Today he signed an executive order banning discrimination based on gender identity in any educational institution receiving federal funding; transgender students must now be allowed to play on whatever team they identify as, regardless of biology or hormone status.
This is obviously unfair to women and girls - biological males have a huge advantage in sports. That’s why we have separate teams in the first place. Not only does it mean potentially losing out on medals and spots on a team, but also on scholarships.
I can only find articles about preventing employment discrimination in the workplace and in the military.
With his executive order today, President Joe Biden is directing the federal government to fully implement the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, which ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects people from discrimination at work based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Perhaps @DemonTree can explain which part forces schools to allow transgender students to “play on whatever team they identify as, regardless of biology or hormone status”.
My casual understanding is that testosterone levels when how long and how long ago matter as potentially does the specific sport. Last I read on it nothing seemed to be so obvious. To my read it seemed pretty dang complicated and murky and bright line free. Different regulatory bodies have read the science and come to different conclusions.
But long debate threads can be easily found if you search I am sure.
Maybe, but men’s sports are for the most part un-screwable in this regard. You can’t find athletes in sports who would perform better at it than…the male ones. An FtM athlete wouldn’t perform as well in male sports as a cismale.
But an MtF would have a considerable advantage in the women’s game.
That would be helpful in distinguishing this from the many other threads the OP has participated in where transwomen were the subject of various complaints.
AIUI that’s what banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity means. And school sports are mentioned in the first paragraph. Perhaps we need a lawyer to interpret it?
The whole reason sports was gender-segregated to begin with was to give something of a “safe space” for women. Allowing men to compete as women would be a blow to that. A clear case of you-can’t-make-every-faction-in-the-big-tent-happy.
What if they allowed some competitors to take normally banned performance enhancing drugs to treat their medical conditions? That would be a somewhat similar situation.
It was to allow women to compete on an equal basis. Showing that sex discrimination is not always a bad thing, sometimes it produces a fairer result than the opposite.
Certainly lawyers will be involved in interpreting it. But, generally speaking, no, “banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity” does not mean that there can be no rules whatsoever regarding transgender participation in sports. It just means you have to meet the various bars regarding discriminatory rules that apply to other protected classes (race, gender, religion, etc).
If you can show a compelling interest in regulations that require, for example, a certain hormonal level, and you can back that up with scientific fact, then it would not run afoul of anti-discrimination rules.
More generally, rather than flip out at an order that requires agencies to review policies to make sure they are in compliance with anti-discrimination rules regarding transgender people we should all wait to see what actual rules get implemented?
If that is true then I have no doubt that such a rule would be upheld. I am not an expert in the literature. I just wanted to point out that the order did not do what you claimed it did.