New Hampshire Justice Law in women’s sport, which was signed in July, as well as Trump’s executive order, “excludes, shaking and discriminating to transgender students and insinuates that they do not deserve the same educational opportunities as all other students “Klementowicz said in a statement. During Trump’s first mandate, the Department of Education published federal guidelines on how to implement title IX, particularly on the issue of inappropriate sexual behavior in schools. The rules gave students accused of additional protection behavior, including the presumption that they are innocent throughout the disciplinary process and the right to receive all the evidence collected against them.
The Biden administration devised its own policies by interpreting “sex” in title IX as an inclusive of “gender identity”, which allows the protection of transgender athletes that they wanted to compete in sports aligned with their gender identity and not with Your sex assigned to birth.
Trump, however, warned that he would reverse that once he assumed the position. Its executive order that prohibits “gender ideology” explicitly establishes that sex means “immutable biological classification as a man or woman” and “does not include the concept of ‘gender identity'”.
For K-12 schools and universities that do not adhere to the interpretation of the Trump administration of the standards of Title IX, it could mean the loss of federal funds, including subsidies to their educational programs.
Although until now, no school has terminated its federal financing, the Department of Education has begun to investigate possible violations of civil rights related to Trump’s executive order.
A day after it was signed, the department announced consultations at the State University of San José and at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association.
The state of San José is being investigated on the participation of a player in the women’s volleyball team, although the school has not confirmed that the team has a transgender athlete.
The review at the University of Pennsylvania involves Lia Thomas, a former student who in 2022 became the first trans woman to win a NCAA swimming championship. Thomas graduated in 2022, but his participation is the object of a lawsuit filed by several athletes last year and another this month by three teammates who demand the NCAA and others in an effort to repeal the swimming records of Thomas.
The NCAA declined to comment, citing pending litigation, but said in a statement that “it will continue to promote title IX, to make unprecedented investments in women’s sports and guarantee fair competition in all the NCAA championships.”
A day after Trump signed his executive order, the president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, announced that the association was changing their policy to allow only the students assigned at birth participate in university competitions. He said in a statement that “uniform eligibility standards would better serve today athletes students instead of a mosaic of state laws and judicial decisions in conflict”, and that the order “provides a clear standard standard.”
Nationally, the number of trans athletes competing in university sports is relatively small. While the exact number is unknown, Baker told Congress legislators in December that he was aware of less than 10 in the NCAA, which has more than 500,000 athletes students.
On Wednesday, the Department of Education announced investigations from two more groups: the Secondary School League of the State of Minnesota and the Interscolastic Federation of California, claiming that the state governing bodies plan to violate Trump’s executive order.
“I would remind these organizations that history does not seem friendly in the entities and states that actively oppose the application of federal civil rights laws that protect women and girls from discrimination and harassment,” said Craig Trainor, assistant secretary of civil rights of the department. In a statement.
The Minnesota State Secondary School League, which has allowed transgender athletes to compete in a team that aligns with their gender identity since 2015, said in a statement that would cooperate with the investigation while looking for “clarifications and direction” of the State Attorney General.
The California Interscholastic Federation declined to comment on pending research, but said it does not collect data on transgender athletes.
Before Trump’s executive order, more than half of the states already had established measures to restrict trans athletes playing in teams that are aligned with their gender identities. The courts have blocked prohibitions in four of the states: Arizona, Idaho, Utah and West Virginia.
Otherwise, the debate continues.
In Indiana, an Education Committee of the House of Representatives advanced on Wednesday a bill that prohibits transgender women from competing in women’s university sports teams, similar to a ban on K-12 sports approved in 2022.
Ultimately, all but a Democrat in the Education Committee of the House of Representatives of Indiana voted in favor of the university ban, but some in the party expressed their fight with how to support both athletes assigned at birth and women and girls Trans has politicized, when sports bodies like NCAA had previously been in a position to govern themselves.
“We don’t have to do any of this,” said the representative ED Delaney, a Democrat who voted for the bill. “It is a signaling of overreach and virtue, and it is just a waste of time.”
Trump’s executive order seems to have an influence beyond the US borders and school sports.
A week after it was signed, World Athletics, the international athletics athletics organ, announced that it would recommend placing athletes assigned at birth that have higher levels of testosterone under the same rules that come out to transgender athletes in female categories.
Meanwhile, the International Boxing Association, a boxing -to -leading body led by the Russian who has been banished from the Olympic Games, cited Trump’s order in an advertisement last week that says he would file criminal complaints against the International Olympic Committee For allowing the boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu- ting, who were assigned women at birth and identified as women, to compete and win gold medals in the Paris Games of 2024. Trump has often chewed the boxers.
During the signing ceremony of his Executive Trans Sports Order, the president was sincere about his intention to fight transgender athletic participation to the Olympic Games. He said he wants the state and national security departments to review the policies around admit See with this absolutely ridiculous subject “before the 2028 summer games in Los Angeles.
It is still extremely rare that openly transgender athletes compete in the Olympic Games.
