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Biden Admin Withdraws Support From Case Challenging Transgender Athletes in Girls’ Sports
Epoch Times ^ | 02/24/2021 | GQ Pan

Posted on 02/24/2021 5:14:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Departments of Justice and Education have withdrawn their previous support of a federal lawsuit that seeks to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from competing in interscholastic sports with biological girls.

The lawsuit in question was filed in June 2019 by three female athletes against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which administers high school sports in the state. The girls, represented by conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), argued that the CIAC’s policy of allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports had deprived them of track titles and scholarship opportunities.

According to the ADF, the Biden administration has informed the federal court that it’s reversing the position taken by the Trump administration regarding the case.

“The government’s politically motivated reversal can’t change biological reality or the correct interpretation of the law,” the ADF said in a statement, noting that males will “always have inherent physical advantages” over “comparably talented and trained girls.”

The Trump-era Justice and Education Departments, headed by former Attorney General William Barr and Secretary Betsy DeVos, respectively, weighed in on the case last year in favor of the suing girls. In separate statements, the agencies argued that allowing male-born students to compete on girls’ teams is a violation of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education.

“Title IX and its implementing regulations prohibit discrimination solely ‘on the basis of sex,’ not on the basis of transgender status, and therefore neither require nor authorize CIAC’s transgender policy,” a March 2020 statement of interest by the Justice Department read. “To the contrary, CIAC’s construction of Title IX as requiring the participation of students on athletic teams that reflect their gender identity would turn the statute on its head.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: courtcase; girlssports; transgenders
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To: SeekAndFind

How many moms and dads who opposed men competing as women voted for Biden?


21 posted on 02/24/2021 5:56:56 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: SeekAndFind
the future face of girls sports


22 posted on 02/24/2021 5:58:22 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: BobL

The Democrat “War on Women” has been going on since 1973. When the Supreme Court ruled that unborn babies are not human, they insulted all women and females in every species. It is a biological fact that a pregnant mare gives birth to either a colt or a filly - certainly an equine baby - not a raccoon, nor a snake, nor an elephant.

To say pregnant human females are carrying anything other than a human life is insulting to women. I cannot understand why more females do not comprehend this fact. Men cannot have babies, but women can [at least in any normal situation]. Males who are libertines are the ones who do not respect pregnancies in women.

Enough of this silliness. And to those men on this forum who continually act as though women deserve to have their sports invaded by men, I say to you, do not lump all women into this class of crazy fools. Well-balanced women enjoy watching all sports, and are not approving of women insisting they ought to compete against men, that they are equal/the same to men in every matter, and do not approve of women invading male dressing rooms. Fortunately, most men are more sensible in this matter. Boys should not be able to compete in sports against women period!!!


23 posted on 02/24/2021 5:59:12 PM PST by Gumdrop
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To: WASCWatch

RE: How many moms and dads who opposed men competing as women voted for Biden?

I asked a few of them - apparently those who voted for Biden voted not FOR HIM but AGAINST Trump.

Their dislike for Trump’s “un-presidential” style exceeds their concern for things like open borders or men in women’s sports.


24 posted on 02/24/2021 5:59:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

World championship chess tournaments are very odd that way. Women can compete in the “open” division with men, but also have a separate women’s division. There hasn’t been a woman who ever came close to winning a sanctioned World Chess Championship in the open division.


25 posted on 02/24/2021 6:08:49 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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IN THE RACE FOR HOUSE SEATS EVERYONE RUNNING UNDER THE DEMON-O-CRAT LABEL VOTED FOR THESE TWO ISSUES
ABORTION FUNDING SUPPORT AND THIS. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE USED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES BUT WAS NOT

FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports...Any Dem congressman who didn’t support this got kicked out by holding their primary in remapped districts.This effort by those in control of the demo party shpould have been used to demonstrate where that party is coming from. Why weren’t those votes an issue in this 2020 campaign by the Republicans ? Not just where this occurred but nationally?

.. Democratic candidate for America’s Vice President California and likely presidential replacement Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.

In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
.Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts

.. HERE’S HOW THEY TREATED CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT FUNDING STUFF LIKE THIS

.. And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress An example is Illinois 3rd district
..
Todays Democrats weren’t happy with this father William O Lipinski then sucessor son Daniel also votes against abortion and then be the only congressional democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports. To stop this the demoncrats decided to remap his district of areas which supported him for the 2020 primary.

The ward (the 23rd) and the congressional district formerly the 5th which they changed into being the 3rd Illinois congressional by taking ward areas which had areas dominated by hispanic fore names and placed them into the Louis Gutierez district.

