GOP Official Tells Tennessee Colleges Not To Say Title IX Protects LGBTQ People

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-official-tells-tennessee-colleges-131851240.html

A Republican lawmaker has told Tennessee colleges and universities that acknowledging LGBTQ students in public materials as “protected” under federal Title IX law could be violating state law.

Rep. John Ragan (R) reached out to public higher education institutions, including the University of Tennessee and East Tennessee State University, in August asking schools to “immediately revoke” or remove materials that suggest LGBTQ people are protected under the landmark law.

Title IX is a federal law that bars discrimination on the basis of sex at institutions that receive federal assistance, according to the U.S. Department of Education; the institutions are required to operate in a “nondiscriminatory manner” on the basis of sex.

[Docreed2003]

1. The GOP is ruining TN

This type of authoritarian, evangelical mindset has poisoned this state. They believe they are above any law because they claim to be acting out of religious conviction. I wish we could send these dangerous fucks back to the Stone Age where they so desperately want the rest of us to live.

[DBoon]

2. They had a war about this 160 years ago

Tennessee was on the losing side.

[Ocelot II]

3. We wouldn't want anyone to think the law protects their rights, would we?

[Freethinker65]

4. Colleges that want Federal dollars would be best to follow Federal Law and not this ass.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. The radicalized Republican party -is- the American Taliban. They're not done yet.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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[EnergizedLib]

6. There's the supremacy clause

There’s also the Bostock ruling from 2020, which was 6-3, with Gorsuch and Roberts the-then four liberals. If under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that people can’t be fired for their sexual orientation, why wouldn’t Title IX apply to orientation as well?

[maxrandb]

7. I wonder how many Tennessee universities and sports teams

have their games broadcast on Hate Radio stations that broadcast nothing but hate, racism, fascism, misogyny and white supremacy for the other 165 hours each week?

It's pretty fucking simple...

"Nothing will change. The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT...will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy unprofitable to the corporations, businesses and individuals that fund and enable it."