Republicans urge college athletic conference to ban transgender athletes
Over a dozen Republican lawmakers are urging a collegiate athletic conference to ban transgender women from competition following reports of a trans student competing on the s women’s volleyball team of a participating university.
A group of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers is urging a collegiate athletic conference to ban transgender women from competition after it was reported that a trans student competed on the women’s volleyball team of one of the conference's universities.
In a letter sent Monday to the commissioner of the Mountain West Conference, Republican senators and representatives said the NCAA Division I conference was violating Title IX sex discrimination protections and failing to meet requirements of its own handbook regarding gender equity.
“Permitting biological men to play in women’s sports is not equitable; it is an injustice,” the letter reads. “Under these guidelines, it is only fair that biological males play men’s sports and biological females play women’s sports.”
“Clearly, the Mountain West Conference has dropped the ball,” it continues.
The group of lawmakers is made up of Republicans from three of the states where the conference schools are located: Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee and Reps. John Curtis, Blake Moore, Burgess Owens and Celeste Maloy of Utah; Sens. Mike Crapo and James Risch and Reps. Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson of Idaho; and Sens. John Barrasso and Sen. Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming.
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