Friend,
At the top of House Republicans’ agenda for the new Congress? Attacks on transgender people’s rights under Title IX. The first legislative action in each Congress is a Rules bill, and as part of this bill the 119th Congress has put forth policy that attacks trans rights, right out of the gate!
Trump and MAGA Republicans have been clear about their intent to legislate away the rights of transgender people. The proposed law in the Rules package seeks to redefine Title IX to deny protections to transgender people in educational institutions. They want to redefine sex as “a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,” to explicitly exclude transgender people from opportunities available to peers.
While this provision addresses trans inclusion in sports, redefining sex under Title IX could have lasting ramifications for all people in schools across the country. Right now, Title IX protects people from sex-based discrimination in the classroom and on college campuses, whether that means prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity, sex, pregnancy, or any other sex-based category.
Sex and gender are so much more than reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Artificially limiting the protections of nondiscrimination and anti-harassment laws in this way fails to cover many instances of discrimination, both for transgender people and their cisgender peers.
There’s no question that transgender people are a vulnerable population facing vicious attacks by MAGA and the Far Right. Transgender rights are a core civil rights issue of our time. We must stand alongside groups that are under attack and protect the rights of all of us to live as our true selves.
Sign on! Tell the House: No attacks on trans rights on my watch! >>
Thank you for standing in solidarity with transgender people and fighting to ensure the protections of Title IX continue to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.
- Charlie Everett, People For the American Way
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