Biden s Order Opening Dorms, Showers to Opposite Sex a Violation of Religious Liberties, College Says
On 5/7/21 at 8:38 PM EDT
A Christian college in Missouri is challenging a Biden administration executive order that could opens gendered spaces including dorms and showers to transgender residents on campus.
The College of the Ozarks, represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), on April 15 filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a directive from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The directive was due to an order signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office titled Protecting and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, which required a interpretation of the word sex in the Fair Housing Act that would not discriminate based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Subsequently, the new reinterpretation means that women s dormitories, including dorm rooms and shared shower spaces
Christian College Sues Over Biden Order Banning Gender Segregation
College of the Ozarks is in federal court challenging a Biden administration order to end alleged campus housing discrimination by opening women’s dorm bathrooms and showers to biological male residents.
The order, which President Joe Biden signed on his first day in office, directs all federal agencies to reinterpret Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in light of the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision in 2020 that barring discrimination based on sex must include an individual’s gender identity and sexual orientation.
Following the order, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a Feb. 11 directive applying Biden’s action to all entities covered by the Fair Housing Act of 1974, which includes college and university dormitories.
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