Arkansas Gov Sarah Sanders signs executive order in response to Biden's Title IX changes

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders signed an executive order on Thursday in response to President Biden's new Title IX regulations that added protections for transgender athletes.

Sanders said Thursday she was "appalled" by the "attack on common sense."

"According to the rule, sex is no longer based on the commonly understood biological differences between men and women," Sanders said. "It's based on how a person feels or their gender identity. To put it another way, Biden thinks anybody can be a woman just because they say so. As a woman, the mother of a daughter and our state's first chief executive to give birth … I can't think of anything more offensive or dismissive of the very real, very scientific traits that all women share and that no man does."

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders. (Al Drago/Pool via AP/File)

"This issue goes far beyond a single locker room or a missed scholarship. The truth is important. Biology is important. The differences between men and women are important," she continued.

Sanders added that she won't let Biden "erase our existence as women."

Under the new rules, sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity as well as sexual orientation. A school must not separate or treat people differently based on sex, except in limited circumstances, under the provisions, but critics say the change will allow locker rooms and bathrooms to be based on gender identity.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders has signed an executive order in response to President Biden's new Title IX regulations. (AP Photo/Will Newton/File)

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