The rights of female athletes
A Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports violates the civil rights of female athletes, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has ruled.
The ruling, which was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, comes in response to a complaint filed last year by several female track athletes, who argued that two transgender runners who were identified as male at birth had an unfair physical advantage.
The office said in a 45-page letter that it may seek to withhold federal funding over the policy, which allows transgender athletes to participate as the gender with which they identify. It said the policy is a violation of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that guarantees equal education opportunities for women, including in athletics.
As it obviously does. It’s just verbal magic to pretend it doesn’t – the verbal magic of calling boys “trans girls” so that they can compete against girls and thus be almost guaranteed to win.
It has “denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, awards, medals, recognition, and the possibility of greater visibility to colleges and other benefits,” according to the letter, which is dated May 15.
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, has said its policy is designed to comply with the state’s law barring schools from discriminating against transgender students. A call seeking comment was left Thursday with CIAC.
Trans students shouldn’t, obviously, be bullied or persecuted, but that doesn’t mean they have to be endorsed as the sex they claim they are but physically speaking are not. Feelings in the head like “identifying as” something can’t really be subjects of anti-discrimination law, because they’re too nebulous and unfalsifiable and personal.
The dispute, which is already the subject of a federal lawsuit, centers on two transgender sprinters, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, who have frequently outperformed their competitors, winning a combined 15 girls state indoor or outdoor championship races since 2017, according to the lawsuit.
Which is a combined 15 wins that have been stolen from girls.
Here’s another one: are they even taking hormones? ‘cuz if not they aren’t playing with even that minor handicap.
People on this site are so gloomy and pessimistic.
This is a great ruling, right? Exactly what we would have wanted. Yeah, sucks that it comes from the Trump administration, but a good ruling from a bad administration is better than a bad ruling from a bad administration, right?
We won! Yay! Right? Right!
I misread “two transgender sprinters” as “two transgender spinsters”, which I suppose is what they are, in a way.
It is as you say Skeletor (though being gloomy and pessimistic to an extent is sensible)… results are more important than who or why they are gotten.
I’ve re-read the post, and BKiSA’s comment, and for the life of me I can’t see how Skeletor has managed to deduce that
Or why he thought the observation was relevant to this post.
I don’t know – was I supposed to express jubilation in the post as opposed to just reporting the ruling? Is it gloomy and pessimistic to report the ruling?
Who knows.