Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, on Wednesday made clear there was no shot the state would undertake the Biden administration’s Title IX adjustments.
Fallon made his remarks on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich,” expressing his overwhelming help for Gov. Greg Abbott’s resolution to forgo the adjustments.
Abbott, in a letter despatched to the White Home Monday, rebuked the Biden administration’s growth of Title IX protections to safeguard “gender identification.”
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“Girls’s sports activities, prepared, look ahead to it — in Texas, we preserve issues easy — are for ladies. And if you happen to’re a dude, and also you wish to fake you’re a lady, once more, free nation, knock your self out on the sidewalk, however you’re not going to affix ladies’s sports activities groups.
“We’re not going to topic these ladies to having you modify, with all of your nakedness, and violate their privateness, their proper to privateness. And the way ‘bout this? Their proper to compete.”
Whereas the administration’s new guidelines broadly defend towards discrimination primarily based on intercourse, they don’t provide steerage for transgender athletes, however many Republican-led states argue that they may very well be interpreted that manner.
Texas just isn’t alone in oppsing the Title IX updates. State officers from Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia and elsewhere have expressed intentions to legally problem the federal authorities about enacting the protections.
Fox Information’ Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.