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Today, Explained

Can Title IX protect trans athletes?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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President Biden hopes so. His administration is preparing to roll out new rules that would counter state and local bans aimed at keeping transgender youth out of sports. ESPN’s Katie Barnes explains. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Avishay Artsy and Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It feels like every month there's another state trying to ban trans athletes from participating in school sports.

0:07.0

This month it's North Carolina.

0:11.0

The bill forces athletes to compete with their biological sex and not their gender identity.

0:16.0

This would apply to middle school, high school, and college.

0:20.0

But this month someone else walked directly into this hotly contested debate.

0:25.0

A new plan proposed by the president would prevent states from banning transgender athletes in public schools.

0:31.0

The Biden administration wants to bring some clarity to the chaos that is the trans athletes debate in America.

0:39.0

We're going to try and figure out that that's even possible on today's plane.

0:43.0

They deserve not to live in fear of losing a scholarship because the biological male caused them to lose it.

0:51.0

They are in a competition to see who has the least tolerance for the existence of trans students.

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