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WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has let a 12-year-old transgender girl continue competing on her middle school track team, acting for the first time on a wave of new state restrictions on athletic participation.

Enforcement of binary gender norms has led to unwanted medical interventions on intersex and cisgender children

The celebrations quickly turned sour as the transgender athlete’s playoff victory became awash in controversy.

President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday said it will propose a rule to ensure transgender students can participate in school sports. The proposed rule comes a day after lawmakers in Kansas overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to block transgender students from participating in girls and women’s sports.

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Kansas lawmakers have approved a bill aimed at helping parents opt their children out of public school lessons with LGBTQ-themed materials

The administration’s proposed rule for Title IX antidiscrimination laws would prevent states from ‘categorically’ banning trans student athletes

The decision comes amid a proliferation of anti-trans rights bills promoted by Republican lawmakers across the country.

The proposed changes to Title IX would still give schools some flexibility to ban transgender athletes depending on age and sport.