Biden Plan for Transgender Title IX Rules Began on Inauguration Day DNyuz

The issue has divided activists who view barring transgender athletes as necessary to protecting fairness in sports, and others who ardently believe that blocking those athletes in any form is part of a larger assault on the civil liberties of transgender people.

The administration s latest proposal to protect transgender people, released on Thursday, is seen by those who have studied Title IX issues as something of a compromise: It would allow schools in limited cases to block transgender athletes from competing, including to prevent sports-related injuries and to ensure fairness in competition. But it would prohibit outright bans.

It would also give the Department of Education the ability to investigate and potentially withhold federal funds from schools that violate the rule once it becomes finalized.

I think it s a pretty clever and thoughtful way of avoiding both extremes, said R. Shep Melnick, a politics professor at Boston College and the author of The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education. It gives significant, and, I think, reasonable discretion back to school officials to take into account grade levels, to take into account the nature of the sport, to take into account what state of development these kids are in.

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