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Feds investigate another Texas school district for its gender identity mandate (Title IX issue) (1 Viewer)

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It appears that the Administration has extended Women's protections under Title IX to Trans issues.
It is investigating a Houston are a school district who's policy is to inform parents if their child wants to identify as a different pronoun or gender.
I am very interested in poster's thoughts especially in relation to Title IX.

www.texastribune.org

Feds investigate another Texas school district for its gender identity mandate

Katy ISD’s board voted this past fall to require staff to notify parents if their child wants to use a different pronoun or identifies as a different gender.
www.texastribune.org www.texastribune.org

Feds investigate another Texas school district for its gender identity mandate​

Katy ISD’s board voted this past fall to require staff to notify parents if their child wants to use a different pronoun or identifies as a different gender.
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation Monday into Katy Independent School District’s gender identity policy on the basis of gender harassment under Title IX. The investigation came nine months after the district adopted a policy that notifies parents if their child requests to use a different name or pronouns at school.
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Katy ISD did not respond to a request of how many parents have been notified this year under the new policy, which requires staff to inform parents that students are transgender or ask to use different names or pronouns.

The Houston Chronicle reported in December that the district had notified parents at least 23 times since the policy was adopted.

The gender identity policy also bars schools from teaching “gender fluidity” and denies students from competing in sports with the gender they identify with, which mirrors state legislation already regulating K-12 athletics.


Students Engaged in Advancing Texas, a student-led advocacy group, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education in November regarding the policy. Katy ISD graduate and member of SEAT Cameron Samuels labels the investigation as a win against the conservative policies being passed in the district.

“Elected solely on platforms to target marginalized students, far-right school board candidates accomplished exactly what they were elected to do: weaponize identity and neglect students' educational needs,” they said.

Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational settings or federally funded activities. Gov. Greg Abbott has loudly voiced his opposition to the federal law recently ordering the Texas Education Agency to disregard the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX.

“The district is committed to offering equal educational opportunities to our entire community,” a spokesperson from Katy ISD told the Tribune in a response to the investigation. “While we have received the OCR filing and deny any wrongdoing, we are committed to remaining fully cooperative and responsive throughout the process.”
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It would never survive judicial scrutiny. Notifying parents that their child is manifesting symptoms of a mental disorder as defined by the DSM is not only a right but an obligation of the school.
 
Napoleon said:
It would never survive judicial scrutiny. Notifying parents that their child is manifesting symptoms of a mental disorder as defined by the DSM is not only a right but an obligation of the school.
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That's kinda what I'm thinking.
A school notifying a child's parents of the child's behavior in school doesn't seem to qualify as 'gender harassment under Title IX'.
It's like WTF is the DOJ even thinking?
Or is this another example of 'The Process Is The Punishment' for not toeing the correct ideological lines?
 
Napoleon said:
It would never survive judicial scrutiny. Notifying parents that their child is manifesting symptoms of a mental disorder as defined by the DSM is not only a right but an obligation of the school.
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Nope.

What the school is doing is a HIPPA violation.

The republican-kkk needs to stay out of things.
 
eohrnberger said:
That's kinda what I'm thinking.
A school notifying a child's parents of the child's behavior in school doesn't seem to qualify as 'gender harassment under Title IX'.
It's like WTF is the DOJ even thinking?
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Title IX specifically protects discrimination based on gender identity. So...
 
Nomad4Ever said:
Title IX explicitly prohibits discriminating on the basis of gender identity.

Seems pretty clear cut to me.
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A point of clarification: Title IX was written before the concepts of gender identity.
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, in be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
www.justice.gov

Title IX

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Excellent discussion. Also Interesting points about HIPAA.
 
eman623 said:
I don't think it does. Not explicitly.
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I mean, you don't have to think or guess.
Clarify that sex discrimination includes discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes,
sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender
identity
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The new rules, which take effect on Aug. 1, effectively broadened the scope of Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. They extend the law’s reach to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and widen the range of sexual harassment complaints that schools will be responsible for investigating.
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www.nytimes.com

Biden Administration Releases Revised Title IX Rules

The new regulations extended legal protections to L.G.B.T.Q. students and rolled back several policies set under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
zincwarrior said:
A point of clarification: Title IX was written before the concepts of gender identity.
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, in be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
www.justice.gov

Title IX

www.justice.gov www.justice.gov
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It was changed explicitly to include gender identity. See post 13.
 
eohrnberger said:
That's kinda what I'm thinking.
A school notifying a child's parents of the child's behavior in school doesn't seem to qualify as 'gender harassment under Title IX'.
It's like WTF is the DOJ even thinking?
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They are an authoritative school for the demonrat dictatorship.
eohrnberger said:
Or is this another example of 'The Process Is The Punishment' for not toeing the correct ideological lines?
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Yep.

The left constantly uses such tactics. they do not believe in freedom.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
I mean, you don't have to think or guess.



www.nytimes.com

Biden Administration Releases Revised Title IX Rules

The new regulations extended legal protections to L.G.B.T.Q. students and rolled back several policies set under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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We have been here before. Obama created much the same "rule". Then Trump reversed that, then Biden reversed the reversal. The next R president will probably reverse it back again.

Referring to a Biden interpretation rather than the text of Title IX itself, does not prove your claim of explicit prohibition.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
I mean, you don't have to think or guess.



www.nytimes.com

Biden Administration Releases Revised Title IX Rules

The new regulations extended legal protections to L.G.B.T.Q. students and rolled back several policies set under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Is this another leftists authoritarian regulation that violates the 10th amendment?

Why does the left hate all but the first amendment?
 
Lord of Planar said:
Doesn't HIPAA deal with medical entities illegally releasing patient records?

This is not the same thing in a parent/minor child setting.
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While I agree there are a lot of specifics and don't want to opine from ignorance.
 
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