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The Ohio Board of Education has set up a vote on a controversial resolution condemning the Biden administration’s planned expansion of Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation as protected classes.
The largely symbolic vote on the “Resolution to Support Parents, Schools, and Districts in Rejecting Harmful, Coercive, and Burdensome Gender Identity Policies,” scheduled for Wednesday, has drawn outrage from the gay and transgender activists who claim the resolution is a bigoted attack on their community and the Biden administration’s attempt to expand their legal protections.
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The federal Department of Education in June proposed regulations that reinterpret nondiscrimination protections on the basis of sex in Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The administration cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which applied the interpretation to federal employment law, as the impetus for the change.
In its resolution, the Ohio school board said it “declares its unequivocal opposition to the proposed regulatory changes released by the U.S. Department of Education,” which it derided as an “overreach.” The board also expressed support for a lawsuit challenging similar rules from the Department of Agriculture for the federal school lunch program and called on the state legislature to enact legislation to resist the federal regulations.
“The board calls upon the General Assembly to assist local districts in combatting this federal overreach by proactively approving stopgap funding of necessary programs should the proposed USDOE regulations take effect,” the resolution says.
The resolution also asks the legislature to approve legislation banning classroom instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, as was done in Florida earlier this year. It also says schools should be required to inform a child’s parent if the child “claims a discordant gender identity, questions their gender identity (or) requests alternative names or pronouns.”
The Florida law, the Parental Rights in Education Act, was dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics who said the provisions were harmful to gay and transgender youth. The law set off a confrontation between the state government, led by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and the Walt Disney Company, which publicly announced it would push for the law’s repeal.
Opposition to the Ohio resolution, much like the law in Florida, came primarily from gay and transgender activists, many of whom spoke at the board’s meeting last month. Additionally, four members of the board issued a statement condemning their colleagues for even considering the resolution.
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“The resolution not only advocates for state-endorsed lawlessness; it also works to codify the exact discrimination that Title IX was developed to prevent,” they wrote. “This resolution actually calls for a full government body to implement state-sponsored discrimination directed towards minors while ignoring federal law and undermining Ohio’s proud history of local control.”
