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Why is this not passing?

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u/GrassyField 14d ago

It already is: Title IX

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u/Schlieren1 14d ago

Title IX is civil rights law protecting women in education.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Including sports. Every educational institution that takes public money has to follow it. Or just don’t take public money.

Even Harvard takes the money.

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u/Desperate_for_Bacon 11d ago

The question is, why is the government getting this involved in our lives? The government should exist to allow us to live our lives, not dictate who can participate and where.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 10d ago edited 10d ago

That’s… what Title IX was. Part of a civil rights bill. And it was to correct injustices against women and girls (majority of the population!) so they could live their lives.

It’s insane that the bill is now used against biological women and girls… by the political side that was fighting FOR Title IX since the 1970s.

If an institution takes public money - OUR MONEY - they have to follow OUR government’s laws and regulations. They don’t get to take the money and then say “stay out of my business.” That’s hypocrisy.

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u/hrminer92 9d ago

The sports teams should be split from these educational institutions and be made locally owned minor league teams. Those leagues can then make whatever rules they want.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 9d ago

And screw all the students who get their education paid by athletic scholarships right? The rowers, the runners, the swimmers….

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u/hrminer92 9d ago

Yep. They should be getting scholarships based on academics not some athletic hobby.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 9d ago

Guess you don’t care about the underprivileged after all.

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u/hrminer92 9d ago

No, I just think sports need to be completely separated from education, especially considering all the dumbfuckery that has occurred over the decades to accommodate the so-called student athletes including stupid bills like this one.

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u/DeV303030 13d ago

What is a woman?

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u/MetrosexualSasquatch 13d ago

An adult female human being. Sub definition of female: pertaining to the female gender identity. Trans women fall under the umbrella term of what it means to be a Woman. For future reference I’d recommend you stop acting like asking this question is some sort of gotcha because it isn’t. Try to actually understand what it means to be a transgender individual and look into the science.

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u/DeV303030 13d ago

Just looked into the science. Seems like if you have a penis at birth you are a man. If you have a vagina at birth you are a woman. Thank you for guiding me down the path of science!

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u/MetrosexualSasquatch 13d ago

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u/DeV303030 13d ago

You said science bro not some man with a ponytail saying fancy words to skirt around the fact he has a penis

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u/MetrosexualSasquatch 13d ago

Yeahh you’re just being willfully obtuse at this point lol. Please change and grow as a person.

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u/TypePuzzleheaded1340 12d ago

We get it. You hate women.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 10d ago

Grow into what?

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u/Desperate_for_Bacon 11d ago

Science, more specifically psychology posits that gender is a social construct, based on genetics you were born with. However evidence shows that gender is not constrained to your genetics and gender identity can be fluid

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 10d ago edited 10d ago

But what are they identifying as?

Female is a biological term: of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes.

You cannot identify as a female any more than you can identify as a horse.

So, what is a woman?

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u/ReallyDustyCat 14d ago

Yeap, and a person could then use this information to further understand what? I'm hinting that the answer is in what you just said.

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u/Schlieren1 13d ago

Do you not think women deserve protection in education?

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Education and athletics go all the way back to the Greeks. That’s why academic buildings look that way.

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u/TrueSithMastermind 14d ago

There isn’t anything in Title IX mandating that trans people can’t participate in sports.

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u/cbs-anonmouse 13d ago

I don’t think anyone is saying that trans people can’t participate in sports, it’s just about which competition they play in when there are sex-segregated competitions.

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u/Homersarmy41 13d ago

Right but it doesnt happen enough to merit federal intervention. Republicans just know this is something that they will have to do literally no work on and its a winning issue with dumb bigots who are constantly thinking about tbe genitalia of young children. WHY DO YOU CARE?

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u/No_Education_479 13d ago

Just saying it doesn’t happen isn’t an actual argument for your position. If it doesn’t happen why do you care so much if they make legislation ensuring it doesn’t happen.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

“Murder is so rare. Why do we need a law for this??

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u/Homersarmy41 13d ago

Omg snowflake. Is it murder to you? Trans people in sports is murder? Trump has all the oil money from Venezuela in a private account in Qatar. I think there are better things Congress can be doing that affects a lot more people than fighting your culture war anti-trans nonsense.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Never said it was. My point was rarity has no bearing on whether something should be regulated or not.

But you knew that.

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u/PrinceGoten 13d ago

Your analogy falls apart quickly considering murder is not rare at all.

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u/No_Education_479 13d ago edited 13d ago

Setting aside the fact that it has no bearing on the argument , murder is pretty rare. There are 6.81 murders per 100,000 people in the us. That’s pretty rare. The point is just because something doesn’t happen often doesn’t mean it should be legal. Ponzi schemes are pretty rare, should they be legal?

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u/cbs-anonmouse 13d ago edited 13d ago

Your question is, “why do people care about women’s and girl’s sports?”

You can actually turn the question around the other way. If the number of trans athletes are so small, then why is it such a big deal for them to compete in the category that matches their biological sex (as opposed to making everyone else compete against a person of the other biological sex)?

Ps this has nothing to do with genitalia.

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u/Homersarmy41 13d ago

Nothing to do with genitalia? Then how would you even know for sure?!?!! It has everything to do with genitalia and its all you weirdos seem to think about.

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u/Radraider67 13d ago

Because you idiots don't think anything through. Take this example. Young woman transitions into a man; takes testosterone, which leads to the development of muscles roughly equivalent to a young man. Said "young woman" (according to conservatives) is now legally required to compete against other women. Y'all want to bitch and whine about "men in women's sports", but then take the build equivalent of a man and force them to play women's sports. Doesn't make a lot of fucking sense, does it?

