https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/25/biden-admin-k-12-schools-must-put-boys-in-girls-bathrooms-to-get-federal-lunch-money/

K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration’s press releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June.

“It seems to be playing politics with feeding poor kids, which is really unfortunate,” John Elcesser, executive director of the Indiana Non-Public Education Association, said via phone amid weeks of attempting to sort out these new demands with government officials on behalf of private schools in his state. “Because if a school feels like they cannot participate because it’s in conflict with their mission or values, if a religious exemption is not granted, you’re taking away a program that’s feeding low-income kids.”

Before many schools shut down in response to Covid-19, the National School Lunch Program fed nearly 30 million kids every school day, in approximately 100,000 public and private schools and residential care facilities.

Under this new demand, establishments that accept any federal food funding, including food stamps, must also allow males who claim to be female to access female private spaces, such as showers, bathrooms, and sleeping areas. Such organizations must also follow protocols such as requiring staff to use inaccurate pronouns to describe transgender people and allowing male staff to dress as women while on the job.

Religious institutions, however, qualify for a waiver exempting them from these requirements, said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Greg Baylor in an interview Monday. According to the 1972 Title IX law, he said, religious institutions don’t have to file any paperwork to be exempt, although they can if they wish.

Baylor noted, however, that publicly affirming a commitment to sexual reality by seeking an exemption acknowledgment from federal agencies may assist extremist pressure campaigns. The activist group Human Rights Campaign’s blueprint for the Biden administration pushed for narrowing religious exemptions for multiple federal regulations and for the administration to “out” individuals and institutions who request such exemptions.

The Biden administration appears to be following that blueprint closely. According to Elcesser, USDA officials are telling schools to file paperwork to be exempt, although the Title IX law says that’s an option but not required. The USDA confirmed that to The Federalist Tuesday with this emailed statement: “Organizations may request a religious exemption by submitting a written declaration to the Secretary of Agriculture identifying the provisions that conflict with a specific tenet of the religious organization.”

Government schools can receive no exemption. At best, parents and taxpayers can urge school districts to not comply while inevitable lawsuits over the Biden administration’s interpretation work through courts for years.

“The Biden administration is grossly extending the Bostock holding where it does not belong. Like many of the Biden administration’s power grabs, this imposition transgresses areas of proper state and local authority. As the principal guardians of federalism, state attorneys general have the ability to combat such overreach where it injures state functions,” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, told The Federalist in a statement.

Even if this regulation is ultimately overturned by one means or another, millions of American children will be forced to eat their school lunches with a side of sexual politics.

“There is a lot of harm that comes from inflicting this interpretation of Title IX on public schools and private schools that are not eligible for the exemption,” Baylor said. In Loudoun County, Virginia, in 2021, a young woman was sexually assaulted in a school bathroom by a young man granted access by the district’s transgender policies.

Parents have told The Federalist that their daughters no longer use the bathrooms or locker rooms at their public schools because they don’t feel safe there. Many parents are finding after the fact that school districts are helping their children live as the opposite sex and hide that from their families.

“Some percentage of school districts want to be told by the federal government that they have to implement gender ideology,” Baylor observed. “If anyone complains, they can say, ‘We’re just doing what they told us. Go blame Joe Biden, not me.'”

As Biden promised to do while campaigning, his administration is pushing sexual confusion on as many institutions as it can. This aim has gotten a huge boost from the 2020 Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County, an unconstitutional ruling that gives this extremist sexual agenda a legal fig leaf. That 5-4 decision clinched by President Donald Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch, however, concerned sex differences not in education but employment.

While the majority opinion said Bostock only applied to Title VII, or employment law, it provided the rationale and excuse to extend this reasoning elsewhere. And the Biden administration’s press releases are ignoring the ruling’s claimed limits to apply it to other areas of federal code, particularly education’s Title IX, as many predicted.

Not only is the Biden administration’s use of federal food subsidies to impose sexual politics legally suspect in substance, it’s also legally suspect procedurally, Baylor said. That’s because press releases are not legally enforceable. Only federal regulations that have followed proper legal procedures are.

That hasn’t happened yet with this Biden administration demand, although the USED spokesman said the proposed regulation will be issued in June. Yet even after the regulation is issued, federal agencies are required to accept public comments for several months, then they must spend several more months reviewing all comments and responding, then writing and issuing a final regulation, which then can — and will be, Baylor said — challenged in court.

“When they do things some other way, just by some regulatory guidance or a press release or a memo, that in itself can be a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and that’s precisely what we’ve argued in some of the cases we’ve filed on this issue,” Baylor said. “…We think they’re making shortcuts and we’ve challenged that in court.”

So it appears with this demand, just like with the Biden administration’s so-called vaccine mandate, the administration is slow-walking the legal procedures required. That delays inevitable lawsuits, which themselves take years to work out. This process effectively imposes unpopular, extremist gender policies extra-legally, through fiat and intimidation. Meanwhile, many elected officials can and do sit on their hands and claim it’s the courts’ job to solve what they can end immediately through legislative action.

