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 said that with his 2024 revision, President Joe Biden has basically “abolished Title IX” &#8212; a policy that was originally enacted to protect women and girls.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>

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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.”

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A county judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> placed a temporary block on the state’s law shielding individuals under 18 years old from life-altering transgender procedures for two weeks or until consideration of a broader injunction against the law. 
The law, called the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” bans so-called &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries, such as double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys, in addition to prohibiting giving minors cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. The law does not prevent minors who were already placed on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones before the legislation passed from staying on them. 
Franklin County Judge Michael J. Holbrook put a hold on the law <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that it may have been unlawful because the Ohio Constitution says that bills should have no “more than one subject.” The “Safe Act” included both a ban on transgender procedures and stipulated that males could not compete on female sports teams at grades K-12 and the collegiate level. 
The law, slated to go into effect on April 24, will be placed on hold for two weeks unless a hearing for a preliminary injunction against it takes place before that time. The ACLU challenged the law, claiming it was discriminatory. 
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, said he expected the law to be upheld eventually. 
“This is just the first page of the book,” he <a href="https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2024/Statement-from-AG-Yost-on-House-Bill-68-Ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “We will fight vigorously to defend this properly enacted statute, which protects our children from irrevocable adult decisions. I am confident that this law will be upheld.”
The law was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-republicans-ban-trans-procedures-on-minors-boys-in-girls-sports-in-vote-overriding-gop-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> by Republican lawmakers in January over the veto of GOP Governor Mike DeWine. It was sponsored by state Rep. Gary Click (R), who said Tuesday that the law would be upheld after litigation was resolved. 
&#8220;We have lower court disappointments but higher court victories,” he said, <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-law-transgender-care-ban-blocked-by-judge/530-598b7f3b-477d-49a9-9ad7-336f2b8897d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to 10WBNS. 
Click added that “there&#8217;s no constitutional right to injure children, there&#8217;s no constitutional right to chemically castrate children… there is no constitutional right to this, this is malpractice and we&#8217;re gonna win in the end.”
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DeWine said he expected the court battle to go to the state Supreme Court. 
&#8220;Everybody knew that this would go to court eventually,” DeWine said. “Whatever the decision the local judge makes, it will go up to the court of appeals and I&#8217;m sure it will go from there to the Ohio Supreme Court.”
More than 20 states have passed similar laws to Ohio&#8217;s, with most surviving court challenges so far. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed an Idaho law protecting minors from transgender procedures to go into effect while litigation against it proceeds. 
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia&#8217;s transgender sports ban violates a federal civil rights law that protects students from sex-based discrimination.

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Judge Blocks Ohio Law Shielding Minors From Transgender Procedures, Keeping Males Off Female Sports Teams

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On Tuesday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/federal-appeals-court-overturns-west-virginia-transgender-sports-109309437">overturned</a> a West Virginia law that barred biological boys from participating in girls’ sports.
The court claimed that HB 3293, passed in 2021, violated Title IX, which bars sex-based discrimination in schools. The case revolved around Becky Pepper Jackson, a 13-year-old boy who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and who was barred by the state from continuing to be a member of the middle school girls’ cross country and track team.
“I will keep fighting to safeguard Title IX. We must keep working to protect women&#8217;s sports so that women&#8217;s safety is secured and girls have a truly fair playing field,&#8221; Republican West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said after the decision was made. “We know the law is correct and will use every available tool to defend it.”
“Women and young girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,” Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Rachel Rouleau <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/bpj-v-west-virginia-state-board-education">stated</a>. “The court’s decision undermines equal opportunities and contradicts both biological reality and common sense. Title IX was designed to provide women with fair competition, and West Virginia’s women’s sports law does the same. Across the country, women and girls are unjustly losing medals, podium spots, public recognition, and the opportunity to compete when males take their places. While everyone knows that men competing against women creates huge disadvantages and safety concerns, the 4th Circuit fell prey to activists who are pushing an ideology over what is just for women and girls. We are considering all legal options to protect women’s sports, including an appeal of this decision.”
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The court ruled 2-1 to overturn the West Virginia law. The dissenting judge, G. Steven Agee, wrote that the opinion “turns Title IX on its head and reverses the monumental work Title IX has done to promote girls’ sports from its inception &#8230; B.P.J. displaced at least one hundred biological girls at track-and-field events and pushed multiple girls out of the top ten. Similarly, by making the conference championships in two events (something reserved for the top three girls on a team), B.P.J. took away at least two biological girls’ opportunities to participate in the conference championships. And this was in a single season. Thanks to the new-found rubric of today’s majority opinion, such displacement will become commonplace.”

