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Falsely Accused Day Spotlights Growing Exasperation of Judges and Juries with Pernicious Problem that Affects 20 Million

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Falsely Accused Day Spotlights Growing Exasperation of Judges and Juries with Pernicious Problem that Affects 20 Million

WASHINGTON / August 29, 2022 – This past week, First Circuit Court Judge Bruce Selya issued a milestone ruling in a case involving an MIT student accused of nonconsensual sexual behavior (1). The opinion will allow accused students who contend the accusation is false to file a lawsuit using a pseudonym. Being publicly viewed as a “sex offender” can represent an impediment to such students claiming the university failed to uphold due process protections.

The decision represents the latest in a string of victories by accused students who initiate legal action against their former schools. Over the past decade, judges have ruled in favor of the accused student in 238 cases (2). Many of these cases have been compiled and summarized in the SAVE publication, “Analysis of Judicial Decisions Affirming the 2020 Title IX Regulation” (3).

In South Carolina, student Erin Wingo claimed she was a victim of non-consensual sexual assault. Wingo filed a complaint with the Clemson University Title IX office, resulting in the suspension of the alleged “rapist” from the school. After the suspension was finalized, Wingo’s boyfriend sent the accused student this revelatory text message: “You’re innocent. I lied in that hearing. Erin wanted to have sex that night.” The accused man then filed a defamation lawsuit against Wingo. On March 25, 2022, the jury announced a stunning $5.3 million award against the woman (4).

More recently, a Virginia jury awarded $15 million to actor Johnny Depp for defamatory claims of domestic violence made by Amber Heard in a Washington Post editorial (5).

The high dollar value of the South Carolina and Virginia awards reflects a growing public impatience with the widespread problem of false allegations. A 2020 national survey found that 8% of Americans — 11% of men and 6% of women — report being falsely accused of sexual assault, domestic violence, or child abuse. The 8% figure represents 20.4 million adults (6).

False allegations can have a range of serious consequences including loss of family relationships, social stigmatization, impairment of career opportunities, and mental health problems (7). In response, New York (8), Iowa (9), and California (10) have enacted laws designed to sanction false accusers.

Falsely Accused Day will be observed on Friday, September 9. Falsely Accused Day will be marked by events held in the United States (11) and in other countries around the world (12).

Citations:

  1. https://blog.simplejustice.us/2022/08/25/first-circuit-upholds-student-anonymity-in-title-ix-challenge/
  2. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsFhy86oxh26SgTkTq9GV_BBrv5NAA5z9cv178Fjk3o/edit#gid=0
  3. https://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Analysis-of-Title-IX-Regulation-3.24.2022.pdf
  4. https://www.saveservices.org/2022/04/south-carolina-jury-awards-5-3-million-to-wrongfully-accused-clemson-u-student-on-defamation-and-civil-conspiracy-claims/
  5. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/johnny-depp-verdict-amber-heard-lawsuit-defamation-damages/
  6. http://www.prosecutorintegrity.org/pr/survey-over-20-million-have-been-falsely-accused-of-abuse/
  7. https://factuk.org/the-suffering-of-the-wrongfully-accused/
  8. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s8492
  9. https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2021-2022/HF821/
  10. https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/8453518/latest/
  11. https://www.dosomethingforourmen.com/
  12. https://falselyaccusedday.org/
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Campus Free Speech Gender Identity Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment Title IX

Flawed Biden Proposal May Irreparably Harm Title IX. Lawmakers Are Urged to File Comments.

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Flawed Biden Proposal May Irreparably Harm Title IX. Lawmakers Are Urged to File Comments.

WASHINGTON / August 22, 2022 – The Biden Title IX proposal is attracting a growing wave of criticism by lawmakers, attorneys general, 150 organizations, and editorialists (1). The criticisms underscore a concern that the Department of Education proposal is so deeply flawed that it is discrediting the nation’s broader effort to end sex discrimination. SAVE invites lawmakers around the nation to file Comments urging that the Department of Education withdraw its ill-considered proposal.

The federal Title IX law states, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

But the Biden draft Title IX regulation, released on June 23, ignores the plain language and clear intent of the Title IX law, which is designed to curb sex discrimination against males and females.

By means of 175 lawsuit decisions, federal judges have delineated a series of due process protections to protect male students from false allegations (2). In a recent editorial, Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, accused the Department of Education of promoting “guilty without remorse regulations” in which the “concept of justice in America is turned on its head.” (3)

Equally strong criticisms have been leveled by advocates for women’s rights. The Independent Women’s Voice, for example, charges the Biden proposal will “subvert” the rights of parents and “destroy” the purpose of Title IX (4).

The Biden Title IX plan proposes to alter the definition of “sex” to include “gender identity.” This signifies a repudiation of congressional intent, which never contemplated such a change.

