Governor Ron DeSantis spoke out against President Joe Biden again. This time, he called him out for reports that President Biden will pull funding from districts if they don’t comply with the Title IX expansion that will include transgender “discrimination”.
“In Florida, we are fighting against Biden’s intentionally destructive policies like denying school lunches for states that refuse to implement woke gender ideology in the schools,” he said.
He continued, “We’re prepared for what Biden throws our way. And, you know, part of it’s the inflation and the gas – part of it are intentionally destructive policies like trying to deny school lunch programs for states that don’t do transgender ideology in the school. I mean, give me a break. Totally off his rocker to be doing that. We’re fighting on that, don’t worry. So we’re just prepared to be able to defend the taxpayers and the hard-working people in the state of Florida, and I couldn’t be prouder for doing that.”
The Department of Agriculture announced it would require some schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their preferred gender.
Fox News reported:
“Schools awarded money from the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), an agency within USDA, must specify in their policies that discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation is prohibited, the department announced in May. I also said allegations of such discrimination must be investigated.”
Fight for Schools Executive Director Ian Prior told Fox News, “What you’re seeing here is really the Biden administration saying ‘you’re going to do what I want or I’m going to take your lunch money.'”
“For the federal government to come in and really tie school nutrition and school lunch programs to this radical ideology is terrifying, and it’s appalling.”
“I honestly have no idea how providing food to children in schools is somehow connected to transgender policies. What we see here is the Biden administration using children as pawns in this social justice, gender ideology game that they are playing.”
According to Conservative Brief:
The announcement “essentially amounts to the Biden administration holding states and local school districts hostage with school lunch money that goes to underprivileged youth in order to pass transgender non-discrimination policies,” Prior told Fox News.
The USDA said its announcement is part of President Biden’s executive order extending Title IX to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The USDA is planning to propose the regulation sometime this month. Then, it will be open for public comment before it can actually be implemented.
