Today, August 1.

Just briefly dropping in to sat this that may interest you.

Today, August 1, 2024 is the day that the new federal Title IX rules take effect for the entire nation, with some exceptions - I'll explain.

Title IX is a federal law - a very NECESSARY law passed in 1972 primarily to protect girls as a whole and girls' sports specifically. It wasn't good back in the day.

Here is what the law says: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

The law now has been altered slightly. Now it says, "...on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity..."

The federal government says it is to protect transgender students and LGTBQIA+ students.

My own disclosure as a former teacher and current board member of a local public school: I do NOT want ANY student to feel unprotected, bullied, unsafe, or unloved. I want the gay, transgender, and intersexed student to feel as worthy as any student. And you can take that to the bank. No one has the right or authority to make other people's lives a living hell just because you don't "like" them. Sorry, you don't get to behave like that.

With that being said, for the protection of ALL students, there has to be some sort of protective BARRIER for all students. What if you had a 2-year-old who wanted to play with the "doggies" next door. The 4 HUGE Rottweilers that were not kid friendly. You would tell that child no and offer them something else to do. Am I making sense here?

The wordage hasn't changed much in the law, but with "sexual orientation and gender identity" added, NOW any young man who wants to go to the girls bathroom or play on the girls softball team has to be allowed. And MORE.

These changes protect no one. They open up the door for potential harm.

I said that there were some exceptions. My state, Louisiana is one. Louisiana filed a lawsuit and claimed that this, being too broad, violated our state's sovereign rights to make these decision for our own students and that more harm than good could come of it.

Joining us in the lawsuit were Idaho, Mississippi, and Montana.

In April of this year, a federal judge declared an injunction stopping this from taking effect in these four states until the dust can settle. The federal judge issued the injunction citing that these four states had made their case that warranted the injunction.

Not long after, 22 MORE states joined and they, too, are under the exemption.

Those states are Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.

26 states will not have to comply. The federal government has issued a statement that it will not force these states to comply unless some legal action requires them to. That's a HUGE victory.

I'm expecting more states to jump on the bandwagon.

We MUST protect all students- students of every persuasion. Because they ARE students, they deserve every protection.

But protection is not saying "anything goes". It just isn't. That's chaos.

Just thought I'd let you know that many states are not putting up with the woke stupidity.

 

You'd be pleasantly surprised at those schools across the nation who will not allow transgender students to go the bathroom of their choice - that support them as a human being, but not as claiming to be the other gender and not catering to their severe issues.

We had a transgender student at our school [a girl acting as a boy] and she wanted to use the boy's bathroom. We gave her a kind, but resounding no.

Our school has several stand alone bathrooms as well as multi-student bathrooms and she was assigned one of these.

She was satisfied. Her parents were outraged.

They came to school demanding that she be allowed to use the boy's bathroom.

I did not attend the meeting, but our Principal, administrator for her grade level, and our guidance counselor met with the parents, listened to their rant for a little bit, and then explained how things were going to be.

They were told:

• We have given her a reasonable choice for the bathroom. A solo one. She is happy with it.
• If she goes to the boy's bathroom, she will have to sit down to pee regardless. She cannot use the urinal.
• We are protecting her by giving her a solo bathroom and we are protecting the boys who stand up to pee and are exposed when they pee and do not want a biological female in there.
• One day, maybe not at our school, but one day if she is using the men's room, a young man will not tolerate this. She could potentially be harmed - hit, cursed at, for forcing this. Again, we do NOT promote that at our school, but you have to look at what reality is.

It wasn't until then that they conceded that they were not bringing safety but chaos.

We have some awesome public and charter schools in this nation who know how to deal with the wokeness of the left.

 

UPDATE: Today, August 16, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States made the decision that the 26 states listed above do NOT have to comply with the government's alteration of Title IX revisions that will cause chaos.

For these 26 states, including my own which led the way, it's a done deal.