Friday, April 19, 2024

Riley Gaines: The end of women

Women no longer exist.

 

That's the Biden Administration's endgame, and their changes to Title IX today take a devastating step towards it.

 

For 52 years, Title IX has guaranteed the equal rights, protection, and access to the fruits of America's prosperity for women.

 

America's public institutions guaranteed young women like me had access to equal and fair opportunities and could pursue our dreams of achievement and success unhindered.

 

The Biden Administration ended those protections today.

 

My fellow Leadership Institute graduate -- Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina -- said, "This final rule dumps kerosene on the already raging fire that is Democrats' contemptuous culture war that aims to radically redefine sex and gender."

 

Title IX used to protect against discrimination on the basis of sex -- on the incontrovertible, biological fact that men are men and women are women and both are afforded equal access under the law to government-funded programs.

 

No more.

 

The Biden Administration has rewritten the statute to base the protection not on sex but on "gender identity" -- a vague construction with no basis in science or common sense, but designed to push a harmful agenda.

 

Martha, I've gotten used to the left trying to shut me up, but now they're trying to erase all women.

 

This change opens up the floodgates for any man who simply "identifies" as a woman to invade female-only spaces.

 

It means the end of most single-sex spaces -- especially ones meant to protect women -- in every school, office, and institution that receives even a penny of federal funds.

 

The rule released today creates a default position where men who identify as women can take opportunities designated explicitly for women. This change means a male college student is now legally protected if he wants to join the women's swimming team -- and appear stark naked in their locker room.

 

It's women who have to bear the burden of proving this unfairness.

 

This turns Title IX on its head because Title IX was never intended to be a fairness statute. It's an opportunity statute, and when you take an opportunity from a woman, you violate that statute.

 

You see what this all means. It means there's no difference between male and female anymore, according to Joe Biden.

 

And that especially puts so many girls and young women at risk at their schools and in their communities.

 

On behalf of America's daughters, the young women who stand up for truth and their right to not have to share a bathroom with a man just because he says he's a woman, here's our response:

 

We will not be erased.

 

When they want you silent, speak louder.