Republican politicians aren’t finding much luck in many of their old culture war options so they’ve shifted their attention full-force to fighting against transgender athletes participating in women’s sports.
Now, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined the fray, announcing that he is joining an amicus brief that is led by Tennessee and was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
According to Paxton, the brief’s intention is to “protect women’s sports from unfair and dangerous competition from biological men.”
“For decades, Title IX has helped create opportunities for girls to participate in sports by prohibiting educational programs from discriminating on the basis of sex,” his press release read.
“Despite recent attempts to radically alter the definition of ‘sex,’ Title IX has long operated under the biological reality that there are two separate sexes: male and female. Given this fact, allowing subjective ‘gender identity’ to trump biological sex would render much of Title IX unworkable.”
Even though Republicans haven’t historically cared all that much about women’s sports and protecting Title IX, they’ve thrown themselves into this battle in order to push back on the Biden administration’s plan to change some of the specifics surrounding transgender athlete participation. While schools would be allowed to stop transgender athletes from participating in high school and college sports, blanket bans would not be allowed.
[Texas AG]
