WY Superintendent Megan Degenfelder Responds To Biden Administrations Rule Changes To Title IX

Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder says she’s outraged by the Biden Administration’s action to effectively repeal Title IX protections for women in America.

Last week the Biden Administration unveiled new rules aimed at safeguarding LGBTQ+ students and changing the ways in which sexual harassment and assault claims are adjudicated on a campus.

Under the new rules, sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity as well as sexual orientation. 

A school must not separate or treat people differently based on sex, except in limited circumstances under the provisions and critics say that the change will allow locker rooms and bathrooms to be based on gender identity.

LGBTQ+ students who face discrimination will be entitled to a response from their school under Title IX, and those failed by their schools can seek recourse from the federal government.

Degenfelder called the new rules offensive and says not only does the Biden Administration continue to attack the protections of biological women and the rights of parents, but it does so without any Congressional action. 

She adds the rules fully open the door to biological males abusing rights afforded to women by Congress in Title IX, and they also trample on parental rights by requiring K-12 schools to accept a child’s gender identity regardless of biological sex without parental input.

There was no mention in the new rules regarding athletics and whether schools can or can not enact a ban on transgender athletes competing against biological females.

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