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President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s flurry of executive actions upon his inauguration into office signals diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) as a significant area of focus for the...

Covid-19 response Establish response coordinators: This group isn’t just responsible for ensuring proper distribution of personal protective equipment, tests and vaccines. They are also charged with ensuring the federal government reduces racial disparities. Read more » Mobilizing a Global Response to Combat Covid-19 on 20 Jan 2021 Improve data collection: This is part of Biden’s efforts to coordinate an equitable response to the pandemic and...

Nikki Haley has joined voices in opposition of President Biden’s executive order calling on schools to allow transgender athletes to participate in the sport of their gender identity, arguing in a column published Monday that it’s an “attack on women’s rights.” 

Gov. Tate Reeves is accusing politicians of pushing children “into transgenderism” in response to one of President Joe Biden’s executive orders.

NewsBlock_9AM_020521_HD1080_369.832_553 Transgender athlete Terry Miller wins the 55-meter dash over trans athlete Andraya Yearwood, far left, both defeating the entire Connecticut girls Class S indoor track meet at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 7, 2019 (AP photo) 6229471467001 On Jan. 20th, Kamala Harris made history for millions of girls and women who had long dreamed of a woman vice president. Hours later, however, a newly sworn-in President Biden would fundamentally alter ...

Biden’s Excessive Executive Orders Thursday, February 4, 2021 @ 8:17 AM Within his first two weeks in office, President Biden has signed an unprecedented number of executive orders – 47. Writing for Quartz (1/31/21), Amanda Shendruk notes, “Joe Biden has been US president for less than two weeks and has already issued nearly as many executive actions as Trump and Obama did in the same period, combined.” [Emphasis hers] These include: “Memorandum on Protecting Women’s Health at Home...

Biden’s excessive Executive Orders By February 3, 2021 Within his first two weeks in office, President Biden has signed an unprecedented number of executive orders—47. Writing for Quartz (1/31/21), Amanda Shendruk notes, “Joe Biden has been US president for less than two weeks and has already issued nearly as many executive action as Trump and Obama did in the same period, combined.” [Emphasis hers] These include: “Memorandum on Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad.” The Mexico...

Why Rand Paul and LGBT champion Martina Navratilova agree about transgender athletes Print this article Sen. Rand Paul made headlines this week when he asked President Biden’s pick to head the Department of Education, “Do you think its fair to have boys running in the girls track meet?” Paul’s line of questioning came after Biden signed his “ During his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Bidens education pick, Miguel Cardona, responded, "I think its the legal responsibility o...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As discussed in a prior post, OCR under the former President went to great lengths to interpret Bostock v. Clayton (which established that discrimination against someone for being transgender or homosexual was sex discrimination under Title VII’s prohibition against workplace sex discrimination) as actually requiring school districts to discriminate against transgender students in schools under Title IX by prohibiting them from usi...

The men sparred for nearly four minutes on the issue. Mr. Cardona focused on his legal responsibilities if confirmed while the senator concentrated on the physiological differences between an athlete that undergoes male puberty versus one who undergoes female puberty. “The girls are being pushed out. They don’t make the finals in the state meet,” Mr. Paul continued. Do you worry about having boys run in girls’ track meets?” “I recognize and appreciate the concerns and the frustratio...