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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), which governs sports at more than 240 small colleges, announced a new policy on Monday banning trans-identifying male athletes from playing on women&#8217;s teams.
The NAIA Council of Presidents <a href="https://apnews.com/article/naia-transgender-ban-ad422f3a86ebcc4db618750c6a5d1c5f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the new policy unanimously, 20-0, during its annual convention at its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.
The college athletics organization explained that it supports &#8220;fair and safe competition&#8221; for all its athletes and said Title IX ensures &#8220;separate and equal&#8221; opportunities for female athletes.
&#8220;Only NAIA student-athletes whose biological sex is female may participate in NAIA-sponsored female sports,&#8221; the new <a href="https://www.naia.org/transgender/files/TG_Policy_for_webpage_v2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> states.
Biological women who are taking &#8220;masculinizing hormone therapy&#8221; may participate in workouts, practices, and team activities on the women&#8217;s teams, but they cannot compete against other schools.
Meanwhile, all &#8220;eligible&#8221; student-athletes may compete on male teams, the policy says.
&#8220;Each NAIA sport includes some combination of strength, speed, and stamina, providing competitive advantages for male student-athletes,&#8221; reads the policy. &#8220;As a result, the NAIA policy for transgender student-athletes applies to all sports except for competitive cheer and competitive dance, which are open to all students.&#8221;
The decision comes at the recommendation of a task force the NAIA <a href="https://www.naia.org/transgender/index" target="_blank" rel="noopener">formed</a> in 2022 to examine the trans-identifying athlete issue.
Prior to 2022, the NAIA&#8217;s policy mirrored that of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the larger organization with more than a thousand schools and the top college football and basketball programs. The NCAA allows trans-identifying men to play on women&#8217;s teams as long as they take cross-sex hormones for a year.
Starting in 2022, however, the NAIA started dealing with each sport on a case-by-case basis when it came to allowing trans-identifying men to compete against women.
After two years, the NAIA&#8217;s task force ultimately proposed banning trans-identifying men from competing in women&#8217;s sports, resulting in Monday&#8217;s policy.
The new policy is set to go into effect on August 1, just in time for next school year.
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“We know there are a lot of opinions, and a lot of people have a very emotional reaction to this, and we want to be respectful of all that,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/naia-transgender-ban-ad422f3a86ebcc4db618750c6a5d1c5f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> NAIA President and CEO Jim Carr. “But we feel like our primary responsibility is fairness in competition, so we are following that path. And we’ve tried as best we could to allow for some participation by all.”
This school year, the NAIA had 241 schools with 83,000 student-athletes playing for 28 national championships.
Last month, more than a dozen women athletes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riley-gaines-other-collegiate-athletes-sue-ncaa-for-allowing-men-to-compete-in-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the NCAA over its transgender policy, including former college swimmer Riley Gaines, who had to swim against biological male Lia Thomas at the 2022 national championship.
Gaines and her female teammates also shared a locker room with Thomas.

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NAIA College Athletics Org Bans Trans-Identifying Men From Competing In Women’s Sports

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A bill in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nebraska" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nebraska</a> that would have kept males out of women’s restrooms and off of girls&#8217; sports teams at schools failed after two Republicans abstained from voting on the measure after they initially indicated support for the legislation. 
The <a href="https://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_votes.php?KeyID=10782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, known as the “Sports and Spaces Act,” failed on Friday after it did not get enough votes to advance it past cloture for a vote on the actual legislation. It <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathrooms-sports-nebraska-01b7eeeb56874e2338e58d368765f66a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">needed</a> to get 33 votes in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, but was blocked from moving forward after a 31-15 vote. 
Two Republicans, state Sens. Tom Brandt and Merv Riepe, both abstained from the cloture vote even though they had initially signed on as sponsors to the legislation. The measure, introduced by state Sen. Kathleen Kauth, would have defined male as someone with XY chromosomes and male anatomy and a female as someone with XX chromosomes and female anatomy. 
“A school should designate each group bathroom and locker room within such school building as either for use by biological females or for use by biological males,” the bill <a href="https://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/108/PDF/Intro/LB575.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “An athletic team or sport designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to a biological male student.” 
Kauth <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathrooms-sports-nebraska-01b7eeeb56874e2338e58d368765f66a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the legislation was necessary because of the “significant sports performance gap between the sexes” and that males being allowed to compete on women’s sports teams presented “a significant barrier for female athletes to compete in sports.”
Democrats claimed the legislation was bigoted and meant to bully students. “This is not about protecting women,” Sen. Megan Hunt said. “It’s about the danger and the power of the imagination of a bigot, Sen. Kauth, and those who would support a bill like this.”
The Nebraska Freedom Coalition <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NebraskaFreedom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ripped</a> into Brandt and Riepe over their votes on the legislation.
“Two Republican state senators have failed to protect women in sports and spaces by stopping LB 575 from becoming law,” the group posted on Facebook. “Let&#8217;s hold them accountable for undermining the rights and opportunities and safety of women athletes.”
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Riepe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unacceptable-two-red-states-each-fail-to-pass-pro-life-protections-by-one-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously blocked</a> Nebraska from advancing pro-life protections for unborn babies at six weeks after claiming that Republicans “must embrace the future of reproductive rights.” 
Trump won Nebraska with nearly 59% of the vote in 2020 and there has not been a Democratic governor in the state since the 1990s. Governor Jim Pillen<a href="https://www.wowt.com/2024/04/05/nebraska-lawmakers-debate-bill-transgender-student-athletes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> had</a> supported LB 575, saying that it reflected “common sense Nebraska values.” 
“There’s nobody that wants their daughter to be in a locker room with a boy and there’s nobody that wants their son to be in a locker room with girls. It’s just not right, not the way we see it in Nebraska,” he said on Thursday.

