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The parents of a West Virginia middle school girl say they were &#8220;horrified&#8221; when their daughter told them a trans-identifying boy was sexually harassing her at school, and were &#8220;hurt and shocked&#8221; by the school&#8217;s lackluster response.
Abigail and Holden Cross are the parents of 15-year-old Adaleia, who played track and field alongside a trans-identifying boy when the two were classmates at Bridgeport Middle School. It was in eighth grade when the trans-identifying boy began regularly sexually harassing Adaleia both in the locker rooms and on the field, her parents said.
&#8220;When she told us these things we were horrified and immediately reported it to coaches and the school,&#8221; Adaleia&#8217;s mother Abigail told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The school told our daughter that they were going to investigate and not to say anything, and then we never heard back from them again. Nothing changed for our daughter and she didn&#8217;t get any help.&#8221;
Adaleia described dealing with the boy&#8217;s sexual harassment in a <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TennesseeDeclarationOfAC.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TennesseeDeclarationOfAC.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1715889642519000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3apmX5RfTG-E68lfqptvQT">statement</a> she submitted as part of a lawsuit by several states against the Biden administration&#8217;s new Title IX rules, which prohibit schools from enforcing blanket bans on trans-identifying males in girls&#8217; sports.
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At first, she tried her best to ignore the boy&#8217;s inappropriate sexual comments, but they became &#8220;much more aggressive, vile, and disturbing,&#8221; Adaleia said in her statement. Sometimes the boy&#8217;s comments were &#8220;just annoying,&#8221; like saying she had a “nice butt,” she said.
However, towards the end of eighth grade the boy, who claimed to be a girl, was telling her to &#8220;suck my d***&#8221; two to three times a week. He also told her, “I’m gonna stick my d*** into your pu***,” sometimes adding “and in your a**” as well.&#8221;
&#8220;These comments were disturbing and caused me deep distress,&#8221; Adaleia said in her statement.
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She tried to change in the bathroom stall whenever she could to avoid changing in front of her biologically male classmate, but time was often short before practice, she said. She also said the trans-identifying boy would taunt her about his sexuality — she recalled the boy telling her, “You have more testosterone than I do, and I am still beating you.&#8221;
Her parents say they had to get a lawyer involved to even get a response from the school about her complaints, and the school sent them a letter saying it had found no evidence of their claims.
&#8220;So really nothing has been done at this point,&#8221; Adaleia&#8217;s father Holden said. &#8220;We would really like to just make it to where girls have a safe space to compete, change in their locker rooms, when they&#8217;re most vulnerable.&#8221;
&#8220;We were just so hurt and shocked and just taken aback by their response that we just have been doing everything since then to try to take action and to tell the truth about what&#8217;s going on so this won&#8217;t happen to our daughter again or hopefully any other girls,&#8221; Abigail Cross said.
In her statement, Adaleia said she does not want her younger sister who is &#8220;very shy&#8221; to go through what she went through.
&#8220;Emotionally, it got our daughter down towards the end of last year,&#8221; her father said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a lot for us. It&#8217;s been a lot for our daughter. It&#8217;s been a lot for our other two kids who have to lose time with us for various different reasons.&#8221;
Next year the trans-identifying boy is set to enter high school where Adaleia is now, and they may compete alongside each other again. Both play the trumpet in the marching band as well. This prospect is &#8220;weighing on her heavily,&#8221; her parents said.
A year ago, Adaleia <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/boy-beat-track-sexually-harassed-biden-thinks-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/boy-beat-track-sexually-harassed-biden-thinks-problem&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1715889642519000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1gCASjkC4DuuSmfU0m3Zy_">competed</a> against the boy in several track and field events at the Harrison County Middle School Championships.
