Help Stop the Supreme Court's Dangerous Game
The sex and gender debate has never been hotter in the USA.
In the last three months:
* Idaho became the first state to ensure girls' sports is
reserved for biological females - then the ACLU sued the
state. When the state chose to defend its necessary and
groundbreaking law, the ACLU started lobbying the NCAA to ban
its sponsored tournaments from taking place in Idaho.
* Later, a judge doubled down on her opinion that Idaho citizens
should be able to change the sex marker on their birth
certificates based on how they feel about their sex-even
after Idaho's duly elected lawmakers clarified that this
practice wasn't good for Idaho.
* Meanwhile, President Trump's Department of Education
correctly determined that a Connecticut policy letting boys play
in girls' sports is a violation of Title IX, the federal
law guaranteeing girls equal access to educational
opportunities.
* Then President Trump's Department of Health and Human
Services ensured that "sex" in Title IX is defined
as biological (male/female) sex for the purposes of Obamacare.
* President Trump's Housing and Urban Development department
also put in place protections so that women's shelters
don't have to admit men who identify as women.
* All the while, J.K. Rowling (feminist and author of the popular
Harry Potter series) made ripples online - and drew
personal attacks - when she dared to suggest that
biological sex is real and the transgender movement may be
erasing womanhood from society.
Then today, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court started playing a
dangerous game. Sadly, Americans have come to expect judges who step
outside their authority to act as lawmakers instead of
law-interpreters. What the Court did today was worse-the
justices acted as lawmakers, while spilling ink to justify to
Americans that they were not.
In today's opinion, the Court claimed that a longstanding federal law
prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in the workplace should
encompass "transgender and gay identity" inside the meaning of
"sex"-even though nearly everyone agrees that Congress never
intended that when the law was first passed. Instead of requiring the
LGBT lobby to push Congress to change the law, the Court granted them
a vigilante-style shortcut.
This startling action caused Justice Samuel Alito to remark,
"[a] more brazen abuse of [the Court's] authority to
interpret statutes is hard to recall." (brackets for clarity)
This is a pivotal cultural moment - one that will decide where
we go next, and one we cannot afford to lose.
LGBT activists will celebrate their win today. But, tomorrow the real
work of crafting strong policy and clarity within our laws must
increase like never before. The Court made clear today that their
ruling only applies in the context of for-profit employment
situations. That means Family Policy Alliance needs your help like
never before to protect the definition of sex in other contexts, such
as the law we are defending in Idaho clarifying that girls' sports
teams are only for girls. Erasing men and women from our laws would
have disastrous consequences that no legal expert today could even
begin to imagine. We must craft critical new policies to advance good
laws, laws the courts would have a difficult time playing games with.
President Trump's Administration is hard at work to clarify
that "sex" in federal law simply means "male and
female," showing how out of sync the Court is with the reality
of the law and policy. But the work can't end there.
This must be a critical moment of action for us all. As you know,
we've been hard at work fighting to Save Girls' Sports in
Idaho and other states. Males should not be able to steal
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reserved for females - including athletic opportunities. On this
issue, "sex discrimination" absolutely plays a role (under
a federal law similar to Title VII, Title IX) - and we must
fight to ensure the true meaning of "sex" is maintained.
If a ruling like today's were imposed on Title IX, males would
be allowed to take opportunities reserved for females -
eradicating women's opportunities across the nation.
We can't let that happen. At this critical cultural moment,
it's important for leaders to know that the public believes
biological sex matters, and that "sex discrimination"
should not have multiple meanings. What happened today seems to be at
least in part the result of cultural pressure - so it's
important that the public send a strong message for the future that
biological sex matters.
If we can win that battle - where there is remarkable
consensus, despite the Left's loud claims - we can begin
to win the "sex" and "gender" battle at
large.
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That's one reason we're launching our #SaveGirlsSports
Week next week - and we're asking you to participate. From
June 21-27, we're asking
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everyone to post on social media using the hashtag #SaveGirlsSports.
We also must send a strong message
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to our lawmakers now-biological sex matters in athletics, and
girls' sports must be protected! Sign the petition to your
lawmakers now!
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Please join the #SaveGirlsSports campaign now. The Supreme
Court's dangerous game
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must stop today.
Onward,
Brittany Jones
Policy Manager
Meridian Baldacci
Policy and Communications Strategist
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