Since the moment President Joe Biden took office, we have seen an erosion of American values, and his new Title IX rule is more of the same. He is trying to erase Title IX’s original intent of protecting and defending women and girls in sports, and that is why I am introducing legislation that will restore the rights of our girls.
The Biden Title IX rule redefines “sex” to include “gender-identity,” which creates a new imaginary category of “gender-identity” — erasing protections for young girls in school and young women in college. Joe Biden is destroying 52 years of work women have done to secure Title IX rights, and he is depriving women of scholarships and sports awards they have trained their whole lives to win.
Title IX is supposed to protect girls from people like Joe Biden who seek to take away their opportunity to compete in sports or have safe locker rooms. The Biden administration is forcing women to shower with men, and women are being physically hurt when competing with them. I am speaking out on behalf of American families who are concerned about the devastating impact Biden’s new Title IX policy will have on their daughters and granddaughters. As a mother of seven and a grandmother of 20, I am deeply concerned by Joe Biden’s assault on our girls.
There are real world consequences for Biden’s radical Title IX rule. In West Virginia, five female students were barred from competing in track and field after refusing to compete against a man. In Wisconsin, young girls were forced off their volleyball teams because they felt uncomfortable sharing a locker room with a man. When the school district was asked about the transgender athlete policy, they said they crafted it in accordance with the Title IX rule. The Biden administration said the objective of the Title IX rule is to protect all students, but that is clearly not the case. Biden’s Title IX is an attack on our girls and gives them no other option than to shower with grown men or to cease playing sports.
Joe Biden’s Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is ignoring his duty under Title IX’s original intent to protect women and girls’ sports and their safety in private spaces like restrooms and locker rooms. When I questioned Secretary Cardona during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing about our daughters being forced to compete against men and share bathrooms and locker rooms with them, he was unable to give a response. He was also unable to give the criteria he would use to withhold federal funding from schools if they reject Biden’s radical demand.
Biden’s Title IX rule is going to force young girls to be expelled from school if they don’t want to shower or change in front of men in the locker room. Title IX’s original intent is to protect women and girls from discrimination and abuse and to give them equal opportunity in education and in sports, but by allowing men to redefine themselves as women, Joe Biden is permanently erasing protections for our daughters.
Joe Biden will be remembered as the one who allowed girls’ sport to be erased for an entire generation of our daughters. He wants to silence female athletes who are forced to take a silver medal when a confused man takes the gold. I am leading the effort in the House to protect our daughters by blocking Biden’s Title IX rule. Parents must unite against Biden on behalf of our daughters.
Mary Miller is the U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 15th Congressional District.