Last month, five middle school girls from a different school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/five-west-virginia-middle-school-girls-refuse-to-compete-at-track-meet-to-protest-trans-identifying-player" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/five-west-virginia-middle-school-girls-refuse-to-compete-at-track-meet-to-protest-trans-identifying-player&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1715889642519000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3nhcD4JYs0du-lXLiknktW">refused</a> to compete against the same trans-identifying boy at this year&#8217;s championship event. One by one, the five girls stepped into the starting area and then stepped out, video of the competition shows.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing Adaleia&#8217;s family in the lawsuit from West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana against the Biden administration.
&#8220;The Biden administration&#8217;s radical attempt to redefine sex in Title IX to include gender identity is really gutting equal opportunities for women,&#8221; ADF legal counsel Rachel Rouleau told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This will take out women&#8217;s privacy and safety like we&#8217;re seeing in this case with Adaleia.&#8221;
The case has a hearing scheduled for June 10 where the judge will weigh whether the Title IX changes will go into effect on August 1 or be blocked pending the lawsuit against them.
&#8220;We&#8217;re very hopeful that these rules will not go into effect, and women and girls can be protected,&#8221; Rouleau said.
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Author J.K. Rowling fired back after she was accused of &#8220;cruelty&#8221; for referring to a trans-identifying male soccer manager as a &#8220;straight, white bloke.&#8221;
Rowling was responding to a since-deleted post on X cheering the promotion of a trans-identifying referred — who goes by the name Lucy Clark — to manager at Sutton United. According to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13407513/JK-Rowling-accused-cruelty-mocks-transgender-football-manager-comparing-straight-white-middle-aged-bloke.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>, that post read, &#8220;Lucy Clark, the world&#8217;s first openly transgender referee, has made history by becoming the first trans manager in the top five divisions of English women&#8217;s football.&#8221;
&#8220;When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it&#8217;s fantastic to see how much things have changed,&#8221; Rowling commented.
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When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it&#39;s fantastic to see how much things have changed. <a href="https://t.co/jx9zp0hRyU">https://t.co/jx9zp0hRyU</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1789275573123964985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trans-identifying broadcaster — and regular Rowling-critic — India Willoughby responded to Rowling by attempting to get law-enforcement involved: &#8220;JK Rowling singling out another trans woman for ridicule tonight, leading to thousands of abusive messages. But British Media insist JK’s not transphobic, she just has &#8216;an opinion.&#8217; The police @metpoliceuk @northumbriapol ignore. At what point do they act?&#8221;
Others accused her of transphobia and &#8220;cruelty,&#8221; prompting a report from The Daily Mail headlined, &#8220;JK Rowling is accused of cruelty as she mocks transgender football manager by comparing her to a &#8216;straight, white, middle-aged bloke.'&#8221;
Rowling made it clear that she wasn&#8217;t impressed, responding, &#8220;I didn’t compare him to one. He IS one.&#8221;
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I didn’t compare him to one. He IS one. <a href="https://t.co/LUqXuSjktV">https://t.co/LUqXuSjktV</a>
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The &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author went on to further defend her position, saying as she has in the past that she would not bow to the whims of men who were &#8220;caricaturing&#8221; women.
&#8220;Calling a man a man is not &#8216;bullying&#8217; or &#8216;punching down.&#8217; Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us,&#8221; she said.
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Calling a man a man is not &#39;bullying&#39; or &#39;punching down.&#39; Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us.
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1789641182164688934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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New York Magazine&#8217;s Jonathan Chait attempted to scold Rowling, saying, &#8220;Just call people what they want to be called. It&#8217;s basic decency.&#8221;
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Stop telling women what they&#39;re allowed to say, Jonathan. It&#39;s basic decency.
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1789673670362738783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Stop telling women what they&#8217;re allowed to say, Jonathan,&#8221; Rowling replied. &#8220;It&#8217;s basic decency.&#8221;

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JK Rowling Fires Back After She's Accused Of 'Cruelty' Over Comments On Trans-Identifying Soccer Manager

Transgender activists have called in thousands of hoax reports to a Utah tip line in an attempt to hamper enforcement of the state&#8217;s new bathroom law.