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Welcome to eclipse day 2024, everyone. By the time you read this, the eclipse will likely have already happened. Which presumably means that a large portion of my audience will be raptured, because from what I understand, based on my research on Twitter, the rapture is scheduled for today as well. If you’re reading this, it means that you, like me, have been left behind to walk the Earth and await your eternal destruction. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that you still get to watch the premier of my new show “JUDGED” tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. EST. You may not be in the mood for judgment related shows, given the circumstance, but you might as well watch it anyway.
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Now, for today’s topic. Dawn Staley is the head coach of the NCAA champion South Carolina Gamecocks, a gold medal Olympian several times over, and a Hall of Famer who&#8217;s widely considered one of the best players in the history of the WNBA, as low as that bar might be. This is a resume that sports journalists describe as &#8220;historic.&#8221; She&#8217;s supposedly a basketball icon, a role model, and one of the greatest coaches alive.
What&#8217;s often left unsaid, even though everyone knows it&#8217;s true, is that Dawn Staley&#8217;s resume would have looked a lot different if she had been forced to compete against men at any point in her career. If it weren&#8217;t for Title IX and the creation of exclusive sports leagues that barred men from competing, Dawn Staley would probably be selling insurance or conducting tedious DEI workshops somewhere. Instead, she&#8217;s a multimillionaire, and you&#8217;re instructed to think she&#8217;s an impressive person.
All this is to say, if anyone should be an evangelist for women-only sports leagues, Dawn Staley fits the bill. Without these leagues, Staley would have precisely zero professional accomplishments to speak of. But Leftism is an ideology that necessarily involves a lot of ladder-pulling. Once they get to the top, it&#8217;s vital for Leftists to deny that they received any kind of special help based on their &#8220;identity&#8221; along the way. 
We see this all the time, from Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris. And the other day, in a comical press conference ahead of the NCAA national championship, we saw it from Dawn Staley.
A reporter from OutKick asked Staley a simple question. He wanted to know what she thought about the idea of men competing against women in sports, particularly in college basketball. Here&#8217;s how Staley responded:
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South Carolina women’s coach <a href="https://twitter.com/dawnstaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dawnstaley</a> says men pretending to be women should be able to play women’s basketball. Great question by <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDanZak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealDanZak</a>. This is what real reporters are supposed to do. Ask real questions, get real answers. <a href="https://t.co/Kf9WKk6ylm">pic.twitter.com/Kf9WKk6ylm</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1776643372444156308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The first thing you notice about that reply is how nervous Dawn Staley is. She takes a big gulp of water, drawing laughter from some of the other reporters. Then she says, &#8220;Damn, you got deep on me” — even though it’s really not a deep question at all. She stutters for a few more seconds until she finally delivers maybe the least grammatical sentence she possibly could have: &#8220;I&#8217;m under the opinion of, if you&#8217;re a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should be able to play.&#8221; 
I’m not sure what “vice versa” refers to in that sentence. If you’re a woman and you want to play sports, or vice versa. So if you’re a woman and you want to play sports, or if you’re a sport and you want to play women? Is that what she’s saying? 
Incoherence aside, if Dawn Staley actually believed what she was saying, then there would be no nervousness whatsoever. She would confidently tell the reporter that yes, she has no problem with men competing against her all-women&#8217;s team. She would demand that the Olympics and the NCAA change their current policy on trans-identifying athletes, which sets sets some arbitrary testosterone threshold that prevents many men from competing. There would be no need for any of the stalling or stammering.
But Staley did stall and stammer, because she doesn&#8217;t believe a word of what she just said. That&#8217;s why her answer makes no sense. She lumps &#8220;women&#8221; and &#8220;people who consider themselves women&#8221; into the same category. But in doing so, she&#8217;s acknowledging that they are indeed different categories. Actual women don&#8217;t &#8220;consider themselves women.&#8221; They&#8217;re just women. If you feel the need to add the &#8220;consider themselves&#8221; qualifier, then you obviously recognize that they are not women. There&#8217;s something very different about them — something that we recognized for all of recorded human history until about 15 minutes ago, which is why Dawn Staley had the career she did.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1342-prominent-women-s-basketball-coaches-are-too-cowardly-to-defend-the-existence-of-women-s-sports-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
But Dawn Staley doesn&#8217;t want to admit this anymore. At the end of her answer, she suggests she&#8217;s being brave, because she&#8217;s going to anger all the Right-wing &#8220;barnstormers&#8221; on social media, whoever they are. But it&#8217;s not hard to see what she&#8217;s actually worried about. Staley knows that the NCAA has already said that it, &#8220;firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports.&#8221; She knows the NCAA has already bent the knee to activist groups like GLAAD. And she&#8217;s aware that the NCAA is now being sued for Title IX violations by female athletes like Riley Gaines for allowing men to compete against them. On top of that, the University of South Carolina has trans pride flags all over its website. So if she affirmed that biology is real, there&#8217;s a good chance she&#8217;d be fired, or at least lose her status as America&#8217;s favorite female coach. She knows exactly where she&#8217;s supposed to stand on this issue.
