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SAVE State Lawmaker Program Yields 11 New Laws in Seven States

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Robert D. Thompson
1-301-801-0608
 

SAVE State Lawmaker Program Yields 11 New Laws in Seven States

WASHINGTON / November 13, 2024 – In January of this year, SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments) launched a new program to identify state lawmakers working to thwart the Gender Agenda. (1) Over the course of 10 months, a total of 121 candidates from 32 states signed a six-point pledge to “Protect Schools, Children, and Families from the Federal Title IX Plan.” (2)

Out of the 32 states, bills were enacted during the 2024 legislative session in seven states: 

Idaho: 

  • HB 538 bars teachers from referring to a student by a name or pronoun that doesn’t align with their birth sex, without parental consent. (3)  
  • HB 668 bans the use of public funding to cover sex-change procedures. (4) This bill was introduced by Pledge Signer Rep. Bruce Skaug.

Louisiana: HB 121 prohibits the use of transgender and nonbinary youths’ chosen names and pronouns in K-12 public schools without parental permission. (5) 

New Hampshire:

  • HB 1205 protects participation on female K-12 sports teams based on sex. (6) 
  •  HB 619 “ensures that life-altering, irreversible surgeries will not be performed on children.” (7)  

Ohio:

  • HB 68 blocks gender-affirming care for trans youth. (8) 
  • HB 68 prevents transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. (9)  
South Carolina: HB 4624 places a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. (10) 

Tennessee:

  • SB 2749, titled the ‘Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act (11) 
  • SB 1810 requires schools to alert parents if their child has requested to go by a name, or set of pronouns, that differs from their school forms. (12)  
Wyoming:  SF0099 is a gender- change prohibition bill among children (13) 

In addition, the following pledge signers from Kansas and Oregon introduced Title IX legislation in 2024, and/or are planning to introduce legislation, in 2025:

Rep. Steven K. Howe (KS) supported House Substitute for SB 233, ‘Forbidding Abusive Child Transitions Act’, but the bill was vetoed by the Governor, (14) 

Rep. Boomer Wright (OR) has submitted legislation for 2025 to specify that women’s sports are for women and girls.  Men and boys, transitioned or not, do not belong in women’s sports, bathrooms, nor locker rooms.  

Rep. Ed Diehl (OR) introduced a bill in 2024 that would have prohibited boys in girls’ sports, additional legislation is planned for 2025.

SAVE urges state lawmakers to begin planning now how they can fight the Gender Agenda in 2025.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – is a 501(c)3 organization working to assure due process and fairness. The Title IX Network consists of 237 national and state organizational members that are working to stop the Title IX regulation and end the Gender Agenda.
 
Links:

1)    https://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Candidate-Pledge-to-Protect-Schools-Children-and-Families2.pdf

2)    https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/lawmakers/pledge/

3)    https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/h0538/

4)    https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/h0668/

5)    https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=245685

6)    https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB1205/id/2868559

7)    https://legiscan.com/NH/bill/HB619/2024

8)    https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_135/legislation/hb68/05_EN/pdf/

9)    https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_135/legislation/hb68/05_EN/pdf/

10)    https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/4624.htm

11)    https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2749&ga=113#:~:text=This%20bill%20prohibits%20any%20branch,parent%20as%20provided%20under%20this

12)    https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1810&ga=113

13)    https://legiscan.com/WY/bill/SF0099/2024#:~:text=AN%20ACT%20relating%20to%20public,of%20a%20physician’s%20or%20health

14)    https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/sb233/

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Following Ground-Breaking SCOTUS Statement, Gender Activists Have Faced String of Defeats   

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Robert D. Thompson: 1-301-801-0608 
Following Ground-Breaking SCOTUS Statement, Gender Activists Have Faced String of Defeats 
 
 
WASHINGTON / October 16, 2024 – In their August 16 statement, the nine Supreme Court justices unanimously expressed their opposition to three key provisions in the new Title IX regulation.  