The online tip line has received more than 10,000 submissions in the one week it has been up and running, and none of the complaints appear legitimate, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathroom-law-utah-tip-line-943112e6ff6f5768caa0cd42403957a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Utah Auditor John Dougall.
The tip line&#8217;s form asks people to report public school employees who knowingly allow someone to use the bathroom of the opposite sex.
Utah&#8217;s new law, which the governor signed in January, prohibits trans-identifying people from using the bathroom of the opposite sex in government buildings like public schools. Schools and government agencies that fail to enforce the new rules can be fined up to $10,000 per day for each violation.
The bill also establishes that the state’s legal definition of “male” and “female” is based on their reproductive systems rather than their gender identity.
Since Wednesday when the tip line was first launched, transgender activists have posted it all over social media. They have also posted examples of the fake reports they submitted and encouraged others to flood the tip line.
One of the activists, Erin Reed, a trans-identifying man, explained the hoax strategy to the Associated Press.
“There will be people who are trans that go into bathrooms that are potentially reported by these sorts of forms, and so the community is taking on a protective role,” Reed said. “If there are 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 form responses that are entered in, it’s going to be much harder for the auditor’s office to sift through every one of them and find the one legitimate trans person who was caught using a bathroom.”
The law&#8217;s main sponsor, Republican state Representative Kera Birkeland, stood by the tip line in the wake of the activists&#8217; coordinated attack.
“It’s not surprising that activists are taking the time to send false reports,” Birkeland <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-bathroom-law-utah-tip-line-943112e6ff6f5768caa0cd42403957a0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “But that isn’t a distraction from the importance of the legislation and the protection it provides women across Utah.”
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Schools have come under particular scrutiny in recent years for allowing trans-identifying male students to use the girls&#8217; bathroom and locker rooms. Many female students, especially those who play sports and use locker rooms to change and shower, have expressed their discomfort with sharing these facilities with trans-identifying male classmates and teammates.
At <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/utah-ban-on-transgender-bathroom-use-awaits-governors-signature">least</a> ten other states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee — also have laws dealing with which bathrooms trans-identifying people can use.

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A British female darts player forfeited a quarterfinals tournament match after being slated to face a biological male.
Deta Hedman refused to continue playing in the Denmark Open over the weekend after she advanced to the quarterfinals, where she was pitted against Noa-Lynn van Leuven, a biological man who identifies as a woman. Hedman later denied rumors that she backed out of the competition because of illness.
“No fake illness I said I wouldn’t play a man in a ladies event,” Hedman <a href="https://twitter.com/Deta132/status/1786870151679205742">posted</a> on X, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/female-darts-player-refuses-play-transgender-opponent-forfeits-match" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. “This subject causing much angst in the sport I love. People can be whoever they want in life but I don&#8217;t think biological born men should compete in Women&#8217;s sport.”
The British darts player declined to take any compensation over her decision to forfeit the tournament.
The World Darts Federation (WDF), which organized the Denmark Open, allows biological men to compete in women’s competitions if they “submit documentation from a medical practitioner that gender reassignment has been ongoing for at least one year,” according to <a href="https://dartswdf.com/storage/uploads/fb05b306-c92c-4f08-b512-affb092a1b3d/2017-10-03_WDF_Transgender_Athlete_Policy_rev_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WDF guidelines</a>.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which sets the rules followed by the Darts Regulation Authority, sets the testosterone level of a transgender competitor wishing to compete against women at 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months. The IOC also states that one cannot have changed his gender identity for at least four years prior.
Van Leuven, 27, began identifying as a woman at the age of 16. The Dutch darts player’s inclusion in women’s competition has roiled players and fans. Two of van Leuven’s fellow Dutch players <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13235585/trans-darts-noa-lynn-van-luven-fury-win.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quit</a> the national team in protest in March after van Leuven won two titles, one against men and another against women, within one week.