The proposed “gender identity” language would provide a formidable legal foundation to the “gender identity movement” (5). Recent articles have documented how the gender identity movement has established a presence in schools across the nation:

  • Nationwide, the GSA Network serves as an umbrella organization for more than 4,000 “gender and sexuality alliances” in 40 states. The organization recommends that school advisors not advise parents about their child’s participation in such clubs (6).
  • In California, the Sacramento City Unified School District has adopted a “queer theory–based pedagogy that encourages teachers to ‘normalize gender exploration,’ confront their ‘cisgender privilege,’ and maintain strict secrecy when facilitating a child’s gender or sexual transition.” (7)
  • In Oregon, the Portland public schools have launched a new curriculum that teaches students to ”begin exploring ‘the infinite gender spectrum.’” (8)

Under the Biden plan, questioning such initiatives would constitute sex discrimination and therefore be illegal. This would violate First Amendment free speech guarantees (9).

Lawmakers are called upon to submit Comments to the Department of Education, urging the DOE to abandon its deeply flawed proposal. Step-by-step instructions to submit Comments are available online (10).

The deadline to submit Comments is September 12.

Citations:

  1. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/
  2. https://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Analysis-of-Title-IX-Regulation-3.24.2022.pdf
  3. https://dailytorch.com/2022/08/bidens-education-department-seeks-to-end-due-process-under-title-ix-for-college-students/
  4. https://www.iwv.org/campaign/save-our-schools-take-back-title-ix/
  5. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01550366
  6. https://www.city-journal.org/gsa-clubs-smuggle-gender-ideology-into-k-12-education
  7. https://www.city-journal.org/how-gender-radicalism-conquered-sacramento-schools
  8. https://www.city-journal.org/in-portland-the-sexual-revolution-starts-in-kindergarten
  9. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/biden-and-universities-launch-sneak-attack-on-free-speech/
  10. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-Policy/Comments/
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Relentless Pressure on Colleges and Universities to End Campus ‘Kangaroo Courts’

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Relentless Pressure on Colleges and Universities to End Campus ‘Kangaroo Courts’

WASHINGTON / August 18, 2022 – As the new academic year approaches, SAVE is urging school administrators to exercise greater oversight over their Title IX offices to bring an end to the notorious “Kangaroo Courts.” Several developments during the Summer months highlight the growing pressures on institutions to assure fairness in Title IX proceedings:

Judicial Deference: On June 2, Second Circuit Appellate Judge Jose Cabranes issued a concurrence that compared campus disciplinary committees to the infamous English Star Chambers and warned, “[T]hese threats to due process and academic freedom are matters of life and death for our great universities.” (1) The continued wave of Title IX lawsuits has eroded the long-standing notion of judicial deference to institutions of higher education.

State Legislation: On June 15, Louisiana Governor John Edwards signed the “Student Due Process and Protection Act” into law (2). The campus bill had been approved in both the House and the Senate without a single opposing vote. To date, 11 states have enacted legislation that mandate campus due process protections (3).

Presumption of Innocence: A national survey conducted in June for SAVE by YouGov found that 87% of respondents support a presumption of innocence for college disciplinary hearings (4).

Lawsuit: On July 20, Judge CJ Williams of the District Court of Northern Iowa handed down a decision against Fordt University that documented widespread procedural irregularities (5). The decision was one of the most sweeping Title IX rulings issued in the past decade.

DC Rally: An August 11 rally held in Washington, DC featured several presentations on the need for greater attention to campus fairness (6). Teresa Manning of the National Association of Scholars highlighted how campus due process rights “protect the lone individual up against powerful institutions like government and schools.” (7)

Student Enrollments: The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports that “postsecondary institutions have lost nearly 1.3 million students since spring 2020.” (8) Negative media coverage of unconstitutional Title IX procedures is likely to worsen the problem of declining student enrollments, especially among male students.

This past week in Ithaca, New York, a person dressed as a kangaroo made an appearance on the campus of Cornell University. Sponsored by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, the kangaroo charged, “If you have a Title IX sexual misconduct complaint filed against you, chances are you will not get a fair hearing.” (9)

SAVE’s “Analysis of Judicial Decisions Affirming the 2020 Title IX Regulation” summarizes 175 Title IX decisions favorable to the accused student (10).

