Crapo, Risch, Hyde-Smith Introduce Measure to Stop Biden’s Radical Title IX Changes

Washington, D.C--U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Mississippi) introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to protect Title IX from a radical Biden Administration rule that tramples on rights given to girls and women for decades.

?The resolution, if passed, would overturn the U.S. Department of Education final rule titled “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance.”  Among other things, the revised Title IX rule redefines “sex” to include gender identity and rescinds due process protections for students in disciplinary procedures.

?“The protections provided to biological women and girls by Title IX continue to be challenged by the Biden Administration’s radical policies.  America’s women deserve respect, fairness and safety in all aspects of their lives," said Crapo.  "This rule reverses progress made to advance women’s rights in order to appease a woke agenda.”

“The Biden Administration has deconstructed Title IX’s intended purpose—unraveling decades of advancements for biological women,” said Risch.  “Women in Idaho and across the country deserve far better than this administration’s effort to endanger and reverse course on progress.”

?“President Biden’s Title IX regulation stretches the law beyond reason, ignores basic biological facts, and infringes on the rights of parents and teachers.  It is a backward rule that only hurts women and girls, by stripping away opportunities and rights they have enjoyed for decades,” Hyde-Smith said.   “We must save Title IX by stopping this radical rule.”

?The resolution is also co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Katie Britt (R-Alabama), Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), Roger Marshall (R-Nebraska), Mike Lee (R-Utah), John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), Ted Budd (R-North Carolina), Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota), Mike Braun (R-Indiana), Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), Steve Daines (R-Montana), Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota), John Hoeven (R-North Dakota), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma), John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Pete Ricketts (R-Nebraska), Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri), James Lankford (R-Oklahoma) and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio.).

?Broadly, opposition to the final Title IX regulation is targeted at the Education Department importing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) protections into Title IX, extending protection to gender identity and sexual orientation.  This radical shift, which essentially legislates through regulation, will allow biological males who identify as females to compete in women’s and girls’ sports.

?The CRA was also filed on the basis that the final rule threatens free speech on campus, protects teacher unions, and hurts due process protections for students accused of sexual harassment on campus.  Further, noncompliance with Title IX regulations jeopardizes all federal funds an institution receives. 

?Congress can consider this resolution using expedited procedures under the Congressional Review Act and can pass it by a simple majority vote.