“It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views,” Jean-Pierre said. “There is no ‘yes or no’ answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we’re going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that.”
“Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this,” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It’s a disgrace.”
“Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare,” Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. “He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia.”
The mOsT PrOgReSsIvE Administration in History™ 
“A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that” Fuck off out of here with that “centrist” nonsense. There’s nothing complicated about it, and it’s not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people’s emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they’d start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it’s as good a time as ever.
As a trans person (ftm) first, the reason that this statement from Biden is so problematic isn’t just about the sports thing.
The issue is that the administration is legitimizing a Trojan horse of bigotry. “Trans people shouldn’t be in sports” is a wedge issue being used to push trans people out of public life. We’re already going from sports, to chess, to trans children having their healthcare taken away.
If the admin was on our side they would have decried these bigots, but by releasing this mealy mouth “Well its complicated…” statement they’ve given legitimacy to anti-trans rhetoric.
As an aside, no, trans people who have been on hrt over a year do not have advantage in sports:
https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked
Thanks for the response. I guess I should’ve stated in my response it wasn’t about them giving the statement which in hindsight is dumb since that is what the thread was about.
I see what you’re saying about the repercussions of them giving the republicans any sort of validity in what they are doing. I’m sorry about everything happening
I appreciate the link. I read the “HECOX V LITTLE - SAFER DECLARATION” study that was in it and it pretty much answered my questions/doubt that I had.
I take back what I said but I’ll leave it up to get what I deserve. I encourage anyone who had similar thoughts as mine to read this
https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/hecox-v-little-safer-declaration
Edit: should have used expert declaration instead of study