Manhattan’s largest neighborhood school board district passed a resolution Wednesday night that could put the city’s policy allowing males to compete in female sports on the chopping block.
In an 8-3 vote, the Community Education Council District 2, which includes the Lower East Side to the Upper East Side, approved a measure forcing the city’s Department of Education to allow a public review and redrafting of its guidelines around trans participation in school sports. The vote followed a heated meeting attended by city council members, district parents, and transgender-identifying female actress Elliot Page.
School-board members Maud Maron, Allyson Bowen, Sabena Serinese, and Len Silverman co-sponsored the resolution. The measure demands that New York City Public Schools convene a committee comprised of female athletes, parents, coaches, relevant medical professionals and evolutionary biology experts to discuss a revised policy. That committee would be authorized to propose amendments, changes, and additions to the current gender guidelines via an “inclusive, evidence-based process concerning the impact on female athletes when the category of sex is replaced by gender identity.”
Maron argued Wednesday that the guidelines could be preserved in their current form if the committee determines them adequate after considering possible adverse impact on female athletes.
“If we have a proper and real conversation, one of the outcomes could be that nothing changes and that we all discover that these guidelines are just perfect as they are,” Maron said. “But another one of the possibilities is that we realize that the excluded voices had something really important to offer and they should have been heard from in the beginning.”
Maron describes herself on X as an “unapologetic old-school liberal” and “happy warrior for high quality public education & parents’ rights.” She ran for Congress last year on a platform of restricting male participation in women’s sports.
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