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."
The California Department of Education on Monday refused to comply with a Trump administration demand to bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, responding to a federal civil rights investigation.