Former “Biggest Loser” trainer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jillian-michaels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jillian Michaels</a> said the data “irrefutably” shows that trans-identifying male athletes should be banned from competing against girls and women in sports if fairness is paramount.
During the celebrity fitness trainer’s recent appearance on “<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13342963/Celebrity-trainer-Jillian-Michaels-trans-athletes-banned-girls.html">Fox and Friends</a>,” Michaels told the hosts that it doesn’t matter when a biological male starts taking puberty blockers, it’s biology that males are stronger and faster.
“You&#8217;ve got two competing goals in sports,” Michaels said. “One is inclusion, which everybody can understand and get on board with.”
“However, the second goal that&#8217;s in direct opposition with inclusion in this instance is going to be a fair competition,” she added. “If your overriding priority is going to be fairness over inclusion, you&#8217;ve got to turn to the data.”
“And the data irrefutably shows that biological males are 10 to 30 percent stronger, faster, have better endurance, better aerobic capacity across the board,” Michaels continued.
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Jillian Michaels says evidence &#8216;irrefutable,&#8217; trans athletes should not compete against girls <a href="https://t.co/ztiQHUPdpv">https://t.co/ztiQHUPdpv</a>
— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1782819493107908965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
She said that the data is clear that things like cross-sex hormones do not change what we already know about males and females.
“If we defer to the studies &#8230; they show that even on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, the decrease in physical performance is quite trivial,” Michaels said. “That&#8217;s what the data says.”
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She then gave the hosts an example, citing grip strength of “a biological male transgender female” and a “biological female transgender male.”
Michaels said that the trans-identifying male&#8217;s “grip strength was 17 percent greater than the female on testosterone and puberty blockers.”
Michaels&#8217; appearance comes days after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grotesque-betrayal-of-students-critics-blast-bidens-new-title-ix-regulations-championing-gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>’s administration announced a massive revision to Title IX &#8212; a policy that was originally enacted to protect women and girls &#8212; to now to protect trans-identifying people.
On Friday, Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona revised the law enacted in 1972, which, in <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-final-rule-summary.pdf">summary,</a> now “clarifies that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
Former Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education Sarah Parshall Perry blasted the move and said, “Under the new rule, girls and women will no longer have any sex-separated bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations, or other educational programs. Women’s sports are likely endangered, too.”
“Any education institution, including many private schools that receive even nominal federal funding, will be affected by this rule,” she added. “The rule also erases other important protections, like due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct, free speech protections for students and teachers who don’t want to use ‘preferred pronouns,’ and parents’ right to know if their child is in the process of a gender identity ‘social transition’ at school.”
Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, echoed Perry&#8217;s sentiment, calling the move “grotesque,” and accused the White House of capitulating “to extremists in his party, sacrificing the First Amendment on the altar of Title IX and disregarding clearly established Supreme Court precedent on the definition of sexual harassment.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-must-go-megyn-kelly-blasts-presidents-title-ix-revision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Joe Biden Must Go&#8217;: Megyn Kelly Blasts President&#8217;s Title IX Revision</a>

Jillian Michaels

‘Irrefutably’: Celebrity Trainer Suggests Trans-Identifying Male Athletes Should Be Banned From Competing Against Women

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Title IX

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U.S.

Former collegiate swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-effing-irresponsible-is-this-tennis-legend-destroys-trans-activist-slamming-riley-gaines">Riley Gaines</a> said that with his 2024 revision, President Joe Biden has basically “abolished Title IX” &#8212; a policy that was originally enacted to protect women and girls.
On Friday, Gaines broke down what Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona have done by revising the law enacted in 1972. A <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-final-rule-summary.pdf">summary</a> of the new provisions “clarifies that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
“The Biden Admin has just officially abolished Title IX as we knew it,” Gaines wrote in a post on <a href="https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1781330862115610797">X</a>. “Now, sex = gender identity.”
“In a nutshell, the new rewrite means, men can take academic AND athletic scholarships from women,” she added. “Men will have FULL access to bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. Men could be housed in dorm rooms with women.”
“Students and faculty MUST compel their speech by requiring the use of preferred pronouns,” Gaines continued. “If the guidelines above are ignored or even questioned, then YOU can be charged with harassment.”
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The Biden Admin has just officially abolished Title IX as we knew it. Now, sex = gender identity.
In a nutshell, the new rewrite means: 
&#8211; men can take academic AND athletic scholarships from women 
&#8211; men will have FULL access to bathrooms, locker rooms, etc 
&#8211; men could be… <a href="https://t.co/JfQVI9Yfph">pic.twitter.com/JfQVI9Yfph</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1781330862115610797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
The former University of Kentucky swimmer has become a vocal advocate for women’s rights in sports and has faced backlash for speaking out against biological males competing against females.
Gaines made headlines when she talked about how unfair it was having to swim against trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022 and how uncomfortable it was changing in the locker room with Thomas.
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Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, also blasted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grotesque-betrayal-of-students-critics-blast-bidens-new-title-ix-regulations-championing-gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden&#8217;s new regulations</a> as “grotesque,” and accused the White House of capitulating “to extremists in his party, sacrificing the First Amendment on the altar of Title IX and disregarding clearly established Supreme Court precedent on the definition of sexual harassment.&#8221;
Former Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education Sarah Parshall Perry echoed the sentiment, stating, “Under the new rule, girls and women will no longer have any sex-separated bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations, or other educational programs. Women’s sports are likely endangered, too.”
“Any education institution, including many private schools that receive even nominal federal funding, will be affected by this rule,” she added. “The rule also erases other important protections, like due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct, free speech protections for students and teachers who don’t want to use ‘preferred pronouns,’ and parents’ right to know if their child is in the process of a gender identity ‘social transition’ at school.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riley-gaines-shares-messages-shes-gotten-from-female-athletes-competing-against-trans-identifying-males" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines Shares Messages She&#8217;s Gotten From Female Athletes Competing Against Trans-Identifying Males</a>

