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Biden Plan Allows Limits on Trans Athletes’ Participation in School Sports [1]
['Sarah Mervosh', 'Remy Tumin', 'Ava Sasani']
Date: 2023-04-06
It is certainly not going to close the door on disagreements.
Elementary school students would generally be able to participate in school sports according to their gender identity, under the proposal. But at more competitive levels, including high school and college sports, questions of physicality and fairness could prompt restrictions on transgender athletes.
The Education Department advised that schools would have to assess the ages of students and the level of the competition, as well as the nature of the sport itself. The impact may be different, for example, in track versus badminton.
The proposal must undergo a period of public comment. Once it is in effect, a senior official with the Education Department said, the federal government will be ready to investigate and enforce violations — up to and including withholding federal funding, if necessary.
Conner McLaren, a transgender field hockey player at her high school in central Ohio, took two tests at school on Thursday before hearing the news. “It’s exhausting,” she said, that such a rule is needed at all. And added, “I think it’s ridiculous that President Biden needs to step in to tell states they need to stop bullying trans kids.”
Her mother, Melissa McLaren, added, “It’s so exasperating that we have lawmakers trying to legislate her, when all she really wants to do is sing ‘Pitch Perfect’ on the bus to out-of-town games and throw up after she does too many burpees.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/transgender-athletes-title-ix-biden-adminstration.html
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