Citations:

  1. https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20-1514_complete_opn.pdf
  2. https://legiscan.com/LA/bill/HB364/2022
  3. https://www.saveservices.org/title-ix-regulation/state-laws/
  4. https://www.saveservices.org/2022/06/63-of-americans-oppose-expanding-definition-of-sex-to-include-gender-identity/
  5. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.iand.56248/gov.uscourts.iand.56248.72.0.pdf
  6. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/rally/
  7. https://www.saveservices.org/2022/08/biden-title-ix-take-over-threatens-due-process-the-most-fundamental-legal-right/
  8. https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/
  9. https://www.facebook.com/NewCivilLibertiesAlliance/posts/pfbid0UeK6mHrsqrbTCNkjaFHnxSdXfXAxizoNt5bDgUivEm3itYsGnvuj3WQjM8AWM5eNl
  10. https://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Analysis-of-Title-IX-Regulation-3.24.2022.pdf
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Parental Rights Must Reign

Parental Rights Must Reign

Cindi Castilla

As President of Texas Eagle Forum, I often get phone calls from parents seeking help. Their child as young as 7 has come home from school and asked if he is gay or if she is a lesbian because they love their best friends. We clearly already have teachers who are happy steal our role as parent and to expose young children to a doctrine that destroys. Kids are confused and parents want to know how to protect them from this insane gender agenda.

Unfortunately, our government is not here to help! The U.S. Department of Education has proposed new Title IX rules that will destroy parental rights in America. The Biden administration and DOE have unconstitutionally added the word GENDER to our laws in an attempt to force unscientific gender propaganda on our nation’s students.

It is quite disconcerting that the word “sex” or “sexual” is in the proposed rulemaking document 2985 times! “Regulation” shows up 1301 times. “Sexual orientation” 77 times, and “Gender identity” 112. Our government is creating a problem by exposing children to gender and sexual propaganda at a young age, and then forcing the public schools to follow 701 pages of new regulations in education, regulations which strip away our parental rights.

U.S. public education was originally intended to help a child reach his full potential and become a responsible citizen who loves his country.

Education was not given the right to indoctrinate our children with social and harmful ideologies.  As education continues to promote a social agenda instead of teaching factual knowledge, taxpayers and parents have watched the decline in U.S. educational outcomes.

One of many egregious acts of the proposed rules is to force schools to promote anti-Christian ideas about sex and gender to children of every age. Most young children do not think about sexuality and gender. They just don’t. Flinging these adult ideas on trusting children is harmful and destructive to young minds. Parents have a right to protect their children from these concepts – and only they decide when their child is ready for this information.

Until very recently, gender-confusion was considered a mental health issue and parents were advised to practice watchful waiting. Almost all gender-confused children embraced their birth sex as they got older. Those who were struggling because of abuse were able to get healing help.

Under the proposed rules, we can ask no questions. Free speech is muzzled when parents and children cannot express their own truth and are forced to acquiesce to another’s. The government will require everyone to agree that gender-confusion is perfectly normal and their destructive solutions are good. Truly, the emperor has no clothes!

When our government forces a child to use another child’s self-declared pronouns, they are clearly acting hostile to religion, which has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Kennedy v Bremerton. Christians and other Americans know God created men and women uniquely, with unchangeable XX or XY chromosomes, yet our government wants to force our children to believe in their religion of gender theology. This is the establishment of religion in our schools, and parents and our beloved Constitution are having none of that!

Another reason we must be alarmed is the idea that a child can be counseled without parental permission, to choose their gender.

To President Biden and the Department of Education we say:

“You may NOT indoctrinate our children in gender theology. You may NOT sexualize our children, You may NOT provide healthcare without our express permission. You many NOT collect our kids personal data, You may NOT invade our children’s privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms. You may NOT change the English language to accept ridiculous pronouns. You may NOT promote unhealthy behavior in our schools.”

“We DO give you permission to teach our children to read, to write, to do math, to study scientific ideas and to learn from real history. You MUST equip them to launch into adulthood with the ability to think for themselves and become productive citizens.”

If the Department of Education is seeking to destroy public education and increase the mass exodus from the institution, they are on the right track. If their goal is to truly educate our children, they MUST listen to parents and abandon this Title IX re-write, which has nothing to offer actual education.

Note: This presentation was given as the August 11 Stop the Title IX Take-Over rally in Washington, DC.

 

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DC Rally Reveals Deceptive and Coercive Agenda Behind Biden Title IX Plan

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DC Rally Reveals Deceptive and Coercive Agenda Behind Biden Title IX Plan

WASHINGTON / August 15, 2022 – A rally held in Washington, DC on August 11 featured impassioned calls for the Department of Education to abandon plans to move ahead with its proposed Title IX regulation. The rally addressed six major concerns with the draft Title IX policy that was released on June 23: Due process, free speech, women’s sports, parental rights, bathroom privacy, and gender transitioning (1).

Although the draft policy is titled, “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs,” in reality the policy would worsen sex discrimination against two groups: Males falsely accused of sexual misconduct (2), and biological females involved in sports activities (3).