House Oversight Committee Holds Hearing Examining Female Athletics And Title IX

Riley Gaines Says Biden Has ‘Abolished Title IX’; Breaks Down What This Means For Women

Riley Gaines Says Biden Has 'Abolished Title IX'; Breaks Down What This Means For Women

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">Megyn Kelly</a> said on Friday that “Joe Biden must go” as she blasted the president’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grotesque-betrayal-of-students-critics-blast-bidens-new-title-ix-regulations-championing-gender-identity">Title IX revision</a>, which protects transgender-identifying people and is a “nuclear level attack on women’s rights.&#8221;
In a lengthy post <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1781342505356681614">on X</a>, the host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast wrote: “DO NOT EVER LET ANY DEMOCRAT TELL YOU THEY CARE ABOUT WOMEN’S RIGHTS EVER AGAIN IF THEY DO NOT STAND UP TO THIS ABOMINATION OF A TITLE IX REVISION.”
“These regs are a nuclear level attack on women’s rights and men’s due process rights,” Kelly said. “JOE BIDEN MUST GO. Your daughter will be forced to share her locker rooms with aroused men who get off on posing as women and there will be nothing you can do.”
“Your son will be stripped of his due process rights if he is accused by anyone on campus of sexual misconduct &#8211; his life will be over just w/the accusation,” she added. “No right to cross examine, back to kangaroo ‘courts’ and he will be expelled and labeled a sex offender based on NOTHING.”
“The only people who win are people who say they are ‘trans’ who now get to curtail our language and take over our spaces and eventually our sports,” the host continued. “THIS WILL NOT STAND. Shame on you Biden.”
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DO NOT EVER LET ANY DEMOCRAT TELL YOU THEY CARE ABOUT WOMEN’S RIGHTS EVER AGAIN IF THEY DO NOT STAND UP TO THIS ABOMINATION OF A TITLE IX REVISION. 
These regs are a nuclear level attack on women’s rights and men’s due process rights. JOE BIDEN MUST GO.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1781342505356681614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
The post followed the release of the Biden administration’s provision, which “clarifies that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.” The revision will force any K-12 school or higher education institution receiving federal funding to allow boys who identify as girls to use girls&#8217; bathrooms, locker rooms, and housing accommodations while allowing girls who identify as boys to use boys&#8217; facilities. 
The Biden administration&#8217;s new change to Title IX also forces teachers and students to use the preferred pronouns of their students or classmates. Additionally, K-12 schools that receive federal funding must go along with students&#8217; chosen gender identity even if it doesn&#8217;t match their biological sex without providing notice to or getting approval from parents.
During Friday’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3sxWKvtAqA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>, the host expanded on her comments and said that she was ashamed of Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona&#8217;s reversal of the 1972 law that was enacted to protect women and girls.
“No lawmaker has voted on this,” Kelly said. “No Congress has passed this. Joe Biden did it with his education secretary. It&#8217;s an agency regulation. &#8230; It applies to K-12. It&#8217;s not just colleges. The way you talk about these issues, pronouns. He&#8217;s waved his magic wand to say we all have to do it the way Joe Biden wants it done.”
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Former Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education <a href="https://x.com/SarahPPerry/status/1781395475179987073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Parshall Perry</a> said the revision of “Title IX—which was enacted to protect women and girls and provide them equal educational opportunities—has been manipulated so that gender activists and woke politicos can feel good about themselves.”
“Under the new rule, girls and women will no longer have any sex-separated bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations, or other educational programs,” she added. “Women’s sports are likely endangered, too. Any education institution, including many private schools that receive even nominal federal funding, will be affected by this rule.”

Megyn Kelly

‘Joe Biden Must Go’: Megyn Kelly Blasts President’s Title IX Revision

On Friday, the Biden administration released its new Title IX regulations, and its strictures engendered anger and outrage for those defending traditional values.
The <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a>, which runs over 1,500 pages, states that the Department of Education “disagrees with the contention that including sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of §106.10 harms women. Recognizing these bases of sex discrimination under Title IX in no way lessens the force of Title IX’s protections against discrimination that limits educational opportunities for girls and women. Further, discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is typically motivated by the same sex stereotypes that limit opportunities for women regardless of whether they identify as LGBTQI+.”
The DOE also insisted that the rules apply to elementary schools as well: “The Department appreciates the opportunity to correct the misunderstanding that Title IX is limited to postsecondary institutions. As recipients of Federal financial assistance, elementary schools and secondary schools are also subject to Title IX and its regulations.”
A <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-final-rule-summary.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summary</a> of the major provision stated that the 2024 Final Rule “clarifies that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
Former Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education Sarah Parshall Perry, now working at the Heritage Foundation, reacted:
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Title IX—which was enacted to protect women and girls and provide them equal educational opportunities—has been manipulated so that gender activists and woke politicos can feel good about themselves. Under the new rule, girls and women will no longer have any sex-separated bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations, or other educational programs. Women’s sports are likely endangered too. Any education institution, including many private schools that receive even nominal federal funding, will be affected by this rule. 
The rule also erases other important protections, like due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct, free speech protections for students and teachers who don’t want to use ‘preferred pronouns,’ and parents&#8217; right to know if their child is in the process of a gender identity ‘social transition’ at school. 
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Nicole Neily, President of Parents Defending Education, also <a href="https://twitter.com/nickineily/status/1781309424373493983">responded</a> to the new regulations:
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It is grotesque that the White House has chosen to capitulate to extremists in his party, sacrificing the First Amendment on the altar of Title IX and disregarding clearly established Supreme Court precedent on the definition of sexual harassment. Extending Title IX to cover gender identity means that schools will no longer have discretion over whether – or how – to provide certain services and activities to students on the basis of self-declared gender identity. 
Title IX was written in 1972 when “sex” meant male and female, and no amount of interpretive jiujitsu permits a cabinet agency to rewrite the plain language of the law. Efforts to do so have failed repeatedly in Congress for one simple reason: such an expansion of law is deeply unpopular, with opposition to these changes spanning both political and racial lines. This betrayal of students will not soon be forgotten by American parents, and we look forward to suing the Administration over this policy soon.
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‘Grotesque … Betrayal Of Students’: Critics Blast Biden’s New Title IX Regulations Championing ‘Gender Identity’

