The leader of the anti-school choice movement in Arizona is under attack for her attack of a group of grandmothers, who oppose the Biden administration’s controversial proposed rule that would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to Title IX.
Beth Lewis of the anti-school choice group, “Save Our Schools” criticized three grandmothers who visited with Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne to share their concern that new federal Title IX guidelines would allow biological boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.
Horne, in response, blasted Lewis for her “reckless” attack on the grandmas, saying she owes her membership an explanation for the attack.
Horne challenged Lewis’ position on the subject, claiming it “jeopardized the safety of children.”
“These changes to Title IX regulations are outrageous since they allow biological boys to expose themselves to girls in bathrooms and locker rooms and invade the girls’ privacy,” stated Horne. “They will also cause unbelievable management challenges for campus administrators, teachers and coaches that will make their jobs much more difficult.”
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“Beth Lewis mocked three grandmothers who visited with me last week and posted on X, asking, ‘Why do Tom Horne and these Grandmas care who my kids are sharing a bathroom with?’ Lewis’ position is astonishingly reckless toward the safety of vulnerable school children,” said Horne. “I can assure her that there are countless parents and grandparents who are justifiably concerned about this because of the serious danger it poses to girls.”
“Lewis owes her membership an explanation for this,” argued Horne. “These changes to Title IX regulations are outrageous since they allow biological boys to expose themselves to girls in bathrooms and locker rooms and invade the girls’ privacy. They will also cause unbelievable management challenges for campus administrators, teachers and coaches that will make their jobs much more difficult. Further, there will also be damage to public education parents as remove their daughters from schools that allow this.”
Horne also noted that the federal court in the ongoing Louisiana v. USDOE, described the impact of the new Title IX regulations stated: “Tennessee, for example, tendered a comment identifying numerous instances of males attacking females in public restrooms that were designated for females only. In Tennessee’s view, the new rules would further enable such conduct…” In intimate spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms, Students retain “a significant privacy interest in their unclothed bodies. This necessarily includes “the right to shield one’s body from exposure to viewing by the opposite sex.” Id. After all, in the words of former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the integration of an all-male military institution “would undoubtedly require alterations necessary to afford members of each sex privacy from the other sex in living arrangements.”
“The courts see the tragedies that have already occurred because of policies such as the new Title IX regulations. Beth Lewis and SOS have no excuse for not understanding that as well,” Horne concluded.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request by the Biden administration to vacate injunctions of the controversial proposed Title IX rule.
The Court’s ruling prevents implementation of the new rule in 26 states until the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals takes up the case in October.
