DeSantis: Florida 'will not comply' with new Biden Title IX rules | The Hill
By: Tara Suter (The Hill)
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by Tara Suter - 04/25/24 2:31 PM ET
by Tara Suter - 04/25/24 2:31 PM ET
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Thursday his state "will not comply" with recently unveiled changes to Title IX by the Biden administration.
"Florida rejects [President Biden's] attempt to rewrite Title IX," DeSantis said in a video posted to the social platform X. "We will not comply, and we will fight back."
"We are not gonna let Joe Biden try to inject men into women's activities," DeSantis continued. "We are not gonna let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents, and we are not gonna let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida."
The Biden administration unveiled a final set of changes to Title IX last week that add protections for transgender students to the federal civil rights law on sex-based discrimination. The changes will take effect in early August.
"These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation's students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.
DeSantis has been criticized by LGBTQ advocates in the past for state laws they say harm their community, including the so-called Don't Say Gay law that restricts discussion of LGBTQ topics in Florida public schools.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, partnered with a Florida LGBTQ advocacy group last year to issue an advisory against traveling to Florida.
"Taken in their totality, Florida's slate of laws and policies targeting basic freedoms and rights pose significant risk to the health and safety of many considering relocation and/or temporary travel to the state," the HRC and Equality Florida travel advisory reads.
The Hill has reached out to the White House.
Brandon Wolf, the national press secretary for the HRC, said in an emailed statement to The Hill that "already, politicians in Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and elsewhere are leaping to oppose crucial protections for students in America's schools."
"These MAGA politicians are choosing theatrics and hateful rhetoric over protecting and furthering the needs of their state's students," Wolf said in the statement. "Refusing to comply with Title IX could have damaging consequences for schools, including significant loss in funding on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars — dollars that should be going to helping young people achieve academic excellence. That appears to be a sacrifice that those whose only priorities are themselves and their own political profiles are willing to make."
Jon Harris Maurer, Equality Florida's public policy director, also said in an emailed statement Thursday that DeSantis "cannot ignore federal protections designed to safeguard students and families, including LGBTQ students, survivors of sexual assault and harassment, and pregnant students."
"Thousands of parents have rallied at school board meetings to oppose policies that use their children's classrooms as political battlegrounds. We will continue to work with parents across the state to foster an environment where every student can learn and thrive."
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Common sense from the governor..................
Then Florida Voters will get the tab because Florida schools will lose Federal Funding. Good Job Desantis! Ya gotta love MAGA Madness!
What if Trump wins and he returns to the meaning & spirit of Title IX?
Then the woke idiots will begin crying even more.
Then we can say they look like caged animals!
I was thinking they'd revert back to their reaction after the 2016 election. Just amplified.
Corrupting the meaning & spirit of Title IX started under Obama when due process rights of the accused were violated. Now Obama's protege is continuing the assault on women with this Trans special privilege nonsense.
Btw: Where are the women here?
I think they are having problems defining "women".
Maybe if they had seen one without a penis before they might actually be able to accurately define one.
Nothing in the story about what the changes are, or which specific rules the governor has a problem with. Nevertheless, we will see people commenting in either support or condemnation without knowing what the hell it is they are endorsing or opposing.
Mmmm, do you agree with the changes?
At least I looked them up. They’re mostly pretty harmless. I can see one or two things that I might expect to bother certain people in theory, but in actual practice, it likely won’t impact them. People - including DeSantis - will oppose them purely on partisan political grounds. If it were about the details, they’d be talking about those details. Instead, they’re pretending to be part of some glorious resistance.
All hail...Someone?
Wow. Irony much?
No irony, just common sense!
isn't the current Arizona abortion ruling that takes on invitro impregnancies already handling this ...? DeSantis is off his rocker on so much, he's almost Trump like, and no, i do not like Trump like
Right wing Republican men all across the country are injecting themselves into women's most fundamental activities, those regarding women's health, abortion, IV pregnancies, etc.
Anyone who can't see the supreme irony in DeSantis' statement is, as you so eloquently put it: "off his rocker".
Biden trying to overturn the rights of biological women granted by Title IX, in order to pander to a group of emotionally fucked up male wimps pretending to be women. I expect other states to do the same thing and simply ignore the illegal decree. If the funding is withheld the Dems can expect a lot of states to file lawsuits against the Biden administration.
We can't get rid of this POS asshole soon enough.
Which rights?