Author: Edward Bartlett

Resolution to Support Parents, Schools, and Districts in Rejecting Harmful, Coercive, and Burdensome Gender Identity Policies and Protect School Lunch Programs and Federal Funding Subject to Title IX

By Christin Bentley, SD1 Committeewoman

WHEREAS, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was enacted into law to ensure that “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”; and

WHEREAS, original and existing Title IX regulations acknowledge “physiological differences between the male and female sexes”; and

WHEREAS, on June 23, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) released proposed changes to Title IX regulations that would contradict the plain language of the law; and

WHEREAS, the proposed regulations would prohibit schools that receive federal funds, including public, charter, private, and parochial schools, from “adopting a policy or engaging in a practice that prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with their gender identity,” thereby compelling schools to deny biological reality; and

WHEREAS, under the proposed rules, actions such as a student or staff member using a child’s legal name and biological pronouns rather than the child-selected preferred name and pronouns could be deemed a form of “sex-based harassment,” subjecting schools and staff to civil litigation and loss of federal funds; and

WHEREAS, the proposed regulations would require that K-12 schools socially transition minor children to a different gender without requiring parental notification or involvement; and

WHEREAS, Texas law and the United State’s Constitution and legal precedent recognize the right of parents to direct the education, upbringing, and physical and mental health of their children; and

WHEREAS, under the proposed rules, schools would be required to grant access to sex-separate restroom and locker room facilities based on gender identity rather than on biological sex, which would place girls and women at increased risk for harassment and sexual assault by males who claim a female identity; and

WHEREAS, the USDOE proposed regulations pertaining to athletics would require sports teams to be based on gender identity rather than biological sex, forcing women and girls to compete on an unfair basis against males for athletic opportunities and scholarships; and

WHEREAS, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Save Women’s Sport’s Bill (H.B. 25) that says the athlete’s sex assigned at birth determines if a student plays in girls’ or boys’ sports in high school; and

WHEREAS, in guidance issued May 5, 2022 and in a rule promulgated on June 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it will interpret the prohibition on sex discrimination found in Title IX and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to include discrimination based on gender identity; and

WHEREAS, Texas public schools, nonprofit private schools, and residential childcare institutions could now be forced to choose between adopting gender identity policies or foregoing federal funding to provide subsidized free or reduced-price; now

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Republican Party of Texas declares its unequivocal opposition to the proposed regulatory changes released by the U.S. Department of Education on June 23, 2022; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Republican Party of Texas supports the lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 21 other state Attorneys General seeking to invalidate the newly enacted Department of Agriculture rules that tie continued receipt of federal nutritional assistance and other funding subject to Title IX to the adoption of gender identity policies; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Texas directs the Chairman to issue a press release notifying the public, media and Texas Congressional members of this resolution upon its passage.

NOTE: This Resolution was unanimously approved by the Texas State Republican Executive Committee on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022.

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.

 

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.