Monday during the 2024 Republican National Convention, Title IX, and gender concerns took front stage. Several of the convention’s speakers discussed Title IX’s revisions, criticizing them as posing a threat to women’s sports and as detrimental to women themselves. “We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban Taxpayer funding for sex change operations, and stop Taxpayer-funded Schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations, and restore protections for women and girls,” the Republican National Committee (RNC) published prior to the convention.
Roughly three months ago, the U.S. Department of Education released Title IX changes on April 19, 2024. These rules have yet to take effect and are scheduled to do so on August 1, 2024. Redefining “sex” as “gender identity” and “sexual orientation,” the Biden government mandates schools guarantee children use “preferred pronouns” for their classmates or face losing federal money.
At home in Georgia, gender issues are also making headlines. In May, alleging violations of Title IX, Sandy Springs legal firm Isenberg & Hewitt, PC said they intend to sue a number of local public schools. The firm claims that schools in Carroll, DeKalb, Douglas, Gwinnett, and Washington counties neglected to shield students from sex-based discrimination, sexual assault, coercion, hazing, and sexual harassment.
Attorney Mel Hewitt highlighted several cases involving instructors and kids at a Wednesday news conference. “It’s our position, in all these cases, that these schools have been deliberately indifferent to a dangerous condition or dangerous actor. They knew of, should have known of, and failed to properly respond,” he stated.
Four of the six school systems answered, stressing their safety standards but not mentioning the litigation under way against them.
Still a much talked about topic all around, the continuous discussion over Title IX changes is ongoing.