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A star basketball player at the University of Illinois was suspended after a woman accused him of sexual assault, but the school has now dropped its own investigation into the athlete.
Terrence Shannon Jr. was suspended from the Illinois basketball team after he was charged with rape in Kansas, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/terrence-shannon-jr-illinois-basketball-rape-charge-9d4bb7e676fa2ba6f0d83018c5f5f463" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> earlier this year. Shannon successfully lobbied a U.S. District Court judge to overturn the suspension and allow him to start playing again, and now the university has ended its attempt to discipline the athlete, citing a lack of evidence.
Shannon was charged with rape on December 5 by prosecutors in Douglas County, Kansas, after a woman claimed that he put his hands under her skirt and violated her. The alleged incident occurred on September 9, 2023, while Shannon and a teammate were at a bar after attending Illinois’ football game against Kansas. The woman claimed Shannon – whom she identified after searching the school’s online basketball team roster – called her over and then grabbed her buttocks before reaching under her skirt to touch her sexually, the AP reported.
A graduate assistant for the basketball team assigned to drive Shannon and his teammate to Kansas and chaperone them said he was near Shannon the entire night in question and never saw anything the woman described in her allegations, the AP report noted.
After the charges were filed, the University of Illinois suspended Shannon from the team, and he missed six games. Judge Colleen Lawless ruled on January 19 that the university had violated Shannon’s civil rights and deprived him of his “protected property interests” by suspending him without due process. She noted that Shannon was supporting several family members and his suspension jeopardized his chances of being one of the first players to be drafted by the NBA and to make money through endorsements allowed by the NCAA’s name, image, and likeness policy.
“Plaintiff’s participation in sports is vital to the development of his career as well as his current and future economic opportunities considering plaintiff’s intention to declare for the 2024 NBA Draft,” Lawless wrote in her ruling, the AP reported. “Prior to his suspension, plaintiff was projected to be a lottery pick in the NBA. His participation in future games impact his prospects in the draft and his earning potential.”
On April 5, Illinois sent a memo to Shannon, his accuser, and university officials stating that it would not follow through on disciplinary proceedings against the star player.
“… a determination was made that the evidence available to [the Office for Student Conflict Resolution] at this time is not sufficient to allow a reasonable hearing panel to find [Shannon] in violation of the Student Code sections identified in the allegation notice,” the school&#8217;s director of its Office for Student Conflict Resolution <a href="https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1778162577425768806?s=43&amp;t=zEuer7j4Ff8TVIcpiUO1KA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “For example, access to the complainant, the complainant’s witness and the complete Lawrence Police Department file was not available to the investigator.”
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“The complainant has not indicated an intent to participate in a hearing before a hearing panel at this time,” the school administrator continued. “As a result, the process has concluded, charges have been dropped, and no disciplinary action will be taken against [Shannon] at this time.”
The school did, however, say that it may bring disciplinary proceedings against Shannon should “new substantial evidence” come to light.
Shannon still faces charges in Kansas. His attorney gave <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/university-of-illinois-drops-sex-assault-investigation-into-illini-basketball-player-terrence-shannon-jr-his-attorney-says/14644377/#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20Illinois%20has,basketball%20player%20Terrence%20Shannon%20Junior.">a statement</a> to ABC 7 in December saying Shannon is innocent.
“Since September, when these allegations surfaced, Terrence has cooperated with law enforcement throughout the investigation, declaring his innocence from the beginning,&#8221; the attorney said. &#8220;Now, several months later, my office learned that formal charges were filed against him [in December] in Lawrence, KS. In less than 24 hours, my client responded, and he voluntarily surrendered to local authorities for processing and release. Terrence is innocent of these charges, and he intends to take his case to trial.”
Shannon’s team was ranked 14th in the nation and second in the Big Ten conference, with Shannon averaging 21.7 points per game, according to the AP.

Terrence Shannon

School Drops Investigation Into Star Basketball Player Charged With Rape, Citing Lack Of Evidence

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false accusations

Illinois

Sexual Assault

Virginia Tech University violated a male student’s due process rights when it gave him just one day to prepare for a hearing on allegations he had sexually assaulted a female student, a court has ruled.
The Iranian graduate student, referred to in court documents as John Doe, said in <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.122877/gov.uscourts.vawd.122877.109.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his lawsuit</a> against the university that he met the female student on a dating app in the fall of 2019, and they had a consensual relationship. It didn’t last, but he said he saw her on campus afterward, and they had a friendly conversation. He also alleges that, at some point, the woman made a racist comment about him, saying he was a “brown guy who smelled very bad.”
On November 20, 2019, the female student asked Virginia Tech administrators to issue a do-not-contact order for John, which it provided. At that time, the female student didn’t want to pursue the matter any further.
Two months later, however, she went back to school administrators and made a formal allegation of sexual assault against John. John wasn’t informed about the allegation until nearly a month later, on February 17, 2020, according to his lawsuit.
On February 28, John met with the school’s Title IX investigator to discuss the student conduct process. On this same day, John received the formal charges against him. On March 3, he met with the school’s assistant director of student conduct to further discuss the process. Just two days later, John was informed that his hearing would take place the next day, which he alleges gave him no time to prepare his defense. He asked for the hearing to be delayed but was denied. He was told he had been made aware of the allegations weeks earlier, on February 17.
At that time, however, John didn’t know the date of the hearing and did not obtain an adviser or legal counsel or procure a witness because he had no idea when they would be needed. It also didn’t give John time to review the school’s investigative report against him so he could mount a defense.
John had to attend his hearing without counsel or an advisor and said in his lawsuit that he couldn’t question witnesses and could not present witnesses of his own. Specifically, John learned that the allegations against him came from an incident with his accuser in an elevator. John said he knew a witness who could dispute the allegations.
John was found responsible for sexual assault and expelled, so he sued. In his lawsuit, John alleges the accuser was convinced to pursue the accusation against him by his former graduate advisor, whom John had made several complaints about. John alleges he was retaliated against after reporting that his advisor had made sexual comments about female students, provided grant money that should have gone to John to a female student, and fraudulently claimed John’s research was funded by grant money.
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While Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski – an Obama appointee – allowed Virginia Tech’s motion to dismiss John’s allegations of a hostile environment, he allowed his lawsuit to move forward on John&#8217;s claims of grant funding and retaliation. The court also found that John’s due process rights could have been violated when the school gave him a one-day notice of his hearing to determine whether he would be expelled.
The ruling was a win for John and could lead to a settlement with the university.
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Justice Scales

