President Donald Trump signed an executive decree on Wednesday with the intention of prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in female and girls sports.
The order is the last A wave of decrees that Trump has signed since his entry into office on January 20. By the Associated PressThe order of Wednesday targets the entities which receive federal funding and empower the federal agencies, including the services of justice and education, to apply the interpretation by the Trump administration of the title IX, which classifies “sex” like the gender attributed to birth.
Under the Obama administration, LGBTQ students received protections under title IX, which prohibits discrimination in sex -based schools. The protections were partly intended to protect transgender students in states with republican leadership which adopted laws prohibiting transgender athletes from competition and transgender students to use the bathrooms that align themselves with their gender identity .
Asset Canceled the protections of title IX of the Obama era In his first mandate, and The Ministry of Education has restored them under President Joe Biden. But since its entry into office on January 20, Trump has signed Several executive orders targeting transgender people.
By AP, the new executive decree allows the Ministry of Education to penalize schools that allow transgender athletes to compete and put those who do it at the risk of losing federal funds. The order of Wednesday was issued on national girls and women during the sports day.
THURSDAY, NCAA has announced updated rules For transgender athletes. The new rules occurred one day after the NCAA said that it would respect the decree.
Male sports have very few restrictions. They are open to an athlete born like sex and athletes taking testosterone must perform a medical exemption process.
In female sports, transgender athletes are now allowed to train only with their teams and are prohibited from competition.
“A student-athlete assigned to birth can train in a female NCAA team and receive all the other advantages applicable to student-athletes,” said the new NCAA policy. “The leadership of division I plans to adopt limits of alignment in place of the limits of scholarships and new policies of the squad of practice are still in development.”
“A student-athlete assigned to birth that has started hormone therapy (for example, testosterone) may not compete in a female team. If such a competition occurs, the team will be subject to legislation on the NCAA mixed team and the team will no longer be eligible for the NCAA female championships. »»
Like an athlete born as a man allowed to train with a female team, an athlete born as a woman who started hormone therapy could continue to train with a female team. NCAA has also added that schools “have autonomy” to develop their own participation rules and that federal, local and state rules replace NCAA rules.
Doctors and transgender persons have filed proceedings contesting Interrupted funding for affirming care And prepare the ground for a transgender ban in the military. By AP, civil rights lawyers managing these cases argued that Trump’s orders go beyond the president’s authority and violated the constitutional protections and the laws adopted by the US Congress.
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