28 groups urge Biden to support women's sports, fight Biden's 'unlawful' Title IX reg

Rep. Doug LaMalfa and former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines tell Fox News Digital that "gender ideology propaganda" is "ruining" women and girls sports.

EXCLUSIVE: More than two dozen organizations are urging the Biden administration to "abandon plans" to allow biological males to compete in women's sports and use the same locker rooms.

In 2022, Biden's Education Department proposed regulations on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to expand the meaning of sex discrimination to include "gender identity." Another round of regulations will be released by the department this spring that will specifically address Title IX's application to transgender athletes participating in women's sports.

But in a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona last Tuesday organized by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, a diverse coalition of lawyers, subject-matter experts, parents, civil rights groups and former education officials said the Biden administration's additional anticipated regulations will "unfairly" penalize female athletes.

"The Department does not have the legal authority to issue regulations that would subvert rather than fulfill the requirements of Title IX by permitting or requiring biological males who identify as females to compete in sex-separated women’s sports and to use the intimate facilities and shared spaces of female students … we anticipate that the coming rulemaking on athletics will similarly conflate gender identity with Title IX’s sex-based protections and degrade those very protections," the groups wrote in their letter.

SWIMMING STAR RILEY GAINES AND REP. LAMALFA WARN OF GROWING 'GENDER IDEOLOGY PROPAGANDA' RUINING WOMEN'S SPORTS

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