The Latest in DEI, CRT, and Gender Issues While they are all still with us, there is growing resistance. By Larry Sand
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/13/the-latest-in-dei-crt-and-gender-issues/
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Critical Race Theory. Transgenderism. Whether you consider them cults, creeds, political movements, or cultural Marxism, they have been around for some time now, but there is mounting opposition.
DEI
Many U.S. Colleges still ooze DEI dogma. For example, the University of Michigan announced in December that it would no longer require diversity statements in faculty hiring and tenure decisions, but its Board of Regents stopped short of cutting DEI spending. One regent voiced concerns about the millions of dollars the public institution is spending to embed DEI into every campus nook and cranny under its DEI 2.0 plan.
Scarily, Brown University’s Medical School now gives DEI more weight than clinical skills in its promotion criteria for faculty, raising questions about the quality of patient care at its medical school and underscoring how deeply DEI has penetrated medical education.
The criteria, which are now posted on Brown’s website, include “demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion” as a “major criterion” for all positions within the Department of Medicine, which oversees the bulk of the school’s clinical units. Clinical skills, by contrast, only count as a “minor criterion” for many roles.
DEI is also still quite prevalent outside our schools. In Los Angeles, which just suffered some of the most grisly fires in the nation’s history, the fire chief is on record “highlighting her DEI agendas rather than emphasizing traditional fire department criteria like response time or keeping fire vehicles running,” writes Victor Davis Hanson.
It’s also possible that DEI played a part in the recent American Airlines crash, which killed 67 people in Washington, D.C. As revealed by The New York Post, the Federal Aviation Administration is embroiled in a class-action lawsuit brought by 1,000 would-be air traffic controllers who were allegedly turned down for jobs because of diversity hiring targets. The New York Times mentions that staffing levels were “not normal” at the time of the collision.
But there is good news on the DEI front. The Heritage Foundation reports that it has launched a new initiative to stand up against corporations targeting individuals based on political or religious beliefs.
“Leading the charge in values-aligned investing, Heritage continues leveraging its influence to drive meaningful change and restore fairness and accountability in corporate practices. The reality is clear: mainstream investment firms and products are often undermining conservative principles and shaping culture in ways that conflict with American values. In response, Heritage has filed shareholder resolutions with major companies like IBM, Citi, CVS, and Airbnb, pushing back against these discriminatory practices.”
Perhaps the most sweeping anti-DEI resistance comes from President Trump, who has placed all federal employees in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles on paid administrative leave. This is the first result of an executive order that Trump signed, signaling his determination to kill DEI programs in the federal government. Trump’s action repeals EO 13985, which Joe Biden signed on his first day as President to promote “equity across the federal government.”
CRT
Critical Race Theory is alive and well in our schools. An Education Next survey reveals that 36% of U.S. high schoolers say their teachers either “often” or “almost daily” argue that America is a fundamentally racist nation. Also striking is that 43% of teachers use the term “systemic oppression.”
President Trump is also on the case here. He signed an executive order on Jan 29 outlawing what the White House termed “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools.
His order calls on agency secretaries to submit an “Ending Indoctrination Strategy” to eliminate federal funding or support for “illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including [sic] based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.”
The order also affirms, “Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand.”
In recent years, however, “parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Such an environment operates as an echo chamber in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination. In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics,” the order continues.
Gender issues
National Review reports on a truly disgusting incident that shows the transgender cult is still alive and well.
“When Jen McDougal escorted her nine-year-old daughter to the locker room after swim practice in the early evening on September 9, 2024, she expected to see the usual changing-room scene: moms drying their giggling, teeth-chattering daughters. Instead, the room, full of about a dozen girls, was silent. Everyone was focused on the naked man who stood in the middle of their space. His face and shoulders were covered with a towel, although his exposed penis was not, and he stood with his hands at his sides.”
The girl took swimming lessons at the Washington-Liberty Aquatics Center, which is located inside Washington-Liberty High School, which is operated by Arlington Public Schools in Virginia. The center’s locker rooms are restricted to student use during the school day but are open to the general public outside of class hours for recreational use and swim lessons for children as young as six months old.
It turns out that the man, Richard Kenneth Cox, is a tier-three registered sex offender (deemed high-risk and must maintain their registration for life) who was allowed in the locker room under Arlington Public Schools policy because he identifies as a woman.
However, Trump has become involved in this issue, too.
On January 31, the Department of Education reaffirmed the 2020 Title IX Rule written by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
A “Dear Colleague” letter by the DOE to K-12 schools and colleges and universities instructed that the Office of Civil Rights enforce the pre-Biden Title IX Rule. This means that Title IX will uphold stronger due process protections for students and extricate gender ideology introduced by the Biden administration. Similarly, Trump’s Executive Order on “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism” asserts that “sex” does not include “gender” but is defined as an immutable, biological characteristic at birth.
Also, on January 1, AB 1955, California’s so-called “Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth (SAFETY) Act” took effect. This despicable law specifically forbids schools from adopting any policies that force them to disclose “any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person—including parents—without the pupil’s consent.
But now the new law has taken a setback as a federal judge’s ruling will allow a lawsuit to challenge the policy. In his decision that placed a primacy on parental rights, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez rejected a motion from California Attorney General Rob Bonta to dismiss the case.
In his January 7 ruling, Judge Benitez said that the secrecy policies infringed on the rights of parents and violated bedrock constitutional principles.
“The Supreme Court has long recognized that parents hold a federal constitutional Due Process right to direct the health care and education of their children. The Defendants stand on unprecedented and more recently created state law child rights to privacy and to be free from gender discrimination. This Court concludes that, in a collision of rights between parents and child, the long recognized federal constitutional rights of parents must eclipse the state rights of the child.”
In other related news, the U.S. Department Of Education—at least in its current form—is on the ropes. I will delve into that issue in a future post.
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