The provisions opposed by the nine justices are to: 

  1. Redefine sex to include “gender identity.”
  2. Allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms designated for members of the opposite sex.
  3. Create a new, overly broad definition of “hostile environment harassment” (1) 

Since then, gender activists have experienced a string of legal setbacks. Following is a partial listing: 

  1. August 30: Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Wins Nation­wide Stay of Agency Gen­der-Iden­ti­ty Man­date, Block­ing Biden from Forc­ing Tax­pay­er-Fund­ed Hos­pi­tals to Con­duct ​“Gen­der Tran­si­tion” Surgeries (2)
  2. September 10: Virginia School Board to Pay $575,000 to Fired Teacher, Peter Vlaming, Who Refused to Use Transgender Student’s Pronouns (3) 
  3. September 12: Indiana University’s Sexual Misconduct Policy Discriminatory, Jury Finds (4) 
  4. September 27: Accused Student’s Lawsuit Versus Rutgers Survives Dismissal (5)  
  5. September 27: U.S. District Judge William Campbell Dismisses Challenge to Tennessee Law Barring K-12 Trans Kids from Restrooms of Choice (6)
  6. October 3: Three-Judge Panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Stay in Florida Case, Restrictions on Trans Care Will Continue (7)

The SAVE/Title IX Network was founded in June 2022 when the Biden Administration first announced its proposed Title IX regulation. Since then, the Network has grown to include 236 national, state, and local organizations that are opposed to the new Biden Title IX rule. (8)  

In August 2024, SAVE launched its Citizen Watchdog Program to protect children, respect parental rights, and block the ideological indoctrination of students. To date, dozens of Title IX Network and Watchdog Program members have volunteered to monitor their local schools. (9) 

In addition, SAVE is inviting candidates for public office (local, county, state and federal) to sign a Candidate Pledge to Protect Schools, Children, and Families from the Federal Title IX Plan (10) To date, 120 candidates in 32 states have signed the Pledge. (11) 

If you are a candidate and in agreement with the Pledge, please send an email indicating your support to Bob Thompson at rdt123@verizon.net

The Title IX Network consists of 236 national and state organizational members that are working to stop the Title IX regulation and end the gender agenda.
 
 
Links:
 
 
1.

 

2.   https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-wins-nationwide-stay-agency-gender-identity-mandate-blocking-biden

3.    https://virginiamercury.com/2024/09/30/va-school-board-to-pay-575k-to-fired-teacher-who-refused-to-use-transgender-students-pronouns/

 
 

7.    https://www.wusf.org/courts-law/2024-10-04/floridas-restrictions-on-trans-care-will-continue-after-court-refuses-to-reconsider-stay

8.    https://www.saveservices.org/2022-Policy/

9.    https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/network/

10.    https://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Candidate-Pledge-to-Protect-Schools-Children-and-Families2.pdf

11.   https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/lawmakers/pledge/

 
 
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SAVE Citizen Watchdog Program Seeks to Oppose the ‘Gender Agenda’

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Robert D. Thompson: 1-301-801-0608 

 

SAVE Citizen Watchdog Program Seeks to Oppose the ‘Gender Agenda’ 

WASHINGTON / September 12, 2024 – Transgender activists have issued a Messaging Guide that presents a roadmap to redefine the meaning of sex and justify the participation of males in female sports. “Transgender Youth and the Freedom to Be Ourselves” labels upholders of family values as “villians” and urges readers to “exploit divisions across races.” The strongly worded document accuses persons who believe in a biological definition of “sex” of “stoking fear against Black and brown kids.” (1)  

Issued by ASO Communications, the Transgender Law Center, and Lake Research Partners, the transgender Messaging Guide reveals how the Marxist-inspired “Gender Agenda” represents an existential threat to children, families, and schools across the nation. (2) 

In response, SAVE recently established a new Citizen Watchdog Program. (3) In five short weeks, the Watchdog program has grown to now include 30 state organizations that are monitoring their local school(s) to help fight the Gender Agenda. (4) 

To date, hundreds of “Sex and Gender” incidents have been reported across all 50 states, according to the non-profit group Parents Defending Education. (5)  These incidents include teaching gender ideology in the classroom, pronoun mandates, and transgender counseling of children without informing the parents.  

