Over the past few months, United States President Joe Biden and his administration have moved forward with a plan to change Title IX that could prevent states from enforcing bans on transgender athletes, but a group of Republican senators is standing against that plan.
On Monday, a group of 22 Republican senators led by Sen. Tommy Tuberville – a former college football head coach – officially called on the Biden administration to withdraw their proposal to change Title IX, according to the Washington Examiner.
“Congress made clear that its intention in passing Title IX was to prohibit discrimination against women participating fully in all aspects of athletic and academic opportunity at institutions that received federal financial assistance,” the senators wrote. “This proposed rule uses weakly-associated case law and polarizing social concepts to broaden the definition of women and girls to include individuals who identify as women, and in doing so, the intent of the law is destroyed and women are marginalized yet again.”
This move comes after the Republican-led House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ban transgender female athletes from competing in women’s sports across the country. However, that bill is not expected to pass through senate and Biden has already made it clear that he will veto the bill if it ever gets to his desk.
