Trans athletes and NCAA

Not sure what you’re asking here.

 

I think this thread has more replies to it than there are trans athletes in the entire country.

 

What is an enforcement action that depends on there being a Department of Education, a Cabinet level department?

 

For starters, it protects students with disabilities from discrimination.

https://www.ed.gov/sites/ed/files/documents/news/section-504.pdf

 

That's pretty WOKE. Somehow I expect the ruling junta won't kill itself trying to uphold that one, either.

 

Earlier this year the Daily Wire (Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh’s company) produced a comedy movie called Lady Ballers about a group of mediocre former high school boys basketball players who reunited with their former coach and entered a women’s league, saying they identified as women (as if it that’s how it works). They end up dominating in the league and hailed as inspirational by the “liberal “ media.

In a panel discussion Walsh, Shapiro and the rest of them did about the movie they said they originally wanted to do it as a documentary, entering a real group of male athletes in a women’s league simply by saying they identified as women. It turned out that no league would take them, that it really isn’t as simple as just saying they identify as women.

That kind of blew their whole premise out of the water.

 

Ben Shapiro claims to be 5-9, but standing next to people who are known to be accurately measured at 5-9, he is quite obviously several (3-5) inches shorter. I'm sure he has all kinds of real-life experience relevant as to who ought to be on the basketball court with whom.

 

And there is nothing that reserves that duty exclusively to the Department of Education as a Cabinet level authority. These things don't go up in a whiff of smoke.

 

This isn't that difficult.

Trump and the GOP plan to gut many of the cabinet departments. Department of Education. Department of Justice. Department of Health and Human Services. Even if they can't outright shut them down, they will drive people out and leave positions empty so that they are a shell of what they should be.

In turn, that puts a greater burden on states to pick up the slack. For example, if the Department of Education is underfunded and understaffed, that means state Departments of Education will be asked to do more with Title IX, with special education, with financial aid for college, etc. At some point, each state won't be able to handle that workload. So things will be ignored or shelved. And I guarantee you that Title IX will be one of them, because the states will get criticized more for not keeping up with special education needs than they will for Title IX.

It's a cascading effect. You remove the primary caretaker of Title IX and other principals and it forces everyone else to step forward. If you keep removing alternatives, it eventually collapses, and that's what Trump and the GOP are hoping for.

 

Your argument doesn't make sense. If Trump is going to gut the Justice Department, what would keep him from gutting Education?

The laws exist outside of the Department.

 

And if there is no one left to enforce the laws, what good are they? That's what everyone is trying to get you to see. Trump guts the DoE, guts the DoJ. There is no longer federal enforcement of the laws.

The burden shifts to the states, but their DoEs are too overloaded with critical special education cases and they don't have the capacity to address Title IX or other issues that were once covered at the federal level.

That is how these things go up in a whiff of smoke, as you put it. By systematically removing the structure that is currently in place, you increase the burden elsewhere until it simply collapses.

 

This is well put, as is your subsequent post. I feel like @justgladtobehere is being intentionally obtuse for whatever reason. I'm not sure Trump will gut the DOJ, but I think he will put its focus in other areas. The massive cuts he wants to make are going to to do severe damage in many areas. As you suggest, states will have to make some very difficult choices and special needs services will be among things they will prioritize over Title IX.