Biden administration withdraws proposed rule limiting transgender bans in sports

[Jose Garcia]

Source: MSN

(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a proposed rule change that would have prohibited schools from banning transgender athletes from teams matching their gender identities.

The administration notified the public that it had withdrawn the proposed rule in the Federal Register.

The administration had proposed the rule in April 2023, inviting the public to comment. It said on Friday that it had received more than 150,000 public replies.

Many of the comments were against the proposed rule, the administration wrote in its Federal Register filing. That, along with multiple pending lawsuits related to gender identity and sports, led the administration "not to regulate on this issue at this time."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-administration-withdraws-proposed-rule-limiting-transgender-bans-in-sports/ar-AA1wfMuq?ocid=BingNewsBrowse

[JoseBalow]

1. I'm surprised by the absence of outrage over this

[Jose Garcia]

2. I think that many people are suffering from outrage fatigue

[JoseBalow]

3. I think you're right, I am certainly feeling that myself.

And the mere prospect of the further outrage that is certain to come over the next few years just makes it worse.

[LymphocyteLover]

6. hard to get too upset when the incoming admin was certain to do the same thing

[Jose Garcia]

10. But they would have had to go through a lengthy regulatory process to do so

[HereForTheParty]

4. Democrats may not be leaning into transgender rights as heavily in the near future

This may be a political move. Frankly it's not a winning issue.

[BootOutTheGoons]

5. Not a winning issue.. Especially for the trans people hurt

Human rights are never a "winning" issue... You fight for them because they are RIGHT

I wish you and so many here would stop and see the hurt such posts have caused to the trans community

When does it stop?

[24601]

7. This issue that does indeed affect girls and women athletes. on the athletic side, there is no credible measurement for

objectively determining even the average relative physical advantage of a boy or man competing head to head with girls or women. It also tends not to provide locker or dorm room privacy for someone who is the opposite sex but identifies as the same gender.

Our daughter swam in college at the NCAA D-III level. Although she was co-captain, even the slowest of the men's team would have beaten her best times at every meet. Popular or not, allowing anyone from the men's team to compete as a transgender woman would have wholly upended competition with a decided advantage that was based on inherent physical differences between men and women.

If crossing over retains fair competition, why aren't more women competing as transgender men?

[BootOutTheGoons]

8. Your rant affects trans people on DU

Not that any of you think we're people anyway

3/5 of a person?

1/5?

Lower than animals?

The damage has been done

You don't care

[24601]

9. The proponents of 3/5 were the Northern abolitionists. Slaveowners wanted every slave to be counted as 1/1 during the

census and subsequent reapportionment to increase Southern influence in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. It's not like the slaves could have participated in electing their Representatives or Presidents.

3/5 was the position that cared about slaves and ending slavery. 1/1 were the racists who wanted it to continue.

[maxsolomon]

11. you believe that the Biden admin rescinding this rule

means that no one on DU thinks Trans people are human?

the hyperbole...

[BootOutTheGoons]

12. Hyperbole?

I'm not the one calling human rights a losing issue!!!!!!!!

[maxsolomon]

13. "Not that any of you think we're people anyway".

That is hyperbolic.