The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) sent a letter to the United Nations in response to the Biden administration’s sweeping changes to Title IX.
The brief requested that male participation in female sports be treated as an act of violence against women. The letter was first obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Reem Alsalem was one of the recipients of the brief from ICONS, per the Examiner. According to Alsalem’s social media bio, she serves as the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
Alsalem previously took issue with the Title IX provision on the new definition of “‘sex.’”
“The erroneous redefinition of ‘sex’ through these implementing regulations constitutes a grave setback that will increase the vulnerability of the majority of women and girls to incursions into their privacy, including voyeurism, sexual harassment and physical and sexual attacks, by effectively removing single sex spaces,” Alsalem said in a press release last month.
The brief sent to the U.N. argued certain provisions in the rewrite of Title IX could negatively affect women.
“Title IX was a federal law written to protect women, and the Biden administration has now turned it into a law that protects men at the expense of women,” ICONS co-founders Marshi Smith and Kim Jones told the Washington Examiner.
“With the stroke of a pen, Biden has reversed congressional intention and turned Title IX into blatant call to subjugate women and girls.”
But ICONS argues using “acceptable” testosterone levels as a single indicator is “arbitrary and meaningless.”
“We know that male advantage can never be undone,” Smith and Jones wrote in the letter. “But even if it could, a man that has diminished his athletic ability through manipulation of his hormone levels is not a woman. The erasure of women as a sex class must be stopped.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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