Biden administration says schools may bar trans athletes from competitive teams

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43. Schools -- more specifically, school boards -- will have no trouble at all carrying that burden if

they want to.

The language of the fact sheet itself gives full credence to myths about trans people playing sports.

Instead, the Department's approach would allow schools flexibility to develop team eligibility criteria that serve important educational objectives, such as ensuring fairness in competition or preventing sports-related injury. These criteria would have to account for the sport, level of competition, and grade or education level to which they apply. These criteria could not be premised on disapproval of transgender students or a desire to harm a particular student. The criteria also would have to minimize harms to students whose opportunity to participate on a male or female team consistent with their gender identity would be limited or denied.

Those are actual reasons cited now to keep trans people from playing. The Department's fact sheet acknowledges them as valid reasons. This cedes ground to transphobes and says "OK but don't call it a full ban, that's all."