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Several Alabama Political leaders appeared Monday evening at a town hall in Guntersville to discuss the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX and the state’s lawsuit challenging those changes.
Numerous states with GOP attorneys general have sued to prevent implementing the changes, which incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity into the definitions of gender-based discrimination. A federal judge initially denied Alabama’s motion for preliminary injunction, indicating that the state has not shown a likelihood to succeed on the merits. But the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals immediately followed that decision by granting an administrative stay.
Representatives of Moms for Liberty also led the town hall. The group has its own injunction against the Title IX changes, with a judge allowing the group to submit school names of members that would exempt those specific schools from complying with the changes.
Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover, said the Title IX changes could undo some of her previously successful legislation that includes preventing transgender women from competing in college women’s and high school girls’ sports. DuBose has focused almost exclusively on transgender issues in her first term as state representative, promising Monday to pass her “What is a Woman?” bill in the upcoming session that legally defines male and female based on certain biological functions.
“I will always stand up for Alabamians so they do not have to lie,” DuBose said.
Just moments earlier, DuBose herself had repeated a falsehood about two boxers competing at the Olympics in France, referring to Algeria’s Imane Khelif and China’ Lin Yu-Ting as biological men that won gold in women’s boxing. There is speculation that Khelif and Yu-Ting may have a condition known as difference of sex development and could potentially have XY chromosomes.
In Algeria, it is not legal to transition genders and Khelif has been recognized as a female since birth.
Some members in the town hall crowd who support the Title IX changes let DuBose know their contempt for her comments about the boxers, yelling out that DuBose was a liar and that Khelif is a woman.
ALGOP chairman John Wahl, Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth and a representative for Alliance Defending Freedom were also at the town hall to discuss the Title IX changes.
Ainsworth said the difference in boys and girls is just “common sense” and that his daughter should not have to share a bathroom with men, or compete against them in sports.