Student Accused Of Sexual Assault Receives Court Win After University Gave Him One-Day Notice Of Hearing

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Virginia Tech

A University of North Carolina researcher was fired after three women made vague, non-sexual allegations against him — he&#8217;s <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LlHj13ag8ygtapJabsjoZX88PRneNTeO/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now suing</a>, alleging that the university violated its own policies when firing him and provided him little to no chance to defend himself.
Christopher Wretman received his undergraduate, master&#8217;s, and doctorate from UNC and was hired as a senior data analyst for the university in 2017. His main job was research, but he also taught as an adjunct faculty member at the university’s School of Social Work. His work focused on the disadvantages of the young and old, and economic and social inequities.
While obtaining his doctorate, Wretman says he fell in love with faculty member Dr. Rebecca Macy, and the two have owned a home together since 2020. The school approved their relationship, and the two worked on research projects together once Wretman was hired by the university, his lawsuit says.
In 2020, Wretman, Macy, and others were working on a plan to develop a research center, and the university hired Jia Luo as a research program manager to work under Macy. This team also collaborated with other faculty and students at UNC, including doctoral student Sarah Godoy and former student Erin Meehan.
During the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement that year, the School of Social Work adopted policies to root out alleged inequalities, leading to what Wretman described as a “call-out-culture” advocating for the community to report any suspected discrimination. This, combined with universities already existing Title IX policies regarding sex discrimination, created a system where people could accuse others of indiscretion without having to provide evidence to back up their claims, almost always leading to punishment of the accused.
According to the court filing, in April 2021, Godoy, the doctoral student who occasionally worked with Wretman and Macy, told UNC’s associate dean for doctoral education that she had concerns about the way her superiors communicated with her, in particular, Wretman. The dean reported these concerns to the school’s Title IX office, but Wretman does not know the actual content of the allegations or how the report was handled.
In early May 2021, Wretman and Macy were first alerted to these concerns when they were invited to a meeting with the school’s Title IX director of compliance. In Wretman’s lawsuit, he says contemporaneous emails show his and Macy’s “communications and interactions with Godoy had been constructive and positive throughout their work together.”
When Wretman inquired about the nature of this meeting, he was told that if he refused to participate, the university would involve his superiors, pressuring him to attend.
In a separate meeting, Macy was told that Godoy was uncomfortable with the team’s close relationships and that she had claimed Wretman made inappropriate comments. Macy was told to restructure the research so that Godoy would no longer have to communicate with Wretman. Because of the information Macy was given, UNC violated its policy about keeping such matters private since the meetings concerned Wretman and not Macy. Conversely, Godoy’s allegations reportedly referred to the team’s communications, but Wretman, the only male on the team, was the university’s sole focus.
During his own meeting, Wretman was told he behaved poorly even though no investigation had been done and no evidence was presented to back up Godoy’s allegations. He says in his lawsuit that he was told “to comport himself more appropriately as a straight White male.” Other than that, he was told the issue was resolved.
Wretman and Macy then worked out a plan so that Godoy wouldn’t have to work with them but could keep her name on all research projects. Godoy indicated in an email that she agreed to this.
But later Godoy apparently had dinner with Luo, who had been hired as the team’s program manager. During this dinner, Wretman alleges that Godoy claimed she was removed from the research team as if it was against her will and not something she agreed to. After this dinner, even though she had never raised any concerns about the team before, Luo claimed to Macy that she had experienced anti-Asian hate while working with the team. She placed the blame on Wretman’s communication style, according to his lawsuit.
Luo also claimed that others had concerns about Wretman without offering details.
It was Macy who reported Luo’s concerns about herself, Wretman, and the rest of the team to the university.
According to the lawsuit, Macy told Wretman about all of this and suggested he step back from work activities to protect himself.
Luo also reached out to Macy requesting to work remotely for fear that Wretman would retaliate against her, providing no evidence that he would do so. She also claimed to be stressed due to trauma stemming from this alleged &#8220;anti-Asian violence.&#8221;
Several months later, a third allegation was made, this time by Meehan, the former student who collaborated with the research team. Macy was Meehan’s internship supervisor, and never raised any concerns with Macy about anyone on the team. Wretman says in his lawsuit that emails show his communications with Meehan were “constructive and positive throughout their work together.”
Wretman had provided a reference for Meehan to work at a non-profit organization after her internship ended, but after Luo made her allegations, he emailed Meehan rescinding his offer to help her get this new job. Wretman’s reason for doing so was that he was afraid of more allegations when trying to help female researchers.
Meehan would later make a report against Wretman to the university, but it is unknown what allegations she made.
Even though the allegations seem vague and thin on evidence, the school investigated the claims against Wretman and determined he was responsible and should be terminated. To get to that conclusion, Wretman says in his lawsuit that the school ignored its own policies, never informing him about the process, breaking deadlines, and allowing his accusers to discuss matters with other people. Further, the vague nature of Luo’s allegations shouldn’t have amounted to an abusive or hostile workplace (she alleged he was overly critical of her work and her in meetings and was passive-aggressive and condescending, though she apparently provided no evidence, according to Wretman).
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The school also decided to investigate Wretman for bullying based on Luo’s allegations and allowed her feelings to dictate Wretman’s guilt. The school, according to Wretman, provided no evidence that he had been vindictive or intended to intimidate or humiliate Luo.
While much of the information in Wretman’s lawsuit came from the school’s report on its investigation into him, he writes that the report lacks substantial information about how it justified its investigations and the evidence provided by the three women. The document, according to Wretman, provides “no documentation or information detailing a rationale that Meehan provided sufficient allegations or evidence of a University policy violation to warrant an investigation of Wretman.” He writes something similar about the allegations of the other two women.
Wretman alleges the school violated its Title IX policies and denied him due process, among other claims. He is seeking more than $50,000 in damages.

