POINT LOOKOUT, Missouri, April 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the College of the Ozarks against the Biden administration’s efforts to force the religious institution to house “transgender girls,” i.e., actual boys, in female housing, including as roommates to actual girls.
One of President Joe Biden’s earliest acts was signing an executive order declaring the “policy of my Administration to prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation, and to fully enforce Title VII and other laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.” It cites cites the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bostock decision claiming that federal law’s prohibition on discrimination “because of … sex” extends to “discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.”
The Daily Wire reports that the College of the Ozarks is suing to prevent itself from being forced to change its longstanding policy of separating male and female students in intimate facilities such as dormitories.
“Occupancy and access in the college’s residence halls are separated by biological sex, not identity, and that residence in student housing depends on compliance with the student code of conduct, including
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