These are a few examples of such incidents:

  • Arizona: Scottsdale Unified School District has gender support plan that appears to keep parents in the dark regarding their children’s gender identity. (6)  
  • Minnesota: Rochester Public Schools has a secret policy that states staff can keep the gender identity of students hidden from parents, and forces staff to use transgender pronouns of students under threat of “termination.” (7)
  • Texas: Round Rock Independent School District provided training that told teachers to keep the gender identity of students a secret from their parents. (8)  
  • Washington: Seattle Public Schools’ School-Based Health Center provider offers students ‘gender-affirming care services’ that include “hormonal treatment.” (9) 
The following Watchdog Program members have already begun to fight the battle in schools in their own areas:
  • Protect Ohio Children Coalition in Ohio, (10) is launching a watchdog program to monitor curriculum in schools. Protect Ohio Children has been receiving hundreds of anonymous tips that are added to its indoctrination heatmap. (11) 
  • Parents on the Level in Georgia is monitoring local schools and providing parents with information on how to fight the gender agenda in public schools. (12) 

SAVE invites lawmakers and voters to join with other Citizen Watchdogs around the country. Vigilance is important because the Gender Agenda has become embedded into the consciousness of thousands of school counselors, teachers, administrators, and others.

Interested persons should send a message to rdt123@verizon.net.  Please indicate your city and state, and your area of concern, such as women’s sports, due process, parental rights, etc. Watchdogs will be invited to participate in the bi-monthly calls of the Title IX Network.
SAVE (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments) is a non-profit organization working for fairness in schools and the protection of family values. The Title IX Network consists of 233 organizational members who are working to stop the new Title IX regulation.
Links:
3.    https://www.saveservices.org/2024/08/save-invites-persons-to-become-local-watchdogs-to-assure-title-ix-compliance/

6.    https://defendinged.org/incidents/scottsdale-unified-school-district-has-gender-support-plan-that-appears-to-be-copied-from-gender-spectrums-template-appears-to-keep-some-parents-in-the-dark-regarding-their-childrens-gender-ident/

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States Pass New Laws to Block the Marxist-Inspired ‘Gender Agenda’

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Robert D. Thompson: 301-801-0608
States Pass New Laws to Block the Marxist-Inspired ‘Gender Agenda’
WASHINGTON / August 19, 2024 – The “Gender Agenda” refers to a Marxist-Inspired effort to re-educate the nation’s youth to believe that one’s sex is fluid and non-binary.  In the words of Shulamith Firestone, ‘the goal of the feminist revolution must be the elimination of the “sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally…The tyranny of the biological family would be broken.” (1)

 

In response, numerous states have enacted new laws designed to protect women’s sports (2), safeguard parental rights (3), ban pronoun mandates (4), and stop gender transitioning of underage youth (5)

During the recent 2024 legislative sessions, the following 11 laws were enacted to thwart the Gender Agenda:

Women’s Sports:
  •  Ohio House Bill 68 – a bill that prevents transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. (6)
  • New Hampshire HB 1205 – a bill protecting participation on female K-12 sports teams based on sex. (7)
Parental Rights:
  • Tennessee SB 2749 – ‘Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act,’ which establishes that “[t]he liberty of a parent to the care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of the child, is a fundamental right.” (8)
Bans on Pronoun Mandates:
 
