The Biden administration’s reinterpretation of Title IX has weakened this landmark legislation and its protection of women. For fifty years this legislation has increased women’s access to athletic programs in schools, yet Democrats’ dangerous re-interpretation of Title IX is putting women’s sports in jeopardy.
In Case You Missed It via Family Research Council, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) pens an op-ed on how the Biden administration is pushing women to the sidelines.
Women's Sports Shouldn't Be Collateral Damage in the Left's Campaign to Redefine Gender
By Virginia Foxx
March 2, 2022
This administration's radical reinterpretation of Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity has pushed women to the sidelines. The strides women have made across all corners of the sports world deserve to be celebrated, not torn to pieces by the far Left's radical ideological agenda.
President Biden's decision to allow biological male athletes who identify as transgender to compete in women's sports is an affront to the progress that women have made since 1972. Title IX was a revolution for women's sports. Before this legislation came to fruition, women's college sports received only a meager two percent of athletic budgets. Since its passage, Title IX has spurred women's participation in sports by a considerable margin. Instead of rightfully celebrating these achievements, the Left is willing to sacrifice them for the sake of its radical political agenda.
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Instead of tolerating the Left's political assault on women, it is imperative that we make the safety and needs of young girls and women a top priority.
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Preventing biological males from competing against women in athletic competitions is not discrimination: it is safeguarding the integrity of women's sports. Strength, agility, speed, and physical endurance are physical realities correlated to biological sex. Pronouns, names, or self-proclaimed identity groups have no impact on these realities.
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Erasing sex and gender means ultimately erasing women, especially when it comes to sports. Girls and women at the top of their sport lose a fair chance to compete when a biological male enters the field. How is this any different than keeping women off the field altogether?
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I am proud of the progress our nation has made in the past 50 years to uplift and affirm the rights of women. The prospect of those advances being lost today is gut-wrenching. If we allow these fantasies to become mainstream, 50 years of progress will be buried completely.
