Group sends letter to UN arguing Title IX overhaul could result in increased violence against women in sports

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The Independent Council on Women's Sports (ICONS) sent a letter to the United Nations in response to the Biden administration's sweeping changes to Title IX. 

The brief requested that male participation in female sports be treated as an act of violence against women. The letter was first obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Title IX is a civil rights law that restricts sex discrimination against students, employees and others at public schools, colleges and universities that are federally funded. 

President Biden's administration released a new set of rules earlier this year. Students and school employees at educational institutions that receive federal funds will begin seeing the Title IX overhaul changes this fall.

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United Nations headquarters in Lower Midtown Manhattan (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Reem Alsalem was one of the recipients of the brief from ICONS, per the Examiner. According to Alsalem's social media bio, she serves as the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

Alsalem previously took issue with the Title IX provision on the new definition of "'sex.'"

"The erroneous redefinition of ‘sex’ through these implementing regulations constitutes a grave setback that will increase the vulnerability of the majority of women and girls to incursions into their privacy, including voyeurism, sexual harassment and physical and sexual attacks, by effectively removing single sex spaces," Alsalem said in a press release last month. 

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