Schools, Courts, and Gender-Bending
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, September 2, 2016 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Proponents of radical culture-change are determined to convince Americans that gender-bending was the REAL goal in 1972 when Title IX passed, but that’s absurd! In 1972, no one was discussing gender identity; no one was marching in streets so boys could use girls’ restrooms; and educators were NOT telling students they might want to identify as the opposite sex.
The fact is: gender-bending has never been the goal of Title IX. It was not the goal of Title IX in 1972, and it’s NOT the goal of Title IX in 2016, although two federal departments – the Department of Education and Department of Justice – tried to make it so in their “Dear Colleague Letter” to public school superintendents. The letter, issued this year in May, twisted the Title IX definition of sex to include gender-identity, and strong-arm schools into ignoring biological sexual identity.
That letter included a veiled threat and three specific goals: (a) Force public schools to comply with their new definition of sex; (b) rewrite a 44-year-old law; and (c) side-step the legislative process in Congress. The threat is this: Schools that refuse to comply could lose federal funding. Continue reading