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Lawsuit is best way to fight administration's bathroom edict

Edit The Oklahoman 29 May 2016
The lawsuit is the better approach ... Title IX of the Education Amendments was passed in 1972 ... Senator Birch Bayh, the Indiana Democrat who introduced Title IX legislation, was asked if the law prohibited separate dorms or athletic facilities for men and women ... As the lawsuit notes, this affirms “Congress's enduring understanding that ‘sex,' as a protected class, refers only to one's biological sex, as male or female” in Title IX ... ....

Advocacy groups, district debate transgender athletes

Edit The Miami Herald 29 May 2016
The Haines School District and a nonprofit Christian advocacy group are at odds over a transgender competitor at the state track meet in Anchorage ... Member Jim Minnery said transgender competition violates Title IX, which was enacted to stop discrimination against women in education ... "We certainly feel like we adhere to the rules, and we certainly feel like we adhere to Title IX," he said ... ....

Transgender issue is much bigger than bathrooms

Edit The Des Moines Register 29 May 2016
The use of Title IX to impose transgender rules on schools may have some unforeseen consequences ... ....

Life in the Childish States of America

Edit New York Post 29 May 2016
This week we learned that, for the first time in 130 years, more young adults ages 18-34 are living with their parents than not ... These two trends aren’t coincidental ... Students regularly follow the example of a female peer who ran out of the room and went crying to Mommy when a drama teacher spoke sharply to her, and since we’re talking about a “her,” that means, literally, making a federal case of it — an investigation under Title IX ... ....

Students accused in campus sex assaults target federal rules

Edit Atlanta Journal 28 May 2016
Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights in 2011 that laid out specific requirements for dealing with sexual violence under Title IX, a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in education ... These investigations must proceed with or without law enforcement, since certain actions may qualify as violations of Title IX even if police can't prove a crime was committed....

What do Ken Starr, Bank of America and crimes without criminals have in common?

Edit Stars and Stripes 28 May 2016
Department of Education requiring all universities to resolve such accusations fairly under Title IX of federal education law.  ... Baylor, it says, "failed to prioritize Title IX implementation..., failed to provide training and education to students,...failed to take sufficient action to identify, eliminate, prevent, and address a potential hostile environment..." etc., etc....

Why Republicans Will Hold Their Noses and Vote Trump

Edit Newsweek 28 May 2016
This article first appeared on the Hoover Institution’s Defining Ideas site ... Try Newsweek. Subscription offers ... A number of reasons come to mind ... When Mexico prints comic books advising its own citizens on how to enter the U.S ... Jeremiah Wright ... Obama himself threatened to cut off federal funds to states that did not share his reinterpretation of the 1972 Title IX Amendments to include bathroom access of their choice for the transgendered ... ....

Obama administration's transgender bathroom push pits Title IX against itself

Edit The Washington Times 27 May 2016
By using Title IX as a weapon on multiple fronts, opponents say, the Obama administration will force universities to violate the law by enforcing it. Critics say the Justice and Education departments are struggling to keep logical ranks as the law on sex equality defines anything unwelcome as sexual harassment ... ....

Departments of Education and Justice Release Guidance on Maintaining Nondiscriminatory Educational Communities for Transgender Students (Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) generally prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs and activities conducted by institutions that receive federal funds ... Under this Dear Colleague Letter with respect to Title IX, the Departments treat a student's gender identity as a student's sex ... Title IX permits the segregation of certain educational activities and facilities by sex....

Senate Approves Bill to Protect LGBT Students Against Discrimination at Private Universities (EQCA - Equality California)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
Senate Bill 1146 would require universities that are granted a Title IX exemption to disclose that information to the California Student Aid Commission and disseminate the information to students and staff. The bill would also allow an individual who has encountered discrimination at a school claiming a Title IX exemption to pursue a remedy through a civil action....

Obama's guidance for transgender people and school bathrooms is not "new and surprising"

Edit Vox 27 May 2016
The idea behind the guidance is that existing federal civil rights laws that ban sex discrimination, including Title IX (for education), also protect trans people, because anti-trans discrimination is rooted in expectations of what people of certain sexes should be like ... And in 2014, the Department of Education issued a guidance on sexual assault that said Title IX bans discrimination on the basis of gender identity....

Transgender Rights Could Head to Supreme Court With Bathroom Law

Edit Newsweek 27 May 2016
Title VII of the CivilRights Act of 1964, which covers employment, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ... "The (administration's) lawless interpretation ignores the will of Congress in enacting Title IX," Tedesco said ... which would leave the larger issue unsettled, or that its interpretation of Title IX is inconsistent with the law....

Senate bill says religion no excuse for LGBT discrimination

Edit Sacramento Bee 27 May 2016
The author of the bill, Sen ... John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa, said ... On a federal level, Title IX currently prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational programs or athletics ... At least six universities in California have applied for or received religious Title IX exemptions, including Biola University, Fresno Pacific University, Simpson University, William Jessup University, John Paul the Great Catholic University and LABI College....
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