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Thanks for your support at the end of 2023. Back in 2020, the U.S US Supreme Court handed down a ruling Bostock v. Clayton County that

opened the door for the imposition of transgender policies to the federal government and on any agency, any business,

any school, any non-profit receiving a federal grant and the Biden administration is

working its best to get the imposition of those policies in every place they

possibly can. Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about an attempt by the

Biden administration to force transgender policies on federal grant recipients.

Joy Pullman, executive editor of the Federalist.

She's author of the book The Education Invasion,

and a recent column titled Trans Businesses,

Nonprofits and Schools, or No Federal Grants.

Joy, welcome back. Thanks for having. or no federal grants.

Joy, welcome back.

Thanks for having me, Todd.

Describe how the Biden administration is currently attempting to force recipients

of federal grants to adopt policies that promote transgender ideology.

Well it's basically doing this through opening up the word sex and federal law to amending it

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