Biden Threatens to Veto GOP Bill Barring Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports

The White House announced on April 17 that President Joe Biden “strongly opposes” and would veto a bill that would prohibit taxpayer-funded institutions from allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports.
The bill would “amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with [T]itle IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
In a Statement of Administration Policy, the White House claimed that the bill “would deny access to sports for many families by establishing an absolute ban on transgender students—even those as young as elementary schoolers—playing on a team consistent with their gender identity.” They called the proposed legislation “discriminatory.”…}