Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal from the Biden administration, but teams could create some limits in certain cases.
People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023, by the Capitol in Washington. Transgender people and their allies gathered at venues across the country Friday as part of an annual, international recognition of transgender resilience, an observation that this year comes amid what some denounced as an increasingly hostile climate.
The proposal comes on the same day that the Supreme Court said a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia can continue competing on her middle school track and cross-country teams while legal battles over the state’s transgender law continue. The law bans transgender athletes from female teams. Some of the more than 100 participants listen to speakers at rally outside the Kansas Statehouse on Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023, in Topeka, Kan.
Of the tens of millions of high school students in the U.S., about 300,000 youth between the ages of 13 to 17 identify as transgender, according to a 2022 study from the Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA focused on LGBTQ+ issues. The number of athletes within that group is much smaller; a 2017 survey by Human Rights Campaign suggested fewer than 15% of all transgender youth play sports.
Critics argue transgender athletes have an advantage over cisgender women in competition. Last year, Lia Thomas became the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming title. College sports’ governing body, however, adopted a sport-by-sport approach to transgender athletes in January 2022, which was to bring the organization in line with the U.S. and International Olympic committees, though recently the NCAA’s board decided it won’t be fully implemented until 2023-24.
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