26 April—Full marks to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for telling President Joe Biden to bugger off on his latest inept pander to voters whose support he almost certainly had in the first place. This time it’s Joe’s colossally clumsy new array of guidelines for Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs that receive federal money in any way.

DeSantis tells Biden to shove it in no uncertain terms: “Florida rejects [Biden’s] attempt to rewrite Title IX. We will not comply, and we will fight back. We are not gonna let Joe Biden try to inject men into women’s activities. We are not gonna let Joe Biden undermine the rights of parents, and we are not gonna let Joe Biden abuse his constitutional authority to try to impose these policies on us here in Florida.”

Right on, Ron!

Last week the mismanaged Department of Education released its ludicrous Title IX revision. For starters, it redefines “sex” as “gender identity.” That of course opens the door, so to speak, for transsexual women—i.e., males who choose to identify as females—to gain access to female-only areas and belong to female-only organizations. And vice versa, for all it matters.

Thus, any male can get into a females’ locker room or bathroom simply by claiming to be other than male. He can also participate in sports as a female. And vice versa, for all it matters.

Any person—and we’re talking about girls rather than boys, women rather than men—or institution—and we’re talking about schools and colleges—that objects to or is uncomfortable with that situation will under Biden’s asinine revolutionary Title IX just have to lump it or face legal repercussions and loss of even indirect federal largess. Biden and his sorry satraps would also like dissenters to suffer a social stigma, but that’s never going to happen.

Biden’s ill-conceived Title IX revision also reverses one of the few good policies that were instituted by Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education. (Perhaps the only one, come to think of it.) Biden’s backslide essentially eliminates the due process protection DeVos gave to male students and faculty members accused of sexual assault. It’ll now revert to the totally unjust status quo ante where men will once again be presumed to be guilty unless they can prove otherwise to a bunch of campus bureaucrats who won’t let them. Simply because they’re males.

One wonders how much of the Title IX perversion is the handiwork of Miguel Cardona, Joe Biden’s Secretary of Education. If the people of Connecticut have no other reason to be grateful to Biden, at least we can thank him for taking Cardona out of our state, where he was Ned Lamont’s awful Commissioner of Education for a year and a half . . .