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LGBT activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of New York City Hall, October 24, 2018 in New York City. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images A Missouri Christian university is suing the Biden administration over a federal directive that its lawsuit claims requires religious schools to open their dormitories and showers based on "gender identity.” The College of the Ozarks, a four-year liberal arts college in Point Lookout, filed a lawsuit in response to a...

Posted By: Jason Rima April 16, 2021 @ 10:39 am Local News, News College of the Ozarks is suing the Biden administration over an order requiring religious schools to open up their dorms and showers to the opposite sex. The lawsuit challenges a directive from the Department of Housing and Urban Development requiring colleges not to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. College of the Ozarks says the ...

City of Tallahassee and community partners host virtual Fair Housing symposium PC: MGN and last updated 2021-04-16 13:54:56-04 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — April is Fair Housing Month, and the City of Tallahassee with the Big Bend Housing Partnership and other community partners will host a virtual Fair Housing Virtual Symposium on Wednesday, April 28, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is free and will include four virtual panel discussions with local leaders and subject matter experts as the...

12 Apr 2021 The Biden Department of Education has denied a request by a feminist organization to affirm that Title IX regulations will be enforced based on a definition of “sex” as male/female biological sex, and not what individuals believe to be their sex, or, gender identity. In February, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) petitioned the education department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), requesting that, in amendments to regulations implementing Title IX, “sex” be defined as biol...

   One could well image Republican political consultants, especially at the state level, drawing up hit lists as to the issues they would leverage planning for the 2022 Congressional and state elections.  At the top of the list is stopping increased voter turnout. Republicans know that more voters, especially among people of color, equals more Democratic victories. So, as evident in the 2020 election, particularly in Georgia, Republican-controlled state legislatures are moving aggressively t...

Federal agencies implementing and enforcing Title IX will prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals. The DOJ does not prescribe any particular outcome with regard to enforcement actions, and each Title IX claim will turn on its own unique set of facts. The DOE will solicit the public’s input on issues of sexual harassment in school environments, including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Bottom Line The DOJ has notified Federal Agency Civil Rights D...

New York Social Service Agency Sued for Gender Discrimination Two individuals and an institution filed a lawsuit against the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) on March 29 for gender discrimination after it allegedly failed to provide an “X” gender option for applicants. Applicants in the state must declare their gender to receive Medicaid, food stamps, and other public assistance. The plaintiffs, who say they are nonbinary (someone who identifies as neither...

Pentagon Releases Policy Updates for Transgender People in Military Service Revisions to align with Biden executive orders The Pentagon on Wednesday announced policy updates regarding transgender people serving in the military, to align with President Joe Biden’s executive orders issued earlier this year. The updated policies prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity, including a person’s self-identification as transgender; allow people to serve in the military in their self-i...

Transgenderism: The Left’s Tool of Societal Subversion We wrote previously how transgenderism serves as the instrument for the left’s nihilistic agenda of destruction, since it devastates both the individual and society under the banner of a single ideology. We discussed transgenderism’s ruinous effects on the individuals who fall prey to it, many of whom perish by suicide. Sadly, even most of those who do not take their own lives or succumb to the injuries of their sex reassignment trea...

Title IX Regulations: Biden Administration Signals Changes Ahead Saturday, March 13, 2021 On March 8, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the “Executive Order on Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free from Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Including Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity,” making clear his administration’s intention to implement changes to the regulations issued on May 6, 2020 (effective August 14, 2020), by the U.S. Department of Education, regarding the ...