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University Researcher Fired Based On Vague Allegations From 3 Women. Now He’s Suing.

University Researcher Fired Based On Vague Allegations From 3 Women. Now He's Suing.

Third-wave feminists have set women back 50 years. Just look what they’ve done to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/womens-sports">women’s sports</a>. Their forebears in the movement would be appalled.
Once the promises of voting and property rights had been fulfilled by the early suffragettes — the Mary Wollstonecrafts and the Susan B. Anthonys — the second-wave feminists turned their attention to other iterations of sex equality. The Gloria Steinems and the Bella Abzugs burned their bras in the streets, descended on Capitol Hill, and demanded equal employment, equal pay, and equal educational opportunity. Their crowning achievement was perhaps Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 — the federal civil rights law guaranteeing sex equality in education in all its many manifestations, whether admissions, scholarships, graduate programs, housing accommodations, or athletics.
What a difference a half-century makes. To watch the patent discrimination extant in women’s sporting events these days, you’d be hard pressed to think Title IX exists at all.
For this, we have third-wave feminists to thank, those who have sacrificed women’s equality on the altar of equity for trans-identified males. They believe gender is performative, that the coherence of gender expression is illusory, that one’s “natural sex” is transitory. These feminists — the Judith Butlers and Gloria Anzaldúas — gifted us the poison of “queer theory,” and set up a battle of the sexes playing out in real time in high school gymnasiums everywhere.
These same feminists have fed us the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanmshaw/2024/02/04/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-body-is-not-the-problem/?sh=5e8e68d9196a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">narrative</a> that divisions over transgender athletic participation are based not on the fulsome evidence of the athletic advantages of transgender-identified males, but rather on “our deeply-held and rather largely unexamined assumptions about biology and gender.”
But if the widely recognized proof of male athletic advantages isn’t sufficient for third-wave feminists to call an end to men in women’s sports, perhaps evidence of injured female athletes will be. These injuries sustained by girls and women during athletic contests with transgender athletes are not the stuff of mere speculation. Significant bodily harm to young women is already well-documented, and on the rise.
Take a recent game between the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell in Massachusetts and KIPP Academy in Lynn, Massachusetts. A trans-identified six-foot-tall male player with facial hair playing for the KIPP Academy girls’ basketball team, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-trans-controversy-erupts-when-girls-basketball-game-ends-in-forfeit-following-three-injuries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">injured multiple players</a> and eventually forced the Collegiate Charter School to forfeit. In now widely <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/high-school-basketball-player-who-identifies-girl-accused-causing-injuries-game-opponents-forfeit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">circulated video</a>, he is seen wrestling the ball away from one of the girls, causing her to hit the ground where she clutches her back in pain.
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Trans-identified male player for Kipp Academy in MA injured 3 girls before half time causing Lowell Collegiate Charter School to forfeit. 
A man hitting a woman used to be called domestic abuse. Now it&#39;s called brave. 
Who watches this &amp; actually thinks this is &quot;compassionate,… <a href="https://t.co/ZLlqYH6iAs">pic.twitter.com/ZLlqYH6iAs</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1759651078566498435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Events like these are no longer an aberration in school sports, thanks to Education Secretary Miguel Cordona’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/03/education-department-title-ix-00139459" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal interpretation</a> of “sex” in Title IX to also include “gender identity or expression.” Indeed, they are evidence that this new wave of sex discrimination has not yet reached its zenith.
In 2022, North Carolina volleyball player Payton McNabb suffered <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6334032228112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serious injury</a> after a trans-identified male player spiked a ball at her head and rendered her unconscious.
Last year, a female athlete was injured by a trans-identified male opponent during a <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/news/massachusetts-high-school-field-hockey-player-loses-teeth-after-shot-from-male-on-womans-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">field hockey</a> game in Massachusetts when a ball he threw at her, knocking her teeth out.
Examples of other females being injured by males participating in overseas or semi-professional women’s sports abound, occurring in <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-transgender-soccer-player-injures-female-opponent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soccer</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1065633/watch-transgender-rugby-player-slams-female-athletes-coach-says-three-injured/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=WE_DSA_New-Targeting_2024&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA_tuuBhAUEiwAvxkgTqgl5j8tXiwQo5fY_-xfbhEVxef8gPwPV-mvL9e7TtKkIy6j9jZYXRoCztsQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rugby</a>, <a href="https://sportslawexpert.com/2022/12/12/professor-maintains-that-trans-athletes-causing-serious-injuries-to-girls/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=professor-maintains-that-trans-athletes-causing-serious-injuries-to-girls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hockey</a>, and <a href="https://www.bjjee.com/articles/transgender-mma-fighter-who-broke-female-opponents-skull-are-we-getting-too-politically-correct-with-reality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mixed martial arts</a>. And these injuries are just the ones we know about; the political overlords at legacy media companies who are fully beholden to the trans minority have surely kept others quiet.
Where, now, is the feminist outrage of our grandmothers? Where the dismay of the third-wave feminists at what their prescriptions on intersectionality and queerness have wrought?
How many more female athletes must be injured before a new wave of feminists rise up—those with the first wave’s understanding of moral order and natural law, possessed of the outrage and unflinching demands for equality of the second wave?
We modern women — we who have held the vote for little more than 100 years, considered by many segments of male society for centuries to be little more than <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2024/02/92615/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skin and bones</a> — must recognize the third wave has failed us and ceded ground it took our grandmothers and great grandmothers years to claim. We must never cease to believe our own eyes, call out discrimination where it hides in plain sight, and identify the chauvinism platformed by commitments to “queerness,” and equity, and the fungibility of sex — something even arch feminist Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-1941.ZO.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> was “not fungible.” 
We must do these things, if not for our own sake, then for that of those women yet to come.
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Sarah Parshall Perry is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Trans Athlete Injures Multiple Girls, Forcing Team To Forfeit. Wither Thou, Feminism?

