Keller ISD board members unanimously approved a resolution during their regular meeting June 20 to denounce recent policy changes announced by the Biden administration.
The details
The approved resolution focuses on policies related to transgender athletes and gender identity. The resolution states, in part, the following:
- "The proposed changes to Title IX redefine 'sex' to include 'gender identity' which will cause immeasurable harm to women and girls by stripping them of the legal protections Title IX was intended to afford them."
- "These changes will force schools to allow biological males to participate in women’s sports; use their restrooms, locker rooms and other sex-specific spaces; and schools that refuse will risk losing federal education funding."
- "There are physical differences between biological males and biological females; these differences do not disappear because an individual wills it to be so, and so allowing biological males into female-specific spaces poses not only a safety risk to girls and women but sends a chilling message to future generations of girls and undermines their efforts and achievements."
According to Keller ISD documents, Title IX has historically served to protect students from discrimination based on sex in educational programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. Furthermore, Title IX has sought to eliminate discrimination against women in education, and to provide men and women with equal educational opportunities.
