The Biden government has decided to withdraw federal support for a lawsuit against the state of Connecticut aimed at banning it from allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s sports in high school, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
The Justice Department’s withdrawal came before a hearing on Friday in the case on the state’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The families of three high school girls sued Connecticut authorities in 2020, arguing that allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports forced athletes to “compete against boys”.
“Forcing them to compete against boys is not fair, it destroys their dreams and destroys their athletic opportunities,” said plaintiffs’ lawyer Christiana Holcomb last year. “Having separate sports for boys and girls has always been based on biological differences, not on what people believe about their gender, because these differences are important for fair competition.”
Former Attorney General William Barr
Bill Barr’s Justice Department renews investigation into George Floyd’s death: Putting antifa and Black Lives Matter report in notification Families of gun victims at Pensacola naval station sue Saudi Arabia MORE he agreed, arguing in court documents at the time that the state’s current policy conflicts with Title IX, which guarantees girls equal access to sports and other school activities.
“Under [the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s] interpretation of Title IX, however, schools may not take into account the actual physiological differences between men and women. Instead, schools must have certain biological men – that is, those who publicly identify themselves as women – competing against biological women, ”reads Barr’s file. “In doing so, CIAC deprives these women of athletic competitions of the same sex that are one of the outstanding achievements of Title IX.”
In a filing this week, the US Attorney for the District of Connecticut John DurhamJohn DurhamGarland seeks to draw a stark contrast to the Trump era DOJ John Durham’s final game: don’t expect criminal charges Garland says he didn’t discuss the Hunter Biden case with President MORE wrote that the Department of Justice “reconsidered the issue,” according to the AP.
The news was celebrated by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D), who told the AP: “Trans girls are girls and every woman and girl deserves protection from discrimination. Time course.”
President biden
Joe BidenHoyer: House is going to vote on the COVID-19 relief bill on Friday. Pence meets with senior members of the Republican Studies Committee. Powell rejects Republican Party inflation fears he signaled that he will oversee a reversal of the Trump administration’s general political stance on the rights of American transgender people. In late January, days after taking office, he issued an executive order revoking his predecessor’s ban on American transsexuals serving in the military.
“What I am doing is allowing all qualified Americans to serve their country in uniform and basically restoring the situation … where transgender personnel, if qualified in all other ways, can serve their government in the United States armed forces” , said Biden at the time.