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A federal jury has awarded a former associate professor $15 million after finding him the victim of a gender-biased investigation by his former university.
John Abraham, a former Rothman Orthopedic Institute surgeon and former associate professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said that a second-year resident got him too drunk to consent and forced herself on him during a pool party at his home in 2018. While he says his claim was ignored, her claim that he sexually assaulted her resulted in a Title IX investigation against him, leading to his resignation, The Philadelphia Inquirer <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/health/john-abraham-rothman-jefferson-sex-discrimination-case-jury-federal-20231205.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week.
Abraham said he reported the incident to several TJU officials, who had a duty to report sexual misconduct under the anti-sex discrimination statute Title IX. None of them reported his allegations, he claimed.
The resident, Jessica Phillips, claimed she woke up in Abraham’s bed the morning after the party and was naked, disoriented, and covered in bruises. She filed a criminal complaint against Abraham the month after the party, but Montgomery County prosecutors closed the investigation without charging Abraham four months later.
TJU investigated Phillips’ claims, and Abraham testified at a federal civil trial that TJU officials ignored his side of the story. He also testified that the hospital threatened to report him to a national database that tracks doctor misconduct unless he took a leave of absence. Abraham testified that being reported to that database would mean the end of his career.
“I had no choice. There was no option,” Abraham said at trial, according to the Inquirer.
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TJU closed its investigation into Abraham after he agreed to resign from his faculty position and abandon his clinical privileges at the school’s hospitals.
About a year after Phillips reported the incident, Abraham sued her for defamation and libel. She countersued for assault and battery, but the case was settled without either side receiving monetary damages. Phillips is now an orthopedic surgeon on the West Coast.
The school’s Title IX report detailed interviews with 41 witnesses and included Phillips&#8217; claims about assault. It says the school tried to interview Abraham about the incident but he declined because of the open criminal investigation at the time. Abraham’s attorneys said at trial that their client tried to delay the final report for just “two or three more weeks” to let the criminal investigation conclude, but the school ignored his plea.
While the report didn’t make a finding, the school’s then-Title IX coordinator Zoe Gingold told Abraham that she believed a “no-charge decision is not possible in this case” and that a hearing would be held. Before that could happen, Abraham resigned.
Andrew Marth, one of Abraham’s attorneys, pointed to details in the report that should have been considered sexual misconduct by Phillips, including a male Jefferson nurse who said Phillips sat next to him while he was playing piano and “nibbled” on his ear and “started rubbing me a little bit,” which made him “a little uncomfortable.”
Gingold testified that Phillips’ other behavior at the party didn’t compare to her allegations against Abraham, but she also added that “She was a student. He was a teacher. He was in a powerful hierarchy position to her,” according to the Inquirer.
Abraham sued TJU as well, arguing that the school’s actions have destroyed his career and harmed his ability to make money. Abraham was earning about $2 million in income a year and was a partner and shareholder at the Rothman Orthopedic Institute. The Institute conducted an investigation into Phillips’ claims in 2018 and, while it didn’t fire Abraham, it did restrict him from working in Jefferson hospitals and interacting with Jefferson residents. He was fired last year for allegedly failing to bring in the $1.3 million in annual revenue that partners are required. Abraham has also brought legal action against Rothman.
“His career is in tatters. His practice, dismantled,” another one of Abraham’s attorneys, Lane Jubb Jr., said at trial.
Abraham now reportedly lives in a one-bedroom apartment near a train station.
The jury decided to award Abraham $15 million, arguing that TJU treated him unequally because he is a man, the Inquirer <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/health/thomas-jefferson-university-john-abraham-rothman-federal-jury-20231211.html?query=abraham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.

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He Was Accused Of Sexual Assault But Said He Was The Victim. A Jury Just Awarded Him $15 Million.