  • Louisiana House Bill 121 prohibits the use of transgender and nonbinary youths’ chosen names and pronouns in K-12 public schools without parental permission. (9)
  • Tennessee SB 1810 – a bill that requires schools to alert parents if their child has requested to go by a name, or set of pronouns, that differs from their school forms. (10)
  • Idaho House Bill 538, bars teachers from referring to a student by a name or pronoun that doesn’t align with their birth sex, unless parents’ consent. It also broadly enacts protections for public employees, including teachers, who are unwilling to use someone’s preferred name and pronouns. (11)
Stop Gender Transitioning of Underage Youth:
  • Idaho House Bill 668, a bill banning the use of public funding to cover sex-change procedures. (12)
  • Ohio House Bill 68, a bill which blocks gender-affirming care for trans youth. (13)
  • Wyoming bill SF0099, a Children gender change prohibition bill which bans physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment. (14)
  •  South Carolina bill H4624 places a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The law also bars health professionals from performing gender-transition surgeries, prescribing puberty blockers and overseeing hormone treatments for patients under 18. (15)
  • New Hampshire HB 619 – a bill that “ensures that life-altering, irreversible surgeries will not be performed on children.” (16)
At the national level, the Department of Education issued a Title IX regulation in April that redefines sex to include “gender identity”. In response, 10 lawsuits have been filed in various states to stop the new policy. To date, temporary injunctions have been issued that block the implementation of the regulation in 26 states. (17)

 

In addition, SAVE has launched a Citizen Watchdog program designed to engage citizens in local grassroots efforts to monitor school activities. (18)

In support of these developments, SAVE is inviting candidates for political office to sign the “Candidate Pledge to Protect Schools, Children, and Families from the Federal Title IX Plan.”

The Candidate Pledge can be viewed online. (19) To date, 108 lawmakers from 27 states have signed the statement. (20) Candidates can indicate their support for the Pledge by sending a confirmatory email to: rthompson@saveservices.org

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‘Rapist:’ Historic Lawsuit Against Yale University May Strengthen Defamation Claims Against False Accusers

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Robert D. Thompson: 301-801-0608
Email: info@saveservices.org
‘Rapist:’ Historic Lawsuit Against Yale University May Strengthen Defamation Claims Against False Accusers

WASHINGTON / August 14, 2024 – False allegations have become a major problem in the United States (1).  A national survey revealed that 10% of Americans report they have been falsely accused of abuse. The representative survey found 13% of males and 8% of females had been targeted by a false allegation of domestic abuse during their lifetimes. (2)

In 2015, Yale University student Saifullah Khan was accused of rape by Jane Doe. News of the accusation became public knowledge, triggering fevered calls for his immediate removal from the campus. The case was then brought to criminal court, where he was eventually acquitted of sexual assault.

But inexplicably, Khan was later found responsible for sexual misconduct under Yale’s flawed Title IX proceedings. The man was expelled from Yale in 2019. These contradictory decisions prompted him to sue both Yale and Jane Doe for $110 million for wrongful defamation. (3)

Typically, witnesses in criminal cases are afforded immunity from defamation lawsuits over what they say during the proceedings. But the Connecticut Supreme Court determined that Yale’s campus disciplinary process did not offer the same protections as a criminal process, that it was not “quasi-judicial.” (4) So the Court allowed Khan to move forward with his defamation complaint against Jane Doe.

In addition to his lawsuit against Yale and false accuser Doe, Khan filed another defamation complaint in May 2024. He is suing attorney Jennifer Becker and 15 advocacy organizations concerning their amicus brief to the Connecticut Supreme Court that labeled him a “rapist,” even though he had already been cleared of the heinous charges in a criminal court. His lawsuit charged the groups with “defamation, false light, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and abuse of process action.” (5) The damage to his good name and reputation had been done, and the harmful amicus brief still remains on the Internet. (6)

Feminist activists apparently believe they should be able to make accusations of “rape” or “sexual assault” in bad faith and not face legal consequences, even after the accused person is found innocent in a court of law. Defamation lawsuits are one of our nation’s strongest protections against false allegations of a heinous crime.

The outcome of the Connecticut lawsuits will be closely watched by criminal defense attorneys and falsely accused persons around the country.

