Parents coalition demands probe of YMCA over gender facility policies

A group of parents urges the Trump administration to investigate the YMCA for what it claims to be “an illegal sex -based discrimination in its programs and politicians”.

“YMCA’s policy to disintegrate and jeopardize young girls and to promote and empower those who choose to present as a genre other than their own is the principles of federal law on civil rights and gender equality,” said ALLElight Marré, Executive Director of American Parents Coalition, said in a letter Addressed to the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, and to the Secretary of Housing Development and Urban Development Scott Turner.

“It is morally false and legally unacceptable,” added Marré in the letter sent on Tuesday.

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Archived pages From the YMCA website called “how to create a safe space for LGBTQ +campers” and dated July 3, 2017, read “ensure that all campers and staff have access to installations aligned on their identity and gender comfort in the limitations of facilities and resources”.

The page also recommends that youth development professionals “use neutral (or self-identified) pronouns when they refer to tutors / parents, partners, families and others” and “raise stories of LGBTQ + inclusion in training, marketing and camp activities”.

Another archived page, “assert the LGBTQ + communities with pride” and dated June 7, 2022, indicates that the institution is intended to unite people “No matter their capacity, their age, their cultural origin, their ethnic origin, their faith, their gender expression, their gender identity, ideology, income, national origin, race or sexual orientation.”

A current page on the YMCA website entitled, “For all“Note that” the y is made up of people of all ages, from all backgrounds, working side by side to strengthen communities. Together, we work to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity. “”

This adds that their “fundamental values ​​are attentive, honest, respect and responsibility – they guide everything we do”.

Marré and the American Parents Coalition claim that the YMCA is engaged in an illegal sex -based discrimination in its programs and policies and alleys that the YMCA violates title IX since the organization is a recipient of federal funds.

On his website, the YMCA declares that he receives More than $ 600 million In government subsidies and more than $ 930 million in non -government subsidies.

“As a beneficiary of federal financial aid, he is forced to comply with the mandates of the title IX of education amendments,” said the letter from the APC.

Title IX Prohibit discrimination based on sex or sex for entities that receive federal funding.

“There is little room for the interpretation where the law is so explicit,” said the letter. “This large prohibition underlines the role of the law in the elimination of sex -based obstacles in the equal participation of women in all aspects of programming and activities, to provide” women from America, something that rightly belongs to it – an equal chance. YMCA policies allowing biological men to invade the sacred character of the spaces set aside for women undoubtedly violates this law. “”

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The letter also highlights various cases of recent problems in several ymca places where women have been subjected to a change in the same facilities as men.

One of these cases was in Kansas City, Missouri, where a biological man is accused of allegedly expose To a seven -year -old girl when she was with her mother in a YMCA in North Kansas City.

He also mentions a 2022 incident Where a 17 -year -old girl said he saw a transgender woman change in a female locker room in a California YMCA.

“Perhaps the most worrying is not what we know about YMCA gender policies, but what is still unknown. In recent weeks, the YMCA has either a limited access to the parties of its website which treat gender policies or have completely deleted these pages,” said the letter. “In no case should we expect the YMCA to modify its gender policies; YMCA is rather protected these policies and future policies of the public examination.”

The letter also highlights Trump on January 20 executive decree Prohibit the use of federal funds to promote gender ideology.

Digital Fox News Contacted health and social services, housing and urban development, the Ministry of Education, as well as the YMCA for comments.

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