The Department of Education’s proposed changes to Title IX are only the latest salvo in the Left’s ongoing Un-Holy War to enshrine transgender ideology as a state religion. CJV’s public comment pushes back on these changes as an attack on women, Biblical values, and religious freedom.
The
Department of Education is trying to rewrite Title IX, the groundbreaking
legislation that guaranteed equal opportunity to women and girls. The proposed
changes redefine a woman as anyone who “identifies” as female and punish
schools that refuse to play along.
A host of prominent pro-values groups, religious and feminist
organizations filed public comments opposing this change. Some filed detailed
legal arguments reaching dozens of pages.
So what was the role of CJV, and its relatively brief, four-page
comment?
In all our work, CJV provides a fundamentally Jewish perspective,
one rooted in Torah and guided by millennia of tradition. In this case, CJV’s
comment forced the DOE to address an entirely new set of issues—and by law,
agencies have to review and address all comments, or face a court challenge if
they fail.
CJV
argued that the new rules prohibit normative Jewish beliefs and practices, and
threaten to exclude religious Jewish students, especially women, from
interschool and intercollegiate sports. At a foundational level, the new
regulations would establish a new state religion, an ideology at odds with
belief systems held by millions of Americans.
The
proposed changes equate “gender identity” with sex and codify gender ideology
in law. They compel Americans to accept a set of definitions that are nothing
more than articles of a new, idolatrous faith, at odds with both the Bible and
human biology. As we put it in our comment:
“The
regulation would not demand abandonment of Jewish religious standards more
clearly if it asserted that the Book of Genesis is null and void.”
Codifying
a new state religion, and forcing schools to honor its precepts, is a flagrant
violation of the Constitution and the right to freedoms of conscience and religion enshrined therein.
CJV
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who cherishes traditional values, and even the right of women to participate
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Yours
sincerely, Rabbi Yaakov Menken
P.S.
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