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MacDonald: Celebrate Title IX Month!

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Pride Month is a sex-cultural phenomenon, a social construct that, in some dystopian future, would be subverted and changed. Not the name. It’d still be pride month, but instead of being proud to share your obsession with your own sexuality or the virtue signal of forcing others to celebrate someone else’s, it’d be some other … Read more

Federal Agency Refers Maine to U.S. Department of Justice Over Title IX Breach

April 1, 2025 The Maine Wire

The Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services referred the State of Maine to the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday — one day after the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) and Cumberland’s Greeley High School announced they refused to sign a voluntary resolution agreement the federal agency proposed after … Read more

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Gender Isn’t The Only Thing This School Board Is Bending

March 17, 2025 Steve MacDonald

School districts and boards across the fruited plain are wrestling with a problem. The previous commander in chief, or whoever was running his auto-pen, signed proclamations about rules that the current president has since changed. The new rules are like the old rules (as in for decades before President Auto-pen). Boys can’t be girls and … Read more

If Maine Wants To Keep Bending Genders …

February 22, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The sun rises, the water is wet, and just like guns, Democrats hate nullification until they love it. Dems love guns as long as they control whoever controls the guns. The same can be said for nullification, the idea that states have veto power over federal demands. And we agree. States have rights, and lots … Read more

Tales from the School Board – Here We Go Again! Part 1

February 22, 2025February 16, 2025 Skip

The Subtitle that’s driving this: “Tolerance is fine but acceptance is the goal.” Title IX simply reads: Title IX simply reads: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving … Read more

Biden Admin Withdraws Title IX Gender Bending Rule Change

December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Yesterday (12/20/24), Biden’s Department of Education withdrew a rule change to Title IX regarding allowing students to play school sports based on gender instead of sex. The intent of the Athletics NPRM was to “propose a regulatory standard under Title IX that would govern a recipient’s adoption or application of sex-related criteria that would limit … Read more

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Title IX: 37 Words in 1972; Now Over 400 Scary Pages Long

October 8, 2024 Wendy McElroy

A flare-up in the culture war has become an election issue and an August 16 ruling by the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) guarantees it will not go away. Title IX is a federal civil rights law protecting those who attend a school that receives federal funds against discrimination on the basis of sex. The intention … Read more

As NH Parents Sue School Over Biological Sports Law – SCOTUS Has Bad News

August 17, 2024August 17, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Friday, news broke that a transgirl who had been working so hard at summer soccer had been denied a spot on the girl’s team because those evil Republicans passed a bill that sorts sports by birth sex. Her parents are not just suing; they are asking the court to stay the law while the case … Read more

Biden’s Sec. of Re-Education Is a Coward When It Comes to His Title IX Undressing Rule

July 7, 2024 Skip

This is for those of us who have daughters that the Biden Administration (and his LBG and Trans minions) are forcing to undress in front of males who believe they are females and then can rightly invade girl bathrooms and locker rooms.

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Title IX, College Sports, and Joe Biden

May 25, 2024 Michael Moffett

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” – Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972.

Night Cap: If Not For The Kids, Then What

March 13, 2024 Ray Cardello

This grand experiment has failed. Hillary Clinton coined the phrase “It takes a village,” and Joe Biden said, “They are all our children.” They were referring to the cooperative effort of parents, teachers, and the government in co-parenting our future generations.

Vermont Shows You How Title IX vs the Left’s War On Women Ends

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The Left’s gender war-on-women freight train has been gaining speed lately as they lose things left and right: scholarships, jobs, awards, and their history. If you’d like to see the final form, especially regarding sports, Vermont just showed you their cards.

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Dartmouth is Planning to Violate Title VII and Title IX

December 30, 2022December 29, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Dartmouth continues to shower New Hampshire in glory. They’ve decided that women and minorities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and the solution is one hundred million in scholarships which, at least for now, are not available to white men.

Title IX Turns 50…and Dies

December 26, 2022December 26, 2022 Ray Cardello

Title IX was signed into law in 1972 as part of the Education Amendment of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives funding from the federal government.

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Federal Court Rules: Biden Can’t “Force” Nuns “to Transition” …

December 12, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Religious conscience won another victory in Federal Court last Friday. Following a Fifth Circuit Court ruling in August, the Eight Circuit has declared that Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act could not force religious doctors or hospitals that receive federal funding to perform gender transitions.

Federal Judge Blocks Biden Admin’s Radical Transgender Overreach

November 19, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Democrats are generous with your tax dollars when it comes to things like foreign aid, Green Energy Myths, and the Ukrainian laundromat. Refuse to administer puberty blockers or perform transgender surgeries and kiss your odds of getting reimbursed for Medicaid, Medicare, or research grants goodbye.

The Corruption at the Heart of Title IX and the #MeToo Movement

November 5, 2022 Op-Ed

Brett Sokolow, the Department of Education, the Department of Justice, and the University of New Hampshire started a racket.

Hassan and Shaheen and their Fake Condolences

Maggie Hassan Fighting For … Winter Blackouts, Empty Diesel, Sky High Fertilizer, and a Federal “Cop” in Every School

November 2, 2022 California Refugee

Every time I see a Maggie Hassan commercial, my stomach turns. I have researched each and every one. Some are lies. Some are damned lies. But each one seems to say that she is “fighting” for New Hampshire citizens—for our values and way of life. I am a California refugee so maybe I just don’t understand how what she is doing could (in any universe) be seen as fighting for New Hampshire.

Biden Stole “Their” Lunch Money – A Federal Judge Just Gave it Back

July 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

A few months back, the Biden Administration announced its intent to extend a gender-bender-related US Supreme Court ruling on Title VII to Title IX. Anyone who refused to bow to the new rule would lose lunch money for poor kids. A Federal Judge just said, give it back.

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SPORTS “EQUITY”

May 25, 2022 Michael Moffett

NEWS ITEM: The U.S. Soccer Federation has announced a deal to pay the U.S. Men’s National Team and the U.S. Women’s National Team equally, eliminating a contentious pay gap that saw female players earn significantly less.