Biological men participating in women’s competitions have upended multiple sports. Some of the most heated reactions have stemmed from incidents in which female athletes have been injured by transgender players.
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Earlier this year, the high school girls’ basketball team for Collegiate Charter School of Lowell in Massachusetts <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/sports/team-forfeits-against-kipp-academy-after-play-allegedly-involving-male-who-identifies-as-female/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forfeited</a> a game at halftime after a number of its players were reportedly injured by a biological male playing on the other team for KIPP Academy.
Collegiate said in a statement about the forfeit that its girls “feared getting injured and not being able to compete in the playoffs.” The school went on to reiterate “its values of both inclusivity and safety for all students.”

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The Tenth Circuit finally gave us a day in court to fight for something we never thought we’d have to: the right to live and associate with other women. 
See, we joined Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming because we wanted to learn and grow with other women. Women have done this for ages: Kappa itself was founded in 1870, and when Title IX was passed in 1972, generally outlawing sex-based associations, sororities were explicitly exempted from the law.
But that all changed for us in the fall of 2022. Our sisters were pressured by the Kappa Kappa Gamma headquarters to initiate a male—going so far as to force our votes to be public and warning us that voting against the male would be a sign of bigotry, a basis for expulsion from Kappa.
But headquarters does not have to live with its decision. We do. They had their female-only environment when they were at college. We do not.
The benefits of female-only living are self-evident, but they are also scientifically backed. Personally, we want a place to be ourselves. We want (and deserve) freedom from a male gaze in private environments. These emotional needs manifest themselves in concrete ways. Research <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/gender-inequality-in-deliberative-participation/CE7441632EB3B0BD21CC5045C7E1AF76" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> that women are much less likely to speak, especially authoritatively, in mixed-sex settings. And women are 200% as <a href="https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/2368569/14-20-The-Gender-Leadership-Gap.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">likely</a> to accept a leadership role in single-sex settings.
Maybe we wouldn’t have noticed what we had until we lost it. We felt uneasy walking into bathrooms, knowing that our privacy there had been dissolved. Our bedrooms don’t have locks, and it was hard to fall asleep without that layer of protection in our intimate environment. Some sisters are sexual assault victims, and were forced to constantly shoulder the unease of trauma by having been stripped of their female-only environment.
So after months of begging for the sorority we were promised, we <a href="https://www.iwf.org/westenbroek-v-kappa-kappa-gamma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a>. And we’re speaking up publicly too. Because this case, this issue, isn’t just about opportunities being stripped from us in college and in sorority houses. It’s also about being able to speak out and defend your beliefs without intimidation. We are women who want our constitutionally protected right to speak out and associate freely, including in women-only spaces. We have heard from hundreds of other women who share our views but fear speaking out and facing public shaming and persecution. We want them to find their voices and lead the way by taking this stand now.
The four of us, and the other women who joined us in speaking out, have put a lot on the line with this lawsuit. At the outset, the court dismissed our concern for privacy in rejecting our request to proceed anonymously. We were just normal college girls who wanted everyone’s privacy protected, including the male’s. When we were forced to be public, we were then shamed for seeking publicity. We felt like we couldn’t win.
Our lives have all been affected beyond the court case.
Hannah made the hard decision to transfer to the University of Nebraska, where they have yet to initiate a male, fortunately. Maddie, the trooper among us, still lives in the same house as the male that Kappa initiated. Words cannot describe the tension of constantly seeing someone whose membership you’ve challenged in court. Jaylyn ultimately resigned her membership, leaving behind the house she was once a leader in.
We don’t want this to happen to others. This issue is also bigger than Kappa, or sororities, or what’s happening to women on college campuses. It’s about women’s spaces nationally, and, more critically, whether women’s biological existence matters.
Just this week, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sarah-parshall-perry-on-the-sweeping-changes-to-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released new regulations</a> that will push our college campuses further in the wrong direction. The Department of Education reinterpreted Title IX so that rather ensuring women have equal opportunity and don’t face discrimination “on the basis of sex,” now they have elevated the concept of “gender identity” so that any man who decided to claim to be a woman can access our spaces, our sports team, and our dormitories. Women’s interests are once again pushed aside to accommodate men.
