strong interest to defend state laws and school policies that protect them. Their constitutional and statutory rights are also at stake. Students, teachers, and female athletes experience the on-the-ground harms inflicted by the Department’s rewrite of Title IX. Intervenors also raise common questions of law and fact and their intervention will not cause undue delay or prejudice.”
The motion filed by the ADF argues that the rule changes will affect state funding and preempt state laws while forcing young girls to undress in front of boys in gym class and to share sleeping accommodations on overnight school trips.
The Dept. of Education released a final Title IX rule change on April 29 which states, in part: ““The final regulations will help to ensure that all students receive appropriate support when they experience sex discrimination and that recipients’ procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sex discrimination are fair to all involved.”
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