McMahon Vows ‘Biological Reality’ Not Up For Debate As Supreme Court Hears Title IX Cases

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Title IX, the civil rights rule intended to protect women from discrimination, will continue to be governed by “biological reality” as she spoke on the steps of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

McMahon spoke about the harm caused by policies that ignore biological differences between men and women as the Court heard oral arguments in a series of cases challenging state bans on men playing women’s sports. Pending the Court’s decision, the Department of Education (ED) “remains[s] “We are committed to implementing Title IX as it was intended, rooted in biological reality to ensure fairness, safety, and equal access to educational programs for women and girls across our country,” McMahon promised.

“How tragic it is that women are still fighting for their right to equal access and equal opportunity in athletics programs,” McMahon said. “I remember our fight as women to secure equal educational opportunities under Title IX more than 50 years ago. In 2020, President Trump’s Department of Education continued that fight and made clear that Title IX, which protects against sex discrimination in education, is rooted in biological reality.”

The secretary cited the Biden administration’s “decision to indulge a false worldview that undermines women’s rights and puts girls at risk” by attempting to rewrite Title IX to include gender identity, thereby allowing men to enter women’s restrooms, locker rooms and sports. The rule change was ultimately abandoned by the administration after a lengthy legal battle, then permanently stopped by a federal court. (RELATED: Biden’s Education Secretary, Who Tried to Push Men toward Women’s Sports, Says He Avoided ‘Culture Wars’ During His Term)

“In just four years, the Biden administration has reversed decades of progress, distorting the law to assert that ‘sex’ is not defined by objective biological reality, but by the subjective notion of ‘gender identity,’” McMahon recalled. “We have seen the consequences of the Biden administration’s advocacy for a radical transgender agenda. Institutions have deprived women and girls of their access to fair competition and dignified private facilities. They have forced women into unfair and humiliating situations that have led to sexual assault, harassment, and in some cases, permanent injury. To say the least, the last four years have been hell for these girls.”

She reiterated that the Trump administration is “committed to restoring an understanding of sex based on scientific reality,” pointing to the creation of the Title IX Special Investigation Team to comprehensively address complaints related to sex discrimination and the memo promising to enforce the biological definition of sex.

McMahon mentioned the many women who have been harmed by policies allowing men to compete against women, such as volleyball player Payton McNabb, who “suffered brain damage after being hit with a ball by a male athlete posing as a woman” and the University of Pennsylvania swimmers who were infamously forced to change in front of the man on their team, Lia Thomas.

“Adults in positions of authority forced girls to undress with men in their most intimate spaces. They forced women to risk injury simply to compete in athletic competitions that some spent their entire lives preparing for, and then called these women ‘bigots’ and ‘transphobic’ for standing up for their own safety and dignity,” McMahon detailed. “This must stop. These courageous students demonstrate why restoring equity in women’s sports is a moral imperative.”

“The cases discussed today are not abstract legal debates. They reflect a real and troubling pattern of harm inflicted by radical forces working to reshape our culture.”

“Americans are tired of seeing women and girls lose opportunities and be subjected to the indignity and danger of unfair competition due to the left’s distorted enforcement of federal law,” the secretary of state concluded. “This is why Americans overwhelmingly elected President Trump to put an end to this madness and restore common sense by restoring reason to the sexes. »

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