This is wrong. Women have to stand up for ourselves, our sisters, and our rights. Calling women bigots for refusing to pretend that the stronger, bigger, testosterone-driven, male-bodied person next to them is a “woman,” threatens and belittles us and our experiences. Biological realities have tied women together since the beginning of humankind. We know that men have the potential to overpower us. We know that we need to be careful and aware of those vulnerabilities wherever we are. Our nation’s policies, norms, and culture shouldn’t make this harder by forcing us to ignore biological reality.
This lawsuit is the beginning of the fight, not the end. With Independent Women’s Forum, we will work to define women in state law, we will make the case to the public and the courts, and we will not rest until young women once again are recognized in law and in society as unique, deserving, and equal—not interchangeable—with men.
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Jaylyn Westenbroek, Hannah Holtmeier, Allie Coghan, and Maddie Ramar are plaintiffs in <a href="https://www.iwf.org/westenbroek-v-kappa-kappa-gamma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma</a> and ambassadors for Independent Women’s Forum (<a href="http://iwf.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">iwf.org</a>).
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying</a> male athlete sparked backlash after he was scheduled to compete in a women&#8217;s water polo championship for a second time.
Alicia, formerly Johnny, Paans, 31, a graduate student at the University of Michigan and member of the women’s water polo team, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/michigan-trans-athelete-alicia-paans-causes-outrage-at-national-water-polo-tournament/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is set</a> to compete starting Friday in this year&#8217;s Women’s National Collegiate Club Championship at Texas A&amp;M.
Last year, Paans was <a href="https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/hail-to-the-victors-no-2-university-of-michigan-takes-advantage-of-no-4-university-of-california-santa-barbara-8-6-to-claim-2023-womens-national-collegiate-club-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">playing</a> on the women&#8217;s team when they beat University of California Santa Barbara 8-6 in the championship game.
He scored several goals in the two games leading up to the championship game. Both games were blowout wins for Michigan.
The women&#8217;s water polo team recently promoted Paans as &#8220;player of the week&#8221; on their Instagram page.
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Paans also reportedly uses the women&#8217;s locker rooms, <a href="https://reduxx.info/trans-identified-male-set-to-compete-in-national-womens-water-polo-championship-for-second-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), which cited parents of Paans’ opponents.
“This year’s national championships are shaping up to be a tragic deja vu of domination for the female opponents who simply seek a fair chance to succeed,&#8221; ICONS co-founder Marshi Smith said, <a href="https://reduxx.info/trans-identified-male-set-to-compete-in-national-womens-water-polo-championship-for-second-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Reduxx.
Backlash erupted on social media, too. One X user compared the situation to &#8220;allowing LeBron James into the WNBA.&#8221;
&#8220;Other than possibly basketball, water polo may involve the most dramatic difference in ability/performance between men &amp; women,&#8221; the X user <a href="https://twitter.com/GregMoo73564054/status/1785397489153233295" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;I played H2O polo, and the difference is incredible between men and women&#8230; starting with a HUGE advantage with hand size, but also lower body strength to get out of the water, and upper body strength to rip shots. plus HUGE difference in acceleration.&#8221;
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Back in January, the Collegiate Water Polo Association <a href="https://collegiatewaterpolo.org/collegiate-water-polo-association-releases-transgender-athlete-appeal-process/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a policy on trans-identifying athletes competing on the team of the opposite sex.
The policy says trans-identifying male athletes must provide proof that their testosterone levels are below a certain level. Athletes may also appeal if they believe their circumstances are &#8220;exceptional,&#8221; the policy says.
“The Collegiate Water Polo Association is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable sports environment for all those who wish to participate,” the policy states. “This policy aims to provide guidelines for the participation of transgender athletes at the collegiate club level, ensuring fairness, respect, and equal opportunities for all.”
