Stop the Gender Agenda
While the Gender Agenda claims to be working for inclusion and tolerance, in truth it is a Marxist-inspired campaign that seeks to redefine the meaning of “sex,” promote gender-transitioning, sexualize students with age-inappropriate sex education classes and Drag Queen Shows, and more.
Joe Biden’s Executive Orders of January 20, 2021 and March 8, 2021 marked a dramatic acceleration of the Gender Agenda. These initiatives are creating harmful effects in many areas of our society:
In response, over 200 organizations have established the Title IX Network to oppose the Biden Title IX regulation.
Actions to Block the Gender Agenda
Department of Education:
- June 22, 2021: The Department of Education issued a Title IX “rule” to expand the definition of sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The following day, the DOE released a Dear Educator Letter warning schools that the DOE would “fully enforce Title IX to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
- August 30, 2021: The Attorneys General from 20 states (AL, AK, AZ, AR, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MS, MO, MT, NE, OH, OK, SC, SD, TN, and WV) brought a 14-count lawsuit against the DOE and Equal Opportunity Commission to impose a Preliminary Injunction on their directives that extended federal sex discrimination protections to transgender people in schools and government employment.
- July 15, 2022: District Court of Tennessee issued a Temporary Injunction against the directives.
- June 14, 2023: The Texas Attorney General filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s Title IX “rule” as an illegal attempt to force schools to adopt “transgender” ideology.
Department of Health and Human Services:
- May 10, 2021: DHHS Secretary Becerra announced that DHHS would begin to “interpret and enforce” Section 1557 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
- August 25, 2021: Susan Neese, MD and James Hurly, MD filed a Class Action complaint against DHHS, saying the new policy was incompatible with the statutory language.
- October 14, 2022: Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk granted the motion for class certification.
- July 13, 2023: DHHS proposed that existing policies for a broad range of programs that ban sex discrimination be modified to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
USDA School Lunch Program:
- May 5, 2022: USDA announced its plan to define sex to include “discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
- July 26, 2022: The Attorneys General of Tennessee and 21 other states filed a lawsuit to enjoin the new policy.
- June 5, 2023: The Government Accountability Office announced its decision that the USDA needs to submit its proposed school lunch policy as a draft regulation.
- July 27, 2023: U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a Congressional Review Act bill (S. J. Res. 42) expressing disapproval of the USDA school lunch policy.
Housing and Urban Development:
- April 15, 2021: The School of the Ozarks of Missouri filed a complaint against the HUD policy, Implementation of Executive Order 13988 on the Enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.
- May 19, 2021: The District Court denied the motion for a preliminary injunction.
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