On his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order that he claimed was designed to prevent “discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.” The gist of his order was to direct federal agencies to interpret the word sex to include gender identity and sexual orientation. The practical effect of this order was that men who identified as women (and vice versa) were able to be housed in dorms and use bathrooms and shower facilities designed for use by the opposite sex in colleges and universities, prisons, and other institutions where there is a federal connection. Federal law does not include that kind of language, but now, because of the order, federal agencies have to administer and enforce the law “as if” it were true.
The College of the Ozarks is a small Christian college in Point Lookout, Missouri. They have on-campus dorms that are segregated by sex, and the very idea of coed dorms is contrary to their values. They are now in the fight of their lives because a federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration rule requires that they open women’s dorm rooms and showers to biological males. (Continue reading here.)