The controversy comes after earlier this month, the Biden administration unveiled new Title IX regulations blocking schools from enforcing blanket bans on transgender-identifying males in girls’ sports at public schools.
Title IX is the 1972 federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. The new rules are set to take effect in August.

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At least nine states have filed lawsuits against the Biden administration over its new Title IX rules forcing public schools to allow trans-identifying males to compete in women’s sports and use women’s bathrooms.
Earlier this month, the Education Department unveiled new Title IX regulations to prohibit schools from enforcing blanket bans on trans-identifying males in girls’ sports set to take effect in August.
Title IX is the 1972 federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools receiving federal funding.
As of Monday, Montana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina have all filed lawsuits over the administration&#8217;s interpretation of the civil rights law.
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Some of the states filed lawsuits together. Montana <a href="https://dojmt.gov/attorney-general-knudsen-leads-coalition-against-biden-administrations-attack-on-womens-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led</a> a coalition that included Louisiana, Mississippi, and Idaho. Likewise, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TitleIxLawsuit.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teamed</a> up to file a joint suit. Texas <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-biden-administration-unlawfully-using-title-ix-mandate-radical#:~:text=“Texas%20will%20not%20allow%20Joe,undemocratic%2C%20and%20divorced%20from%20reality." target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> its own lawsuit.
“For 50 years Title IX has protected girls and women’s rights, but President Biden has abandoned those protections to appease the woke left,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen <a href="https://dojmt.gov/attorney-general-knudsen-leads-coalition-against-biden-administrations-attack-on-womens-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“This rule is not based in scientific reality. It redefines biological sex which will allow men to compete in women’s sports, violate women’s privacy, and put women and girls in dangerous situations on campus. I will continue to fight to protect women and uphold Montana’s laws against federal overreach,” the attorney general added.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the administration of attempting to twist the federal law’s meaning to align with “radical gender ideology.”
“Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology,” Paxton <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-biden-administration-unlawfully-using-title-ix-mandate-radical#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTexas%20will%20not%20allow%20Joe,undemocratic%2C%20and%20divorced%20from%20reality." target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a statement Monday. “This attempt to subvert federal law is plainly illegal, undemocratic, and divorced from reality. Texas will always take the lead to oppose Biden’s extremist, destructive policies that put women at risk.”
The Biden administration’s new regulations will apply to all public K-12 schools, colleges, and universities that receive federal funding.
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">new rules</a> state that schools that receive federal funding may not ban biological males in girls’ sports wholesale, but they may exclude them on a case-by-case basis.
“Sex-related criteria” at schools that would limit or ban a trans-identified student from playing on the team of their preferred gender must meet two standards. First, the criteria must be related to an “important educational objective,” and second, the criteria must also “minimize harms” to the trans-identified student.
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Preventing sports-related injuries would be an example of an “important educational objective,” the department noted.
High school girls have been injured playing with trans-identifying males. Last year in North Carolina, a female high school volleyball player <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/female-high-school-volleyball-athlete-suffers-serious-head-injury-after-transgender-player-throws-abnormally-fast-ball/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> severe trauma to her head and neck after a trans-identifying male player spiked a volleyball that hit her head.
Another example of an “important educational objective” would be “fairness in competition.”
Female athletes at high schools and colleges in several states have spoken out against competing against biological males.
The updated rules <a href="https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-transgender-bathroom-bans-645b5564ce227a9efe2c05f883609ae8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may conflict</a> with laws in several states restricting trans-identifying students from playing on girls’ teams or using girls’ facilities.

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Texas filed a lawsuit Monday over the Biden administration&#8217;s new Title IX rules forcing public schools to allow trans-identifying males to compete in women&#8217;s sports and use women&#8217;s bathrooms.
Earlier this month, the Education Department unveiled new Title IX regulations to prohibit schools from enforcing blanket bans on trans-identifying males in girls&#8217; sports set to take effect in August.
