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Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill that ties Title IX protections for female athletes to 'biological sex'
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| Last Edited | RP Dec 11, 2020 10:37am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | William Cummings |
| News Date | Friday, December 11, 2020 04:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Outgoing Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is facing backlash after she joined Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin to introduce legislation specifying that Title IX protections for female athletes are based on "biological sex."
The text of the bill introduced Thursday calls for Title IX compliance to be "determined on the basis of biological sex as determined at birth by a physician." Title IX, which forbids sex-based discrimination in any school receiving federal funds, is best known for ensuring that women's college sports programs receive equal support – and a federal judge recently applied it to rule a transgender woman could not be kept off a women's sports team.
In 2016, the Department of Education under former President Barack Obama cited Title IX when it issued a guidance requiring schools to allow transgender students to use the restroom or locker room of their chosen gender. President Donald Trump rescinded that guidance in one of his first acts after taking office. But the Supreme Court ruled in June that a 1964 civil rights law against workplace discrimination applies to gay, lesbian and transgender workers and that decision has been cited by lower courts to extend those protections to transgender athletes. |
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