[BostonCard]

The administration has weighed in:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-admin...mwhatsnews

(may be behind a paywall)

Under the proposed regulation, schools wouldn’t be permitted to adopt “one-size-fits-all” policies that categorically ban transgender students from participating on teams consistent with their gender identity, federal officials said.


But schools would have the ability to develop team-eligibility criteria that ensure fairness in competition or prevent sports-related injury.


...

According to Education Department officials, the new rule would allow schools to adopt policies that limit transgender students’ participation in instances of “competitive high school and college athletic environments” so long as they promote “an important educational objective, such as fairness in competition.”

The rule has to go through the formal rule making process, including public comment.

BC

[BostonCard]

The administration has weighed in:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-admin...mwhatsnews

(may be behind a paywall)

Under the proposed regulation, schools wouldn’t be permitted to adopt “one-size-fits-all” policies that categorically ban transgender students from participating on teams consistent with their gender identity, federal officials said.


But schools would have the ability to develop team-eligibility criteria that ensure fairness in competition or prevent sports-related injury.


...

According to Education Department officials, the new rule would allow schools to adopt policies that limit transgender students’ participation in instances of “competitive high school and college athletic environments” so long as they promote “an important educational objective, such as fairness in competition.”

The rule has to go through the formal rule making process, including public comment.

BC