In newest trans sports activities salvo, Trump administration creates Title IX investigation group
The Trump administration is creating a brand new Title IX Particular Investigations Staff centered on conserving transgender ladies and ladies from sports activities groups and restrooms designated for females.
The group will “defend college students, and particularly feminine athletes, from the pernicious results of gender ideology in class applications and actions,” the Departments of Training and Justice stated in a joint information launch Friday.
The group, in keeping with the discharge, will permit the 2 departments to streamline investigations into the “staggering quantity of Title IX complaints” which have been filed. Title IX is a 1972 civil rights legislation that prohibits sex-based discrimination in academic applications that obtain federal funding.
Transgender ladies’s participation in ladies’s sports activities has been an more and more divisive political concern over the previous a number of years. Greater than half of U.S. states now have measures that prohibit trans college students’ sports activities participation, and President Donald Trump signed an government order in February prohibiting trans ladies and ladies from feminine sports activities.
Title IX Particular Investigations Staff will include DOE investigators and attorneys from each the DOE and DOJ.
“This collaborative effort with the Division of Training will allow our attorneys to take complete motion when ladies’s sports activities or areas are threatened and use the complete energy of the legislation to treatment any violation of girls’s civil rights,” Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi stated within the information launch.
Training Secretary Linda McMahon, who’s co-founder and former CEO of the World Wrestling Leisure (WWE), stated she had a message for entities that allowed trans ladies to “compete in ladies’s sports activities and use ladies’s intimate amenities: there’s a brand new sheriff on the town.”
A spokesperson for LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD known as the creation of the brand new group a “baseless plan with the potential to waste untold taxpayer assets to pursue an unhinged agenda of animus.”
“Focusing on a handful of athletes does nothing to guard ladies and ladies,” the spokesperson added. “The truth is, these bans endanger all ladies as they danger invasive genital exams and different costly ‘verification.’”
Whereas the precise variety of transgender scholar athletes is unknown, throughout a December listening to earlier than Congress, NCAA President Charlie Baker stated he was conscious of fewer than 10 energetic NCAA athletes who recognized as transgender.
In March, the Trump administration paused $175 million in funding to the College of Pennsylvania over its transgender athlete insurance policies, which the varsity stated have been compliant with the NCAA and Ivy League insurance policies.