And indeed, with her answer, Dawn Staley predictably received a bunch of fawning headlines from Left-wing activists. GLAAD posted a thank-you note and declared that Staley is the &#8220;best in the business.&#8221; Pink News declared that Staley&#8217;s response was &#8220;legendary.&#8221; The Advocate called her &#8220;transformative.&#8221; 
By contrast, here&#8217;s how supposedly conservative media outlets responded. Fox News ran this headline: &#8220;South Carolina&#8217;s Dawn Staley draws strong reactions over remarks about trans participation in women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
At this rate, Dawn Staley could announce a roster of 5 men next year, and Fox News would applaud her. Maybe that&#8217;s the plan. In any event, this is the dynamic that weak people like Staley respond to. She knows she’ll be applauded for saying the opposite of what she knows is true. And she would be condemned, or worse, if she said what was actually true.
In that respect, she wasn&#8217;t alone. Iowa&#8217;s coach, Lisa Bluder, took a similar approach. Here was her response to the same question from the same reporter:
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&quot;I understand it&#39;s a topic that people are interested in. But today my focus is on the game tomorrow, my players &#8230; and that&#39;s what I want to be here to talk about. But I know it&#39;s an important issue for another time.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/TRJuAONvPr">pic.twitter.com/TRJuAONvPr</a>
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This is an answer that&#8217;s worse in some ways than Staley&#8217;s. At least Dawn Staley said something, as insane as it was. Lisa Bluder is too afraid to even do that. She says she&#8217;s focused on the big game. But if men could compete against women in college basketball, then there would be no big game. All women&#8217;s sports would cease to exist.
Both of these coaches know that, if they had to compete against any of the top-ranked men&#8217;s teams, or any of the men&#8217;s teams at all, then they&#8217;d be destroyed. But somehow that doesn&#8217;t concern Dawn Staley or Lisa Bluder. They can&#8217;t bring themselves to say the obvious. So the nonsense continues.
There&#8217;s a lot of that going around lately, as you may have noticed. 
A few days ago the reporter Jonathan Choe broke the story that in Seattle, a mentally imbalanced man with comically enhanced breasts has been working as a public defender for several years. If you remember the Canadian wood shop teacher with the size-Z prosthetic chest, it&#8217;s a bit like that, except in a courtroom instead of a high school. And this guy is 70-years-old. Watch:
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Due to popular demand, I&#39;m posting the extended cut of my interview with public defender Stephanie Mueller. The transgender attorney is representing one of the far-left activists charged with disrupting a council meeting in February. Otherwise, this is Seattle. What&#39;s the big… <a href="https://t.co/rYo4nrj9Wu">https://t.co/rYo4nrj9Wu</a> <a href="https://t.co/fuTP4qObvu">pic.twitter.com/fuTP4qObvu</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1776129318957318327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So, just because the guy is 8 and a half feet tall and has a voice deeper than James Earl Jones apparently, it hasn’t stopped him from trying to be a woman. Now just imagine this for a moment. Imagine you show up to court to meet your public defender. Naturally, you&#8217;re going to have low expectations. You get what you pay for, and all that. And then this guy shows up, like a character out of &#8220;Portlandia.&#8221; How would you respond? How would the judge respond?
Apparently, in this case, everyone just acted like this was normal. The defendants didn&#8217;t have an issue with it. And that&#8217;s not entirely surprising, since they&#8217;re Left-wing activists in Seattle accused of interrupting a city council meeting to yell something. They probably requested the trans lawyer, which might not be a bad strategy in a Seattle court. After all, you have to win your case if a trans lawyer is representing you. Otherwise it would be transphobic.
Needless to say, the judge had no issue with this, either. A man shows up with skin-tight leather pants, boots, and fake eyelashes — not exactly courtroom-appropriate attire — and the judge doesn&#8217;t say a word about it. Of course, ironically, if he had actually been a woman, there would likely be an issue. Even in Seattle, courtrooms aren&#8217;t burlesque shows. It would be frowned upon for a woman to come dressed like some sort of cartoonish hooker. But because this guy says he&#8217;s transgender, it’s magically acceptable.
I&#8217;ve mentioned the Rebel News reporter David Menzies in the past. A few months ago, he was the only journalist in all of Canada to report on the fact that a 50-year-old man was allowed to compete against teenage girls in various competitions throughout the country. For reporting like that, Menzies has been arrested multiple times by the Canadian government. Just this weekend, he was assaulted and arrested again by police, for covering pro-Hamas protests in Toronto. It&#8217;s all on video. But Menzies persists anyway.
It&#8217;s quite a contrast with what we&#8217;ve seen this week in this country, which is story after story of cowardice. Think about it: If there was ever a weekend for women&#8217;s sports to have its &#8220;moment,&#8221; it was this one. Instead, the coaches of the top two teams declared at a press conference that they don&#8217;t even know what women are. They also made it very clear, from their ambivalence, that they don&#8217;t really care if women&#8217;s sports stick around anymore. They’ll probably change their mind when the money dries up. When they lose their jobs and are made irrelevant. But it requires some foresight to see that, and courage to speak up about it. Sadly, those two things are in short supply.

