Education Commissioner Betty Rosa struck down Massapequa's school-board resolution enforcing Title IX in NY schools last month. AP
When state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa last month struck down Massapequa’s school-board resolution enforcing Title IX in our schools, it wasn’t just an example of Albany’s bureaucratic overreach.
It was a direct hit on girls — and a warning shot to families across New York state.
Last fall, the Massapequa Board of Education passed a resolution clarifying that our policies bar biological males from using female spaces in local schools, in keeping with President Donald Trump’s executive order on Title IX .
In our Long Island school district, it wasn’t a controversial question; polling consistently shows that most Americans, across party lines, believe boys don’t belong in girls’ sports , locker rooms or bathrooms.
But the New York Civil Liberties Union filed suit with the commissioner , and her April ruling aims to force the district to violate federal law and override…