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Christian School Punished for Forfeiting Game With ‘Transgender’ Player, Though a Dozen Women’s Teams Won’t Play Biological Males

Demonstrators cheer at an "Our Bodies, Our Sports" rally for the 50th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/ Getty Images)

At least a dozen women’s and girls sports teams have forfeited games against teams with biological male players without consequences, but one team has been kicked out of its league for almost a year for refusing to play a team with a transgender-identifying player.

Mid Vermont Christian School in Burlington, Vermont, forfeited a girls’ high school basketball game in November 2023 against a team that had a male athlete playing for it. The Vermont Principals’ Association resultantly kicked Mid Vermont Christian out of the association and denied it public funding through the state’s tuition program.

But other teams across the country have faced no penalties for declining to play teams with biological male players.

Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Mid Vermont Christian against the Vermont Principals’ Association for preventing the Christian school and its students from participating in the state’s tuition program and sports league because of its religious beliefs about biological reality.

Almost three-quarters of voters say they believe medals awarded to biological men who beat females in sports should be given instead to the women who lost. And 72% of registered voters think biological males should not be allowed to participate in women’s and girls sports, according to national polling from RMG Research.

Biological males competing in women’s sports is expected to be a “sleeper” issue in the 2024 elections. Female athletes worldwide have lost nearly 900 medals to so-called transgender rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, according to a new United Nations report.

Republicans have been slamming Democrats’ support for transgenderism, and several Democrats have flip-flopped or scaled back their position on the issue.

For instance, when a debate moderator asked Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred about an ad from his opponent, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, accusing him of refusing “to protect the integrity of women’s and girls sports,” Allred denied his voting record on the issue in the House.

Former President Donald Trump, seeking to return to the White House, pledged to “ban” transgender-identifying biological males from competing in women’s sports in a Fox News town hall with only female voters on Oct. 16.

“I’ve never met a person that came up to me and they say, ‘We want men to play in women’s sports,’” Trump said. “Somehow, they’re pushing it. I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve been talking about this for a while, because I’m ending it. On Day One, I’m ending it.”

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