Sat Jun 4, 2022 – 3:34 pm EDT
PIERRE (LifeSiteNews) – South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem warned the Biden administration Thursday she will take them to court if the federal government proceeds with plans to deny federal funds to the state as punishment for limiting women’s athletics to actual women.
The U.S. Department of Education and Department of Agriculture have signaled their intentions to interpret Title IX nondiscrimination rules for public education to encompass “sexual orientation and gender identity.” Critics say such interpretations do not merely require protecting homosexual or gender-confused individuals from tangible harm, but rather mandate the elimination of longstanding commonsense rules and distinctions to accommodate LGBT ideology.
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One of the most contentious such accommodations is the forced inclusion of “transgender women” – biological men who claim to be women – in female sporting events and athletic competitions. LGBT activists claim it’s “discriminatory” to reserve female competitive sports for actual females, but science confirms that “trans women” (i.e., biological men) retain distinct physical advantages through which they can deprive actual female athletes of recognition and scholarship
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