Today is Thursday, April the 25th, 2024.

Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

If you care about someone whose K-12 school or institution of higher learning receives any federal funding,

take note.

Their school may have to open girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations,

and sports teams to boys who claim to, quote unquote, identify as girls.

Boys' facilities and activities would likewise have to be accessible to biological

girls who identify as boys. This is because the Department of Education has unilaterally expanded

Title IX of the Civil Rights Code, an amendment passed in 1972 that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex by any education

program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. This was intended to prevent such

discrimination with regard to athletic participation, facilities, and scholarships. Now, however,

sex has been made to include sex stereotypes,

sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

The new regulations also require K-12 schools to accept a child's gender identity regardless of their biological sex

and without providing notice to or seeking approval from the child's parents.

As First Liberty warns, the Title IX changes directly threaten our religious liberty.

The Independent Women's Forum also strongly condemns the regulation

and plans to sue the Biden administration. Others will likely join them in legal opposition.

We've been discussing this week our relativistic culture's rejection of objective truth and

morality. An example of such confusion is the controversy over National Public Radio's new CEO and

president, Catherine Marr. She suspended editor Yuri Berliner in response to his recent essay

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