We must protect female athletes from having to compete with males
We need to protect college students from being forced to allow athletes who were born male to compete against women. At Young America’s Foundation, we were happy to join Moms for Liberty, Female Athletes United and the states of Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming in a lawsuit against the new regulations being pushed by the Biden administration for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
U.S. District Judge John Broomes recently ruled that the Department of Education lacked the authority to expand prohibited sex-based discrimination under Title IX to include discrimination based on gender identity and that the new regulations could chill speech “through vague and overbroad language.”
The new regulations pushed by the Biden administration are now blocked in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming — as well as states that have students who are members of Young America’s Foundation, members of Female Athletes United and the children of members of Moms for Liberty. Before the order, the regulations would have gone into effect on Aug. 1.
Students who want relief from the outrageous new regulations should join Young America’s Foundation or Female Athletes United or get their parents to sign up as members of Moms for Liberty. Our goal is to have members of our foundation at every school in the nation, and this is a powerful incentive for students to sign up.
The Biden administration’s radical rules would force female athletes to compete against male athletes and even share locker rooms. They would make failure to use “preferred pronouns” an offense permitting expulsion and forfeiting tuition. And they would allow man-hating radicals to eliminate meaningful due process for accused young men.
This win in court allows us to ensure that biological males are not allowed to compete in women’s sports, women’s restrooms and locker rooms remain, and that schools are not required to enforce nonsensical pronouns.
The injunction granted by the federal judge notes that the Biden administration’s actions exceed the statutory authority of the Department of Education and violate the Administrative Procedures Act. The sweeping changes are a clear violation of each state’s right to create and enforce its own laws, impose undue administrative burdens, and violate the First Amendment rights of both students and educators. The court’s decision to grant a preliminary injunction is based on the strong likelihood that this case will ultimately prevail in our favor.