The 10-7 vote was in favor of resolution to tell Ohio schools that these changes are not yet law and do not need to be enforced.
, Ohio's State Board of Education voted 10 to 7 Tuesday to push back against the Biden Administration's plan to add LGBTQ protections into Title IX.A majority of board memberslike"denying the reality of biological sex destroys foundational truths upon which education rests" and"sex is not arbitrarily assigned at birth."
"The proposed regulations pertaining to athletics would require sports teams to be based on gender identity rather than biological sex, causing biological women and girls to compete on an unfair basis against biological males," according to the final resolution.
"Any other resolution that we’ve ever passed," Collins said."We haven’t sent letters to districts before.""I will never be able to support anything that singles out any group of students in the way that resolution does...," Collins said."We could have met the intended purpose which was, I think, that the federal government should not usurp the rights of states...
The final resolution still"declares its emphatic support" for the original version of Title IX. The landmark law passed in 1972 that made it illegal to discriminate against girls or girls' sports teams in public education.Republicans in the state Senate are expected to pass a billfrom playing on female sports teams this week, and it could be on Gov. Mike DeWine's desk before Christmas.
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