Many of the rally presenters highlighted the coercive and controlling nature of current gender-identity policies, which would be expanded and strengthened by the proposed regulation:

Due Process: Teresa Manning of the National Association of Scholars charged that Biden’s proposed rule “would return to the bad old days of the ‘single investigator’ INQUISITION, where one school official holds ‘individual meetings’ to decide guilt or innocence.”

Free Speech: Stuart Taylor of Princetonians for Free Speech quoted one observer who believes the proposed Biden rule “could officially destroy a life by expulsion from college on the basis of being inadequately woke that one’s utterance offends someone.”

Women’s Sports: Sarah Parshall Perry of the Heritage Foundation warned the Biden administration’s proposal will fundamentally harm female sports and “eviscerates everything our mothers and grandmothers worked to achieve.”

Parental Rights: Ryan Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation noted that parents “can be harassed by school administrations because you’re speaking biological truths….that’s a problem.”

Bathroom Privacy: Referring to threats of the USDA to withhold school lunch funds for non-compliance with transgender bathroom policies, Maya Noronha of the First Liberty Institute compared government officials to “school-yard bullies” who are ”threatening to defund schools.”

Gender Transitioning: Jon Schweppe of the American Principles Project revealed, “You put [students] on these puberty blockers, you put them on these cross-sex hormones, it’s permanent.”

Edward Bartlett of SAVE summarized these concerns by noting that Biden’s gender identity experiment “is not a good-faith attempt to achieve acceptance and affirmation. It is really an agenda of coercion, conformity, and control.”

The newly established Title IX Network will seek to counter the harmful effects of flawed Title IX policies at the national, state, and local levels (4). More information about the August 11 rally is available online (5).

Citations:

  1. https://www.saveservices.org/camp/weaponization/
  2. https://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Analysis-of-Title-IX-Regulation-3.24.2022.pdf
  3. https://www.iwf.org/title-ix-resource-center/
  4. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/network/
  5. https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/rally/
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Title IX

Do Children Deserve the Right to Privacy in School Locker Rooms, Bathrooms, and School Showers?

DO CHILDREN DESERVE THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN SCHOOL LOCKER ROOMS, BATHROOMS, AND SCHOOL SHOWERS?

STATEMENT BY 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION
FOUNDER/CHAIRMAN JIM MARTIN

STOP THE WORLD! I WANT TO GET OFF!

1962, 60 YEARS AGO, WHEN I CAME TO WASHINGTON AS
A NEWSPAPER REPORTER, JACK KENNEDY WAS IN THE
WHITE HOUSE, NEAL ARMSTRONG HAD NOT YET WALKED
ON THE MOON, STROM THURMOND WAS STILL A
DEMOCRAT, AND TITLE 9, LEVELNG THE ATHLETIC
PLAYING FIELD FOR YOUNG FEMALES, WAS 10 YEARS IN
THE FUTURE—–SO I’VE WITNESSED A LOT OF HISTORY,
SO MUCH HISTORY THAT FOR TODAY’S EVENT, I SAY STOP
THE WORLD! I WANT TO GET OFF! THAT WAS THE NAME
OF A POPULAR MOVIE IN THE 60s TO ESCAPE THE CHAOS
BACK THEN. IT CLEARLY DESCRIBES TODAY’S WORLD,
THIS RADICAL EXPERIMENT IN GENDER ENGINEERING,
EPITOMIZED BY THE PROFESSOR WHO DECLARED THAT
MEN CAN GET PREGNANT. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID. AND TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR WHERE I STAND
REGARDING THIS GENDER ENGINEERING, I MAKE
REFERENCE TO ONE OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS, JOHN
ADAMS, WHO SUPPOSEDLY ONCE SAID DURING DEBATE,
“FACTS ARE STUBBOREN THINGS.”

WELL, I STRONGLY CONTEND THAT THE FACTS
PERTAINING TO THIS RADICAL GENDER EXPERIMENT

I SAY THIS ON BEHALF OF MY TWO DAUGHTERS, NINE
GRAND DAUGHTERS AND OVERALL MY 7 CHILDREN, 19
GRAND CHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT GRAND CHILDREN! I COULD NOW ENHANCE MY REMARKS BY QUOTING
SEVERAL ATHLETES BUT I’LL ONLY QUOTE ONE WHO
STARRED IN MY HOME STATE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
KENTUCKY, RILEY GAINES, WHO POINTEDLY SAID HER
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT, BY FAR, WAS NOT IN RACING
LIA THOMAS BUT IN HAVING TO SHARE BATHROOM AND
SHOWER FACILITIES. SHE AND OTHERS, SHE LAMENTED,
WERE “‘EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE, NOT ONLY
ARE YOU FORCED TO RACE AGAINST A MALE, YOU’RE
FORCED TO CHANGE IN THE LOCKER ROOM WITH ONE.”