Title IX is the 1972 federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools receiving federal funding.
In response, Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit alleging the administration is attempting to twist the federal law&#8217;s meaning to align with &#8220;radical gender ideology.&#8221;
“Texas will not allow Joe Biden to rewrite Title IX at whim, destroying legal protections for women in furtherance of his radical obsession with gender ideology,” Paxton <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-biden-administration-unlawfully-using-title-ix-mandate-radical#:~:text=“Texas%20will%20not%20allow%20Joe,undemocratic%2C%20and%20divorced%20from%20reality." target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a statement Monday. “This attempt to subvert federal law is plainly illegal, undemocratic, and divorced from reality. Texas will always take the lead to oppose Biden’s extremist, destructive policies that put women at risk.”
America First Legal <a href="https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-partners-with-state-of-texas-and-attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-biden-administration-over-radical-new-title-ix-rules-that-mandate-radical-transgender-ideology-in-schools-and-thr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> Texas in filing the lawsuit and is serving as outside counsel for the state.
&#8220;The changes would fundamentally transform the educational atmosphere of publicly funded educational institutions, forcing communities to capitulate to unscientific gender ideology and putting girls and women at risk in K-12 schools and on college campuses,&#8221; the conservative legal group said.
The new regulations will apply to all public K-12 schools, colleges, and universities that receive federal funding.
Parental rights advocates have criticized the new regulations as too vague, saying they will discourage schools from enforcing any limits on males in girls&#8217; sports.
Transgender activists, meanwhile, have reacted with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/04/06/trans-athletes-school-sports-title-ix/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concern</a> that the new policy gives too much leeway to schools that are looking to ban trans-identifying males from athletically competing with girls.
The updated rules <a href="https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-transgender-bathroom-bans-645b5564ce227a9efe2c05f883609ae8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may also conflict</a> with laws in several states restricting trans-identifying students from playing on girls&#8217; teams or using girls&#8217; facilities.
The Biden administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/fact-sheet-us-department-educations-proposed-change-its-title-ix-regulations-students-eligibility-athletic-teams">new rules</a> state that schools that receive federal funding may not ban biological males in girls&#8217; sports wholesale, but they may exclude them on a case-by-case basis.
“Sex-related criteria” at schools that would limit or ban a trans-identified student from playing on the team of their preferred gender must meet two standards. First, the criteria must be related to an “important educational objective,” and second, the criteria must also “minimize harms” to the trans-identified student.
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Preventing sports-related injuries would be an example of an “important educational objective,” the department noted.
High school girls have been injured playing with trans-identifying males. Last year in North Carolina, a female high school volleyball player <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/female-high-school-volleyball-athlete-suffers-serious-head-injury-after-transgender-player-throws-abnormally-fast-ball/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> severe trauma to her head and neck after a trans-identifying male player spiked a volleyball that hit her head.
Another example of an “important educational objective” would be “fairness in competition.”
Female athletes at high schools and colleges in several states have spoken out against competing against biological males.
In Connecticut, several high school girls <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/high-school-students-file-lawsuit-to-block-transgender-athletes-in-connecticut/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> Title IX claims in a federal lawsuit in 2020, arguing that competing against trans-identifying males resulted in them missing opportunities to win championship titles, set state records, and obtain scholarships.

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Five middle school girls refused to race against a trans-identifying male player at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/west-virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Virginia</a> track and field meet on Thursday.
The five girls, who play for Lincoln Middle School refused to participate in the &#8220;shot put&#8221; event, where players throw a heavy ball as far as they can, Outkick <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/west-virginia-girls-protest-transgender-biological-male-track-field" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
One by one, the five girls stepped into the starting area and then stepped out, refusing to compete, video of the competition that was shared to social media shows.
The girls reportedly did the same for the discus throwing event.
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The trans-identifying 13-year-old boy reportedly competes in both shot put and discus throwing. He plays on the girls track and field team at Bridgeport Middle School in Bridgeport.
