Editor’s Note: Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex-based discrimination in US educational institutions receiving federal aid. The US Department of Education has proposed to amend the Title IX in relation to sex-related eligibility criteria for male and female athletic teams. If passed, this would mean that athletes would be allowed to compete based on their gender identity, rather than their sex. Sports has long been categorized on the basis of sex for a reason. There are some fundamental differences in the ways that male and female bodies develop, specifically in adolescence. Male sex hormones, especially testosterone, are responsible for increased muscle mass and bone density. Sex hormones account for the sudden height and weight increases in boys after puberty. These effects are long lasting, and cannot be curbed by taking cross-sex hormones. Recently, the debate has been ignited by the win of the trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas in the women’s category.
This is a press release from GASBR, Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights. It is also a call for action. Today is the last day for commenting on the issue.
GASBR Urges Opposition to DoE Title IX Rule Changes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, May 12th, 2023
For further information, contact:
618-608-0159 * gasbr-info@sexbasedrights.org
Green Alliance Files its Opposition to Proposed DoE Title IX Rule Revisions
Deadline looms to join effort to protect women’s sports from men’s participation
On Tuesday, May 9th, the membership of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights approved comments which were that evening submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. In their comments, GASBR members participating in that evening’s call were unanimously agreed that:
We strongly oppose DOE’s proposed amendments, as they are utterly contrary to the statutory purpose of Title IX, which was enacted as a measure to help address the historic and systemic oppression and unequal treatment of women and girls in our educational institutions. The proposed amendments do so by conflating “gender identity” with “sex,” and accepting as a premise that recipients [of federal education funding] must accept trans-identifying males as being de facto females and must make accommodations that allow them to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.
The position statement adopted by GASBR can be reviewed in its entirety on the website of the Green Alliance. Its comments to the Department of Education are now a matter of public record and should be accessible on their website.
The Green Alliance urges others to join GASBR in opposing the Biden Administration’s efforts to destroy sports programs built for women and girls in tax-payer funded educational settings. The deadline for filing comments is Monday, May 15th, 2023. The proposed rule revisions may be reviewed at this link. Comments may be submitted at this link.
GC and TERFs: "Unwanted male penetration."
Trans Rights Activists: "Don't be transphobic."#SexNotGender#WomensRightsAreHumanRights pic.twitter.com/V6yaRLkkIQ— Paul Peace 🟩⬜️🟪 (@ManAdultMale) May 14, 2023
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While I also oppose the proposed revisions to Title IX, there are some deeper questions here.
First, why are environmental groups getting sucked into this debate? Whether Title IX is revised has nothing to do with the environment.
Second, the Green Party sold out long ago. The claim by GASBR on its website that “feminism, grassroots democracy, respect for diversity, and decentralization” are “founding values of the Green Party” is utter BS. The two main original planks of the Green Party’s platform were peace and the environment. Sometime in the 1990s, the U.S. Green Party decided that it was more important to try to get elected than to adhere to its ACTUAL founding principles, so it made peace and the environment merely two planks of its platform instead of the priorities that they had been. (I learned this when I ran an electoral campaign against an anti-environmental ballot measure, and tried to get the local Green Party to reverse its support of it.)
BTW, considering that DGR opposes industrial civilization, does anyone here consider the fact that transgendered people would not even exist without it?