KudzuRunner wrote:
When I actually look at the language in the U. S. DOJ letter, I'm profoundly worried. Here's the relevant language:
"Title IX regulations permit a school to operate or sponsor sex-segregated athletics teams when selection for such teams
is based upon competitive skill or when the activity involved
is a contact sport. A school may not, however, adopt
or adhere to requirements that rely on overly
broad generalizations or stereotypes about the differences between transgender students and other students of the same sex (i.e., the same gender identity) or others’
discomfort with transgender students."
Selection for track and cross country teams is usually not based on competitive skill and they aren't contact sports. So, basketball, football, wrestling, and the like wouldn't have transgender students on the team different from their birth sex, as they might call it, unless they thought there was an "overly broad generalization" at work and were shy of any legal challenges. But it does not seem as if track and xc can avoid this unless they do cuts based on competitive skill. The policy is very ill-thought out, in my opinion.