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Representatives and witnesses highlighted concerns for girls and women during a contentious hearing on Tuesday challenging the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration&#8217;s</a> proposed changes to Title IX, which would effectively broaden the definition of sex to include &#8220;gender identity.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/fact-sheet-us-department-educations-proposed-change-its-title-ix-regulations-students-eligibility-athletic-teams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed changes</a> would rewrite Title IX in such a way that policies banning biological males who identify as trans from competing with or against females would now be in violation of law. Issuing such sex distinctions to protect girls sports, therefore, could strip a school of its funding. The rule would be applied to public K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions that receive federal funding.
The hearing opened with a rather fiery interaction between former NCAA swimmer-turned-advocate Riley Gaines and Democratic Rep. Summer Lee (PA), who preemptively suggested Gaines and other witnesses&#8217; testimonies would be &#8220;transphobic&#8221; and filled with “hateful misinformation.”
“And Ranking Member Lee, if my testimony makes me transphobic, then I believe you’re opening monologue makes you a misogynist,&#8221; Gaines said in closing her opening statement. 
Lee interrupted the next witness to ask to have Gaines&#8217; words taken down. Gaines chimed in, “Can I just ask, how it’s fair to be called transphobic &#8212;&#8221; before Lee interjected, “I never called you anything.&#8221;
Lee was ultimately unsuccessful in her effort, as the point of order was withdrawn.
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🚨BREAKING: After Democrat <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSummerLee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepSummerLee</a> (D-PA) said <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a> engages in &quot;transphobic bigotry&quot; by opposing boys in girls sports, Riley fired back by saying &quot;if my testimony makes me transphobic then you are a misogynist.&quot;
Lee then moved to have her words taken down. <a href="https://t.co/MdZRc4RgUM">pic.twitter.com/MdZRc4RgUM</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1732138612899078392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gaines and other witnesses argued that refusing to separate sports by sex harms women and girls; they cited studies showing the physical differences between males and females post-puberty, even after hormone treatments; argued that women and girls are losing out on scholarships and other opportunities; discussed the invasion of girls’ privacy in places like locker rooms; and noted female athletes who’ve been physically harmed by biologically male opponents.
“Not only do women have to worry about losing out on opportunities and being exploited in locker rooms, allowing men into women&#8217;s sports also puts girls at greater risk of injury,&#8221; Gaines said. &#8220;In September of last year, North Carolina volleyball player Payton McNabb suffered serious injury after a trans-identified male player spiked a ball at her head, rendering her unconscious. Payton experienced extensive trauma to her head and neck and long-term concussion symptoms. Still to this day, a year and three-ish months later, she is still partially paralyzed on her right side, her vision is impaired, and she isn&#8217;t playing college sports, like she had dreamed of.”
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The Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite is a direct attack on women’s rights.<a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a> has more courage than many of our elected officials, who let men compete in women’s sports and invade female-only spaces instead of standing up to pressure from left-wing activists. <a href="https://t.co/muptQ768cn">pic.twitter.com/muptQ768cn</a>
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1732187379103138254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sarah Parshall Perry of The Heritage Foundation, another witness at the hearing, argued that separating sports by sex comes down to common sense, adding that it&#8217;s also widely supported by the American people.
“Ultimately, what keeps us here is our failure to identify biological distinctions between one sex and another,&#8221; Perry said. &#8220;We can use terms like &#8216;cis&#8217; or &#8216;trans&#8217; all we want, but men and women are different and the American public knows it, which is why 70% of the American populace wants sports separated by sex.”
Perry also noted that nearly two dozen states have already passed legislation to protect girls and women’s sports; those states would face “significant financial harm&#8221; under the proposed Biden rule-change. She also predicted that if the Biden rule were to go through, it would “automatically be challenged in a federal court.”
Supporters of the Biden rule-change spoke a lot about supposed “bigotry” and “transphobia” of those who disagree with them, as underscored by Lee&#8217;s opening remarks. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) even argued that supporting sex-separated sports is akin to supporting racism.
Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, agreed with AOC that rules protecting women&#8217;s sports hurt black and brown people most. She also argued that the issue of women’s privacy in locker rooms could be addressed by “curtains” or “doors&#8221; during a heated exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
“I actually think this is really, really important,&#8221; Graves said when pressed by MTG about Gaines having to share a locker room with a biological male during collegiate swimming. &#8220;The issue of privacy in locker rooms and in bathrooms – there’s a wide range of ways to address this. … You could put up a curtain, you could put up a door, you could have rotations.&#8221;
Greene moved on to Gaines, who said those are not in swimming locker rooms and suggested that the onus should not be on women and girls.
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At today’s hearing on protecting Title IX, the Democrat witness defended men beating down women by competing against them in women’s sports.
But even Fatima Goss Graves’ hero, tennis star Serena Williams, admitted she would be beat in straight sets if she was forced to play… <a href="https://t.co/3rqgMNBADK">pic.twitter.com/3rqgMNBADK</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1732175664952807823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The hearing also made mention of DailyWire+ comedy &#8220;Lady Ballers,&#8221; which skewers radical gender ideology in women&#8217;s sports. Gaines said she was pleased that the movie &#8220;mocked the mockery&#8221; some on the Left have made of women and girls.
&#8220;I encourage everyone to watch it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Watching that movie &#8230; didn&#8217;t feel like satire. It felt like a documentary of what, again, myself and girls around the country continue to go through.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepEricBurlison?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepEricBurlison</a>: &quot;If it weren&#39;t so tragic, it would be comical. I understand there&#39;s a movie being made [<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LadyBallers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LadyBallers</a>], a comedy about this very issue that&#39;s on The Daily Wire that I can&#39;t wait to see.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a>: &quot;I encourage everyone to watch it&#8230;Watching that… <a href="https://t.co/iexZFSFPL8">pic.twitter.com/iexZFSFPL8</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1732158168375898495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Notably, Daily Wire co-founder and &#8220;Lady Ballers&#8221; director and star Jeremy Boreing announced online that he sent a free screener of the film to those at the hearing.
&#8220;Ahead of today’s Title IX hearing, every member of the committee received a free screener of #LadyBallers,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I thought they needed a reminder that men pretending to be women and brutally dominating women’s sports is something to be mocked, not an idea to be written into law.&#8221;
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Ahead of today’s Title IX hearing, every member of the committee received a free screener of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LadyBallers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LadyBallers</a>.
I thought they needed a reminder that men pretending to be women and brutally dominating women’s sports is something to be mocked, not an idea to be written into law. <a href="https://t.co/y5qcgFaAU1">pic.twitter.com/y5qcgFaAU1</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1732096644735185183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines testifies during a House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC.

