NY School Board To Ban Transgenders From Women's Sports?

Funny how those that are in support of the gender confused always hide behind kids.

“Protect Trans Kids!”

Why not ‘Protect Trans’, period? No pun intended.

Almost as if it was an emotional argument rather than one based on logic.

When you look at the data there seems to be a very sad end-of-the-road waiting for those that transition.

Luckily, amazingly, a school board in Manhattan made a move that goes against the transgender movement.

How did that happen?

A Manhattan school board is taking steps that could ban transgender girls from women's sports.

"Girls and women lose when their hard fought and won sports opportunities are ignored in favor of replacing sex with gender identity as a category." https://t.co/qJArnFnbMc

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 20, 2024

New York Post reports:

Manhattan’s largest neighborhood school board district approved a resolution that could lead to a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ sports – despite sharp community backlash Wednesday night.

Community Education Council District 2, which serves Manhattan from the Lower East Side to the Upper East Side, passed the controversial measure in an 8-3 vote that demands the city’s Department of Education allow a public review of its policy allowing transgender girls to play female sports.

The vote took place at the end of a contentious meeting in midtown Manhattan attended by City Council members, district parents and “Umbrella Academy” actor Elliot Page, who transitioned in 2020 and has been a strong supporter of trans youth.

Speakers at the meeting mostly slammed the resolution.

Jared Danker, a gay man who works for the DOE and a District 2 parent, said the resolution would “marginalize and discriminate against a group of students who need our affirmation and support.”

NYC Council member Erik Bottcher, who spoke on behalf of himself and three state lawmakers, also condemned the resolution.

“We are outraged that you’re considering a resolution targeting transgender girls and sports. It is utterly shocking that such a regressive and harmful resolution is being proposed in the school district in the middle of Manhattan,” he said.

The resolution is mostly symbolic, as it only serves as a request to DOE brass to hold a review of the existing policy that the department already backs.

Some members of the CEC D2 said they want community input on guidelines put in place in 2019 by NYC’s Public School Athletic League that allow trans participation, according to the proposal.

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The goal of resolution 248 is to have a review of the DOE’s guidelines and to add parental involvement into decisions. CEC D2 members also want transparency, arguing that they don’t know how the initial decision was made.

CEC member Maud Maron, one of the resolution’s sponsors, dismissed arguments the proposal is transphobic, but claimed it would spark a conversation about who is allowed to play girls’ sports.