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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 Directors and General Counsels that anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination falls within the scope of Title IX’s...

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 gender), said OTDA is refusing to update its computer system, compelling nonbinary applicants to ei...

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-identified gender, as long as certain standards are met; and allow service members to access gender t...

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 treatment have little hope of ever becoming productive and contributing members of their society. For on...

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 handling of sexual misconduct allegations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The ex...