President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday said it will propose a rule to ensure transgender students can participate in school sports. The proposed rule comes a day after lawmakers in Kansas overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to block transgender students from participating in girls and women’s sports.
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The Department of Education’s proposed rule would say that laws like the one passed in Kansas violate federal Title IX laws, which prevent discrimination on the basis or sex, while also allowing some schools to adopt policies that limit transgender participation in sports at the competitive high school and collegiate levels.
“Every student should be able to have the full experience of attending school in America, including participating in athletics, free from discrimination,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “Being on a sports team is an important part of the school experience for students of all ages.”
Across the country, there has been a push to prevent transgender women from participating in school sports as part of an ongoing effort by conservatives to restrict transgender rights. The laws on the books in 20 states, and pending in more.
The Department of Education’s rule would allow schools to establish policies to determine whether a student is eligible to play, based on the sport, level of competition and grade level. The department said that flat-out bans, like the one in Kansas, would not be acceptable under Title IX.
“Such bans fail to account for differences among students across grade and education levels,” the department wrote. “They also fail to account for different levels of competition—including no-cut teams that let all students participate—and different types of sports.”
The Department of Education said its goal was to minimize harm for transgender students who could be denied the ability to play a sport based on their gender identity. Already, there is a small group of people targeted by these laws — in Kansas, there are only three students in Kindergarten through high school who would be affected. It’s unclear how many transgender athletes there are at the collegiate level.
While the new rule will not be issued immediately — there is a 30 day public comment period — it will likely be challenged in court. In 2021, a group of 20 state attorneys general filed suit against the administration to prevent it from extending federal protections to LGBTQ people.
However, the rule could also provide support for groups challenging state bans, including any potential challenges in Kansas. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, has said he will defend the law in court. The law is set to take effect in July.
“As the father of five daughters who are involved in sports, I care deeply about the fairness in girls’ sports,” Kobach said in a press release Wednesday. “If any group challenges this law in court, I will defend it vigorously. And I am confident that the law will survive any challenge.”
The Kansas Legislature has tried for three years to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports leagues that match their gender identity. This year, amid a larger, nationwide push by conservatives against transgender rights, proponents of the ban were able to secure enough votes to override Kelly’s veto.
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“President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday said it will propose a rule to ensure transgender students can participate in school sports.”…which they DO already, if the recognize their real natural born gender instead of acting like natural born killers of American social sanity. Joe’s gender controlling obsessions obviously would make him a much better Jewish circumcising mohel, than a President in charge of sane social circumstancing’s. Joe’s puppet masters obviously have their controlling wires crossed and tangled to the point of insanity where his actions to remove the potency of our strong upcoming individual citizens, is soon reflected in the collective weakening of the military and the soldiers who protect us. Joe’s song of love is a sad song, now sung by troops into a weak depleted Biden emasculated posture of “Hi Lily, Hi Lily, High low.”
How’s about protect WOMEN!
Trans sports violates common sense, the natural order of things, biological norms, and our Judeo-Christian values.
they are trying to destroy truth just like the nazis did in the 1930’s and most definateley judeo christian values.
might as well say god and jesus to be replced by government!
The federal courts of appeals uniformly have rejected legal challenges to Title IX—holding that Title IX in no way requires schools to cut men’s teams, but that schools may choose to structure their athletics programs however they wish as long as they treat men and women equally.
One can choose to identify with being a duck if they like, act like a duck, walk like a duck and quack like a duck. But don’t try and convince others that you were born with duck genes, just to try and justify your degenerate behavior.
If they created an olympic dwarf tossing competition, Joe would allow Fetterman to compete,,,as one of the dwarfs, with Fauci as the word salad tosser.
Until Biden, Harris, Pelosi or some other “important” democrat’s daughter or granddaughter is affected by this ruling – nothing will change.
Even then, as demonic as these fools are, i STILL DON’T see them changing their minds.
Transgender crowd need to compete in sports against OTHER Transgenders —— Problem solved, period! Man’s champ, Women’s Champ, and Men’s Tranny Champ, Women’s Tranny Champ.
And if those that are identifying as dogs continue, we will need a Dog Champ !
Human biology & mother nature rules IMO.
This means they can operate, mutilate & medicate till hell freezes over but they can’t change male XY chromosomes to female XX or vice-versa.
They also can’t operate & change the male physiological / skeletal muscle & bone structure to be female or vice-versa.
So, there is no such thing as an authentic “Trans” person. Simply can’t be done medically.
Any doctor or medical professional who says otherwise is either a lying con artist or is delusional & needs psychological treatment, just like the people who think they are “Trans”.
This wealthy liberal / Dem Party BS is akin to their climate change con job claiming that confiscating trillions $ from working class US citizens will magically give them power to control the weather & geologic events that have & will always occur.
Back the real women and “Boo” the trannies at the swim meets. Especially when they are introduced or finish #1 in the event.
Trangender is a bunch of bull. I do not and will not accept their behavior. They are mentally ill, period…