North Carolina State v South Carolina

Prominent Women’s Basketball Coaches Are Too Cowardly To Defend The Existence Of Women’s Sports

Prominent Women's Basketball Coaches Are Too Cowardly To Defend The Existence Of Women's Sports

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Readers Pass

Women's Basketball

Women&#8217;s rights activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> laid the blame on Democratic Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey after a disturbing incident involving a trans-identifying male athlete came to light.
The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266245/KIPP-Academy-Lynn-Massachusetts-transgender-athlete-rowing-harassment-suspended.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">story</a>, published by the Daily Mail, revealed that the athlete in question — who was filmed injuring rival female players during a February basketball game — had participated in several other sports on the women&#8217;s teams and had allegedly made lewd comments to girls while they were changing clothes in the locker room.
The Kipp Academy student, Lazuli Clark — who towers over most female competitors at over six feet tall — has competed in the women&#8217;s divisions in basketball, rowing, volleyball, track &amp; field, and tae kwon do. According to <a href="https://quillette.com/2024/04/02/the-damage-wrought-by-trans-inclusion-in-female-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quillette</a>, the student was allegedly suspended from the women&#8217;s rowing team at a private club after &#8220;leering&#8221; at another female student in the locker room, saying, &#8220;Ooh, t***ies.&#8221;
Quillette cited a leaked copy of a letter dated October 12, 2022, and sent by 15 parents to the United States Rowing Association, the sport&#8217;s governing body in America. That letter stated that the student had placed &#8220;near the bottom&#8221; when competing for the club&#8217;s men&#8217;s team and had subsequently joined the women&#8217;s team — but did not bother to shave and continued to wear the men&#8217;s uniform to compete.
According to Quillette, the locker room incident resulted in the student being &#8220;reported by team officials to <a href="https://uscenterforsafesport.org/?ref=quillette.com">the U.S. Center for SafeSport</a>,&#8221; after which Clark was not permitted to row for either team again.
&#8220;Stop letting these pervs hide behind preferred pronouns and blurred out images. This photo was proudly posted by the school therefore it&#8217;s public domain. Name and shame them. Lazuli Clark is a man that sexually harassed women,&#8221; Gaines <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1775538386331160828" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the initial story — and then took aim at Governor Healey for allowing it to continue.
&#8220;These girls were forced to participate in his sick fetish at the hands of @MassGovernor,&#8221; she said.
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These girls were forced to participate in his sick fetish at the hands of <a href="https://twitter.com/MassGovernor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MassGovernor</a> 
If this headline shocks you, you haven&#39;t been paying attention <a href="https://t.co/RBn2agoTsK">https://t.co/RBn2agoTsK</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1775536990093480201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Gaines went on to ask where the parents — particularly the fathers — were in this case, suggesting that they should be standing up for their daughters against the organizations, schools, and states that were allowing biological males to take over women&#8217;s sports.
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&#8220;Where are the dads of these girls?&#8221; she asked.
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Where are the dads of these girls?! <a href="https://t.co/6hOD2Qugeu">https://t.co/6hOD2Qugeu</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1775544043990135203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Riley Gaines Goes After Massachusetts Governor After Girls Injured By Trans-Identifying Athlete

