Colorado used to be a pretty good place. When I moved there in 1989, it was still mostly South Wyoming. Oh, there was downtown Denver, where the urban Dems clustered, and there was the People’s Republic of Boulder, where they kept all the hippies. But most of Colorado was still pretty sensible. Now, though? It’s East California, and nothing makes that case more clearly than the Jefferson County, Colorado board of education defying Title IX by allowing boys in girls’ locker rooms, overnight accommodations, and on their sports teams.
It wasn’t an isolated case, either. Up to 60 male students may have been given the opportunity to occupy spots for competing on girls’ sports teams.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concluded that a Colorado school district violated federal civil rights law by allowing male students to access female bathrooms, locker rooms and overnight accommodations and to compete in girls sports.
In findings released Friday, OCR determined that Jefferson County Public Schools violated Title IX.
Note that it wasn’t just on the teams. These male students – young men – would be allowed to use the girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and presumably, showers. Not to mention “overnight accommodations,” meaning they shared hotel rooms.
It doesn’t take a great imagination to understand how that could go horribly wrong.
The announcement said OCR received athletic rosters from Jefferson County, and the rosters indicate “male students may occupy up to 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams in the district.”
OCR said the policies deny girls “safety, dignity and equal access” to educational programs and activities.
“Today’s findings reveal sweeping Title IX violations by Jefferson County Public Schools — denying fairness and equality to female students by allowing males into their private facilities, overnight accommodations, and athletics,” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a statement.
There needs to be serious consequences for this.
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Luckily, there’s a deadline:
The Office for Civil Rights has issued the district a proposed resolution agreement, giving officials 10 days to voluntarily comply or face potential federal enforcement action.
The sports team problem is bad enough. This practice, as I’ve described here many times, is hideously unfair to the girls on these teams. In almost any sport, the boys have a shocking physical advantage in speed, strength, endurance, and reach. Boys have greater cardiovascular capacity, more muscle mass per body weight, and more fast-twitch muscle fibers. It’s a difference so great as to be a difference not in degree but in kind. These are facts.These differences are present even before puberty, and no amount of hormonal treatments can ever completely erase them.
This case, though, in Jefferson County is much more than that. Not only do the members of the Jefferson County Board of Education willfully ignore these facts, but they also allow these boys to masquerade as girls on the sports fields in wholesale numbers, and they also force girls, teenage girls, to share private facilities with these boys. These boys are getting away with things that would get them arrested – except that by claiming to be “transgender,” it’s expected that the girls involved – and their parents – are supposed to just tiptoe quietly away.
Not anymore. U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is the new sheriff in town. If there’s any sanity left in the world, Jefferson County’s wrongs will be righted, and quickly.
[Editor’s Note: This article was edited for clarity post-publication.]
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