Links:

1)    https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/false-accusations-and-abuse-claims.html

 2)    https://endtodv.org/2023/02/27/survey-one-in-10-falsely-accused-of-abuse-women-usually-the-accusers-men-most-often-the-targets/

3)     https://www.chronicle.com/article/talking-about-campus-sexual-assault-could-get-you-in-trouble-a-long-running-legal-fight-shows-how

4)      https://www.chronicle.com/article/2-former-students-face-defamation-lawsuits-for-talking-about-sexual-assault

5)    https://www.thecollegefix.com/acquitted-former-student-sues-15-groups-for-defamation-after-they-called-him-a-rapist/

6)      https://www.chronicle.com/article/talking-about-campus-sexual-assault-could-get-you-in-trouble-a-long-running-legal-fight-shows-how

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SAVE Invites Persons to Become Local Watchdogs to Assure Title IX Compliance

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Robert D. Thompson: 301-801-0608

SAVE Invites Persons to Become Local Watchdogs to Assure Title IX Compliance

WASHINGTON / August 5, 2024 – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) today is announcing a new Citizen Watchdog initiative to assure Title IX compliance in 26 states in which judges have ruled against the Biden Administration’s controversial Title IX regulation, and to push back against the Gender Agenda in the other 24 states. (1) 

Over the last two months, federal judges issued a series of strongly worded rulings that blocked the implementation of the Title IX regulation, which redefines sex to include “gender identity.” The judicial decisions currently apply to 26 states around the country: LA, MS, MT, ID, TN, KY, OH, IN, VA, WV, KS, AK, UT, WY, TX. AR, MO, IA, NE, ND, SD, AL, OK, FL, GA and SC. (2) 

In addition, the Kansas ruling exempts over 2,000 schools from the Title IX regulation. (3)  Here is the list of Schools. (4)

On August 1, 2024, the controversial Title IX regulation went into effect in the 24 states not covered by the judicial decisions.  The Department of Education released a statement claiming the new regulation is designed to “ensure that Title IX promotes educational equity and opportunity for all.”  This statement is disingenuous because the new regulation actually serves to remove fundamental civil rights from women competing in athletic events, from students who wish to exercise their free speech rights, and from falsely accused male students who expect to enjoy 14th Amendment due process protections.

While the injunctions handed down against the Title IX rule have been encouraging, some schools are expected to attempt to sidestep the decisions. For example, schools in the 26 states may claim to be following the letter of the law, but individual teachers or counselors may continue their efforts to indoctrinate vulnerable students into Gender Ideology, while school administrators turn a blind eye.

A recent report from the Heritage Foundation reveals that schools in over 1,000 districts are allowed to hide a child’s gender identity from the child’s parents. (5) 

Aaron Lacey, a partner at Thompson Coburn, recently claimed said institutions affected by the injunctions could choose to adopt only certain elements of the new Title IX rule, as long as they remain in compliance with the 2020 Title IX regulation – an approach that could be described as a “disruptive nightmare.” (6) 

In response, SAVE is in the process of identifying hundreds of Citizen Watchdogs around the country who are willing to monitor their schools to assure compliance with the judicial decisions and counter the Gender Agenda. (7) 

If a Citizen Watchdog discovers non-compliance in their local school(s), they should take steps to stop the problem. These approaches include:

  1. Meet with the school principal and/or education superintendent
  2. Speak out at meetings of the local school board
  3. Refer the non-compliance to the state Attorney General office.    

To volunteer for the Watchdog program, persons should send a message to Watchdog@saveservices.org. Please indicate your city and state, and your area of concern, such as women’s sports, due process, etc. To learn about the Citizen Watchdog program, visit: https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/network/  

The Title IX Network consists of 233 organizational members who are working to stop the new Title IX regulation and end the gender agenda.

