As President Biden proposes a new rule that would amend Title IX to forbid U.S. schools and colleges from banning boys from participating in girls’ sports, a new national poll finds the majority of Americans support such a prohibition.
“More than 6 in 10 adults in the Post-KFF poll said trans girls and women should not be allowed to compete in girls’ and women’s sports, including professional, college, high school and youth levels,” reported The Washington Post.
The Lone Star Standard reported last month that Texas is one of 21 states to ban boys from playing girls’ high school sports.
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 25 into law in 2021, the Lone Star State became the 10th state to enact restrictions effectively preventing transgender students from participating in interscholastic sports teams that align with their gender identity, according to U.S. News.
Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, praised Texas for "taking action in defending the integrity of women's sports."
"Biology matters, especially in sports,” Schilling told the Lone Star Standard. “Men have a distinct athletic advantage over women, a fact that led directly to the passage of Title IX five decades ago. Sadly, the radical ideologues in the Biden administration and many other powerful institutions now deny this simple truth and threaten to wipe out the gains made by women.”
As of publication time, there are 29 states that still allow boys to participate in girls’ high school sports: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
In April, Texas' representatives split along party lines for a U.S. House vote to pass a bill prohibiting school athletic programs from allowing boys to participate in girls’ sports.
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D) did not vote on H.R. 734, “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.", and every other one of Texas' Democrat representatives voted against the bill, which passed the House on a vote of 219-203. The legislation now awaits a vote in the U.S. Senate, where U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) introduced a companion bill.
The White House issued a statement saying President Joe Biden will veto the bill, if passed by the U.S. Senate.
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How many Americans support a prohibition on boys competing in girls’ sports?
Source: Nov. 10-Dec. 1, 2022, Washington Post-KFF poll of 1,338 U.S. adults with an error margin of +/- 4 percentage points.
