Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), is a landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination...
The final new regulations for Ttile IX that the Biden administration has issued so far and which come into force in August say that under the law
Discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
No person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any academic, extracurricular, research, occupational training, or other education program or activity operated by a recipient that receives Federal financial assistance.
In the limited circumstances in which Title IX or this part permits different treatment or separation on the basis of sex, a recipient must not carry out such different treatment or separation in a manner that discriminates on the basis of sex by subjecting a person to more than de minimis harm, unless otherwise permitted by Title IX or this part.
Adopting a policy or engaging in a practice that prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with the person’s gender identity subjects a person to more than de minimis harm on the basis of sex.
However, the final regulations that have been issued so far intentionally omit spelling out exactly what this means, and how it will play out, as far as school sports goes.
But the fact that new regulations issued so far don't address sports specifically doesn't mean there isn't a big rule change in the works and on the way. It simply means that the Biden administration has decided to hold off on formally issuing its new rule pertaining to sports eligibility until after the elections in November. So as not to provoke a hue and cry from either side.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 29, 2024:
Report: Title IX Rule on Trans Athletes Delayed Until After Election
The Biden administration has decided to delay a new Title IX rule that would prevent any blanket bans barring transgender students from participating in the sport consistent with their gender identity.
The Washington Post, citing unnamed officials, reported that the Biden administration decided to not move forward with the athletes rule before the election because of the politics involved.
The department received more than 150,000 comments on the rule, which was released last April [2023].
The comments reflected the sharp divides in the country over transgender rights.
The new rule regarding school sports eligibility that the Biden administration formally proposed in April 2023 will require schools and school sports governing bodies to permit students who say they are trans to participate in sex-segregated school sports based on their claimed gender identities rather than their sex as a general principle.
However, exceptions will be allowed in some limited circumstances where it can be proven that allowing trans-identified students of one sex to particpate in school sports of the oppposite sex would create overwhelming unfairness, cause grave safety risks or put a team or program at comptetive disadvantage.
From the US Deparment of Education April 6, 2023:
Under the proposed regulation, schools would not be permitted to adopt or apply a one-size-fits-all policy that categorically bans transgender students from participating on teams consistent with their gender identity.
FACT SHEET: U.S. Department of Education's Proposed Change to its Title IX Regulations on Students' Eligibility for Athletic Teams
April 6, 2023
"Today, the U.S. Department of Education is releasing a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on athletic eligibility under Title IX
"many schools, students, parents, and coaches face uncertainty about when and how transgender students can participate in school sports, particularly because some states have chosen to adopt new laws and policies on athletics participation that target transgender students.
"The proposed rule would establish that policies violate Title IX when they categorically ban transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity just because of who they are.
"The proposed rule also recognizes that in some instances, particularly in competitive high school and college athletic environments, some schools may adopt policies that limit transgender students' participation.
"Nothing in today's proposed rule would change these longstanding requirements that women and girls be afforded equal athletic opportunity, and the proposed rule affirms that schools can offer separate men's and boys' and women's and girls' sports teams in certain circumstances."
However,
"Under the proposed regulation, schools would not be permitted to adopt or apply a one-size-fits-all policy that categorically bans transgender students from participating on teams consistent with their gender identity.
"One-size-fits-all policies that categorically ban transgender students from participating in athletics consistent with their gender identity across all sports, age groups, and levels of competition would not satisfy the proposed regulation."
1) I am adamantly against transgender people competing in competitive sports, especially a transgender female competing in a female sport. I have said so many times. It is unfair. It is potentially dangerous. It is not right.
2) Any person is capable of wrong doing. Just because some transgender kid said something untoward doesn't mean that's a strike against being transgendered. People say and do rude things all the time who are Christian, Republican, heterosexual, etc.
3) Your claims of "devilish" and other nonsense though is insane. It's all about freedom. We have the freedom in this country to do what we want. If a guy wants to chop off his bits and pieces and wear a dress and high heels, then more power to him. If he would like me to address him as a woman, I will gladly do so. No skin off my nose. If someone asked me if a transgender woman is a woman, I would say, "transgender woman." Lots of people do things I wouldn't do...they wear cowboy boots and flat brimmed hats and get tattoos and piercings and f*ck everyone and anyone and get botox and butt lifts and weight loss surgery and on and on. My opinion about those things I wouldn't do? You do you. People should do what makes them happy as long as it is not illegal. We're only here for so long. You're wasting it being so angry at people who aren't breaking the law.
But again...enough with this competitve sports nonsense.
Did one of the sadsack Jos change the title to include the alleged crude remark so it’s more in your face but fail to say that the “West Virginia transgender track athlete” is like a 13-year old school kid?
Wrong. In Nex's own words, she states that she didn't know these kids until they were put in detention together that week. Nex was a troubled child who was severely sexually abused by her father.
