Title IX
Former UNC basketball coach launches an airball with ill-informed advocacy
Former UNC women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell doesn’t appear to be an insincere person. At a rally at the Legislative Building on Aug. 16, organized by right-wing culture warriors in support of a bill to ban transgender girls and women from participating in middle, high school, and college level sports, Hatchell seemed to really believe the […]
‘Lobbying for my right to exist’: US Senate panel examines how states target trans kids
WASHINGTON — Harleigh Walker wants U.S. senators to understand she is a typical 16-year-old girl. She likes Taylor Swift. She enjoys being on her school’s debate team. And she listens way too loudly to music in her room. “I’m just trying to be a teenager in America,” she told senators on the U.S. Senate Judiciary […]
Biden proposal on transgender student athletes met with praise but also questions
WASHINGTON — Transgender legal scholars and advocates say they were relieved to see the Biden administration extend some protections for transgender students’ sports participation at a time when bans are being enacted by multiple states. But they say they remain cautious about the effect on high school and college sports. For two years, the U.S. […]
U.S. House approves bill banning transgender student athletes in girls sports
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans voted Thursday to prohibit transgender student athletes from competing on girls sports teams consistent with their gender identity, at the same time multiple GOP-dominated states are making similar moves. The bill, H.R. 734, which would apply to K-12 schools as well as colleges that receive federal funding, passed on a […]
N.C. House passes transgender sports ban
A bill barring transgender female athletes from female sports teams passed the state House by a 73-39 vote Wednesday. The bill, which expands the originally proposed ban from middle and high school teams to include college athletes, moved swiftly through two committees Tuesday and Wednesday to a floor vote in the afternoon. All Republicans who […]
National ban on transgender athletes in girls’ sports passed by U.S. House panel
NC’s Virginia Foxx spearheads effort; Democrats accuse GOP of scapegoating vulnerable youth WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee early Thursday passed a bill on a party-line vote that would block transgender girls from competing in school sports consistent with their gender identity, a reflection of a broader push in multiple states to […]
‘What century are we in?’ Biden asks of University of Idaho ban on abortion counseling
The federal law prohibiting sex discrimination also bars colleges and universities from denying counseling and other services to abortion patients and contraception to all students—even in states where abortion is now severely restricted, the U.S. Education Department said Tuesday. The guidance, which clarifies the longstanding rules for federal Title IX funding that virtually all colleges […]
Two new commentaries skewer Betsy DeVos
Two excellent “must reads’ for your Tuesday morning involve the Trump administration’s dreadful and over-matched Education Department secretary, Betsy DeVos. In “Those Turning on Trump Need to Start Turning on Trump’s Cabinet,” national political columnist Charles P. Pierce calls on GOP senators like Bob Corker and Ben Sasse to stop limiting their Trump criticisms to […]
Forest and Mueller probably should’ve read national GOP platform before invoking Baylor rape scandal
Citizen journalist and occasional NC Policy Watch contributor Greg Flynn used social media yesterday to highlight a noteworthy bit of hypocrisy (or, at least, obliviousness) in the Monday night HB2 rants of North Carolina Republican Party spokesperson Kami Mueller and her former boss, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest. As you will recall, Mueller and Forest both […]
Legal challenges to House Bill 2 quick to follow
At one point during the debate yesterday over HB 2, the bill that essentially rids the state of all non-discrimination ordinances, one conservative lawmaker defended his colleagues’ rush to convene and render the new law as necessary to head off lawsuits — as if they weren’t coming anyway. It may have taken only less than half a […]