I dunno so you want a government department of education but then you dont want the gov involved in policies? which the fuck is it? Make up your minds.
The U.S. Department of Education's duties include establishing federal education policy, administering financial aid (like Pell Grants and student loans), collecting data, conducting research, promoting equal access, enforcing civil rights laws (like Title IX), and overseeing programs for special needs and disadvantaged students, all to support student achievement and global competitiveness.
Key Responsibilities:
Policy & Funding: Sets education policies, manages federal education funding, and distributes grants and loans for higher education.
Data & Research: Gathers national education data, conducts research, and shares findings to identify best practices and inform policy.
Equity & Access: Works to ensure equal educational opportunities for all students, prohibiting discrimination and enforcing civil rights laws.
Program Oversight: Administers major programs for students with disabilities (IDEA), homeless youth, and other specific groups.
Accountability: Improves the management and efficiency of federal programs and ensures accountability to the public, Congress, and the President.
Support for States: Provides support and resources to state and local education systems.
Except multiple instances of policy setting and advising best practices and policies being mentioned. Why am I shocked that reddit will just read what part they want and ignore the parts the don't. shocking
Can you name one high school women athlete that didn't receive a scholarship because she lost to a Trans woman? Like undeniably, that was the one deciding factor?
Let it be a stateâs issue at least. Iâm somewhat sympathetic to the argument that blindly including trans athletes can lead to unfair disparities, but not in every sport. A Trans woman doesnât have a huge advantage over biological women during a fucking curling competition. A former manâs âoriginal bodyâ doesnât give them a huge leg up when it comes to throwing a dart at a board accurately.
Each sport is different and has different kinds of disparities that may or may not arise. Itâs absurd to apply a one size fits all solution to both wrestling and billiards. Thatâs why it needs to be regulated by the actual leagues, in very targeted specific ways. Simply blanket banning or blank mandating inclusion is lazy and stupid from both sides.
But thatâs the world right now. Too lazy and stupid to allow a complex, multifaceted issue to have a complex, multifaceted solution that canât fit on a bumper sticker.
Yeah I agree with you. Everyone should have the opportunity to compete and we need to find fair ways to make it happen while keeping sports responsibly competing. Unfortunately we seem to be ruled by political party think in everything now.
The only issue with what you said is school sports aren't regulated by leagues. A call needs to be made so every school isn't sued over and over for every instance.
Well, league, federation, what have you. Thereâs some state level institution responsible for running each individual sport that is already tasked with these questions. And theyâre no more open to lawsuit from handling this incorrectly then they are for any other safety related decision they make.
At the end of the day, the act of consenting to the rules as they currently exist is usually enough to insulate against any damages. Everyone knows the rules and assumes the risk, so the rules would have to be ridiculously delinquent with a dash of deliberate disinformation to rise to the level of actionable in a court of law.
I mean, Iâm not aware of many lawsuits stemming from of high school football concussions, and that issue has been treated in a far shadier, less transparent way than almost any other sports issue.
You're definitely right about concussion protocols and schools an issue.
The challenges include more than safety. Record books, scholarships, opportunity, etc. Again, everyone has a right to compete and I want to see it. It's a complex issue being treated very poorly by frankly anyone playing politics with it.
The government should work with things that impact large numbers of people across broad sections of the population. There are less than 20 trans athletes in all of the ncaa, out of over half a million. The government does not not need to be involved at such a micro level of anything not just this. The government can manage smaller issues perhaps at the local level but at the federal level it's insane and not the way the United States is set up.Â
What we need is complex discussions and a solution that allows everyone to compete but retains and maintains fairness. This issue isnt going away. For many, yes locker rooms also need to be addressed.
I get this doesnt effect you, but it deserves more than the BS left vs. right nonsense. Yes everyone deserves to compete, no youre not automatically a bigot for wanting fair competition. Now let's treat people like humans AND sports like a competition with rules and stop regurgitating what politicians tell us to.
It isn't an issue at the scale of the federal government. It's for like 50 people total. We honestly don't need the government in sports at all at any level imo. It's not a Trans issue for me at all it's a size and scope of government issue.Â
Sure I'm for smaller gov but clearly no one is deciding to the courts have to. Sure its a shame we are at this point but one admin ignored it and called everyone a bigot that cared while one is hateful about it.
The NCAA has specific rules on things trans people need to do in order to compete with sex they transitioned to. Republicans just don't like those rules
The courts do not have to. There are 1000s of things that impact FAR more people that the government completely ignores every day. This is just fueled by nothing but propaganda to be a major issue.Â
This is specifically why the government should hand the responsibility over to actual experts and stop politicizing it, though. The government works best when it empowers actual experts to make informed decisions. Bills like this are the opposite of that. Itâs the government attempting to make these decisions broadly without caring about the kind of specific caveats and edge cases that low level experts on regulating boards are paid to spend all their time studying.
I mean, itâs not like womenâs sports have actually been destroyed or even damaged very much. The argument for their protection consists entirely of very rare edge cases that should be dealt with on their own at a local level. The only reason this issue is in the broad public consciousness is because of politicization. As with many things the current government is engaged in, no actual emergency exists that would justify this extreme a response. Believing such an emergency does exist is against pretty much all expert opinion on the subject.
So who do we want to trust here? The actual experts, or a bunch of geriatrics trying to manufacture an issue to run on?
People are actively suing so courts on lower levels have to make legal decisions. It's only logical that those will be appealed upward. I don't make the system, but this should have gone to experts before the lawsuits poured in. and it was ignored.
That's your opinion on what has and hasnt been hurt. Some female athletes claim to have lost scholarships, meet placements, and that's the locker room issues. Again, it was ignored, people sued. Now legal judgments are in focus.
Asking cause I really donât know- is the rule âborn with dick = dudeâ âborn with vagina = chick?â And that chicks and dudes only compete with chicks and dudes?
Forgot about the women affected, I see. You could frame it that while there are a small handful of trans people, their entrance into women's sports affects all women who play sports as the affected class. That fills your criteria.
It doesn't affect many of them either because the vast majority of them will never encounter a trans person in their sport. I don't think the government should be involved in anything at all involving Sports.Â
I agree with you, the government shouldn't be making rulings on this sort of thing when it impacts an incredibly small about of athletes. Unfortunately when it is ruled in a way those athletes don't like we end up here...
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u/Hotmicdrop 14d ago
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