Posted on October 12, 2024 by Camila Stella

What Kamala Harris could have said to the view; And what it means is that she didn’t do it

PublishedOctober 12, 2024, 8:13 a.m. EDT|UpdatedOctober 12, 2024, 8:13 a.m. EDT

Sunny Hostin asked Kamala Harris on The View a simple and straightforward question: What would she do differently from Joe Biden? Her response? “There is not a thing that comes to mind.” She couldn’t name a single thing.

And while this may seem to some like an understated moment in the grand scheme of a vice president’s loyalty to the president, it reveals something profoundly telling: Kamala Harris is fully on board with the Biden administration’s complete gutting of Title IX.

What does that actually mean?

This means that the current vice president, who wants to be the next president, thinks it’s perfectly okay for men to identify in feminine spaces. She thinks it’s okay for men to undress in front of female athletes without their consent. And she’s completely comfortable with men shooting volleyballs into girls’ faces and stealing medals and podium places from them.

This is how Kamala stands up for girls and women.

The Biden administration rewrote Title IX to expand the definition of sex to include gender identity. These changes, made without congressional approval, allow men who self-identify as women to enter all-female spaces in all public educational institutions. Locker rooms, restrooms, and even competitive teams are no longer safe spaces for girls and women. Men can compete against female athletes simply by claiming to be a girl. And Kamala Harris, who constantly portrays herself as a warrior for women, has absolutely nothing to say about this.

Sunny Hostin gave her the opportunity to say, “I think maybe we’ve gone too far with some of these gender issues,” but instead she bragged that in everything we can assume, she’s always the last person in the room with Biden Space was the complete and total gutting of Title IX.

Think about it. A self-proclaimed champion of women who wants to be our next president isn’t even willing to protect Title IX. It’s hard to imagine that a law once lauded for giving women and girls the right to participate and compete on a level playing field would now subject them to naked men in their locker room and completely unfair (and often unsafe) competition. Harris had another opportunity on Steven Colbert’s show to stand up for these women and girls and say, “We got this wrong.” Instead, she fell back into her comfort zone of talking a lot but saying nothing.

Some have argued that Harris is simply playing the role of a dutiful vice president and maintaining ties with her boss. But Title IX is not just a political issue; It’s a civil rights issue. And for a woman who prides herself on being an ally and champion for women and girls, her silence is deafening. But also clarifying.

In a normal world, Harris would be doing difficult interviews and she would be asked to express her position, particularly on the radical changes to Title IX that were made under her watch. She should be clear about what she thinks about girls and women losing their same-sex space and being forced to compete against male athletes in the women’s division.

If she supports Biden’s changes to Title IX, she should say so clearly. But if she believes, like the overwhelming majority of Americans, that this change undermines the hard-won rights of women and girls and is fundamentally wrong and unjust, then she should have the moral courage to stand up and say so.

I’m hardly a fan of Kamala Harris, but if she wants more people to like her and believe she means what she says, she should strongly oppose Biden’s disastrous changes to Title IX and promise to reverse them, if she wins the White House House.

Erika Sanzi is the director of Outreach for Parents Defending Education.

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