Death Knell Sounds on the Title IX Transgender Movement

Providence, RI – The Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity celebrates recent federal action in support of parental rights, student safety, and common sense; causes the Center has championed for multiple years.

“Our Center is proud to be part of the national Save Title IX network and to have played a significant role in raising awareness in our state about many of the controversial woke policies that are dividing our communities,” said Mike Stenhouse, CEO.

Following a 2021 Biden Executive Order (1), the trans-gender movement took root and spread across the United States. The Department of Education set out to draft a new Title IX regulation that would set into law the controversial notion of “gender identity.”

Public opposition to the plan soon arose (2). Specific areas of concern included gender transitioning of minors, campus due process, pronoun mandates and free speech, parental rights, and women’s sports (3).

In response, the Title IX Network was established, eventually consisting of 240 national, state, and local organizations that were united in their opposition to the proposed regulation (4). Dozens of members of Congress, state governors, and state attorneys general spoke out against to the proposal, as well (5). Some even called for the abolition of the Department of Education (6).

One hundred state lawmakers from 32 states signed a pledge to “protect schools, children, and families from the Biden Title IX rule” (7). Senator Elaine Morgan was the only Ocean State lawmaker to sign on.

Numerous states enacted policies designed to thwart the trans-gender movement. For example, 25 states passed laws banning the participation of men from women’s sports (8). SAVE also established a Citizen Watchdog Program designed to monitor schools at the local level (9).

Despite fierce opposition, on April 19, 2024 the Department of Education issued its Title IX regulation that changed the definition of sex to include “gender identity” and removed key due process protections for the falsely accused (10). Within weeks, nine lawsuits opposing the regulation had been filed (11).

The following developments signaled the demise of the Title IX trans-gender movement:

1. August 16, 2024: All nine Supreme Court justices issued a ruling that expressed their unanimous opposition to the Biden plan to redefine sex to include “gender identity.” (12)
2. December 20: The U.S. Department of Education formally withdrew the plan to enact its controversial Title IX sports rule (13).
3. January 9, 2025: Federal judge Danny Reeves issued a decision that struck down, across the nation, the Biden Title IX regulation (14). The Department of Education did not seek to appeal the historic ruling.
4. January 20: President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order stating, “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.  These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” (15)

Marxist Shulamith Firestone once declared, The goal of the feminist revolution must be the elimination of the “sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally…The tyranny of the biological family would be broken.” (16)

Once again, the illogic of Marxist ideology has been revealed.

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Links:

1. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation/
2. https://www.saveservices.org/2024/02/public-opinion-polls-reveal-growing-public-opposition-to-policies-driven-by-gender-agenda/
3. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/network/
4. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-Policy/
5. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/lawmakers/
6. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/abolish-doe/
7. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/lawmakers/pledge/
8. https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/youth/sports_participation_bans
9. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/network/
10. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/29/2024-07915/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal
11. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/abolish-doe/
12. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/24a78_f2ah.pdf
13. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-30921.pdf
14. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.kyed.104801/gov.uscourts.kyed.104801.143.0_1.pdf
15. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/
16. https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm