More than 140 advocacy groups formed a new coalition to stop the Biden administration’s proposed rewrite of regulations banning sex discrimination in education, saying the new LGBTQ-slant to the rules will harm kids and limit parental rights.
The fight is over defining sex based on biology or expanding the definition to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Biden administration says a new, broader definition of sex is needed to protect LGBTQ students, but opponents warn it will curtail free speech and diminish due process for students on college campuses.
“We will block this. It’s just a matter of at which stage of the process,” Edward Bartlett, chairman of the Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, said ahead of a rally Thursday in front of the Education Department in Washington.