We ask Congress and the Administration to affirm Title IX’s long-standing commitment to providing biological females* with equal experiences and opportunities in competitive sport, and to protecting their safety in contact sports, by permitting recipients of federal funds to continue to operate or sponsor separate athletic teams and events for males and females. In addition, we ask Congress and the Administration newly to provide for the participation of transgender girls and women within girls’ and women’s sports programs with appropriate conditions if they have experienced all or part of male puberty (which is the scientific justification for separate sex sport). These conditions should apply throughout interscholastic and intercollegiate sport, and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement. This request is limited to competitive interscholastic, intercollegiate, and developmental elite athletic programs. It does not affect physical education, intramurals, or recreational sports sponsored by municipalities, schools, and colleges.
*We use “female” throughout to denote a person’s biological sex regardless of their gender identity. We use “trans(gender) girl/woman” throughout to denote a person born male who identifies as a girl/woman.
How You Can Help
Please write to your senators and representative to ask them to support The Equality Act only if it includes an amendment that continues the promise of Title IX – providing males and females with equal sporting opportunities on the basis of biological sex. In addition, The Equality Act should include a new obligation to provide ways to include trans girls/women in girls’/women’s sports that ensure competitive fairness and playing-safety without diminishing the safeguarding of biological females.
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Write Your U.S. Representative
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SUGGESTED MESSAGE
I am asking my Representative to support legislation that continues the promise of Title IX -- providing males and females with equal sporting opportunities on the basis of biological sex. In addition, such legislation should include a new obligation to provide ways to include trans girls/women in girls’/women’s sports that ensure competitive fairness and playing-safety without diminishing the safeguarding of biological females. Please reject both the effort to exclude trans girls and trans women from girls’ and women’s sport and the effort to disadvantage biological females by forcing them to compete against athletes with male sex-linked physical advantages.
Write to Your Two U.S. Senators
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SUGGESTED EMAIL:
I am asking my Senator to support legislation that continues the promise of Title IX -- providing males and females with equal sporting opportunities on the basis of biological sex. In addition, such legislation should include a new obligation to provide ways to include trans girls/women in girls’/women’s sports that ensure competitive fairness and playing-safety without diminishing the safeguarding of biological females. Please reject both the effort to exclude trans girls and trans women from girls’ and women’s sport and the effort to disadvantage biological females by forcing them to compete against athletes with male sex-linked physical advantages.