President Joe Biden's Department of Education withdrew a proposed rule that would have prohibited individual states and schools from banning transgender athletes from participating in sports according to their gender identity.

The Details: Biden’s administration also nixed a proposal to cancel student debt for approximately 38 million Americans, which the Department said was due to “operational challenges.”

For Context: Biological sex is a person’s gender at birth, while their gender identity is which gender they presently identify with. Biden’s administration made the transgender athlete proposal last April. Currently, there are 23 states with legislation in place that restricts trans athletes from “competing as females in public school sports.” 

Key Quotes: The Department said it received over 150,000 public comments on the transgender athlete proposal during a 30-day comment period that “offered a broad spectrum of opinions.”

How the Media Covered It: ESPN (Lean Left bias) and The Hill (Center bias) prominently wrote that the proposal would have provided “some protections” for transgender athletes, while Fox News (Right bias) framed it as an effort to “punish schools.”