President Biden has withdrawn his proposed rule protecting transgender athletes, but that doesn’t mean the game is up for biological males in female scholastic sports.

The Department of Education received more than 150,000 public comments on the proposed Title IX rule change and faced several lawsuits.

The Biden administration withdrew an amendment to Title IX that would have prevented local school districts from restricting transgender athletic participation.

The Biden administration initially proposed the rule change in April 2023 to allow K-12 schools and universities to limit the participation of transgender athletes in sports while also forbidding schools from completely banning trans athletes altogether.

In a new document, Biden’s Department of Education said that it would not be issuing a regulation on trans athletes, and that it does “not intend for a final rule to be issued.”

President Joe Biden is abandoning a previous initiative to create a rule to protect transgender athletes at the collegiate level as an extension of Title IX, multiple outlets reported on Saturday. During a presidential transition,

President Joe Biden’s Department of Education withdrew a proposed rule that would have outlawed individual schools banning transgender-identifying biological males from women’s sports on Friday. Schools that ban biological males from women’s sports would have been subject to penalties under the Biden administration’s April 2023 proposed change to Title IX of the Education Amendments Act