Miguel Cardona, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Education Department, said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he believes it’s the right of male-born students to compete in girl’s sports, a contrast to the stance taken by his would-be predecessor.
Cardona, who was named Connecticut’s K-12 school chief in August 2020, testified on Wednesday morning before the Senate’s education committee. He was questioned by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on whether it worried him that his home state allows students who are male by birth to compete and claim titles in girls’ sports at the expense of biological girls. In September 2020, then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos threatened to pull federal funding out of Connecticut schools unless they rescinded that policy.
