Manhattan School District Shows Common Sense, Approves Resolution To Ban Trans Athletes From Women's Sports
Every once in a while, people in a position of importance in New York City make wise decisions based in common sense. On Wednesday, folks in Manhattan witnessed one of those rare occurrences with the borough's largest neighborhood school board district approving a resolution that could lead to the ban of transgender athletes - biological men - from competing in women's sports.
Community Education Council District 2, which serves from the Lower East Side to the Upper East Side, passed the measure with an 8-3 vote. The resolution does not suddenly force the hand of the Department of Education to ban trans athletes from women's sport, but is the first step in the right direction as it does demand the DOE to allow a public review of its policy allowing trans girls from playing in women's sports.
According to the New York Post, the meeting was contentious and met with serious backlash. Among the notables who want biological boys competing against biological girls that condemned the resolution included NYC Council member Erik Bottcher and Elliott Page of ‘Umbrella Academy’ and ‘Juno’ fame.
Bottcher seemed appalled that liberal New York City would consider such action in Manhattan.
"We are outraged that you’re considering a resolution targeting transgender girls and sports. It is utterly shocking that such a regressive and harmful resolution is being proposed in the school district in the middle of Manhattan," he said.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams attends 2023 New York City Pride March on Fifth Avenue on Manhattan. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The specific goal of the resolution is to add parental involvement into decisions, which is an idea that seems to irritate the far-left crowd.
Having parental input based on decisions involving their own children is controversial in the year 2024, but not quite as controversial in suggesting biological men have a physical advantage over biological women in sport.
Current guidelines allowing transgender athletes to compete in women's sports in the district were put in place in 2019, and those in favor of the resolution want to know how the decision to allow trans participation in girl's sports was made.
Leonard Silverman, the president of Community Education Council District 2, isn't exactly optimistic change will happen
"Unfortunately my experience has been that organizations including the community education councils, are sometimes created to give the appearance that parents have control over process when the reality is, that we really don’t have any control," he said.
Silverman appears to be someone living in reality who understands that concerned parents don't really have much of a say on matters such as this one.