DNC pol­i­cy plat­form slammed over ‘explic­it’ Title IX pro­tec­tions for LGBT stu­dents: ‘Fla­grant law­less­ness’

Del­e­gates at the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion are set to vote Mon­day on the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party’s 2024 pol­i­cy plat­form, which includes “explic­it” Title IX pro­tec­tions for LGBT stu­dents that were just blocked by the Supreme Court. The Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion released the final 2024 Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty plat­form Sun­day night, after the one cre­at­ed dur­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s reelec­tion cam­paign was even­tu­al­ly scrapped. Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris announced her own pres­i­den­tial bid short­ly after, gen­er­at­ing a need for revi­sions that would bet­ter align with her own pol­i­cy posi­tions and a new vision for the par­ty. The lat­est par­ty plat­form mim­ics the Biden administration’s attempt­ed rule mak­ing on Title IX to widen the def­i­n­i­tion of sex dis­crim­i­na­tion to include gen­der iden­ti­ty. “After Friday’s SCOTUS order, the Biden-Har­ris Title IX rules are in effect in less than 50% of the coun­try — und …