Posted on 04/07/2023 7:55:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Some schools ban trans-identifying students from playing on the team of their preferred gender.
The Biden administration proposed new regulations on Thursday that would prohibit schools enforcing blanket bans on trans-identifying males in girls sports.
The education department’s Title IX rules state that schools that receive federal funding may not ban biological males in girls sports wholesale, but they may exclude them on a case by case basis.
“The proposed rule … recognizes that in some instances, particularly in competitive high school and college athletic environments, some schools may adopt policies that limit transgender students’ participation,” the education department said.
However, the proposal would give schools “the flexibility to develop their own participation policies,” the department added.
“Sex-related criteria” at schools that would limit or ban a trans-identified student from playing on the team of their preferred gender must meet two standards. First, the criteria must be related to an “important educational objective,” and second, the criteria must also “minimize harms” to the trans-identified student.
Preventing sports-related injuries would be an example of an “important educational objective” the department noted.
High school girls have been injured playing with trans-identifying males. Last year in North Carolina, a female high school volleyball player suffered severe trauma to her head and neck after a trans-identifying player spiked a volleyball at her head.
Another example of an “important educational objective” would be “fairness in competition.”
“Fairness in competition may be particularly important for recipients in some sports, grade and education levels, and levels of competition,” the department said.
Female athletes at high schools and colleges in several states have spoken out against being forced to compete against biological males.
In Connecticut, several high school girls filed Title IX claims in a federal lawsuit in 2020, arguing that competing against trans-identifying males made them miss their chances at championship titles, state records, and scholarship opportunities.
Parental rights advocates slammed the proposed regulations as too vague, saying the rules will scare off schools from trying to enforce any limits on males in girls sports.
“The Biden Administration is trying to have their cake and eat it too: inject gender identity into athletics while placing the onus upon school districts to determine whether doing so would be problematic or not,” said Nicole Neily, president and founder of Parents Defending Education.
“Without a doubt, institutions are going to err on the side of ‘inclusion,’ because they fear the wrath of the Education Department – thus, achieving the Department’s end goal while allowing them to maintain plausible deniability that they coerced districts into doing so,” Neily said.
Erika Sanzi, the group’s director of outreach, called the administration a “gender czar,” saying they are “putting school districts in an impossible position.”
Transgender activists, meanwhile, reacted with concern that the rule gives too much leeway to schools that are looking to ban trans-identifying males from competing with girls.
The proposal will now be subject to public comment, during which it is almost guaranteed to face challenges from critics.
If approved, the rules would apply to all public K-12 schools, as well as colleges and universities that receive federal funding.
And there it is in a nutshell. Everybody is scared to DEATH of FedZilla.
And the NCAA says.............”?”
The first sentence: Some schools ban trans-identifying students from playing on the team of their preferred gender.
There is something wrong with the sentence. Won’t read the rest.
Yo Joe
You cannot legislate state laws
Not
Your
Job
Nor
Authority.
It is the action of a dick/tater.
By “wrath”, they mean defunding.
If schools would quit taking Fed money they could tell the US Dept of misEducation to go pound sand.
OTAY!...................
Alrighty.
Then, what does the NAACP say?
😜
This reprobate has been emboldened by the Supreme Idiots.
Biology deniers
So apparently “DEI” is more importanter than womxn’s rights? Where’s gloria steinem (?) and her bra burning buddies? Guess they’d have to include this dylan kid now eh?
The masses must be forced to believe that which they know is not true. This enables the state to have the masses believe anything.
Show me the money...........................
Any schools covered by Title IX will eventually eliminate all distinctions between “men” and “women.” They’ll only field one team for each sport, and everyone — man, woman, mutant, etc. — will be eligible to try out for all teams.
Not only will women disappear from scholastic sports … but the trannies will, too.
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I was thinking this morning- back in the 70’s and through the mid 80’s, America always complained that the East German women were cheating by taking steroids and received an unfair advantage as they were competing like men.
My how things have changed.
The maleducation department.
Moreover there is no enumerated power for that department.
Pity no Republicans kept their promises to get rid of it.
Some pretty blonde girl will have to die on the field competing against a guy, in order for this nonsense to stop.
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