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">Megyn Kelly</a> slammed NOW (National Organization for Women) when the group threw its support behind &#8220;trans women in sports,&#8221; claiming there was &#8220;enough space&#8221; for biological women to share.
The host of &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; podcast took to <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1774812349796384872?s=20">X</a> on Monday and wrote, &#8220;Hey<a href="https://twitter.com/NationalNOW"> [National NOW]</a> — you don&#8217;t stand for us, understand us, care about us or speak for us. Go F yourselves.&#8221;
Kelly&#8217;s comments were in response to a post from NOW &#8211; that claims to speak for women &#8211; in which the group blasted an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-lia-thomas-swimming-lawsuit-b7df63108a03100f36b2e4364d585cdc">Associated Press</a> article about how more than a dozen &#8220;College swimmers, volleyball players&#8221; were suing &#8220;NCAA over transgender policies&#8221; and violating their Title IX rights.
&#8220;Repeat after us: Weaponizing womenhood against other women is white supremacist patriarchy at work,&#8221; NOW&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/NationalNOW/status/1774442033781805299">post</a> read. 
&#8220;Making people believe there isn&#8217;t enough space for trans women in sports is white supremacist patriarchy at work,&#8221; it added.
Reading through the comments under the NOW <a href="https://x.com/NationalNOW/status/1774442033781805299?s=20">post</a>, a number of people made it clear they didn&#8217;t agree that trans-identifying male athletes should be allowed to compete against women in sports.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I worked here when I was in college. I&#8217;m embarrassed for you,&#8221; one person <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferSey/status/1774602667014099345">wrote</a>. &#8220;The patriarchy is telling women to sit down and shut up and accept whatever unfairness and invasion of privacy is hurled their way.&#8221;
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/NationalNOW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NationalNOW</a> &#8211; you don’t stand for us, understand us, care about us or speak for us. Go F yourselves. <a href="https://t.co/svQxqFmiEz">https://t.co/svQxqFmiEz</a>
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1774812349796384872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
Another <a href="https://twitter.com/freyafirst/status/1774517659851472937">added</a>, &#8220;Repeat after me: Women are Adult Human Females. Men are Adult Human Males. There are only 2 sexes.  This is reality.&#8221;
While a third <a href="https://twitter.com/AJKayWriter/status/1774570188123599309">wrote</a>, &#8220;No. I don&#8217;t repeat lies. Women&#8217;s sports were created to carve out space for women where there was none. And now you&#8217;re defending the infiltration of that space by men. &#8216;Making space&#8217; for men means the space disappears. Repeat that.&#8221;
In the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-lia-thomas-swimming-lawsuit-b7df63108a03100f36b2e4364d585cdc">lawsuit,</a> the college girls state that the reason they joined the suit is &#8220;to secure for future generations of women the promise of Title IX that is being denied them and other college women&#8221; by the NCAA.
The NCAA has since responded to the suit in a statement that read, &#8220;College sports are the premier stage for women&#8217;s sports in America, and while the NCAA does not comment on pending litigation, the Association and its members will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women&#8217;s sports and ensure fair competition in all NCAA championships.&#8221;

Megyn Kelly Slams NOW After Women’s Organization Throws Support Behind ‘Trans Women In Sports’

