Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), blasted the Biden administration’s lack of transparency in creating its new Title IX rule, which forces schools to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports or risk losing federal funds. Specifically, the lawmakers raised concerns over the rushed review and public comment period, which limited Americans’ ability to provide feedback on a rule that has serious implications for women and girls’ athletics.  
   
“The Biden administration is using the rulemaking process to fundamentally rewrite a law that Congress enacted with the intention of protecting women and girls, and it is doing so in a way that runs entirely contrary to that intention and the spirit of Title IX,” wrote the lawmakers. “The American people deserve complete transparency regarding that process.”  
  
“Since the completion of the OMB review, the Biden administration has continued to move quickly by further limiting the time available for public comment on its proposed rule,” continued the lawmakers. “Thirty days is an extremely short timeframe for the American people to comment on changes that, if implemented, would result in a drastic rollback of protections for women and girls. [The Department of Education] must not rush this process.”  
 
Earlier this year, the Department of Education announced a proposed rule that would extend students’ Title IX discrimination protections in athletics to include gender identity, allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports. Additionally, the rule allows the federal government to overrule state policies aimed at protecting women in sports and defund schools who do not comply.  
 
On June 23, 1972, the original Title IX legislation was signed into law by President Nixon.  
  
Read the full letter here.