Links:

1    https://www.saveservices.org/2022-Policy/
2.   https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/abolish-doe/
3.   https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/KansasStateofetalvUnitedStatesDepartmentofEducationetalDocketNo52?doc_id=X7VSH1UVO6B9K1AAI088P6TS9IF
4.  Following is the list of Schools: https://www.scag.gov/media/pskl4phx/ks-v-u-s-dept-of-education-list-of-schools-enjoined.pdf
5.   https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/public-school-gender-policies-exclude-parents-are-unconstitutional
6.   https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2024/07/17/title-ix-rule-hold-more-670-colleges
7.   https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/network/

 

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Continued String of Legal Victories Over Deceptive Title IX Rule

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Robert D. Thompson: 301-801-0608
 

Continued String of Legal Victories Over Deceptive Title IX Rule 

WASHINGTON / July 24, 2024 – On April 19 of this year, the Biden Department of Education issued its final Title IX rule that expanded the meaning of sex to include “gender identity.” (1) While the new regulation promised to bring new protections to LGBTQ students, in fact it infringed on parental rights, eviscerated fairness from female athletics, violated Congressional prerogatives, and sidelined constitutional due process guarantees. 

Literally within days, state Attorneys General and others began to file lawsuits seeking to overturn the policy (2).  To date, 10 lawsuits have been filed, including a complaint filed just last week by the Washington Parents Network. (3)
 
Thus far, judges have issued rulings on five cases. Remarkably, every one of decisions imposed a temporary injunction for their respective states on the “arbitrary and capricious” Title IX rule:
  • June 13: Judge Terry Doughty for the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho (4).
  • June 17: Judge Danny Reeves for Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia (5).
  • July 2: Judge John Broomes for Kansas, Alabama, Utah, and Wyoming, plus all schools attended by the children of Moms for Liberty and by members of the Young America’s Foundation (6). A listing of the affected schools is available online. (7)
  • July 11: Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk for the state of Texas. In addition, the judge noted he is considering extending his injunction to all 50 states in the nation (8).
  • July 11: Judge Reed O’Connor for the Carroll Independent School District in Texas (9).
For two of these decisions, the Department of Education filed an appeal. In both cases, the appellate courts promptly denied the request:
  • July 17:  District Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit (10)
  • July 17: District Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. (11)
Seldom in American jurisprudence have a series of federal courts acted so swiftly and so decisively to overturn a new Executive Branch regulation. 
With the August 1, 2024, deadline fast approaching before the Biden administration’s new Title IX Final Rule takes effect, additional court decisions are expected to be issued soon.

As these lawsuits continue to be litigated, the 232 organizational members of the Title IX Network will continue to monitor the situation and take appropriate action (12). Interested organizations that wish to join the Title IX Network should contact Robert D. Thompson at rthompson@saveservices.org

Links:

1.   https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/29/2024-07915/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal

2.  https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/abolish-doe/

 
 
 
 

11.    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.219883/gov.uscourts.ca5.219883.73.1.pdf

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52 Organizations Call on Speaker Mike Johnson to Establish House Task Force to End Weaponization of the Department of Education

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Contact: Rebecca Hain
Telephone: 513-479-3335
Email: info@saveservices.org 

52 Organizations Call on Speaker Mike Johnson to Establish House Task Force to End the Weaponization of the Department of Education

WASHINGTON / May 16, 2024 – Members of the Title IX Network are releasing a letter [1] today calling for Speaker Mike Johnson to establish a House task force to end the weaponization of the Department of Education.  

On May 9, representatives from several organizations of the Title IX Network [2] held meetings with Congressional staffers of 18 Members of the House of Representatives. The purpose of the meetings was to recommend the establishment of a Task Force of key House Members to confer on strategies to end the weaponization of the Department of Education.  
The American people are taking a stand concerning the Administration’s new Title IX regulation as evidenced by the growing number of state lawsuits. [3], [4], [5], [6]. Specifically,
  • Eight lawsuits from 22 states have been filed in federal courts to block the regulation. [7]
  • On Tuesday the eight lawsuit was filed by the Attorneys Generals from Kansas, Wyoming, Utah and Alaska [8]
  • Impressively, one of the lawsuits features 17 school districts in Louisiana as plaintiffs. [9]
  • Numerous states already have declared they will not follow the new policy, including AR, FL, LA, NE, OK, and SC. [10]
The Heritage Foundation’s proposal for the Department of Education in its Mandate for Leadership 2025 has a chapter (Chapter 11) on how to reform the Department of Education: [11]  
The Heritage Foundation proposal would:
  • Make Block grants for selected functions to the state
  • Transfer selected functions to the Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, etc.
  • Discontinue the other functions
In response to the Biden administration’s Title IX regulation, SAVE has set up a Candidate Pledge to Protect Schools, Children, and Families from the Federal Title IX Plan. We encourage you to sign the Candidate Pledge. [12] If interested, contact Bob Thompson at rthompson@saveservices.org.
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52 Organizations Call on Speaker Mike Johnson to Establish House Task Force to End the Weaponization of the Department of Education