In the reshaped 3rd Congressional district primary Daniel Lipinski lost because of this redistricting. Of a district which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd. which was “re-mapped in 2012 after former alderman and ward committeeman now congressman William O Lipinski annouced his retirement and wanted his son for his congressional replacement .

The remap was replacing ward boundaries of the 14th known as the stockyards which had experienced extensive demographic changes. They chopped up and placed sections of streets and blocks that were not only in the 23rd but the of adjacent 12th and 15th wards and made them the 14th ward

Now because Chicago alderman oversee routing of such things as garbage collections and getting city services . Some have complained of seeing rodents since as well as complained of poor road maintenance on their block. Because with this remap if your residence was in one ward your neighbor across the street or a block down is might be in another ward

.. The 5th was a district in the 1950’s which was a part of the third largest school district in the country run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Those city wards were primarily composed of dozens of traditional value family oriented Catholic/Christian communities centered around their churches and their schools. Hence opposed to funding such things as abortion and LGBT activities rather for issues that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway.

These Wards once were reliable supporters of Dan’s father, William O Lipinski. But after the 2012 redistricting the number of precincts in the 23rd were cut back to 39 and even their ward headquarters location was stuck in another ward.

And where many wards had areas with Hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to the Louis Gutieriez’s district. In areas where buildings were abandoned affected by the no money down home mortgages or had changed because of this. The ward such as the 14th known as Back of The Yards because of the former stock yards which has since relocated was remapped to include portions of other wards mainly the 23rd which Those results actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.

In some of those wards areas of city blocks which were zoned exclusively for single family dwellings residents suddenly found their neighborhood having houses torn down and being replaced with multiple apartments with the units not required to furnish parking facilities and many renters were illegals. Much of which fit the plans for the suburbs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3881650/posts
http://www.theusmat.com/mdwbea.htm


26 posted on 02/24/2021 6:30:15 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: jonrick46

That was my first thought. I don’t think Biden’s Admin. has ever voiced support FOR this challenge, and I would have been surprised had they done so.


27 posted on 02/24/2021 6:35:50 PM PST by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it’s awesome. Now all the liberal parents in the country can tell their daughters that the reason they can’t play sports anymore or will lose out on scholarships is because their parents voted for a moron and, perhaps, one of the most evil and corrupt individuals in the US government.

One doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing.

The other got less than 2% support for her short primary run, called her running mate a racist, had no one show up die any campaign events, was the first to drop out from lack of support and money, but still helped get more votes than any other pair running for the office.


28 posted on 02/24/2021 6:48:27 PM PST by qaz123
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To: SeekAndFind

This is so wrong, and you don’t have a be a LGBT phobe to
think so.

This is destroying women’s sports. That isn’t right.

Where are NOW and the other women’s advocate groups?

Women train hard for their chosen sports, and their
scholarships depend on their performance.

Are women’s advocates going to force women to take a
back seat to men on their teams?


29 posted on 02/24/2021 6:54:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: SeekAndFind

World’s fastest man: 100 meters in 9.58 sec
World’s fastest woman: 100 meters in 10.51 sec

Nope, no difference.


30 posted on 02/24/2021 7:08:59 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats would burn the country to the ground to be absolute rulers over the ashes.)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

2+2=5 if it makes you FEEL better. /sarc


31 posted on 02/24/2021 7:10:00 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats would burn the country to the ground to be absolute rulers over the ashes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Time to have four categories of sports:

Boys.
Girls.
He-shes.
She-hes.


32 posted on 02/24/2021 7:13:19 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Nope only 2 are necessary. No matter the surgery, you cant change this.

XX chromsome sports
XY chromosome sports

Get a test at birth on what pair of chromosomes you got, and it will be put on your birth certificate. Show your birth certificate to qualify for which sports team you can play for, and that is that. Screw your feelings! Screw what you think you are! Screw the “i was born a boy but feel like a girl. Its settled.


33 posted on 02/24/2021 8:27:51 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

I agree...but in this present climate we need the four categories.

I can almost guarantee that that she/hes will be playing with themselves.


34 posted on 02/24/2021 8:34:52 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Somebody has said “If I had a dollar for every sex, I’d have two dollars - and a couple dozen counterfeits.”


35 posted on 02/24/2021 9:13:21 PM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Such is so...


36 posted on 02/25/2021 4:26:32 PM PST by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve been the same gender since birth....

That’ll drive the left nuts.


37 posted on 03/24/2021 3:02:40 PM PDT by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: Chode
Andy was ahead of his time...


38 posted on 03/24/2021 3:03:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

OH yeah... i always wanted to pound his ass for some reason


39 posted on 03/24/2021 3:34:42 PM PDT by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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