WASHINGTON, D.C. – Independent Women’s Law Center, in coordination with Concerned Women for America and Women’s Declaration International USA, has continued its legal effort to save Title IX and protect women and girls’ spaces and sports by filing amicus briefs in the Fifth, Sixth, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals.
IWLC argues that the Biden-Harris administration’s Title IX rewrite, which took effect on August 1, will strip away both opportunities and privacy for girls, notably by forcing girls to not only undress but also shower alongside males in the same locker room. The briefs highlight the story of Independent Women’s Forum ambassador and former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan, who was forced to change with teammate Lia Thomas, a biological male, 18 times per week.
IWLC argues that “[r]equiring male access to female locker rooms harms women in violation of Title IX” and that the Department of Education’s “[f]inal [r]ule unlawfully threatens women’s sports beyond the locker room.”
In the briefs, the organizations write that the Education Department “wishes to require gender identity-based access to women’s spaces in federally funded education programs. It lacks the statutory authority to do so. And for good reason.”
“The only thing more concerning about the Biden-Harris administration’s desire to eliminate the reality of male and female is the administration’s use of Title IX to do it,” said May Mailman, director of Independent Women’s Law Center. “This law was intended to equalize opportunities for women, not by pretending we didn’t exist, but by explicitly affording us equal rights. The Biden-Harris bureaucrats want to infuse gender ideology throughout our education system, but cannot do so democratically. Independent Women’s Law Center will stand up for women and against lawless administrative power.”
Independent Women’s Law Center is continuing its efforts at both the state and federal level:
- The Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC) and Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) filed an amicus curiae brief on October 15 to the Minnesota Supreme Court in support of USA Powerlifting’s common-sense decision not to allow men to compete in women’s powerlifting, in a case with major implications for the future of women’s sports. IWF and Payton McNabb, an ambassador for IWF, joined forces with UMLC to argue that allowing male athletes to compete in women’s sports would undermine the achievements of female athletes and endanger their safety. Read more here.
- Independent Women’s Law Center (IWLC) filed a brief on October 15 in the Supreme Court in United States v. Skrmetti. This case asks whether the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, which generally requires the equal treatment of boys and girls, outlaws Tennessee’s law that forbids sex-trait modification (STM) procedures, often misnamed “gender-affirming care.” IWLC’s brief explains that Tennessee’s law treats boys and girls equally, and to the extent it doesn’t treat boys and girls identically, it’s only because boys and girls are not identical. Read more here.
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Independent Women’s Law Center advocates for equal opportunity, individual liberty, and the continued legal relevance of biological sex.