ARE
THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO SEXES, FEMALE AND MALE,
AND WHICHEVER SEX YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE
IDENTIFIES YOU, IS HOW WE STRONGLY CONTEND IS THE
SEX YOU SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED BY AS YOU ENTER
ADULTHOOD. NOW TO MY TOPIC: DO CHILDREN DESERVE
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN SCHOOL LOCKER ROOMS,
BATHROOMS AND SCHOOL SHOWERS? YOU BET THEY DO!

I TURN NOW TO BRUCE JENNER WHO SET A NEW WORLD
RECORD AT THE 1976 OLYMPICS IN THE 10-EVENT
DECATHLON, THE MOST GRUELING OF ALL ATHLETIC
ENDEAVORS. JENNER WAS BESTOWED THE TITLE
‘WORLD’S GREATEST ATHLETE.’ I ADMIRED BRUCE
JENNER THEN AND ADMIRE HIM NOW AS CAITLYN JENNER.

I ALSO ADMIRE LIA THOMAS FOR TRANSITIONING, AS
JENNER DID, FROM AS THEY SAY, BEING TRAPPED IN THE
BODY OF THE WRONG SEX.
BUT I DON’T ADMIRE LIA WHO, AFTER SWIMMING FOR
THREE YEARS ON THE MEN’S TEAM, DECLARED, AS HE
BEGAN SWIMMING AGAINST FEMALES, AND WINNING
RATHER EASILY, SOMETIMES BY MORE THAN 30 SECONDS,
SAID (QUOTE) ‘I FIND IT VERY REWARDING! (CLOSE QUOTE)! REWARDING INDEED! ABSOLUTE TOTAL
DISRESPECT FOR HIS FEMALE TEAMMATES! AND BRUCE
JENNER, AS CAITLYN JENNER, ALSO STRONGLY DISAGREES
WITH LIA’S RACING AGAINST FEMALES, SAYING
“IT’S NOT FAIR. WE HAVE TO PROTECT GIRL’S SPORTS IN
OUR SCHOOLS.”
YES, I EMPATHIZE WITH LIA’S RIGHT, BUT THERE’S ONE
FACET OF HIS TRANSITIONING WITH WHICH I STRONGLY
DISAGREE. IT ACTUALLY LIES AT THE HEART OF THE
DEBATE. FINA, SWIMMING’S INTERNATIONAL GOVERNING
BODY, RECENTLY ADOPTED A POLICY THAT ONLY PERMITS
SWIMMERS WHO TRANSITIONED BEFORE AGE 12 TO
COMPETE IN WOMEN’S EVENTS. TO FURTHER EXPLAIN THE
POLICY, I QUOTE: ‘THIS IS NOT SAYING THAT PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO TRANSITION BY AGE 12. IT’S WHAT THE
SCIENTISTS ARE SAYING, THAT IF YOU TRANSITION
AFTER THE START OF PUBERTY, YOU HAVE AN
ADVANTAGE WHICH IS UNFAIR.’ (CLOSE QUOTE). FOLLOW
THE SCIENCE! WE COULDN’T AGREE MORE. THE FINA
DOCUMENT WAS NO FLY BY NIGHT POLICY.
PRESENTATIONS WERE MADE BY THREE ENTITIES, AN
ATHLETE GROUP, A SCIENCE AND MEDICINE GROUP, AND
A LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP. 71.5% VOTED IN
FAVOR OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS!
NOW TO THE WOKE COMMUNITY. BETTER TO LET
SLEEPING DOGS LIE. WOKESTERS HAVE POTENTIALLY
AWAKENED A NATIONAL SLEEPING GIANT TRIGGERED BY
EVENTS IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. AFTER LOUDOUN ADOPTED A TRANSGENDER POLICY, AND AFTER A SEXUAL ASSAULT OCCURRED IN A GIRL’S BATHROOM,
ARRESTS WERE MADE, LAWSUITS ENSUED AND PARENTS
DEMANDED MORE ACCOUNTABILITY IN WHAT THEIR KIDS
ARE TAUGHT. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE TERRY
McAULIFFE WEIGHED IN: “I DON’T THINK
PARENTS SHOULD BE TELLING SCHOOLS WHAT THEY
SHOULD TEACH.”

