New Hampshire Women’s Sports Act and Trump’s executive order, signed into law in July, “excludes transgender students, singles out, discriminates and hints that they don’t deserve the same educational opportunities as all other students. Klementowicz said in a statement. During Trump’s first term, the education department released federal guidelines on how Title IX is implemented, particularly on issues of sexual misconduct in schools. The rules state that fraudulent behavior is not achievable. We added protections to students accused of added protections, including presuming that they are innocent throughout the disciplinary process and the right to be provided with all evidence collected against them.
The Biden administration wanted to devise its own policies by interpreting the “gender” in Title IX as including “gender identity” and collaborate with gender identity rather than gender assigned at birth. It has enabled the protection of gender athletes.
But Trump warned that once he takes office he would turn that around. His executive order banning “gender ideology” explicitly states that gender is “an immutable biological classification as a man or woman” and “does not include the concept of “gender identity.” It states.
For K-12 schools and universities that do not adhere to the Trump administration’s interpretation of the Title IX standard, it could mean a loss of federal funds, including grants to educational programs.
So far, no schools at any level have withdrawn federal funding, but the education department has begun investigating potential civil rights violations related to Trump’s executive order.
The day after it was signed, the department announced inquiries at the Scholastic Athletic Association between San Jose State and the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts.
San Jose State is being investigated for players’ participation in women’s volleyball teams, but has not confirmed that schools have trans athletes.
Reviews at the University of Pennsylvania include Leah Thomas, a former student who became the first trans woman to win the NCAA Swimming Championships in 2022. Thomas graduated in 2022, but her participation was the subject of a lawsuit filed by several athletes last year, with another athlete taking another athlete to abolish Thomas’ swimming record this month, with three others is the subject of a lawsuit in which a teammate sued the NCAA.
The NCAA declined to comment, citing pending lawsuits, but in a statement it said it would continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women’s sports, and fair competition in all NCAA championships. “We will ensure that.
A day after Trump signed the executive order, NCAA President Charlie Baker announced that the association is changing its policy so that only student-athletes assigned to students at the birth can participate in university competitions. did. In a statement, he said, “Unified Eligibility Standards are best useful for today’s student-athletes, not a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” and the order “provides clear national standards.” I stated.
Nationally, there are relatively few trans athletes competing in college sports. The exact number is unknown, but Baker told legislators in December that he knew less than 10 of the NCAA, which has over half a million student-athletes.
On Wednesday, the Department of Education released an investigation into two more groups: the Minnesota High School League and the California Governance Federation.
“History reminds these organizations that they don’t kindly look at entities that actively oppose the enforcement of federal civil rights laws that protect women and girls from discrimination and harassment,” Civil Rights Director Craig said. The trainer said. In a statement.
The Minnesota State High School League has allowed transgender student-athletes to compete on teams that match their gender identity since 2015, and in a statement they entered the investigation, seeking “clearing and directives” from the state attorney general. He said he would cooperate. .
The Inter-Calif. Governance Federation declined to comment on the pending investigation, but said it would not collect data on transgender student-athletes.
Before Trump’s executive order, more than half of the state had taken steps to restrict trans athletes from playing on teams to their gender identity. The court has blocked the ban in four states: Arizona, Idaho, Utah and West Virginia.
Elsewhere, the debate continues.
In Indiana, the House Education Committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would ban trans women from competing in women’s college sports teams, similar to the ban on K-12 sports passed in 2022. .
Eventually, all Democrats, except one on the Indiana House Education Committee, voted in favor of the university’s ban, but some of the parties were assigned women at birth during previous sports. Both athletes and trans women and girls expressed their struggle to become politicized. The bodies, such as the NCAA, were in positions to govern themselves.
“We don’t need to do this,” said Rep. Ed Delaney, a Democrat who voted for the bill. “It’s an overreach, a signaling of virtue, a waste of our time.”
Trump’s executive order appears to have an impact beyond our borders and school sports.
A week after it was signed, World Athletics, the international governing body of athletics, has cited athletes who assigned athletes at birth with higher testosterone levels under the same rules, except for transgender athletes in the female category. We have announced that we are recommending that they be placed.
Meanwhile, the International Boxing Association, a Russian-led boxing governing body that has been expelled from the Olympics, Trump has announced that it will file criminal charges against the International Olympic Committee to allow boxers Iman Kelif and Lin Yu. I quoted the order. Ting, assigned a woman at birth and identified as a woman, competed and won the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games. Trump often misunderstands boxers.
At the signing ceremony for the trans sports executive order, the president had in advance on his intention to participate in transgender athletics and fight the Olympics. He reviewed the policy on the state and the Department of Homeland Security that allows male athletes to “want to participate in women’s sports,” and said, “change everything that is related to the Olympics.” , said he hopes this will definitely do something outrageous, ahead of the 2028 Summer Meeting in Los Angeles.
Transgender athletes are extremely rare to compete in the Olympics.
