The US Capitol in Washington is shown on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 (photo of Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
Washington – the US Senate failed to develop the center on Monday evening, which would ban students of transgender participation in school sports teams of women in accordance with their sexual identity.
The act would assist codify the President of Law Donald Trump Huge February Executive Orderwhich makes this thorough prohibition and threatens federal funds from “educational programs” if school do not comply.
This movement also reflects the wider supported GOP to introduce Anti-Trans legislation. Throughout the country, the growing number of states adopted provisions prohibiting trance students conducting sport, which comply with their sexual identity.
Voting 51-45 party lines 60 senators could not get to break the legislative filibuster.
Four senators did not vote, including republican sense. Shelley Moore Capito from Western Virginia and Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, as well as democratic meaning. Elissa Slotkin from Michigan and Peter Welch from Vermont.
Before voting, Senator Tammy Baldwin said on Monday on the Senate floor that she became “strong opposition to any attempt on the part of the federal government in order to interfere in decisions about who can and cannot participate in school sports.”
“This is a decision for local communities in which players and parents can participate in this discussion at the local level. This is a decision for sports leagues on craft policy, which actually treats what is best for all players, not general fines, which will undoubtedly have unintentional consequences for the safety of all students,” said Wisconsin Democrat.
Alabama Gop Senator Tommy Tuberville re -introduced the measure in the Senate in January, and the bill has gained several Republican co -assums.
“Fortunately, President Trump has just signed an executive order, which said:” Never again – no more federal money for every country that allows it, “but you have to understand, it lasts as long as President Trump is in office, so we need this vote … To go so that we can do it,” said Tuberville before voting.
Title IX
The act aims to change the title of IX so that “sex is recognized only on the basis of reproductive biology and genetics of a given person from birth.”
Title IX is a breakthrough federal law regarding civil rights that prohibit schools that receive federal funds from practicing discrimination based on sex.
Trump’s executive ordinance asks federal agencies to interpret title IX in a manner consistent with the order.
The president’s initiative caused convoluted questions about enforcement mechanisms and consistency for schools that are not consistent. The administration has already launched a lot investigation across country.
House operation
Meanwhile The house has adopted a similar bill To the Senate in January, which was presented by GOP Rep. Greg Steube from Florida.
This agent has advanced 218-206, with the opposition of all home democrats, except for representatives of American Texas. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez. The democratic representative of North Carolina Don Davis voted to “present”.
. Human rights campaignA group of LGBTQ+sparrows noticed that there was “significant disinformation and disinformation about what entails the inclusion of transgender young people in sport” and that the participation of Trans Trans Students Trans “was not a problem”.
At least 25 states have adopted a law that prohibits trance students in sport, which comply with their sexual identity, in accordance with Project of movement progressIndependent Think Tank.
