INEZ STEPMAN: Biden Reg Tells Schools That Treating A Boy As A Boy Is Forbidden

Last Friday, the Biden administration quietly dropped 1,577 pages of regulations that redefine sex to include “gender identity,” gut due process protections and limit free speech for millions of students from kindergarten through college.

The change rightfully grabbing headlines is the administration’s assertion that treating a student, of any age, as his or her biological sex constitutes “discrimination” and “harm” that is forbidden by federal law. That means schools that separate boys’ and girls’ locker rooms, bathrooms, and sports teams (more on that in a moment) teams will potentially lose their funding.

This doesn’t just apply to universities, where the students are adults, but all the way down into the K-12 system, forcing minor girls to have to share any previously single-sex facility with biological males.

The Biden administration has said it intends to carve out sports for a separate rulemaking later on – read: after the election – but this is the most transparent of political fig leaves. The plain language of the rule tells schools that treating a boy as a boy is forbidden.

And while Biden officials claim to have separated out sports for special treatment, likely because of the popularity of state laws ensuring fair single-sex competition in their tracks and pools, the administration has already behaved the exact opposite in federal court.

The federal government filed a brief in the Fourth Circuit asserting explicitly that West Virginia’s state law keeping women’s sports female-only is a violation of Title IX.

If nothing is done to reverse these changes to Title IX, either by successful challenges in court or through Congress and the democratic process, telling Lia Thomas he must compete against his fellow men will likely be “illegal” when these regulations go into effect on Aug. 1.