In Thursday’s announcement, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said, “Every student can have the full experience of attending school in America, including participating in athletics, without discrimination. discrimination.”
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In Thursday’s announcement, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said, “Every student can have the full experience of attending school in America, including participating in athletics, without discrimination. discrimination.”
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On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education announced a proposed change to Title IX that would prohibit sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs. The proposal would lead schools to broadly ban transgender students from participating in sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than their assigned gender at birth.
The department said the move comes after two years of reaching out to stakeholders across the country and that the changes still give schools the flexibility to ban transgender athletes depending on their level of education. age and sport.
“Every student can have the full experience of going to school in America, including participating in athletics, without discrimination,” said US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “Participating in a sports team is an important part of the school experience for students of all ages.”
According to the ACLU, over the past three years, at least 19 states have passed legislation broadly banning transgender students from participating in sports teams that do not match their gender as assigned at birth. If enacted, the proposed changes by the Biden administration would make those policies illegal.
Thursday’s announcement was made on the same day the US Supreme Court refused to intervene in West Virginia fight for a law banning transgender athletes from participating in girls’ school sports teams. And it comes a day after the Kansas legislature successfully overcame the Democratic governor’s veto to encode a ban of its own.
Proposed Title IX changes to be announced to Federal Registration over the next few weeks, after which it will open for public comment for 30 days. Those are just the first steps in a long process to change the law. Assuming the proposal survives that process, schools and students won’t see the rule changed or enacted for months if not years.
