Biden believed transgender athletes had unfair advantage against biological girls: report

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Former president Joe Biden's administration attempted to give transgender athletes further protections in its revision of Title IX, but his reported true feelings were kept to himself.

The proposal would have redefined sex in Title IX as "gender identity," but the proposal was ultimately struck down by a federal judge in January, less than two weeks before President Donald Trump took office a second time.

However, a new report by the New York Times says that Biden himself did not agree with trans athletes participating in women's and girls sports.

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A former aide to Jill Biden recently told The Hill that former President Biden's handlers need to read the Democratic "anger" in the room and keep Biden away from the spotlight. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"According to a number of former Biden-administration officials, there remained a simmering debate inside the administration about whether those Title IX protections should extend to sports," the Times reported, saying that "one side…maintained that there was no legal difference between letting trans students use bathrooms that align with their gender identity and letting trans student athletes play on sports teams that align with their gender identity."

However, Biden was "on the other side…who believed that the competitive, zero-sum nature of sports made them different from bathrooms — that some transgender athletes would enjoy unfair physical advantages over women.

"Most important, one of the officials holding this view was Biden himself," the Times wrote.

The Times received a quote from a former Biden