The Biden regulations would say that if a state is passing legislation that would try to restrict her participation, it would likely not be in compliance with the regulation. Same thing if that was happening at like a school level as well. If a school was enacting a rule that would restrict that participation, it wouldn't comply with the policy. Which means that they would be risking their funding.
President Biden hopes so. His administration is preparing to roll out new rules that would counter state and local bans aimed at keeping transgender youth out of sports. ESPN’s Katie Barnes explains.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Avishay Artsy and Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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