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Contact: Rebecca Hain
Telephone: 513-479-3335
Email: info@saveservices.org 

52 Organizations Call on Speaker Mike Johnson to Establish House Task Force to End the Weaponization of the Department of Education

WASHINGTON / May 16, 2024 – Members of the Title IX Network are releasing a letter [1] today calling for Speaker Mike Johnson to establish a House task force to end the weaponization of the Department of Education.  

On May 9, representatives from several organizations of the Title IX Network [2] held meetings with Congressional staffers of 18 Members of the House of Representatives. The purpose of the meetings was to recommend the establishment of a Task Force of key House Members to confer on strategies to end the weaponization of the Department of Education. 

This opposition seen not only in the U.S. Congress, but the overall response from the American public has been highly negative. [3], [4],[5],[6] Specifically, 
  • Eight lawsuits from 22 states have been filed in federal courts to block the regulation. [7]
  • On Tuesday the eight lawsuit was filed by the Attorneys Generals from Kansas, Wyoming, Utah and Alaska [8]
  • Impressively, one of the lawsuits features 17 school districts in Louisiana as plaintiffs. [9]
  • Numerous states already have declared they will not follow the new policy, including AR, FL, LA, NE, OK, and SC. [10]

The Heritage Foundation’s proposal for the Department of Education in its Mandate for Leadership 2025 has a chapter (Chapter 11) on how to reform the Department of Education: [11]  

The Heritage Foundation proposal would: 
  • Make Block grants for selected functions to the states
  • Transfer selected functions to the Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, etc.
  • Discontinue the other functions

In response to the Biden administration’s Title IX regulation, SAVE has set up a Candidate Pledge to Protect Schools, Children, and Families from the Federal Title IX Plan. We encourage you to sign the Candidate Pledge. [12] If interested, contact Bob Thompson at rthompson@saveservices.org

American’s will not allow the Department of Education to continue to weaponize its Congressional mandate for partisan or ideological purposes.
 
Links:

3.    https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/opinion/bidens-new-title-ix-rules-prove-its-time-for-the-doe-to-be-doa/

4.    https://www.newsweek.com/biden-admin-weaponizing-title-ix-promote-fringe-sexual-politics-opinion-1894635

5.      https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/14/from-title-ix-to-title-none-biden-kills-womens-sports-and-safety/ 

8.    https://www.saveservices.org/2022-policy/abolish-doe/

9.   https://attorneygenerallynnfitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/File-Stamped-Louisiana-v.-U.S.-Dept-of-Education-Title-IX.pdf

11.  https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-11.pdf

 

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Females Tend to be Risk-Adverse. Is This Why Women Often Support Totalitarian Policies?

Females Tend to be Risk-Adverse. Is This Why Women Often Support Totalitarian Policies?

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April 3, 2024

Dozens of studies over the last 30 years have consistently found that women are more risk-averse than men. These are three of many examples:

Daring Differently: Gender Differences in Risk-Taking Behavior, NeuroScience News (May 2023):

“The research reveals women are more averse to risk than men due to heightened sensitivity to potential losses. Conversely, men, exhibiting greater optimism, are more willing to engage in risk-taking.”

Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy, Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking, J. Economics, Behavior & Organizations (June 2012):

“Are men more willing to take financial risks than women?…We find a very consistent result that women invest less, and thus appear to be more financially risk averse than men.”

