Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) has condemned President Joe Biden’s executive order that removes any legal recognition of the two sexes and eliminates crucial protections for women in the federal government and beyond.
Feminists from the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) are condemning President Joe Biden’s executive order that removes any legal recognition of the two sexes and eliminates crucial protections for women in the federal government and beyond. https://t.co/ZgvqstpRkQ
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Single-sex spaces (e.g., sports, intimate facilities, housing) are by definition “single-sex spaces” only if sex, not gender identity, remains the sole relevant characteristic. If a space ostensibly dedicated to being single-sex is also separated based on gender identity, the space ceases to be single-sex… Because the purpose underlying single-sex spaces is to promote the safety, dignity, and equal opportunity of women and girls, it follows that eliminating single-sex spaces will cause great harm to women and girls… That harm to women and girls is not avoided just because the effective elimination of single-sex spaces results from separating spaces based on gender identity. (p. 15-16)
WoLF is requesting that Title IX be enforced on the basis of “sex,” i.e., biological sex, in accord with a memorandum from the Trump Department of Education.
On January 8, the Trump administration affirmed its long-standing “construction of the term ‘sex’ in Title IX to mean biological sex, male or female.”
President Donald Trump’s deputies have restored the biology-based definition of sexual discrimination in federal healthcare rules, ending the novel transgender definition, which was inserted by Obama. https://t.co/S8L9l8K37g
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Last week, however, Miguel Cardona, Biden’s nominee to lead his Department of Education, said during a Senate confirmation hearing it is “appropriate” to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports, and that he would support recognition of gender identity above biological sex.
WoLF’s specific requests for rulemaking in the petition are:
- “Sex” under Title IX refers to biological sex.
- “Gender identity” is “a person’s belief that they have an internal sense of self-identification as male, female, both, or neither, that is incongruent with one’s sex.”
- Single-sex spaces and services, including sports, are provided by sex and not on the basis of a person’s belief about their sex.
- True statements about biological sex, based in material reality, are protected by the first amendment.
The feminists released a national poll in October that found a majority of likely American voters disapprove of policies related to “gender identity,” including those that would eliminate protections for women in single-sex public spaces, such as sports, shelters, and prisons.
Natasha Chart, WoLF executive director, added the petition “is an important first step towards holding the Biden administration accountable for how their policies will harm women and girls.”
“Feminists are stepping up to defend the rights that previous generations fought for,” she asserted.
The education department has 60 days to respond to the petition.