Given that Biden holds the presidency for more than two more years, all this means that American children who don’t attend Christian schools will be subject to social chaos at school for a long time, atop lockdowns that have already deeply damaged their learning trajectories. Remedies include withdrawing children from public schools, school boards refusing to follow regulations that are not legally binding until all court challenges are resolved, schools refusing to accept federal funding that comes at such a high cost, and state legislatures and Congress passing new laws to limit and undo the disastrous Bostock decision.

“The uncertainty is really unfortunate, and what we need are courageous parents who share their views with school administrators and school boards. We need courageous school administrators and school boards to do the right thing and push back on this interpretation of Title IX, because there are real harms to kids as a consequence,” Baylor said.

Democrats are pedophiles and child sex abusers.

WTF

FJB

Perv In Chief strikes again.

FPNI again

Good. Make those soccer moms votes really hurt.

Bend the knee……or else

Define “private area.”

By the time it took to write that, leftists would have filed 2000 lawsuits and had two dozen federal judges ready to issue a restraining order.

Whatever, just don't be surprised when my daughter carries a knife.

Hope all schools reject that and aren't granted an exemption...



...think of the savings

"Before many schools shut down in response to Covid-19, the National School Lunch Program fed nearly 30 million kids every school day....."

That's almost 10% of the entire population of the US getting a "free meal" 5+ days a week.  Why can't parents feed their own kids, or if you can't afford to feed 'em, don't have 'em!  It's no wonder the fedgov seized over $65k of my income last year....they need it to give free food to kids so their parents don't have to be accountable for their spawn.

This country is so screwed.  

Subsidizing lunch for 30,000,000 kids isn't assistance, that's a lifestyle.  

Imagine if schools refused to comply, and not only decreased sexual assaults in the girls room, but also drove off those students who's families choose to do the free-lunch life-style.  As a parent of the kids left in that school, that sounds... super aweful....  right?

Kids better not take two juices.

Shameful and embarrassing.


This will necessarily result in an increase in school violence, and it probably should. You know the perverts are going to do pervert shit in the girl's room, and the administration won't punish the freaks for it.

this thread would get more reads if you put some information like

More Biden crap-schools with fed lunch funding must let boys into girls bathrooms

Tell her if she ever gets to use it, to cut off his wee-wee and flush it down the shitter

Remember when democrats sued President Trump for anything he tried to do…yeah I don’t see the republicans doing that to this crook…what gives? (Don’t answer…I already know)

Arrest them

FJB

Everybody doesn’t need to reproduce.

I only see this "news" in sources I don't recognize.

Don't send your kids to government schools.  /thread.

But my Tacoma and boat!

are you trying to dispute the article?

from thefederalist?

especially when you didn't read the article, and see the link to a usda.gov article?

https://www.fns.usda.gov/news-item/usda-0100.22

since you quoted "news" I guess you are. so, are you outing yourself?

Those stats are a bit misleading.  The food schools serve these days is f’n terrible and the vast majority of it goes straight in the trash when lunch period is over.  This is just another way for .gov to claim its helping feed hungry kids but it’s just a way for schools to charge the Fed government (aka taxpayers) $5 for something that costs them $1.  If you doubt this, go “eat lunch” in the school cafe once or twice with your kid/niece/nephew/etc.

You expect the NYT or USA Today to put it on the front page (or any page for that matter)?

Glad we got our kids out of public school.

Evil bastards! If messing with mens daughters isn’t enough to rally everyone to end this shit, nothing will.

+1

Reject the modern world, not because it is modern, but because it is evil.

I just checked and we spend 14.2 billion dollars feeding children at schools even during summer break.

HEY,hey,hey.......listen to me, NOBODY IS GROOMING YOUR CHILD

Nobody

Nobody at all

bigot

This is how the 'Rats destroyed federalism and the founding principles of our country.  Take money from the citizens. steal what you want, and return the leftovers to the people with strings attached.  The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The timing of this and Kevin Stitt signing the bathroom law are impeccable.

Quoted for truth.

dissolve
the
union

DemonicRat agenda on display for all to see...

You either support this perversion or reject with your vote.

So what does that tell us when 50% of the voters support this evil (and abortion on demand, even post-birth abortion)?

Dark days indeed.

Honk Honk

This.  Democrats making most people into a dependent serf class either by taxing you into it or by handing out the welfare.

Oswald we need you now more than ever.

Totaly makes sense since I was told by these people in charge I must receive (mandatory medical experiment) vaccine in order to work.

The plan is to hold federal lunch bux hostage unless schools agree to promote faggy agendas?

Why do I pay thousands per year in school taxes and don't even have kids?

Less Oswalds, more McVeighs.

I'll believe it when the FL papers pick it up.  Even then, I still will have a Doubting Thomas outlook on media articles.