Female Athletes Outraged as Proposed Title IX Rule Change Threatens to Push Them Out of Competition
A national conservative watchdog group is encouraging people to flood an online page of the Federal Register with comments about a proposed rule change to Title IX.
If adopted, the change to the federal civil rights law would guarantee the right of male students identifying as females to participate in girls’ sports, in most cases.
Schools failing to comply would lose their federal funding.
And that would continue a growing trend that has infuriated female athletes around the country.
They say they’ve been unfairly pushed off the champions’ podium by stronger, faster biological males.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) celebrates the House passage of The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 20, 2023. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
On April 6, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) released a notice of proposed rule-making on athletic eligibility for transgender students who participate in school sports. Some states recently have banned these students from participating on teams different from their biological sex….