#school-sports

#school-sports

As states across the country consider blocking trans athletes from participating in school sports - and those bans are challenged in court - the Education Department said it aimed to provide clarity for schools and families and underscored that blanket bans on transgender student-athletes would jeopardize institutions and educational programs that receive federal funding under Title IX, which protections against sex discrimination.

A Manhattan-based Community Education Council voted on Sept. 10 to rescind a widely-criticized anti-trans sports resolution, drawing praise from advocates who regularly protested the resolution at meetings in the aftermath of the vote. Members of Community Education Council District 2, encompassing Chinatown, Tribeca, West Village, Chelsea, Kips Bay, and the Upper East Side, voted 7-3 to nix the resolution, which called for the formation of a new committee that could review and potentially oppose trans inclusion in school sports.

"This is ridiculous," he told CBC Toronto. "Sending [an email] before a long weekend when no one can respond to it or get answers to it or anything like that and knowing full well that Tuesday was the first day of school it was terrible timing, absolutely terrible."