Several Congressional Democrats have signed a letter demanding that biological males be allowed to participate in girls sports.
Twenty-eight Democrats, including Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, have added their names to a letter sent to the Department of Education after it ruled that public schools that allow biological males to play girls sports are violating Title IX, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“The decision of the Department of Education to issue a determination targeting transgender student athletes on the eve of Pride Month is not coincidental,” one of the signers, Rep. Jahana Hayes, said in a statement. “It is a transparent example of their campaign against the rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ children.”
The letter comes in response to a May 15 ruling by the Department of Education saying that public schools that allow biological men to play girls sports are blocking women’s access to education and athletics, therefore violating Title IX.
Earlier this year, the Justice Department issued a filing expressing support for a rule preventing biological males from competing in women’s sports and defending a lawsuit in Connecticut, filed by teenage girls, aiming to prevent biological men from competing against them at their high school.
On Monday, the Supreme Court amended Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include protections for gay and transgender workers based on sexual orientation and gender identity, which some religious colleges fear will further endanger women’s sports.
Lawmakers across the country have been pushing back against pressure to allow biological men into women’s sports. Idaho’s Republican governor, Brad Little, signed legislation in March that made his state the first in the country to enact bans on biological males playing women’s sports.
Several biological men have been crowned champions in female sports, including at an NCAA Division II women’s track championship and a women’s cycling championship.
