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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education released updated regulations for Title IX.

The result is bad for parents, potentially harmful for children, and turns the protections

for young women completely on their head.

Title IX is a section of the Civil Rights Code.

It was passed in 1972, designed to ensure equal access and protection for women

in public education programs and activities.

At the heart of Title IX is the legal recognition that within public education

there shall be no discrimination, quote, on the basis of sex.

This was designed to include athletic participation,

facilities, and scholarships, among other things.

Each presidential administration, through relevant departments, issue clarifications on how to apply

federal law. These interpretations end up as rules that are necessary for receiving federal

dollars. The Biden administration's new regulations for Title IX alters the definition of

sex discrimination to the extent that women will no longer be guaranteed the equality

and education that Title IX was designed to ensure.

Specifically the new rules which by the way are over 1,500 pages long, expand the category of sex to include,

and I quote, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex stereotypes, and sex characteristics.

At the same time, the rule fails to define what sex is at all,

or to even note biological sex as being essential to the category.

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