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Late Friday, December 30, 2022, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit released the opinion many in the parental rights movement have been waiting for with bated breath. In Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, the Court of Full Appeal held that the school board’s policy of segregating bathrooms based on a student’s biological sex was not based on the sex a student was born with. I decided it was the gender of the time. Under Title 9 of the 1972 Education Amendment, students do not have a constitutional or statutory right to use toilets of the opposite sex, and therefore are not in violation of the law.
Instead, students should use the bathroom that matches the student’s biological sex, or the school’s single-stall, neutral bathroom. Not only is this an important victory for the rule of law and parents in St. Johns County, Fla., but parents across the nation may breathe a sigh of relief if the Supreme Court grants the case. This is because Adams’ ruling contradicts his 2020 Fourth Circuit Court ruling.
A bit of history is instructive, as the left-wing radical movement to expand the definition of sexism to include not only biological sex but also individual gender identity went mainstream during the Obama administration. am.
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This bold move was enshrined in a 2014 guidance document from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which states that sex discrimination under Title IX is based not only on a person’s biological sex, but also on the basis of “gender identity.” It was interpreted as including “allegations of discrimination.”
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This guidance has opened the door for the Office of Civil Rights to investigate claims by men who identify as biologically female and vice versa. Men were discriminated against because they were denied access to women’s restrooms, even though they identified as women. Woman. Women who self-identified as men had similar grounds for allegations of discrimination.
In 2016, the Obama administration released additional guidance letters from both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice. These letters indicate that Ed and Justice have noted that schools receiving Title IX funding should have bathrooms, locker rooms, and bathrooms that correspond to the self-identified gender of their students, even if they differ from their biological sex. It went further because it opined that students should be allowed to use housing, lodging facilities…sex.
But in August of the same year, a federal judge for the Northern District of Texas ordered the administration to implement the guidance, and in February 2017 the Trump Justice Department withdrew its 2016 guidance. Push to open bathroom.
Nimble, they took the fight to court, and in 2020, the 4th Circuit Court’s three-judge panel majority at the Grimm v. Gloucester County Board of Education made the most significant decision in front of Adams. Did. – Men were identified as having the right to use the school’s men’s restroom. The majority argued that this right is guaranteed under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX.
A bit of history is instructive, as the left-wing radical movement to expand the definition of sexism to include not only biological sex but also individual gender identity went mainstream during the Obama administration. am. This bold move was enshrined in a 2014 guidance document from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which states that sex discrimination under Title IX is based not only on a person’s biological sex, but also on the basis of “gender identity.” It was interpreted as including “allegations of discrimination.”
Supreme Court of Bostock v. Clayton County, 120 S.Ct. I decided that I should actually lead.
Fast forward two years to the well-founded and sweeping decisions of Adams v. the St. Johns County Board of Education last month. In fact, the court gave a reasonable analysis and a clear ruling that the St. Johns County Board of Education’s policy on bathroom use was that gender-segregated bathrooms served “important government interests.” It was determined that the plaintiff’s right of equal protection was not violated. Privacy and Welfare of All Students.
Furthermore, since the usual meaning of “sex” when Title IX was passed was specifically “biological sex”, the gender-segregated bathrooms permitted under Title IX are biological sex-segregated. Decided you meant the bathroom.
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Finally, Title IX was passed pursuant to Congress’s spending powers to provide funding for local schools subject to compliance with Title IX, and contingent on compliance with such laws and receipt of such funds. The wording should be clear. It cannot be reasonably said that in 1972 the word “sex” clearly and unambiguously implied the concept of “gender identity”.
It cannot be overstated how monumental Adams’ decision is. Not only does it reaffirm the court’s continued emphasis on the rule of law and common sense, but it also gives hope to other plaintiffs challenging radical toilet policies in their own schools.
America First Legal (AFL) supports parents in exercising their constitutional and statutory rights as parents and guardians of their children. The AFL is well aware that this fight is hard yet justifiable, and proudly presents a coalition of Muslim and Christian parents challenging just such a policy in Ohio’s Bethel School District. I represent
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Not only do these parents have strong precedents to argue in the form of the Adams case, but given the division of the circuit, reconsideration or not, there is a clear path for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue. there is. Adjudicate the St. Johns judgment or another similar case and settle consistently with the 11th Circuit Court of Adams v. St. Johns County Board of Education.
If so, the Left’s radical push for open bathrooms in K-12 education could become a sad relic of the past. The battle will continue because nothing can be deterred or stopped from trying to sexualize the children of .
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