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The Biden Administration proposed new regulations Thursday aimed at curbing blanket bans keeping transgender athletes from participating in school sports, but it included a significant loophole letting school teams develop their own policies in what the Education Department billed as a compromise position on the increasingly volatile culture war issue.
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The new rule would add language to Title IX—a law prohibiting gender-based discrimination in school activities—stating individual teams at public schools and universities can ban athletes from competing on teams outside of their sex assigned at birth if factors like competitive fairness come into question.
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