Time to hold these liberal officials instituting and complicit with biological, mentally unstable/trans people in the opposite biological washrooms accountable for the inevitable sexual harassment and abuse of innocent young girls and women. It's time to wake up and stop the agenda.
Let's reframe the issue: girls who are horrifically sexually abused sometimes learn to hate and fear their bodies (they associate girl and womanhood with sexual violence), so they modify their bodies to reduce their sense of shame and vulnerability. We are mad that unhinged activists want to twist the tragic life story of one such girl to bolster a specious political ideology.
We are mad at the penis peole who fetishize vulnerability and feminine clothing and think that this makes them girls or women. We are also mad and frustrated at the girls and women who have bought into a logic that essentially defines females as non-men and not a qualitatively distinct member of our sexually dimorphic species.
We are mad that the narcissists and psychopaths promoting this way of thinking have taken over lesbian and gay rights movements, using feminine boys and masculine girls as chess pieces in their effort to take over and dominate our social institutions.
This movement is not about freedom of expression or upending rigid gender roles. It's about evacuating the meaning of biological sex in policy and everyday life.
"The proposed rule would establish that policies violate Title IX when they categorically ban transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity just because of who they are.
This means it is not Title IX violation unless you categorically ban trans students. In other words, any policy that is not categorical ban is in compliance.
How does this lead to "many more males will be able to use "gender identity " claims to compete in girls' and women's school sports"? States currently do not have any restriction can introduce the same policy as World Aquatics, and they are perfectly in compliance. The only place where the participation of trans athletes would increase are the state that currently have categorical ban. And the number of trans athletes in those states are probably in single digit in most states. That number could be easily offset by the athletes who lose their eligibility in other states.
We are mad at the penis peole who fetishize vulnerability and feminine clothing and think that this makes them girls or women.
Those people are not trans women / girls. So your anger is middirected.
You need to get out more and meet more of the people you are so passionate about defending and promoting.
Or if you can't get out and meet more trans-identified males in IRL, then look at the books and articles they've published, and the videos, photos and social media content they post online.
A good place to start is with the works of Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, Andrea Long Chu, who first became famous for the essay, "Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?" (Chu's answer was yes, definitely.) In Chu's highly acclaimed book, "Females", Chu writes
I transitioned for gossip and compliments, lipstick and mascara, for crying at the movies, for being someone’s girlfriend . . . for feeling hot, for getting hit on by butches, for that secret knowledge of which dykes to watch out for, for Daisy Dukes, bikini tops, and all the dresses, and, my god, for the breasts.
In the same book Chu says that what makes a person female is "being fxcked because fxcked is what a female is." Chu also says that when "femaleness" is "distilled to its barest essentials," the most fundamental, defining characteristics are “an open mouth, an expectant asshxle, and blank, blank eyes”
You also might want to check out the "transition memoir" called "Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis" published a couple of years by another highly acclaimed trans author, Grace Lavery, a professor of English literature at U Cal Berkeley.
If reading books seems like too much heavy lifting, you can try material like this Princeton University seminar from 2020 about so-called "trans women" and "forced feminization porn" aka "sissficiation porn" by Rio Sofia, a visual artist and trans activist whose
recent body of work explores forced feminization porn, a genre that fantasizes about [males] experiencing gender transformation through coercion and loss of control.
Sofia first encountered sissification porn, where men are forced into womanhood as a form of punishment or humiliation, through fetish magazines.
Sofia’s research hopes to explore and speak back to the complex relationship that exists between gender, transformation, and power.
Rio Sofia first encountered sissification porn, where men are forced into womanhood as a form of punishment or humiliation, through fetish magazines. This rich underground visual language complicated her understanding of tran...
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The mouth foamers on here just don’t care about a beautiful young life lost coz it’s all just politics and “mental delusion” in their eyes, but if a cis girl loses podium to or, gasp, gets beaten up by a trans girl in a kid’s brawl, it’s all out war.
Let's reframe the issue: girls who are horrifically sexually abused sometimes learn to hate and fear their bodies (they associate girl and womanhood with sexual violence), so they modify their bodies to reduce their sense of shame and vulnerability. We are mad that unhinged activists want to twist the tragic life story of one such girl to bolster a specious political ideology.
We are mad at the penis peole who fetishize vulnerability and feminine clothing and think that this makes them girls or women. We are also mad and frustrated at the girls and women who have bought into a logic that essentially defines females as non-men and not a qualitatively distinct member of our sexually dimorphic species.
We are mad that the narcissists and psychopaths promoting this way of thinking have taken over lesbian and gay rights movements, using feminine boys and masculine girls as chess pieces in their effort to take over and dominate our social institutions.
This movement is not about freedom of expression or upending rigid gender roles. It's about evacuating the meaning of biological sex in policy and everyday life.
So much useless airhead blabber blather. Speak for yourself unless you are delusional enough to think of yourself plurally.
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According to court documents, a teammate of a transgender middle school athlete in West Virginia says she was sexually harassed by the trans-identifying male.