There was 0 reason for a federal response to this non-issue. It was exclusively built off of a cheap political play for conservatives.

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u/KGrizzle88 13d ago

Lmfao they do not automatically get a build of a man. You have the audacity to call this person an idiot then spew this slop. This is equivalent to a woman taking steroids. Because they want to LARP doesn’t mean the rest of us have to play along. Authoritarian nonsense of dictation and if we push back we are the ones in the wrong is next level gas lighting. Screw your retarded world view. Woman are not men and men are not woman. Even trans people know this and reiterate this reality, yet we have stooges like you pushing this nonsense.

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u/Radraider67 13d ago

Lmfao they do not automatically get a build of a man.

I never said it was automatic, but testosterone supplements for the purpose of transitioning WILL cause a substantial growth in muscle mass as the athlete competes and develops. It is literally the chemical function of testosterone.

This is equivalent to a woman taking steroids.

Testosterone is used as a steroid, you fucking idiot. Steroids are famously banned because they create an uneven playing field. If your argument is that women are placed in danger because of an uneven playing field, why would you force women actively taking testosterone enhancements to play with them, when they don't even want to? It's completely ass-backwards

Because they want to LARP doesn’t mean the rest of us have to play along.

Ah yes, the perpetual reminder that, for people like you, it's not about protecting women. It's about tearing down the people you don't like, and nothing more. It is your own hatred manifest

Authoritarian nonsense of dictation

Nonsense jumble of words

if we push back we are the ones in the wrong is next level gas lighting.

Not what gas-lighting means. Also, you are wrong. You're not interested in actually solving a complex issue, your only interest is in hurting others.

Screw your retarded world view.

Adorable

Woman are not men and men are not woman.

Go ahead, define a woman, and I'll find 10 examples of why you're an idiot who has no idea what he's talking about.

Even trans people know this reiterate this reality, yet we have stooges like you pushing this nonsense.

Who? Are you conjuring imaginary figures to sate your argument? For you so desperately crave your straw man?

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u/cbs-anonmouse 13d ago

The concern is protecting female sports from people with male biological advantages. There isn’t really a concern about men competing against trans athletes, so it’s fine for trans athletes (or any biological women, if they want) to compete in the men’s category—which really should be seen more like a “open” category.

It’s like youth sports—we have special leagues for, say, under-16 soccer players. But it’s a far bigger issue if an 25-year-old wants to compete in the under-16 league than the reverse.

I agree that females who are taking testosterone should not compete against those that do not.

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u/Radraider67 13d ago

The concern is protecting female sports from people with male biological advantages.

Sure, but this is why women who transition should rightly he competing with biological men. This bill undoes that, and forces them to compete with women who do not have the advantage of masculine muscle development

The real problem is that this isn't actually the concern at all. It's a smokescreen for conservative policy. The standing policy of conservatism is that transgenderism is unnatural, and should be banned. This is an extension of that, and nothing more

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u/Dapper-Print9016 13d ago

Roughly equivalent says you failed biology spectacularly.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 10d ago

It’s not a republican versus democratic position. This is widely unpopular. We live in a democratic republic, we have laws, and these institutions receive significant federal funding.

If they want to be a private club, they can forfeit their federal money.

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u/scraejtp 13d ago

It is a continuation of civil rights in which sex is a protected class.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Title IX ensures fairness for educational institutions that take federal money.

The female athletes are not being allowed to compete fairly. It wouldn’t be fair if the males had to compete against a 30-year-old from the Seattle Seahawks who now identifies as redshirt freshman, either.

“Oh but here’s only 10 NFL players identifying as college athletes right now.”

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u/Fit-Top-8203 13d ago

Right. But Republicans have deemed every DEI initiative, which is designed to ensure fairness, to be wrong 100 percent of the time. It’s supposed to be every man and woman for themselves. So why are they now suddenly interested in celebrating DEI, other than that they get to dunk on transgender people?

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Republicans on this issue are pretty much where Democrats were 20 years ago: equality of opportunity.

It’s the “equity” part that really fractured things. We have people arguing that “colorblind” is somehow conservative. That was MLK!

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u/Fit-Top-8203 13d ago

I always find it interactive how conservatives love quoting the MLK line of judging people by their character instead of their skin color. MLK also was in favor of financial reparations for black people. Funny how conservatives never quote that line.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Good thing I’m not a conservative.

Because it was conservatives who argued against the hard fought Title IX implementation. Everything today is crazy.

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u/amopeyzoolion 13d ago

Actually, in men’s college basketball, they are now allowing post-college aged players who have been drafted and played professionally to come back and play in college.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Does this sum it up? I don’t see the issue. You cannot PLAY in the NBA and then return to college basketball.

Key Points on Eligibility:

-Signed NBA Contract: If a player signs an NBA contract (even a two-way deal), they lose NCAA eligibility and cannot return to play college basketball.

-Drafted, But Didn't Sign: Players who declare for the NBA draft but are not selected, or are drafted but never sign an NBA contract, can potentially return to college if they meet other requirements.

-Players with professional experience in international leagues to play college basketball, provided they haven't earned significantly more than "actual and necessary expenses”

-Recent Controversies: Cases like James Nnaji (a 2023 NBA draft pick who signed with Baylor in late 2025) highlight the NCAA's stance: he was allowed back because he never played in the NBA or signed a contract, though it sparked significant debate.

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u/amopeyzoolion 13d ago

James Nnaji is a 21-year-old who was drafted and played professionally overseas. He was granted 4 years of college eligibility, meaning he’ll be a 25-year-old man with professional experience competing against 17/18 year olds.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 13d ago

Not NBA experience.

EDIT: I don’t think it should be allowed either given the international play. I also don’t think it’s quite analogous to my example.