IT BECAME AN
ELECTION ISSUE AND WHILE ANALYSTS ACKNOWLEDGED
THAT GLENN YOUNGKIN WAS ALREADY PROJECTED TO
WIN, THE ISSUE HELPED PROPEL GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN
INTO A MUCH SOUGHT OUT SPEAKER AS OTHER PARENT’S
GROUPS AND GOVERNORS SEEK HIS ADVICE. SO
WOKESTERS, BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

AND I CAUTION MY FORMER PROFESSION, THE MEDIA,
YOU’RE CLEARLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH WHAT A MAJORITY
OF VOTERS ARE THINKING. IN FACT THE PRIME REASON I
LEFT JOURNALISM, A PROFESSION I LOVED, WAS BECAUSE
OF THE RAMPANT BIAS, SO BIASED THAT JOURNALISTS
ARE NO LONGER VERY RELEVANT, AND THAT’S A SHAME.
A QUICK REFRESHER: A JOURNALISM DEGREE IS A
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE! I REPEAT, A BACHELOR
OF SCIENCE! WHEN I EARNED MY BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA’S SCHOOL OF
JOURNALISM, A SCHOOL ALWAYS IN THE NATION’S TOP
FIVE, I WAS TAUGHT THAT JOURNALISTS SHOULD REPORT
ON THE WHO, WHERE, WHY, WHAT, WHEN, LEAVING
ANALYSIS TO THE EDITORIAL PAGES. WHAT A QUAINT CONCEPT. ALLOW THE READER TO READ UNBIASED AND
IF THE READER SO DESIRES, TURN TO THE EDITORIAL
PAGES FOR ELUCIDATION.

I SEE MY TIME IS UP. I THANK YOU, MOST SINCERELY,
FOR YOURS.

Note: This presentation was made at the “Stop The Title IX Take-Over” rally, held on August 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

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Title IX

Don’t Erase Women. Don’t Erase Free Speech

Don’t Erase Women. Don’t Erase Free Speech

Ryan Bomberger

Good morning. It’s an honor to stand here in support of common sense.

Before I go any further, my nouns for the news media are factivist and myth-slayer.

I can only be referred to in this way. To do otherwise would be semantic harassment.

Ridiculous, right? But this is exactly what’s happening with the Biden administration’s hostile takeover of Title IX. Who needs legislation when you have liberal interpretation?

Biden wants to magically create a world where there is no discrimination, which of course, requires a world that intensely discriminates in order to fulfill his LGBTQ+++ vision for America. We have to mangle our language, deny basic biology, promote bodily mutilation, and cheer on blatant inequality in the name of leftist progress. While the Left obsesses over its emphasis on parts of speech, it dismisses the crucial importance of parts of our body.

We can no longer say what we know. We must repeat what we’re told.

The First Amendment is just part of the collateral damage of LGBTQ fascism in the effort to not only control policy but control our speech. Even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 never told Americans which parts of speech they have to use, or which words were acceptable, or which speech referencing race was legal. But the Biden administration wants to pretend that pronouns are hate speech and gender-specific sports are discriminatory. The solution? Forced speech and more discrimination.

In Wisconsin’s Kiel Area School District, a Title IX action was brought against three 8th grade boys for “mispronouning” a girl in their class. According to the school administration, they committed a crime: sexual harassment. They failed to call a single female “they” or “them”; instead, the boys used “her” and “she.”

In Virginia, beloved high school French teacher Peter Vlaming was fired for using a so-called “transgender” student’s actual name instead of her “preferred pronouns.” We’re awaiting a ruling from the state Supreme Court.

When did confusion become a virtue and clarity a vice?

This indoctrination is happening in government-run schools across the country. Both students and teachers live in fear of violating rules that are unconstitutional, rules that are anti-science, rules that require us to wrongly discriminate against one group of people in order to assuage an infinitesimally small group that can daily redefine themselves. I have two daughters. They deserve an even playing field in sports, not one taken over by guys who identify as girls. Who will fight for females’ equality against the patriarchy of LGBT activism? I will. Every American should. This Title IX takeover has everything to do with increasing enmity among us all, not increasing equality. I refuse to bow to an ideology that wants to erase women, that wants to erase free speech, that wants to obliterate objective truths.

The acceptance of transgenderism as a ‘social good’ requires the rejection of basic biology, common sense, and compassion. As one of those informed and involved Loudoun County parents branded “terrorists” by the DOJ, I care about the harmful ideological climate change in our schools. And it gets worse by the day. Our culture often invokes love and demands tolerance. Actual love lifts people out of their circumstances. Tolerance keeps people where they are and pretends there are no circumstances. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity. And that starts with being told the truth.

Candidate Joe Biden once strangely claimed: “We choose truth over facts”. President Biden clearly chooses neither. He also said: “We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction.” This Title IX takeover is nothing but widespread division and activist fiction.

I’m a factivist. Context brings clarity. Clarity brings comprehension. I want to slay the myth that there was any ambiguity about the text of Title IX Education Amendment of 1972.

The original Title IX text repeatedly uses the words “both sexes”, and “boys” and “girls”, “father-daughter”, “mother-son”, because in 1972, there was no confusion about what sex meant. Sadly, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Gorsuch decided in Bostock vs Clayton County to redefine the word “sex”. They apparently self-identified as legislators. And in the process, they and the four liberal justices enabled this attack on reality.

