Biden administration redefines sex discrimination in Title IX to include ‘gender identity’

That's a good point about the economic and "soft power" benefits of the US having top athletes (for now). This really is a mess.

Male athletes with DSDs are MALE and should be in the male category. I have no sympathy with the likes of Caster Semenya.

NiceNiche

Regarding replacement of women with men, the TRAs are extreme. They are just ignoring the Wrongthink and they don't care about women's sport other than as a validation tool - that's my guess. Plus US sport is a big business and stage by itself.

But they may also hope to bully world sporting bodies into changing policy. Most of the sport governing bodies have left the door open to including men in the women's category in the future (ongoing appraisal of the science) and have left in place the wedge which helps force men in - the inclusion of male athletes with DSDs.

The statement is insidious. On the surface you say, ok, gender whatnot is protected as is sexual orientation. Then you read it again and see it is a total attack on women's rights and women's programmes. Biden is a creep. How has the US ended up with two creeps standing for POTUS?

That's what I have been saying. Apart from the unfairness, the definition of sex is nonsensical and the provision unworkable.

This will go to the Supreme Court and won't last 6 months. Not to mention Trump probably winning in November (double edged sword)

Reem Alsalem deserves a Nobel

I completely agree with all the above comments. It is quite extraordinary that Biden has done this.

What I can’t see is how they haven’t thought longer term. If ‘Womens’ sport in USA, from grassroots upwards, has quantities of boys/men out performing the girls/women, than where does America think it’s going to get its world beating female athletes from? Their top performing athletes will be unable to represent them on the world stage, as so many sporting organisations are blocking opposite sex individuals as male performance levels are unfair.

Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, criticized the new regulations, saying that they "run contrary to the United States’ obligations under international human rights law."

“The erroneous redefinition of “sex” through these implementing regulations constitutes a grave setback that will increase the vulnerability of the majority of women and girls to incursions into their privacy, including voyeurism, sexual harassment and physical and sexual attacks, by effectively removing single sex spaces,” said Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

Alsalem said the new regulations run contrary to the United States’ obligations under international human rights law to prohibit and prevent discrimination based on sex, which in its common meaning can only be taken to mean “biological sex.”
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She said the regulations could also deviate from other international human rights obligations that the United States has towards safeguarding the rights of female students to privacy and their right to the highest standards of mental and physical health.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/united-states-redefinition-sex-title-ix-will-foster-more-violence-and

It's not really reported here! You have to dig deep to find it in their meeting minutes.

If God had meant Americans to have a President, He would have given them a Candidate.

I'm a US citizen and when I go to the polls it will be for Biden. There's no other option, IMO, because of my concerns for the climate and health care and guns (all three negatively impacting women and children the most). And abortion rights. I also vote Biden because of the danger of a Republican stacking the courts with anti-choice judges (it's not just the supreme court, the president can appoint a lot of lower court judges).

However, I won't reflexively vote for Democrats my local elections - I vote for the person who's most aware of the dangers of gender woo in the schools and sports teams. Surprisingly, the very small Green party and the very small Communist party in my state is opposed to gender identity replacing sex in law. I'm on the left anyway, might as well go all Marxist.

He's a disgrace , he knows the impact of this on women & girls because women like Riley Gaines have been telling him.

Still doesn't give an actual fuck about women.

Absolutely abhorrent.

I feel so sorry for women & girls in the US. The overturning of Roe v Wade and now this. This is simply a wholesale attack on women's rights coming from every political direction.

Someone else who thinks this will cost Biden the election

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/04/26/transgender-title-ix-womens-rights-joe-biden/

https://archive.ph/9ffjn bypass paywall

Poor America, what flavour of shit sandwich do you want?

I can't imagine misgendering being a crime given the first amendment, but who knows with the world we're living in. Maybe if someone could prove they incurred loss of earnings because you repeatedly misgendered someone or something like that.

This honestly makes me feel physically sick, title 9 was one of the few pieces of major legislation that made me feel like women and girls were an important part of American society. Ever since Brett kavanaugh I've given up any hope for a real, fair future for women in the US.

That’s exactly what my DH said when we were discussing this yesterday (we live in the US). Biden has potentially lost himself a huge swathe of votes. It’s so depressing and frightening.

That's chilling.

Why are these politicians so totally stupid as to think that 'sex discrimination' can also mean all these things which ARE NOT SEX.

It's like saying that discrimination on the basis of religious or philosophical belief includes discrimination on the basis of whether you love or hate marmite, whether it should be called Snickers or Marathon and whether the loo roll should face towards or away the person sitting on the WC. FFS!!!

Yep. Thought that as I typed it!

Yes. Same for the UK.