Inside Trump's bigoted push to ban girls from school sports
The Trump administration is trying to make a change to federal regulations that would bar thousands of U.S. girls from school sports.
The change would be to a provision in Title IX, the 1972 landmark federal civil rights law, that bans sex discrimination in schools receiving federal funding and requires those schools to provide athletic opportunities for the “underrepresented sex.”
Currently, that means that in schools where there is only a boys’ team for certain sports, girls are allowed to try out for the team. For instance, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, there were more than 4,000 U.S. girls who played on 11-person boys’ football teams during the 2023-2024 school year.
This attempted change is part of President Donald Trump’s multi-agency push to repeal civil rights advances and bar equal opportunities for transgender Americans. In this instance, not only would transgender children be barred from sports, but cisgender girls would also lose rights that they’ve had for more than five decades.
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