There will be no truce anytime soon on the cultural battlefield of transgender rights, but the Biden administration gets credit for drafting reasonable standards to try and bring some fairness and clarity to school playing fields, where there are no easy answers.
When boys and girls declare themselves to be girls and boys, while other children struggle with their gender identity, they all need psychological support, not senselessly cruel policies that, for instance, force them to enter only the bathroom associated with the sex of their birth.
But it is simultaneously true that U.S. law known as Title IX for very good reason safeguards equal treatment for girls, including in competitive sports. Here, transgender rights and cisgender rights compete in ways that LGBTQ advocates often fail to honestly acknowledge. To allow all post-pubescent transgender girls to compete against other girls in track or swimming or basketball is to effectively deny girls what federal law is properly designed to protect.