Chris Dawson, Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk, British J. of Pyschology (June 9, 2023):

“Systematic differences in the attitudes of men and women towards risk is well established.  … Exploiting large-scale panel data from the United Kingdom, we find that gender differences in financial optimism and financial loss aversion – the stronger psychological response to monetary losses than monetary gains – explain a substantial proportion of the parallel gender difference in willingness to take risks.”

These proclivities are reflected in sex-specific differences regarding attitudes towards censorship and free speech, as well as compliance with COVID mandates.

Censorship and Free Speech

Cory Clark, The Gender Gap in Censorship Support: Research Suggests Women Favor Inclusivity over Academic Freedom. Psychology Today (April 28, 2021). “Two recent studies of online adults revealed that women were more censorious than men.”

Knight Foundation, Free Expression on College Campuses, (May 2019). A 2019 survey found that 59% of women said protecting free speech was less important than promoting an inclusive society, while 71% of men believed the opposite.

COVID Mandates

Virginia Commonwealth University, Poll: Majority of Virginians Support Mask Mandates, (September 27, 2021): “Female respondents were more supportive of a mask mandate than male respondents (62% to 51%).”

MedScape, Men and Women Differ on Masks During, After COVID-19: Survey, (April 6, 2021): “A much higher percentage of women plan to wear a mask because of COVID-19 as long as public health experts such as those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend it — 73%, compared with 63% of men.”

PBS Wisconsin, (November 30, 2021):  “What’s causing a gender gap in Wisconsin’s covid vaccinations?  More women are getting COVID-19 vaccinations than men around the state, and factors like age, job, politics and attitude toward health care each play a role in this persistent phenomenon.”

Attitudes Towards Totalitarian Governments

More provocative are analyzes of women’s support for totalitarian governments that promised “safety” to its citizens.

The Holocaust Encyclopedia’s account of “The Nazi Rise to Power” reveals that the years leading up to Hitler’s election in 1932-33 were a period of widespread violence in Germany as paramilitary organizations aligned with different political factions, especially the Communists and the Nazis, fought in the streets. Indeed, it is well documented that fear of a Communist takeover prompted the more establishment political parties, especially the center-right Christian Democratic Party, to suppress their strong distaste for the Nazis and form a government with them as the least-worst alternative to a Communist takeover.

A documentary that recently aired on the American Heroes Channel chronicled how Hitler’s rise to power relied heavily on the support of women.

Richard J. Evans (German Women and the Triumph of Hitler, 48 J. Mod. Hist. 123 (1976)) once noted, ‘It was the women’s vote’, remarked Hermann Rauschning in 1939, ‘that brought Hitler to triumph.’  Like Rauschning, many commentators have seen a connection between the achievement of the vote for women in 1918 and the victories of the Nazis at the polls in 1932.

Scholars have struggled for years to explain why women supported the Nazis in such high numbers. Richard Evans recounts,

“Yet this connection has also struck observers as paradoxical. The Weimar Republic is popularly regarded as the heyday of the emancipated woman. Many social groups had good reason to be anxious and resentful in Germany between 1918 and 1933, but the female half of the population, newly equipped with the vote and reveling in the new atmosphere of sexual liberation and constitutionally guaranteed equality, was surely not among them. All the more remarkable, then, that it should vote in such numbers for the Republic’s demise. The paradox, however, is deeper still than this. For the Nazi party was undoubtedly a dedicated opponent of female emancipation, the ultimate in male chauvinism, firmly committed to a view of women as inferior beings whose main task in life was to bear children and look after the home. Thus the emancipated women of Weimar Germany, it seems, voted quite happily in 1932-3 for their own enslavement. Here, then is a paradox; a paradox, moreover, of very considerable significance, especially in view of the fact that women formed the majority of the German electorate in the years in question.”

In the face of this widespread violence and unrest, could the risk aversion of German women have contributed to their strong support for Hitler?

More recently, Jordan Peterson commented on the expanded participation of females in the political sphere and the potential rise of totalitarianism. In the name of curbing online harassment, feminist groups such as UN Women are now supporting policies to rein in free speech in Germany, the United States, New Zealand, Scotland, and elsewhere around the world.