The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) sent a letter to the United Nations in response of the Biden administration Sweeping changes to Title IX.
The brief requested that men’s participation in women’s sports be considered an act of violence against women. This letter was first received by the Washington Examiner.
Title IX A civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination against students, employees, and others in federally funded public schools, colleges, and universities.
President Biden’s administration issued a new set of rules earlier this year. Students and school employees at educational institutions receiving federal funding will begin to see Title IX overhaul changes this fall.
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The headquarters of the United Nations is in Lower Midtown Manhattan (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pix/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
According to the Examiner, Reem Alsalem was one of those who received the brief from ICONS. According to Alsalem’s social media bio, she serves as the United Nations Special Envoy on Violence Against Women and Girls.
Alsalem previously took issue with the Title IX provision’s new definition of “‘sex'”.
“The wrong redefinition of ‘sex’ through these implementing rules is a serious blow that, by effectively removing single gender, leaves most women and girls vulnerable to intrusions into privacy, voyeurism, sexual harassment and physical and sexual assaults. spaces,” Alsalem said in a Press release Last month.
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The brief sent to the United Nations argued that some provisions in the rewrite of Title IX could negatively impact women.
ICONS co-founders Marshi Smith and Kim Jones told the Washington Examiner, “Title IX was a federal law written to protect women and the Biden administration has now turned it into a law that protects men at the expense of women. Does.”
“With the stroke of a pen, Biden has overturned Congress’s intention And turned Title IX into a blatant call to subjugate women and girls.”
President Biden (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
a federal lawsuitFollowing the lead of Tennessee and West Virginia, a judge is being asked to stop and overturn the new policy. Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Virginia joined the lawsuit. It follows other legal challenges recently filed by nine other states, including Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.
At the center of the controversy is a new provision expanding Title IX to LGBTQ+ students. The 1972 law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. Under the new rules, Title IX will also protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
The states involved say this is an illegal rewrite of historic law.
They argue that this would conflict with their own laws, which include banning bathrooms and locker rooms from being used by transgender students, and banning them from using facilities that align with their new gender identity.
,United States Department of Education “Girls have no right to let boys into the locker room,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scermetti said in a statement. “In the decades since its adoption, Title IX has been universally understood to protect the privacy and safety of women in private spaces such as locker rooms and bathrooms.”
The US Department of Education building in Washington, DC, August 18, 2020. (Erin Scott/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The administration’s new rules broadly protect against discrimination based on gender, but they do not offer guidance regarding transgender athletes. The Education Department has promised to issue a separate rule on that issue later.
Policies regarding the participation of male athletes in women’s sports vary between athletic associations and sports leagues. The NCAA’s approach included a “game-by-game” model as it relates to accepted amounts of chemically altered testosterone levels. Testosterone strengthens muscle tone and bone mass.
“New policy aligns transgender student-athlete partnerships olympic movement, The resulting sport-by-sport approach preserves opportunities for transgender student-athletes while balancing fairness, inclusion and safety for all who compete.” NCAA said In 2022.
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But ICONS argues that using “acceptable” testosterone levels as a single indicator is “arbitrary and meaningless.”
“We know that the male advantage can never be eliminated,” Smith and Jones wrote in the letter. “But even if that were the case, a man who has reduced his athletic ability by manipulating his hormone levels is not a woman. The erasure of women as a gender category must be stopped.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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