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by Guy Page
A Vermont school district is under federal investigation amid allegations that its policies discriminate against girls by allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced Wednesday that it has opened a Title IX investigation into the Champlain Valley School District (CVSD), which serves Hinesburg, Shelburne, Williston, Charlotte and surrounding communities. CVSD is one of eighteen educational entities in ten states facing similar investigations.
According to OCR, the complaints allege that CVSD and the other entities violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by permitting students to participate in athletic programs based on gender identity rather than biological sex. Federal officials argue that such policies discriminate on the basis of sex and deny girls equal opportunities in education, particularly in competitive sports.
“These policies jeopardize both the safety and the equal opportunities of women in educational programs and activities,” OCR said in a statement announcing the investigations.
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said the investigations come as the U.S. Supreme Court considers cases related to the scope of Title IX. “Violations of women’s rights, dignity, and fairness are unacceptable,” Richey said. “We will leave no stone unturned in these investigations to uphold women’s right to equal access in education programs.”
CVSD was cited for following Vermont state policy that allows students to access sports teams, restrooms, and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.
In a message to parents, CVSD Superintendent Adam Bunting acknowledged the investigation and defended the district’s approach. Bunting said the district remains committed to honoring the identities of all students and supporting every learner. He noted that CVSD will prepare an official response to OCR in the coming days.
Critics of the policy argue that allowing males to compete in girls’ sports undermines the intent of Title IX, which was enacted to ensure fair and equal athletic opportunities for women and girls. Supporters contend the policies are necessary to protect transgender students from discrimination.
Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. OCR has not indicated a timeline for completing its investigation or whether enforcement action will follow.
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CVU sure has come a long way from the days when the mascot was “the Crusaders”
and a large painted mural adorned the gym wall depicting a knight on a horse with a shield emblazoned with a Cross. There have been sex/gender segregated spaces and activities since the dawn of civilization, mostly with the intent of promoting comfort and safety for women/females. Now that gender and sex are apparently different things, the reason and purpose for those segregated private spaces and sporting activities has not changed, and should still be based on ANATOMY, not psychology. “Identity” and gender expression are protected by the Bill of Rights but not to the extent that they encroach on the societal standards put in place for the common decency, safety and security of women in private spaces and sports (and prisons).
If “the district remains committed to honoring the identities of all students and supporting every learner” then why would they put in place policies which cause a majority of biological females to fear or avoid using the bathrooms or locker rooms because of fear of assault and gawking. Please keep it up, moonbats, and see what you are (thankfully) doing to destroy your democrat party.
Justice Alito nailed it when he asked an attorney representing a biological male student in the case of Little v. Hecox:
‘How can a Court determine whether there’s discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?’
So please finally, Vermont has come under the microscope of so many woke, decisions, that place this state’s educational functions in less than favorable conditions. Maybe real school choice for can be next?
I do remember my sister fighting for gym time, over the boys monopolizing gym time. In a high local high school. Title nine changed that.
Then as a player for UVM, I can’t imagine her playing with biological males. Luckily she didn’t have to back then…
And so it begins. I doubt that CVSD is the only school going to be investigated for violating title IX? If Vermont public schools are still teaching dei, then they are all teaching racism—producing activists for Marxism ideology, climate change, gun control and gender ideologies that do support violating Title IX—then I hope this is only the beginning. It’s the governor’s fault and the dems for ignoring this and now it’s coming back to bite them you know where. Oh yeh, Pam Bondi, please look into fraud and abuse in the way property tax funds and how they are being handled. Thank you.
If you use the same logic as supporters of transgender boys competing in girls sports, then by rights, they MUST do away with special Olympics and specialized teams for people with physical disabilities. No, we have separate events for people with different physical abilities. Your political viewpoint is not a criteria for which league you play in.
Why not create a separate league for transgender people to compete in?
This is great news.
Wondering if the Missisquoi School district will be under fire concerning the recent remodeling of their bathrooms, as girls are not safe in that situation as well.
Didn’t that black SCOTUS judge when asked “What is a woman” she couldn’t answer and was dumbfounded. Maybe she might know the difference between a four legged and a two legged life form was. Maybe the ability to count helps.
we wouldn’t expect anything different in the Democratic worthless state of Vermont. If there is a rule to be broken, they will try to break it. There’s only two genders. And If you modify your gender that does not mean that you’re a different sex. You’re still the gender that you were born. The rest of it is a sickness. Mentally sick does not qualify you to play in the opposite sex sports. Schools that allow this should be closed immediately, and the principal Should be fired!
There is a separate transgender league or class at least in the Olympics. But nobody wants to be in it because it’s labeled transgender and they swim against each other and not women. Leah Thomas didn’t want to be in that class so wasn’t in the Olympics.
Sorry that was Lia Thomas and not Leah.
Thankfully, the Feds are investigating at least one Vermont public school for forcing girls to play sports against boys and forcing girls to allow boys in their locker rooms and restrooms. Finally, a higher power (the Federal government) is imposing sanity back upon Vermont!
To claim that a boy can be a girl (or that a girl can be a boy) is pure fantasy. Theater. Make-believe. Underwritten by medical and mental-health professionals as well as lawyers who are all riding this circus show because it makes (them) money.
But it’s worse than a traditional theater performance, where the theater producers and audience know it’s not real. The folks in this show all pretend that their play is “reality.” They create “victims” and then gush forth faux compassion and empathy towards the victims they create. And they claim abject moral superiority over anyone who points out that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes. Meanwhile, the victims they create aren’t given proper treatment for their illnesses.
Thank you, thank you, Sec. McMahon and your Office of Civil Rights.
If a boy is on a girls team, and the girls get tired of it and gang up and beat the snot out of him, we all know who would be severely punished. Sometimes a well placed kick will remind someone of their true gender.
The consequences of the “well placed kick” will be determined by “sex determined at birth” or simple anatomy and not by gender expression, no matter the opinions of some woke or confused judge.
What do the girls say they want in Burlington? Do girls who identify as boys play on boys teams?
Well, this is a step in the right direction. If a person is going by gender identity instead of who they are biologically then yes, I don’t think that it is fair that men play on woman’s teams and the same goes for woman playing on men’s team. It should go by what sex they are at birth. Men are so much stronger than woman and by allowing them to be allowed in by who the identify by, then that is not fair competition at all.