STATEMENT: PDE Action Supports Rep. Jodey Arrington’s Title IX Clarification Act

Parents Defending Education Action is pleased to support Rep. Jodey Arrington’s Title IX Clarification Act, H.R. 8781, which would settle once and for all the definition of “sex” in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972: a law built on the simple premise that sex discrimination in federally funded education programs is prohibited.  

While the average American has a clear understanding of the biological reality of sex, the hardline progressive wing of the Democratic Party has backed a nonsensical definition of sex within Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to include one’s self-professed “gender identity,” no matter one’s underlying, innate biological sex. In so doing, it has opened up women’s scholastic sports, locker rooms, bathrooms, dorm rooms, scholarships, and otherwise to men who declare themselves to be women and upended the very premise of Title IX itself. 

H.R. 8781 ensures that all federal educational programs and activities associated with Title IX define ‘sex’ as an individual’s biologically determined sex–either male or female. This simple, straightforward, and necessary bill protects women in educational settings at all levels. Members of Congress who value women’s safety and acknowledge biological reality should move swiftly to secure its passage.

Read the full text of the bill here. 

Sarah Parshall Perry

Legal Director

Parents Defending Education Action