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Entertainment

National Organization for Women

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) took a wave of backlash on Thursday after he claimed during a House hearing that &#8220;men do not compete in women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
Nadler&#8217;s comment was a response to Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), who had offered into evidence a list of instances in which men had usurped women&#8217;s sporting events to make them their own.
&#8220;I ask for unanimous consent to submit for the record instances of men hijacking women&#8217;s sports and the various examples that we have demonstrating not only injuries that have been suffered by women as men have participated in girls&#8217; sports, but also the women — the girls and women who have been affected by this, including Riley Gaines, when Will Thomas decided to join the female — the women&#8217;s swimming team in Pennsylvania,&#8221; Hageman said.
&#8220;I object to concluding these mistruths in the record,&#8221; was Nadler&#8217;s reply.
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Rep Hageman: &quot;I ask for unanimous consent to submit for the record instances of men hijacking women&#39;s sports&quot; 
Rep Nadler: &quot;I object to concluding these mistruths in the record&quot; 
This is an attempt to erase and rewrite history. Make no mistake, Nadler is a grade-A communist. <a href="https://t.co/lakg4WccbB">pic.twitter.com/lakg4WccbB</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1770862586235437168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Hageman responded to Nadler&#8217;s objection, saying it was telling that he did not want the information she was providing entered into the record.
Nadler doubled down, claiming, &#8220;Men do not compete in women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJerryNadler</a>: &quot;Men do not compete in women&#39;s sports.&quot; 
Who wants to tell him about Lia Thomas &#8212; a man, who has competed in women&#39;s sports.<a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a>? <a href="https://t.co/LLjUTzD1jJ">pic.twitter.com/LLjUTzD1jJ</a>
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But critics — former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines among them — pointed to trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas, who had competed against biological women in the 2022 NCAA championships.
&#8220;Ironic he says this on the EXACT 2 year anniversary of this photo being taken,&#8221; Gaines replied, sharing a photo of herself next to Thomas on the awards podium. &#8220;This 6&#8217;4&#8243; man isn&#8217;t fooling anyone with any amount of common sense. 2 years ago today I had a fire lit under me and communists like Nadler continue to fuel it.&#8221;
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Ironic he says this on the EXACT 2 year anniversary of this photo being taken. This 6&#39;4&quot; man isn&#39;t fooling anyone with any amount of common sense. 
2 years ago today I had a fire lit under me and communists like Nadler continue to fuel it. <a href="https://t.co/D0xnL1kfL9">https://t.co/D0xnL1kfL9</a> <a href="https://t.co/jqouIQWCxC">pic.twitter.com/jqouIQWCxC</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1770863899622903967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s even worse. Now he’s telling our committee that there are more than two sexes,&#8221; Hageman offered as a follow-up. &#8220;You’re either a male or a female, and you should compete against your own biological gender in sports.&#8221;
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It’s even worse. Now he’s telling our committee that there are more than two sexes. 
You’re either a male or a female, and you should compete against your own biological gender in sports. <a href="https://t.co/pRA9Xty8A1">https://t.co/pRA9Xty8A1</a>
&mdash; Rep. Harriet Hageman (@RepHageman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepHageman/status/1770849455593467921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The issue is so pervasive that it inspired The Daily Wire&#8217;s own original comedy film &#8220;Lady Ballers.&#8221;
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NCAA SWIMMING: MAR 18 Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

Jerry Nadler Blasted For Claiming ‘Men Don’t Compete In Women’s Sports’

Jerry Nadler Blasted For Claiming 'Men Don't Compete In Women's Sports'

