Gabbard sponsors bill banning trans women from women’s college athletics
Controversial legislation introduced this week by U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard might prevent transgender athletes from participating in collegiate athletics.
The legislation, introduced Thursday by Gabbard, a Democrat, and Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican, could halt federal funds to organizations that allow transgender or non-binary athletes to participate in athletic programs that do not match their “biological sex at birth.”
According to the “Protect Women’s Sports Act of 2020,” compliance with title IX — a 1972 federal civil rights law that forbids sex-based discrimination in any school that receives federal funds, and ensures that women’s college athletics programs receive equal support as men’s — should be determined “on the basis of biological sex as determined at birth by a physician.”
Gabbard sponsors bill banning trans women from women’s college athletics
