Headline Roundup • December 22nd, 2024
Biden Admin Drops Proposal That Would Have Prohibited Bans of Trans Athletes in School Sports
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Joe Biden's Department of Education withdrew a proposed rule that would have prohibited individual states and schools from banning transgender athletes from participating in sports according to their gender identity.
The Details: Biden’s administration also nixed a proposal to cancel student debt for approximately 38 million Americans, which the Department said was due to “operational challenges.”
For Context: Biological sex is a person’s gender at birth, while their gender identity is which gender they presently identify with. Biden’s administration made the transgender athlete proposal last April. Currently, there are 23 states with legislation in place that restricts trans athletes from “competing as females in public school sports.”
Key Quotes: The Department said it received over 150,000 public comments on the transgender athlete proposal during a 30-day comment period that “offered a broad spectrum of opinions.”
How the Media Covered It: ESPN (Lean Left bias) and The Hill (Center bias) prominently wrote that the proposal would have provided “some protections” for transgender athletes, while Fox News (Right bias) framed it as an effort to “punish schools.”
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ESPN News Service
President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student-athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first steps in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.
The White House expects to pull back unfinished rules across several agencies if there isn't enough time to finalize them before Trump takes office. If the proposed regulations were left in their current state, the next administration would be able to rewrite...
The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a pending regulation governing transgender athletes, abandoning an effort to provide some protections for transgender students that the incoming Trump administration has said it opposes.
The administration also withdrew a proposal to cancel student debt for roughly 38 million Americans, which the Education Department said was due to “operational challenges.”
President Joe Biden's Department of Education has given up on a proposed rule change that would have punished schools for preventing trans athletes from competing in women's sports.
The Department of Education released a docket on Friday announcing its withdrawal of the proposition. The Biden administration had proposed the rule change in April 2023. The proposition was titled "Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance: Sex-Related Eligibility Criteria for Male and Female Athletic Teams"
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