Congress

Jerry Nadler

Politics

Manhattan’s largest neighborhood school board district approved a resolution Wednesday night demanding an examination of the current policy allowing trans-identifying males to compete in girls&#8217; sports.
Community Education Council District 2, which encompasses Manhattan schools from the Lower East Side to the Upper East Side, voted 8-3 to request the New York City Department of Education allow a public review of the policy. It is one of six districts serving Manhattan.
Passions ran high at Wednesday&#8217;s school board meeting in midtown Manhattan, where parents, City Council members, and even the trans-identifying actor who now goes by Elliot Page showed up to voice their opinions.
New York City Councilmember Erik Bottcher, a Democrat, condemned the resolution at the meeting.
“We are outraged that you’re considering a resolution targeting transgender girls and sports. It is utterly shocking that such a regressive and harmful resolution is being proposed in the school district in the middle of Manhattan,” Bottcher <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/manhattans-largest-school-board-district-trying-to-pass-resolution-that-could-lead-to-trans-athlete-ban/">said</a>.
The resolution is largely symbolic, but its goal is to promote parental involvement and transparency around the policy allowing trans-identifying males to play on girls&#8217; teams.
The resolution also <a href="https://pix11.com/news/morning/manhattan-school-board-asks-city-to-review-policy-for-transgender-athletes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calls</a> for more input from athletes, parents, coaches, medical professionals, and evolutional biology experts.
School board member Maud Maron, one of the resolution’s sponsors, is a Democrat who <a href="https://twitter.com/maudmaron?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> herself on X as an &#8220;unapologetic old-school liberal.&#8221;
“If we have a proper and real conversation, one of the outcomes could be that nothing changes and that we all discover that these guidelines are just perfect as they are,” Maron said.
“But another one of the possibilities is that we realize that the excluded voices had something really important to offer and they should have been heard from in the beginning,” she added.
Maron previously called for a ban on trans-identifying males in girls&#8217; sports when she ran for Congress last year.
The city&#8217;s education department commented on its transgender sports policy on Wednesday.
“At New York City Public Schools, all students have the right to have their gender, gender identity, and gender expression recognized and respected,” the department said in a statement. “In our schools, every student can participate in sports and competitive athletics in accordance with their gender identity, and we prohibit any exclusion of students based on their gender identity or expression.”
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The Manhattan school board district&#8217;s decision comes just weeks after Nassau County banned trans-identifying males from competing on female teams at county-run facilities.
Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner, who identifies as transgender, made a public appearance in Nassau County on Monday to support the county&#8217;s decision.
“Let’s stop it now while we can,” Jenner <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/former-olympian-caitlyn-jenner-backs-nassau-county-ban-on-transgender-female-athletes/5236745/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

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Manhattan School Board Demands Public Review Of Policy Allowing Trans-Identifying Males In Girls’ Sports

Manhattan School Board Demands Public Review Of Policy Allowing Trans-Identifying Males In Girls' Sports

Education

Girls

New York

New York City

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> and over a dozen other female athletes filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the NCAA over its policies that allow men to compete in women’s sports.
Gaines, a former swimmer with the University of Kentucky, and other female athletes say that the NCAA’s policies allowing men to compete in women’s sports violate their privacy and has cost them opportunities. Gaines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was forced</a> to compete against Lia Thomas, a man who identifies as a woman, at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Championships for swimming. Gaines was also forced to share a locker room with Thomas where he undressed in front of multiple women.
“The NCAA has simultaneously imposed a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level, permitting men to compete on women’s teams, and destroying female safe spaces in women’s locker rooms by authorizing naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non-consenting college women and creating situations in which unwilling female college athletes unwittingly or reluctantly expose their naked or partially clad bodies to males, subjecting women to a loss of their constitutional right to bodily privacy,” the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16CIcxSu2DvL1uPYfY8DcLWy90klGRK74/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> says.
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🚨it&#39;s official!🚨
I&#39;m suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, &amp; roster spots to men posing as women
The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX. About time someone did something about…
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1768335572798456179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the lawsuit accuses the NCAA and several Georgia universities of violating Title IX, as well as the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The lawsuit also accused the NCAA of attempting to chill the free speech of athletes through speech codes that might be interpreted to define any opposition to men competing in women’s sports as “transphobic.”
In addition to Gaines, the others on the lawsuit included Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Kaitlyn Wheeler, Lily Mullens, Susanna Price, Carter Satterfield, Kate Pearson, Katie Blankinship, Julianna Morrow, Ainsley Erzen, Ellie Eades, and multiple athletes who have chosen to remain anonymous. The athletes include swimmers, track athletes, and volleyball players.
The lawsuit says that the NCAA has been driven by ideology and not science with its policies regarding the participation of transgender-identifying athletes.
“The sole justification of the Association for its discriminatory Transgender Eligibility Policies, which are imposed by the NCAA upon all member colleges and universities in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, is that biological differences between males and females can allegedly be overcome by a program of testosterone suppression in males who identify as transgender,” the lawsuit says.
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The athletes argue that the NCAA has pursued radical policies at the expense of female athletes.
“What is disappointing and unlawful is that the NCAA aggressively applies its radical Transgender Eligibility Policies which diminish women’s opportunities despite the clear Title IX imperative to hold separate competitions and separate championships for women where physiological advantages of men preclude mixed (or open) competitions and despite vast scientific and experiential evidence demonstrating the NCAA’s policies harm women,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit demands that the NCAA revoke any award or record from any male who has competed as a female and reverse policies allowing males to compete in women&#8217;s sports.

Riley Gaines, Other Collegiate Athletes Sue NCAA For Allowing Men To Compete In Women’s Sports

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