Manhattan, New York’s largest school district, has passed a new resolution banning transgender students who identify as female from participating in girls’ sports, despite opposition from city council members, actor Elliot Page and others. I submitted a proposal.
Community Education Council District 2 manages schools from Manhattan’s Lower East Side to the Upper East Side. passed it The policy received a lopsided 8-3 vote Wednesday. new york post report.
Elliot Page attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Axel/Bauer Griffin/Film Magic)
The vote came at the end of a packed rally where transgender activists and city officials opposed the ban.
New York City Councilman Eric Bottcher opposed the policy, calling the proposal “regressive” and “harmful.”
“We are outraged that you are considering a resolution targeting transgender girls and sports. Such a regressive and harmful resolution would be proposed in a school district in the middle of Manhattan. It’s absolutely shocking what’s going on,” Bottcher said.
New York City Councilman Eric Bottcher is seen speaking with Holy Apostles volunteers. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levin and New York City Councilman Eric Bottcher visited Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen and Pantry in Chelsea to show their support for their noble cause. (Eric McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
But despite all the hassle, the measure is largely symbolic and only requires the state Department of Education to reconsider its current policy allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s sports.
The purpose of this measure is to change the state’s education policy on this matter and allow for parent input. The district will also clarify how the DOE makes decisions and establish a new level of transparency so that local school district officials and parents can see how decisions are being made. I am also asking you to do something.
CEC Commissioner Maud Maron said the move was not “transphobic” but aimed at sparking a debate about safety and fairness in women’s sport.
“If we have good, realistic conversations, one of the outcomes will be that nothing changes and we all realize that these guidelines are perfect as they are,” Mallon said at Wednesday’s meeting. It could be,” he said.
She added that the final discussion could go in the opposite direction. She said, “But another possibility is that we realized that excluded voices have something really important and should have been listened to from the beginning.” Ta.
CEC councilor Gavin Healy, who opposed the measure, said such a ban would force female athletes to prove their gender and was too “invasive”.
Counter-protesters gather to support transgender swimmer Leah Thomas during the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the Macquarie Aquatic Center on March 17, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire, Getty Images)
“If you want to force students to prove their biological sex in order to participate in sport, you’re asking invasive and very intimate questions about someone that they don’t need to answer,” Professor Healy said. Told.
“And what’s next, toilets and health care? This puts a target on the backs of students, so I’m definitely going to vote no, but I’m here tonight to discuss this with you all.” I’m so ashamed of what I have to do,” he added.
However, CEC D2 Chairman Leonard Silverman praised the bill’s passage as a strike in support of local control and transparency.
“Unfortunately, in my experience, organizations, including local education councils, are set up to give parents the illusion of control over the process when in reality we have no control over the process. “There are things that happen,” he said. Silverman also argued that transgender athletes have biological advantages that could pose a risk to a “level playing field” for girls.
The vote marks the second time in less than a month that New York City officials have called for banning transgender athletes from competing as women. Officials in Nassau County, New York, also recently passed a resolution banning men from competing as women in women’s sports.
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