The 19th: House votes to ban trans girls from women’s sports in schools

January 15. 2025

ERA’s Maha Ibrahim is featured in a 19th article about U.S. House passage of a bill that would withhold federal funding from any school that allows trans girls to participate in sports that align with their gender identity.

“This legislation is much more dangerous than the ruling out of Kentucky, said Maha Ibrahim, a program managing attorney at Equal Rights Advocates, because it would change the actual statute of Title IX  — whereas that judge’s decision erased regulations made under the Biden administration that weren’t in place long enough for students to see the difference.

‘When Congress gets away with things, that’s when we lose rights,” she said. “This needs to be really strenuously fought.’…

‘We were suing for decades on the basis of the statute only,’ she said. This federal judge in Kentucky deleted the Biden administration’s efforts to be explicit about how transgender students are protected at schools, but he did not touch their inclusion in gender equity laws. ‘That’s only the purview of Congress,’ she said. ”

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