JD Vance calls out Biden-Harris admin for depriving poor kids of free lunches if schools didn't allow boys in girls bathrooms

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said Saturday that “it’s a terrible thing” for the Biden-Harris administration to deprive poor children of free lunches because their schools won’t adhere to the woke gender ideology policies like allowing biological males in girls’ bathrooms or to compete in girls sports, The New York Post reported.

“I think it’s crazy to allow biological males to compete in sports with biological females,” Vance said. “But even if you disagree with me, I think that it is such a terrible thing to take food out of the mouths of poor children because they don’t do what the Biden-Harris administration wants them to do,” he continued.

Vance was apparently referring to a May 2022 US Department of Agriculture memorandum directing state agencies and Food and Nutrition Act program operators to “expeditiously review their program discrimination complaint procedures and make any changes necessary to ensure complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation are processed and evaluated as complaints of discrimination on the basis of sex.”

Wyoming has previously condemned the Biden-Harris administration for tying school lunch funds to adherence to gender ideology programs that include allowing biological males to use girls’ bathrooms and to participate in female sports. In August, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Biden-Harris administration’s interpretation of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act as a justification for gender ideology in schools for four states.

Vance made his observations while participating in a town hall discussion at Rock Church in Harrisburg, PA with its senior pastor Joshua C. Robertson, who recently wrote in Wall Street Journal op ed that school choice is “the civil rights issue of our time.”

Vance has been a stalwart supporter of school choice, saying parents should have the right to choose where their children attend schools and a voucher system should make that choice economically feasible. The senator sees school choice as a primary building block for better education and economic success for students trapped in schools that offer few opportunities.

“What I’ve seen is that when parents and grandparents get more school choice, it actually improves not just private schools,” Vance said. “Because when the public schools know that they don’t have a monopoly, control over the lives of these young people, they’ve gotta step up. They’ve gotta do a better job.”

Vance says better education not only opens the doors of economic opportunity but promotes longer life expectancy and claims that those without a post-secondary degree tend to die younger than those without one. “When you talk about the fact that if you don’t go to college, you die seven years sooner… That’s a real division. That’s a real problem,” Vance said.