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Settlement of lawsuit against Vermont high school that retaliated against brave female athlete and her father for speaking out against biological men in the girls’ locker room, Blake Allen’s cause and interactivism sabotaging women’s rights The justifiable outrage against was proved to be right. This further exposed the unfairness of the Biden administration’s tone-deaf determination to rewrite Title IX in favor of men who “identify” as women.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona should rescind the indefensible Title IX rules currently on hold until October.
At a recent hearing in the Capitol, Cardona knew he would be sitting in a hot seat facing questions from congressional committees that consider the department’s policies and priorities. But no one would accept Cardona’s admission that forcing a female athlete to undress in a locker room with a biological male, such as University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) swimmer Leah Thomas, constitutes sexual harassment. I didn’t expect that.
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Speaking before the House Committee on Education and Labor, Cardona knew she would be questioned about a proposed Title IX amendment that would require schools to enroll men who identify as women on women’s sports teams.
Leah Thomas (left), a transgender woman from the University of Pennsylvania, stands on the podium after winning the 500-yard freestyle, while other medalists (right and left) Emma Wayant, Erica Sullivan and Brooke Ford compete in the NCAA Division. During a photo shoot at a women’s swimming competition. Diving Championship March 17, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
Commissioner Virginia Fox (R-North Carolina), in her opening statement, criticized the Biden administration’s radical Title IX agenda, which calls for all men to “be women” and give women the right to participate in sports.
“In your ministry’s system, a man is considered to be legally ‘woman’ and therefore self-identified enough to compete in women’s sports. It is possible that the next day you will identify yourself as a woman.”
The public comment period on Mr. Biden’s proposed rule that would force “gender identity” in school sports ended less than 24 hours before Mr. Cardona came on the scene, flooding the department with opposition. The rule threatens to withhold federal funding for schools that do not allow men to join women’s athletic teams.
Ahead of the hearing, the Republican Commission urged Cardona to rescind the fraudulent Title IX rule, which runs counter to the recently passed Women and Girls in Sports Act.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona sat in a hot seat answering questions about the government’s Title IX debacle. (Reuters/Evelyn Hochstein)
Rep. Erin Hoochin, a new Indiana legislator, waited her turn until the final hour of the marathon hearing to ask Mr. Cardona about issues related to sexual harassment under Title IX.
Ho Chin: Requiring those women to undress in front of Leah Thomas or allowing Leah Thomas to undress in front of female athletes is a yes or no do you think it’s sexual harassment?
Cardona: I don’t think students should feel unsafe in any locker room.
Ho Chin: Do you think it is sexual harassment to force a woman to undress in front of her biological man?
Cardona: I believe that forcing a woman to undress in front of a biological man is a sexual concern and a sexual act…yes.
Hoochin: So if Leah Thomas identifies as a man, is it sexual harassment to ask a female swimmer to dress with him?…
Cardona: I think I know the thread of the question and would be happy to answer…it’s not a yes or no question for me.
Cardona has to admit the obvious. This is the only common sense position. Yes, forcing a woman to share a locker room with a naked man against her will is sexual harassment. But Cardona found herself trapped in defending her position. The tentacles of reciprocity that dominate the Biden administration are tightening their hold to the point of stifling common sense and decency. All female athletes are hostages to the ideological activism presented on Cardona’s congressional and federal rulemaking pages.
The NCAA has a history of throwing women under buses, but throwing a naked man into a locker room against his consent constitutes sexual harassment in violation of his Title IX rights.
Female athletes are also held hostage by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) policy that forced female swimmers to wear suits with a naked Leah Thomas in the UPenn women’s locker room and at the 2022 NCAA championships. is taken by More than a year later, no NCAA acknowledgment, apology, or policy change can be found anywhere.
Ironically, while Cardona was testifying, former NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines, who had competed with Leah Thomas, was testifying before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee. She was held hostage for ransom by left-wing activists at San Francisco State University after giving a speech about her experience racing with Thomas and being exposed to Thomas’ frontal nudity while wearing a suit in the locker room. I told them how I was taken.
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This is exactly the actual scenario of sexual exploitation that Mr. Hochin wisely addressed against Mr. Cardona at the hearing. NCAA president Charlie Baker had better listen – the education secretary claimed it was sexual harassment for forcing NCAA female swimmers to suit with biological male Thomas in the locker room. The NCAA is guilty as charged.
The NCAA has a history of throwing women under buses, but throwing a naked man into a locker room against his consent constitutes sexual harassment in violation of his Title IX rights.
A sign is displayed during the House passage of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act on April 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
It’s not the only example of a biological male encroaching on the female space in college out of a desire to be “feminine.” Members of the University of Wyoming’s Kappa Kappa Gamma are harassed by sexual fantasies due to a trans-identifying man’s pledge of free access to the private floor of the sorority.
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Despite his confession, Cardona and his commander-in-chief continue to abandon women at the idolatrous altar of “trans women.” Americans are not stupid. This is not a comedy sketch. Classifying drag queens as “marginalized women,” celebrating the caricatures of femininity by the anemic Dylan Mulvaney, and encouraging men like Leah Thomas in women’s sports are all ways to equate gender with women. It creates a terrifying show of discrimination.
Cardona just admitted that undressing in the women’s locker room by a man who identifies as transgender constitutes sexual harassment in violation of Title IX. Now he needs to abandon the stupid Title IX rules, take action against the NCAA agency, and act to stop the exploitation of women.
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