Leftists understand that deliberate confusion is power. Miseducation is power. But Americans need to understand there is a difference between being empowered and being fooled by those in power.

Note: This presentation was made at the Stop the Title IX Take-Over rally on August 11.

 

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We Need to Stop the ‘Gender Identity’ Experiment

We Need to Stop the ‘Gender Identity’ Experiment

Edward E. Bartlett

So you’ve now heard from the experts, who have revealed the contours of the grand social experiment currently taking place in our society:

  • It’s an experiment to remove due process protections from the accused.
  • An experiment to eliminate free speech on controversial topics, and institute gender pronoun mandates.
  • An experiment to allow male-bodied individuals to compete against female athletes.
  • An experiment to allow men to free access female bathrooms and locker rooms.
  • An experiment to curtail the right of parents to direct the educational experiences of their children.
  • And it’s an experiment to promote transitioning from one gender to another.

This experiment has been underway for a number of years. And we already know the results:

  • Hundreds of falsely accused college men, stigmatized as sex offenders – many of whom courageously decided to fight back, and ended up winning their lawsuit. [show report]
  • Dozens of lawsuits against schools for violations of free speech.
  • Countless testimonies by female athletes, outraged by the notion of being forced to compete against their male-bodied counterparts.
  • On the bathroom privacy issue, many of us know what happened in Loudon County, Virginia when a male student put on a dress and sexually assaulted a female student in the girl’s bathroom.
  • And the millions of parents who are fed up that they no longer have a voice in determining the course of their child’s education.
  • And perhaps most tragically, the high school students who have changed their gender, only to later regret the decision. Or worse, take their own lives.

We can refer to this ambitious effort as the “gender identity” experiment.

If the real objective was to end discrimination against transgender students, schools would be allowed to create reasonable accommodations such as separate bathrooms, and sponsor events in which transgender athletes could compete against other transgenders.

But experience reveals such overtures are consistently rejected. So the gender identity experiment is not a good-faith attempt to achieve acceptance and affirmation. It is really an agenda of coercion, conformity, and control.

So we are here today to tell the Department of Education, “Stop this perverted experiment.”

Fortunately, we are not alone. Over the past two months, SAVE has worked to identify like-minded organizations. I’m now pleased to show you the fruits of these labors….a listing of the over 140 organizations have come out in opposition to Biden’s Title IX proposal.

So I hope everyone here will do three things:

  1. Submit your comments to the Department of Education, by September 12.
  2. Contact your lawmakers and candidates for political office – ask them to speak out against this Title IX proposal.
  3. Last but not least, get ready for litigation.

Thank you.

Note: This presentation was made at the Stop the Title IX Take-Over rally on August 11.

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Biden Title IX Take Over Threatens Due Process, The Most Fundamental Legal Right

Biden Title IX Take Over Threatens Due Process, The Most Fundamental Legal Right

Teresa R. Manning

Policy Director, National Association of Scholars

Hello everyone. My name is Teresa R. Manning, Policy Director at the National Association of Scholars & author of its 2020 Report, Dear Colleague: The Weaponization of Title IX, which advocates fundamental fairness in education, also known as DUE PROCESS.

DUE PROCESS refers to the “basket of rights” that protects ALL of us, especially in our legal system. These rights particularly protect the lone individual up against powerful institutions like GOVERNMENT and SCHOOLS.

DUE PROCESS includes the presumption of innocence, the right to see evidence and the right to impartial decision-makers.

DUE PROCESS is probably the most important legal development EVER.

It ensures that legal hearings are not witch trials, not star chambers, and not kangaroo courts. It is the jewel in the crown of Western law.

But DUE PROCESS is now under attack by the Biden Education Department.

Biden’s proposed Title IX Rule to govern sex discrimination complaints in schools, including allegations of sexual misconduct, would return to the bad old days of the “single investigator” INQUISITION, where one school official holds “individual meetings” to decide guilt or innocence instead of a formal hearing with due process protections like cross examination & the right to submit & refute evidence.

My 2020 Dear Colleague Report found that school officials are not only overwhelmingly ideological, with backgrounds in things like “women’s studies, but they have virtually no courtroom experience where due process protections are put into practice.

This means that Title IX officials don’t really know due process, understand due process or value due process.

These ideologues are not just in the Title IX office; they basically run American higher education. They’re angry at biological realities like the differences between men and women and the more serious consequences of sexual relations for women. So they are waging war on biological reality: They attack sex roles and they attack men – with campus kangaroo courts where innocent male students are branded sex offenders because basic due process, including the right to defend oneself, was lacking.

