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MarkS's avatar

Re Title IX, "disparate impact" on women's sports should be relatively easy to establish. There needs to be a legal precedent where sex trumps gender, then it will be easier to push back in other areas. Women's sports seems to me to be the best arena for this. Letting men compete against women completely undermines the letter and spirit of Title IX.

The Women's Liberation Front (WoLF) is fighting a court case in California to have SB132, which allows men in prison to declare themselves to be women and housed with women, unconstitutional. WoLF is the only organization I know of that is pursuing actual legal actions against gender ideology.

https://www.womensliberationfront.org/chandler-v-cdcr

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Lynn Edwards's avatar

The USDA holding child nutrition hostage really bothers me (I do some volunteering with child nutrition). Outside of ideology, I was really disappointed that the Biden Administration didn't ask Congress this year to continue serving all public school children a free lunch. Sometimes it is easier to reduce the stigma of free lunches by covering EVERYONE. Now that a recession/inflation might be coming in 22-23, I suspect that more families will need the free meals than will be admitting or know when the initial form for free lunches is asked for. It's hard to know exactly how much it would cost, but it would be in the neighborhood of 11 billion to serve all school kids a free lunch, which sounds like a lot, until you look at how eagerly money is being spent on Ukraine (which I definitely want to help, but if we are comparing school lunches to defence spending, it's not a lot). Now, to see the act of feeding children being treated like a political game and being held hostage to gender ideology is incredibly infuriating. I have always voted for the Democratic presidential candidate, and this is definitely how they are losing me, as an educated suburban white Mom who identifies as being a supporter of public schools.

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