WATCH: Sparks Fly Between Riley Gaines And Dem Rep During Hearing On Biden Proposal To Rewrite Title IX

‘Then You’re A Misogynist’: Sparks Fly At Hearing On Biden Proposal To Rewrite Title IX

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In a move that could pit women’s advocates and transgender activists against each other, the Education Department has opened an investigation into an alleged incident involving a trans-identifying student exposing his male genitalia to freshman girls.
The Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which investigates schools for potential violations of the anti-sex discrimination statute Title IX, said Wednesday that it would look into the incident, which occurred in March. The investigation comes as a response to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL).
In <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/OCR-Opening-Investigation-SPASD66.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its response</a> to WILL’s complaint OCR says that it will investigate “Whether the [Sun Prairie Area School] District responded to a report of sexual harassment consistent with the requirements of Title IX.”
An investigation does not mean that OCR will determine the school district acted inappropriately when a student reported that a biologically male student identifying as a female entered the girls’ locker room and showered naked next to four freshman girls and exposed his male genitalia to them.
While Title IX in recent years has been used to adjudicate allegations of sexual assault and harassment, the Biden administration has signaled it would use the statute to punish schools for not adhering to the administration&#8217;s transgender ideology.
The incident occurred on March 3, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18-year-old-male-identifying-as-female-enters-high-school-girls-locker-showers-naked-next-to-14-year-old-students-conservative-org-alleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, at Sun Prairie East High School in Wisconsin. When the four freshman girls entered the lockers, they found a senior male student, believed to be 18 years old at the time, in the room that contained the lockers and benches. The girls said the student wasn’t in the class with them, but proceeded to the shower area even though they were uncomfortable. They were aware that the student identified as transgender and had used girls’ bathrooms previously.
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The girls showered with their bathing suits on, which was common practice. Just when they started to shower, the transgender student fully undressed and entered the shower next to one of the girls. The student was initially facing the wall but then turned toward the four girls, exposing his male genitalia to all four freshmen.
The girls didn’t know what to do and didn’t immediately report the incident, but after one girl told another student what happened, that student said they should report it. Three days after the incident in the shower, the uninvolved student reported it to student services. The incident should have been reported under Title IX, but Associate Principal Heidi Walter didn’t report the incident to the Title IX coordinator, and instead asked for the names of the students involved, according to WILL.
On March 10, the student who reported the incident had gained permission to provide the students’ names and was ready to do so, but Walter said that the girls could approach her if they wanted. She later admitted, according to WILL, that she should have “dug deeper” into the issue.
The four girls should have been provided supportive measures under Title IX, but instead, the school focused on the transgender student, WILL said. EHS’ principal did, however, apologize to a parent in an email by saying the incident “should not have happened” and vowing to “continue to work to ensure no one has a similar experience,” though she didn’t outline any steps the school would take.
WILL said that the Sun Prairie Area School District dismissed the rights and concerns of the freshmen girls while assuring parents that the issue had been resolved. The district also pointed to its “Restroom and Locker Room Accessibility Guidance,” which may not have even been in effect. The guidance, according to WILL, suggests that if a transgender student “makes any request regarding the use of locker rooms,” the school will evaluate the request. The policy says nothing about students who don’t make requests, if permission is required, or who makes the determination on the student’s request.
The school district’s policy says that a “student who is transgender, nonbinary, or gender expansive will be permitted to access the men’s/women’s segregated restrooms in accordance with the student’s gender identity that the student regularly asserts at school and in other social environments.”
It further states that any “Student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, may be provided with access to a single-access restroom where such a facility is reasonably available, but no student shall be required to use such a restroom because of the student’s transgender, nonbinary, or gender expansive status.”
The school district has also released a statement saying it stands by “LGBTQIA+ students and staff,” taking “seriously our responsibility to provide safe, nondiscriminatory, and inclusive environments for people of all orientations and identities as they reflect our diverse community around us.”
The statement also says that “all children will be safe and loved in our schools,” which WILL argued has not been upheld in this case.

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Education Dept. Investigating Alleged Incident Of 18-Year-Old Trans-Identifying Student Exposing Male Genitalia To Freshmen Girls

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Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker’s defense attorneys have released text messages from his accuser allegedly showing she was looking to get money from the wealthy coach.
Tucker was fired in September over sexual harassment allegations made by activist Brenda Tracy, who gets paid to speak to schools about sexual violence. She accused Tucker of making sexual comments about her and masturbating while the two were on a phone call together.
Tucker has maintained his innocence, and hundreds of newly released text messages between her and a friend cast doubt on the validity of her claims.
In alleged messages to a friend, Tracy seemed focused on Tucker’s money, writing that he “signed his contract. I cant [sic] even wrap my brain around 95 million. Sheesh … Can you imagine around 700k going into your bank account every month. Every month…&#8221;
&#8220;We’re gonna make it happen … I’m gonna ask him to finance the doc part of [marketing materials that Tracy wanted] … He’ll do it,” she wrote, according to a copy of the defense’s filing <a href="https://www.outkick.com/mel-tucker-accuser-was-allegedly-involved-in-multiple-relationships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by OutKick.
About a week before she filed her complaint with MSU’s Title IX office – the office that investigates allegations of campus sexual assault – Tracy admitted to her friend that “she was down to $5,” according to the legal filing. Once she filed her complaint, Tracy, referring to herself as a victim, allegedly wrote her friend “imagine the victim is taking on a $95M coach.”
After telling her friend that she owed money to the IRS and that she “was supposed to be paying down 2018 taxes and not staying caught up on the other years,” Tracy said that “[h]aving the IRS after me in a way that is known publicly surely won’t help my lawsuit,” according to the documents obtained by OutKick.
In other messages, though she was in a tough financial place, Tracy told her friend that her “priority is face lift and filming myself so we can make this [money],” according to the court documents.
The defense also says it has a witness who, under oath, explained that Tracy and Tucker “were in some sort of relationship when the conversation took place” and that “the phone sex was consensual.” Tracy herself has not given a statement under oath.
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This witness also told the defense that Tracy attempted to cover-up her messages with her friend discussing Tucker’s money. This witness said that as her friend was dying in a hospital – and after – Tracy tried to get access to the woman’s home and asked her family for access to the woman’s phone and computers.
Though the text messages look damning for Tracy, Tucker has reportedly not been completely honest throughout the investigation. He reportedly told investigators that he was at his Michigan home when the phone call took place, which should have made it outside of MSU’s jurisdiction. But Tucker was reportedly in Florida for a school-sponsored event, according to the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/09/22/michigan-state-mel-tucker-false-claims-sexual-harassment/70922038007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from USA Today. Witnesses reportedly discredited Tucker’s claim about where and when the phone call took place.

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Fired Michigan State Football Coach Provides Text Messages Allegedly Showing Accuser Looking To Get His Money

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