Leading Christian Legal Advocacy Group Tells Biden Administration, “We’ll See You In Court.”

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Last Friday our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom released a short video telling the Biden Administration, “we’ll see you in court” over new federal rules reinterpreting Title IX.

Alliance Defending Freedom is one of the nation’s premier Christian legal advocacy groups, and has successfully argued multiple cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Title IX is a decades-old federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education. But the Biden Administration recently released more than 1,500 pages of new rules drastically reinterpreting “sex” under Title IX.

The new rules use phrases like “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” more than 400 times, making it clear the Biden Administration believes they are somehow the same thing as biological sex.

The problem is that gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same thing as biological sex. Men who claim to be women are erasing women’s sports in America and robbing women of educational opportunities. That is why states like Arkansas have taken steps to protect, for example, fairness in women’s sports at school.

You can watch the video from ADF below.

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Small Colleges in the U.S. Vote Overwhelmingly to Protect Women’s Sports

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On Monday the National Association of of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced a policy that should prevent male athletes from competing in women’s collegiate sports.

The NAIA is a governing body primarily for small colleges and universities. According to its website, the NAIA has 241 member schools — including six schools in Arkansas:

  • Central Baptist College in Conway
  • Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge
  • John Brown University in Siloam Springs
  • Philander Smith College in Little Rock
  • Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock
  • Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould

The Associated Press reports the NAIA’s new participation policy says all athletes may participate in NAIA-sponsored male sports, but only athletes whose biological sex is female and have not begun taking cross-sex hormones will be allowed to participate in women’s sports. The policy is set to go into effect in August.

We have written repeatedly about how women’s athletics is at risk of being erased in America.

In particular, female cyclists, swimmers, powerlifters, sprinters, and others have seen their sports radically changed by biological males who identify and compete as women.

Letting men compete in women’s sports reverses 50 years of advancements for women, and it hampers girls’ abilities to compete for athletic scholarships.

It hurts their professional opportunities as adults. In some sports, it can even be dangerous.

That’s part of the reason why the North American Grappling Association clarified its competition policy last fall, saying biological males must compete against other men, regardless of their gender identity.

And earlier this year the professional golf league NXXT Golf announced that only biological females would be eligible to participate in the NXXT Women’s Pro Tour.

Many states — including Arkansas — have enacted laws that preserve fairness in women’s sports.

In 2021 Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) preventing male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school.

This good law protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas.

It’s worth point out that public opinion is shifting on this issue, with more Americans agreeing that athletes ought to compete according to their biological sex rather than their gender identity. Laws and policies preserving fairness in women’s sports reflect public opinion on this issue.

It’s good to see America’s colleges taking a stand to preserve fairness in women’s athletics at school.

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