Fortunately, real courts have pushed back on this Title IX totalitarianism: Hundreds of courts have ruled against schools and in favor of the wrongly accused under Title IX.

A SHOW DOWN IS COMING BETWEEN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION & THE COURTS

Courts are insisting that schools observe due process, including the right to impartial decision makers, something Bident’s “individual meeting” INQUISITION method lacks.

The Biden people are not only ignoring this case law but they are also ignoring case law on how to define sexual harassment that triggers Title IX, as well as case law on the limits of agency action.

The 1999 Supreme Court decision of Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education insists that sexual misconduct be “severe, pervasive & objectively offensive” such that educational access is denied, to trigger Title IX. But the Biden proposal defies the Davis case, expanding the definition of sexual harassment to include “subjective evaluation” of conduct, which eviscerates the Supreme Court’s required objective standard.

The Supreme Court also just found that executive agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency – or the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights! – cannot hide behind  redefinitions to decide “major questions” making policy, a function that falls only to Congress.

Yet that is precisely what the Biden people are doing in Title IX, by expansively re-defining not just sexual harassment but the word “sex” itself to include gender ideology and same sex orientation.

THIS ACTIVIST, AGENCY OVERREACH & ATTACK ON DUE PROCESS WILL NOT STAND.

The National Association of Scholars stands with the 140 organizations opposed to Biden’s Title IX Takeover as well as with the 15 state attorneys general who are right now suing the Biden people for their lawlessness. We urge everyone to HELP PROTECT DUE PROCESS: OPPOSE BIDEN’S PROPOSED TITLE IX RULE. 

Public Comments can be made here.

Note: This presentation was made at the Stop the Title IX Take-Over rally on August 11.

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Democrats Embrace Sex Change for Kids

Democrats Embrace Sex Change for Kids

Jon Schweppe

Good morning everyone.

Well, we know the Left loves to lie to people’s faces and take a bad thing and pretend that it’s a good thing. We saw this just the other day – half a trillion dollars in new spending, and what do they call it? The Inflation Reduction Act. Absolutely ridiculous. We know this on other issues, too. Abortion – tearing an infant limb from limb – what do they call that? Reproductive health care. And here we have another issue where the Left is just lying to our faces. They call what they’re doing to children – they call it “gender-affirming care.”

But “care” is a real misnomer, isn’t it? Because what we’re talking about – what they’re doing to kids here – is giving puberty blockers to kids as young as 8, cross-sex hormones to kids as young as 14, sex change surgeries – double mastectomies for young teenagers, fifteen years old – it’s absolutely Nazi Germany stuff, and we’re doing it right here in the United States.

This is being pushed – unfortunately it’s not just the activist Left, it’s not just our politicians although the Biden Administration is obsessed with this – but it’s being pushed by all parts of our society, culture, institutions, medical professionals, the education system, certainly corporations, Big Pharma stands to make a lot. You know, a lot of people don’t realize this with these cross-sex hormones, but once you start on a regimen, you’re on it for life. That’s hundreds of dollars, probably thousands of dollars over the course of a year, and Big Pharma is standing to profit from that.

Part of the problem here is that this is so widespread across our culture that there’s really only one way to stop it, and it’s politics. We have a real problem on our hands because Republicans are weak. They’re not very good on this issue.

We have some that have been really good, we have to give them credit. Senator Marshall from Kansas, as soon as he got into office, introduced a bill to try to push back against this stuff. LaMalfa, Jim Banks, both on the House side have been good. Rand Paul, we know him from his hearing with Rachel Levine, where his first two words in the hearing were “genital mutilation,” so you have to give him credit for that. Tom Cotton has been good as well.

But the reality is that Republicans have not, while they have on an issue like women’s sports, they haven’t quite put this as a top issue, where they’re talking about it, where they’re expressing outrage about what’s happening. We have to change that.

Polls show we’re winning – we’re actually crushing the Left on this issue. APP did a poll on this recently and we’re at like 58 percent of people agreeing that we shouldn’t do this to children. When we actually compared that to the Left’s argument, where the Left is saying this is life-saving treatment and all these kids are going to kill themselves, we actually made that comparison, and our numbers went up. So the American people are against this. They think it’s outrageous. But we’re not doing anything about it. So we have to give credit: we have state legislation that’s passing. That’s good. We need to pass the SAFE Act in every single state. I think we have legislation in five states right now where we’re actually getting some stuff done on this. But this has to be a priority. This really is the moral issue of our time.

And so call your Member of Congress, call your Senator, demand that this is a priority, that they fight against sex changes for kids, it’s wrong, it’s unAmerican, and we won’t stand for it.

Thank you so much.

Note: This presentation was made at the August 11 Stop the Title IX Take-Over Rally in Washington, DC.