Earlier this month, the Office for Civil Rights in the Biden Education Department issued a new regulation on how schools must observe Title IX, the 1972 ban on sex discrimination in federally funded education. The rule transforms Title IX from a relatively benign equal-opportunity law into a weapon for sex-based identity politics.
This ensures transparency and facilitates appellate review—both of which act as checks on the power of campus bureaucrats. But Biden is giving a blank check to the very people who need more oversight.The new Title IX rule also redefines the word 'sex' to include 'gender identity' and 'sexual orientation' such that dissenting views on gender or refusal to use preferred pronouns will be treated—and prosecuted—as a federal offense.