<p>The venue for a Santa Fe event celebrating Title IX and girls&#8217; sports canceled at the last minute, accusing organizers of misrepresenting what they claimed was a &#8220;partisan political event&#8221; and leaving them scrambling.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute canceled Independent Women&#8217;s Forum&#8217;s &#8220;Her Game. Her Legacy.&#8221; <a href="https://www.hergameherlegacy.com">event</a>, which was <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2025/06/17/independent-women-to-host-title-ix-anniversary-event-in-new-mexico-celebrating-womens-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled</a> to take place at the venue about 24 hours later.</p>
<p>The venue posted on Facebook that the event&#8217;s description as a &#8220;Celebration for Athletes and Families&#8221; was &#8220;fundamentally misleading as the event described today in media reports is a partisan political event.&#8221;</p>
<p>The venue also said it would be &#8220;unable to accommodate&#8221; the event&#8217;s &#8220;levels of security&#8221; and press conference, claiming the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum did not disclose these requirements.</p>
<p>&#8220;As much as we support free speech, we want to make it clear that SFFMI is in disagreement with the message and intent of this particular event,&#8221; the venue said.</p>
<p>The venue&#8217;s abrupt cancelation came after a New Mexico news outlet <a href="https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/trump-transgender-policies-driving-state-bus-tour-that-starts-in-santa-fe/article_f55d5ebd-aaae-4997-a14d-68ec0cf77075.html">published</a> a story about the women&#8217;s sports event that also said New Mexico has been &#8220;doubling down on protecting transgender rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>Independent Women&#8217;s Forum said they had no idea their event was canceled until they saw the venue&#8217;s Facebook post.</p>
<p>The group plans to sue the venue.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is not a rally. This is not any type of political event. It&#8217;s a non-partisan, non-political celebration,&#8221; Beth Parlato, senior legal advisor at Independent Women’s Law Center, told The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>&#8220;We had a contract. It is a nine-page contract, a legal and binding contract, and it&#8217;s pretty solid,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t agree with our message, so they have canceled us. And it&#8217;s illegal. So in our opinion, our legal opinion, they have breached the contract. They have discriminated against Independent Women. And they have violated our First Amendment rights by acknowledging that they don&#8217;t agree with our message, so they&#8217;re not allowing us on their property. So we will file lawsuits.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our intention is to serve them with a lawsuit because we&#8217;re not letting them get away with it. We did not do all of this to get canceled by a small group of people who chooses not to support girls. So it&#8217;s unconscionable what they&#8217;re doing,&#8221; Parlato said.</p>
<p>The group had brought a massive amount of resources to Santa Fe for the event including more than 20 staff, a pink carpet for athletes to walk down, face painters and bounce houses for children, and much more.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, they also had their registered speakers and guests and had been marketing the event heavily for about two weeks, said Victoria Coley, the group&#8217;s vice president of communications.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not just canceling our event. They are canceling little girls. They are betraying girls and women, female athletes. They&#8217;re canceling all of that,&#8221; Coley said.</p>
<p>However, thanks to the general manager of the hotel where Independent Women&#8217;s Forum staff was staying, the event now has a new venue and is still full speed ahead.</p>
<p>He met the group in the lobby and asked what he could do to help.</p>
<p>The event is still scheduled for Monday at 1 p.m., but <a href="https://www.iwf.org/2025/06/22/targeted-slandered-but-not-silenced-independent-women-relocates-new-mexico-title-ix-celebration-after-discrimination-and-falsehoods/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will now be held</a> at the Inn and Spa at Loretto, less than a mile from the original venue.</p>
<p>Monday is the 53rd anniversary of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at schools receiving federal funding.</p>
<p>The event also kicks off a bus tour celebrating women&#8217;s sports that will visit all 33 New Mexico counties.</p>
<p>Speakers for the event will include Education Secretary Linda McMahon, New Mexico parents, and also female athletes and coaches who have been outspoken in their advocacy for girls&#8217; sports such as Payton McNabb, who was injured by a trans-identifying player and suffered a traumatic brain injury, and Kim Russell, former head coach of the women’s lacrosse team at Oberlin College.</p>
<p>The free family-friendly event will also include games, music, food, and female athletes will still be able to walk down their pink carpet.</p>
<p>The Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute <a href="https://farmersmarketinstitute.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> its mission includes &#8220;equity&#8221; and, perhaps ironically, &#8220;kindness.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We demonstrate KINDNESS through our commitment to respectful social interactions with each other and with visitors to the Market,&#8221; the Institute says on its website.</p>

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