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Biden Title IX changes affect state laws on women’s sports, locker rooms, lawyers warn
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 12:30 pm The addition of “gender identity” in the Biden administration’s interpretation of anti-discrimination rules could jeopardize state laws that restrict women’s sports and women’s locker rooms to only women, according to legal scholars. Late last week, President Joe Biden’s Department …
Riley Gaines, other female athletes, sue NCAA for allowing transgender competitors
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 14:45 pm Riley Gaines and more than a dozen other female athletes filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) on Thursday alleging that allowing men to compete in women’s competitions denies women protections promised under Title IX. In a …
‘Clerical error’ wipes out thousands of comments on new Biden gender-identity discrimination rule
by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 12, 2022 / 14:00 pm Today marks the end of the public comment period for the Biden administration’s updated Title IX rule after hundreds of thousands of comments disappeared from the record this weekend in a move the Education Department is calling a “clerical error.” …
Catholic colleges now offering ‘gender-inclusive’ housing, among other LGBTQ+ initiatives
by Edie Heipel, Joe Bukuras Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2022 / 12:39 pm Catholic parents with children in college have something other than rising tuition bills to worry about this fall, as some Catholic colleges and universities are adopting “gender-inclusive” housing policies as part of a broader embrace of gender …
Biden administration cites ‘duty’ to uphold Title IX exemption for Christian schools
Washington D.C., Jun 9, 2021 / 16:01 pm The Biden administration on Tuesday said it is required by law to uphold a Title IX exemption for religious colleges, in response to a lawsuit filed by students identifying as LGBT. Filing in an Oregon district court, the Justice Department said that …
White House: Biden ‘respectfully disagrees’ with bishops on fetal tissue research
Washington D.C., Apr 27, 2021 / 16:00 pm America/Denver (CNA). The White House press secretary said on Tuesday that President Biden “respectfully disagrees” with Catholic bishops on federally-funded fetal tissue research. At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, EWTN News Nightly’s Owen Jensen asked press secretary Jen Psaki about the Biden …
More states pass bills aimed at protecting women’s sports
Washington D.C., Apr 16, 2021 / 05:00 am America/Denver (CNA). State legislatures of West Virginia and Kansas recently passed bills restricting participation in women’s sports to one’s biological sex and not gender identity. New legislation in West Virginia would require participation in single-sex sports teams and events to be based …