(The Christian News Network) – A student senator at the University of California at Berkeley is facing pressure to resign after she abstained from voting on a resolution that expressed opposition to an alleged plan by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to legally define sex under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as being one’s biological sex at birth. According to reports, the Queer Alliance
Resource Center, a homosexual and transgender advocacy group on campus, had urged the Berkeley student Senate to pass a resolution condemning the reported move by HHS. All voting senators supported the bill. “[T]he HHS’s proposed ‘definition’ is purposefully trans-exclusive, as it seeks to create an understanding of sex and gender that is fixed, determined by genitalia at birth, and limited to the binary (i.e. the options being either male or female),” the resolution before the student Senate read. READ MORE
