[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete good morning and welcome to fox friends. It is saturday, april 20th. Year of our lord, 2024. And you continue to send us phenomenal photos for our nations an them. What a beautiful, beautiful start to the morning. Pete we do that every saturday, every sunday. And were glad to have you. Will dr. Nicole saphier in for Rachel Campos if duffy. We had hours, dogs, we had flag pete giant cranes will on a Crane Outside of a barn. We had a bald eagle nick can you get more american than that . With. Will and then, out of the blue, we have a pole vaulter. Pete athletics. Will awesome. Pete hopefully, it was a female pole vaulter. Nicole foreign female. Will would would never know, was that a male or female Pole Vaulting Competition . Zoom in and then ask. Pete we play never know. [laughter] will are you in the male or female division . More of that in just a moment on fox friends. Were going to start with this, protest it is across Ivy L
Gender in sports, title ix. title ix because a big accomplishment. it s often applied to sports. it makes sure there s fair access for women, bioroj call women, in sports biological women. well, the education department is doing its damnedest to undo that. they re going to sidestep the issue of trans-athletes in girls sports. here s miguel cardona, secretary of education, on title ix revisions on friday. he said more than 50 years, for more than 50 years title ix has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nation s schools free from sex discrimination. these final regulations build on the legacy of title ix by clarifying that all our nation s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, respect their rights. basically what this means, guys, is that biological sex has been replaced with gender identity, and that means that if you a identify as a woman and you are a man, then you have full access to title ix the way joe biden
so, we have talked about this many times. this is the title ix specifically. look, and again, we have talked about this multiple times. it s a complicated issue, and there are a wide range of views on this. the department of education proposed a rule as you know that gives schools flexibility to establish their own athletic policies, and so while establishing guardrails, right, to prevent discrimination against transgender kids and that is something that is incredibly important that the president wants to make sure that we also do that as well. so, i m just not going to get ahead of that. i said there s a proposed rule and title ix, on title ix, that the department of education has laid out. so i m just not going to get ahead of that. does he care girls are allowed to compete in sports without fear of injury, does eng it s fair for girls to compete against biological males?