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Biden Education Secretary Says Biological Males Should Be Allowed To
Compete In Girls' Sport

https://summit.news/2022/05/27/video-biden-education-secretary-says-biological-males-should-be-allowed-to-compete-in-girls-sport/

Joe Biden’s Education Secretary declared Thursday that he believes
biological boys should be allowed to compete against girls in sports,
and even accused his questioner, GOP Congressman Jim Banks, of wanting
to exclude children by discussing their biological gender.

During a Congressional hearing, Banks questioned Cardona on the
administration’s attitude toward “gender identity”.

Banks told Cardona that “Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. However, your department
is currently pushing a rule to force every school in America to add
non binary as a sex characteristic.”

“How can the Department of Education enforce sex based discrimination
when the very definition of sex is so unclear?” Banks asked.

“We’re not pushing for that. We are allowing states who have different
categories to use those different categories of data collection that
they’re already collecting,” Cardona claimed.

“So you’re not waiting for a rule to add non binary?” Banks further
asked Cardona.

“We’re allowing states to report whatever classifications they have in
their states,” Cardona responded.

Banks then moved to probe on the sports issue, asking “do you believe
that biological male athletes competing in women’s sports are in
conflict with Title IX protections for female athletes?”

After failing to properly answer the question, Banks doubled down,
asking “Do you think it’s fair for biological boys to compete against
girls in sports?”

Cardona responded “Sir, I see where your questions are going, and I’m
going to be very clear with you - our transgender students need to
feel supported, included, and seen,” adding “And, your line of
questioning is, even by describing it the way you’re doing it, shows
me that you don’t believe that all students should have access to the
extracurricular activities that schools provide.”

Banks told Cardona that “somehow, somewhere you and this
administration believe that Title IX somehow protects biological boys
for competing against girls and sports. You’re okay with that.”

Watch:

    NEW: Cardona refused to recognize biological sex, said
transgenders should be able to compete against girls and said there
are “sensitive issues” where children should feel safe at school when
asked if schools should be able to hide a child transitioning from
their parents pic.twitter.com/PwUtajlcP1
    — Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) May 26, 2022

The Congressman then asked Cardona three times if he agrees “that
school districts should keep a child’s involvement in gender
transition a secret from their parents?”

Cardona again did not properly answer the question, instead referring
to such situations as “very sensitive.”

Watch:

    WATCH: Education Secretary @SecCardona refuses to answer a
question by @RepJimBanks about whether or not parents should be kept
in the dark if their child is undergoing a gender transition at
school. pic.twitter.com/kYMCWZd6Qr
    — Jeremiah Poff (@JJ_Poff) May 26, 2022

Before he took up the position of Education Secretary, Cardona made it
clear during his Senate confirmation hearing that he supports
biological males competing against girls in sports.

    “I think it’s critically important to respect the rights of all
students, including students who are transgender, and that they are
afforded the opportunities that every other student has to participate
in extracurricular actives,” Cardona said at the time under
questioning from Senator Rand Paul, who noted that such a development
would “completely destroy girls athletics”.

Paul told Cardona “A lot of us think that that’s bizarre, you know?
Not very fair,” adding “I think most people in the country think it’s
bizarre. You know? That it’s just completely bizarre and unfair that
people, and you’re gonna run the education? You’ve got no problem with
it?”

“I mean, to think it’s okay that boys would compete with girls in a
track meet, and that somehow would be fair,” the Kentucky senator
continued, positing “I wonder where feminists are on this. I wonder
where the people who supported women’s sports are on this.”