U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, alongside other Republican senators, are working to amend Title IX, where the term "sex" would solely mean “a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.’’
Under the precedent set by “Bostock v. Clayton County” (2020) and Biden’s Executive Order 14021, the term "sex" currently includes both sexual orientation and gender identity.
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