Transgender Transgressions
It appears as if biological males cant competent against biological women after all
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In what seems like a common sense ruling to me, the U.S. Education Department has determined in a recent decision, Connecticut’s policy allowing transgender girls to compete as girls in high school sports violates the civil rights of athletes who have always identified as female. The policy of allowing transgender athletes to compete against biological girls in high school violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that guarantees equal education opportunities for women, including in athletics. This decision could force the state to change course in order to keep federal funding and might influence others to do the same.
“Today’s finding, which is not a legal ruling, represents another attack from the Trump administration on transgender students,” said Chase Strangio Thursday in a statement. He’s the deputy director for trans justice, with the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project. “Since 2017, DeVos’ Department of Education has taken consistent aim at transgender students. Once again, the administration is wrong on the law and we will continue to defend transgender students under Title IX and the Constitution. Trans students belong in our schools, including on sports teams, and we will not back down from this fight.”
The ruling came in response to a complaint filed last year by several female track athletes who argued that two transgender female runners had an unfair physical advantage. The former policy “denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, awards, medals, recognition, and the possibility of greater visibility to colleges and other benefits.”
This dispute is already the subject of a federal lawsuit. In the center of it all are two transgender sprinters, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood. Terry and Andraya often who outperform their competitors. According to the lawsuit, they have won a combined 15 girls state indoor or outdoor championship races since 2017.
Their attorneys argue that both are undergoing hormone treatments that have put them on an equal level as the girls they are competing against. Chelsea Mitchell, who is one of the plaintiffs, won two state indoor title races over Miller this year.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit sought to block the participation of seniors Miller and Yearwood from spring track meets, which were later canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They were also seeking to erase all records set by the transgender athletes.
Sam Brinton, vice president of advocacy & government affairs for The Trevor Project, says “Title IX was meant to ensure that gender would never be a barrier to opportunity in our nation’s schools; this decision by the administration to use it instead to exclude transgender athletes completely warps this landmark civil rights law into a tool of discrimination. At The Trevor Project, we hear directly from transgender and nonbinary youth who only want to be included as who they are. They don’t deserve to be sidelined by their federal government.”
Mark Boughton, mayor of Danbury, Conn., where one of the female students who sued over the policy goes to high school, said the finding was appropriate.
“I’m sure there’s some way that there can be a separate category created for transgender athletes,” Mr. Boughton said. “But I think it’s unfair to directly compete against girls. If you’re male and transition to female, you will be a leg up on a female athlete at that age. I think as people get older and become adults, it’s a different story.”
What are your thoughts?
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Clayton Craddock is an independent thinker, father of two beautiful children in New York City. He is the drummer of the hit broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University’s School of Business and is a 25 year veteran of the fast paced New York City music scene. He has played drums in a number of hit broadway and off-broadway musicals including “Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical and Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill. In addition, Clayton has worked on: Footloose, Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Evita, Cats, and Avenue Q.