One of the girls who stepped out <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/west-virginia-girls-protest-transgender-biological-male-track-field" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the trans-identifying boy won the championship shot put event.
A total of seven schools competed at Thursday&#8217;s competition, the Harrison County Middle School Championships, which was hosted by Liberty High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
The 13-year-old trans-identifying boy at the girls&#8217; track meet is at the center of a federal case dealing with biological males in girls sports.
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On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia&#8217;s law barring trans-identifying boys from competing on girls&#8217; teams cannot be enforced against this particular boy.
“The defendants cannot expect that B.P.J. will countermand her social transition, her medical treatment, and all the work she has done with her schools, teachers, and coaches for nearly half her life by introducing herself to teammates, coaches, and even opponents as a boy,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-transgender-sports-ban-ruling-badf5518ada74d01a3f0a0420d2f4074" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Judge Toby Heytens.
The ruling only applies to this particular 13-year-old boy, who has been on puberty blockers since third grade.
The video of the girls stepping out of the competition was shared by former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who criticized the adults who allowed the trans-identifying boy to compete against girls. Gaines previously swam against Lia Thomas, a biological male, and since then has been an outspoken advocate for girls&#8217; sports.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a sad day when 13-14yr old girls have to be the adults in the room, but I couldn&#8217;t be more inspired by and proud of these girls,&#8221; Gaines posted on X.
&#8220;Enough is enough. The tide is turning!&#8221; she added.
In recent years, women and girls across the country have raised objections to competing against and alongside biological males. Nevertheless, many schools and sports organizations still allow trans-identifying males to compete on the opposite sex&#8217;s teams.
Last month, a Massachusetts private school stood by its decision to let a trans-identifying male play on the girls’ basketball team after three opposing players said they got hurt.
However, there is some momentum against combining girls and trans-identifying males in sport.
Earlier this month, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), which governs sports at more than 240 small colleges, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/naia-college-athletics-org-bans-trans-identifying-men-from-competing-in-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a new policy on Monday banning trans-identifying male athletes from playing on women’s teams.

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Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> sat down with political commentator Megyn Kelly on her eponymous <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megyn-kelly-show/id1532976305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> Wednesday to discuss a range of topics, including the recent outrage from the Left over women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark&#8217;s rookie salary.
Clark, who became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA basketball during her senior season at Iowa, was selected No. 1 overall in the WNBA draft earlier this week, and many on social media — all the way up to the White House — took issue with Clark’s contract compared to what rookie NBA stars make. Kelly began the segment by quoting a social media post by President Joe Biden, who <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1780354983457644819" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in part, “Even if you&#8217;re the best, women are not paid their fair share.”
“First of all, who the hell wants to hear from this White House — which is allowing and trying to make it more expansive for boys to play against girls in women’s sports — about fairness, right?” Kelly asked, before describing the controversy over Clark’s four-year $338,000 contract compared to last year’s NBA first-overall draft pick Victor Wembanyama, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/gap-caitlin-clarks-wnba-salary-male-counterparts-draws-outrage-rcna148024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a four-year $55 million contract.
“They’re not paying these guys in the NBA that much money because they love throwing their money away; they’re paying it because that’s how much money they’re bringing in,” Klavan said. “That’s how capitalism works. If you’re bringing in the money, you get paid for what you do.”
“And listen, Caitlin Clark is a wonderful athlete,” the Daily Wire host continued. “In fact, her college championship game was watched more than the men’s championship game, and if she can do that in the WNBA, believe me, she’ll be earning that kind of money when she re-negotiates her contract.”
Klavan said that paying Clark similar to what NBA players make wouldn’t work with the economics of the WNBA as the NBA brings in roughly 100x the revenue of the professional women&#8217;s league. The author of “The House of Love and Death” added that the debate over WNBA players’ salaries highlights deep hypocrisy from the Left.
“The Left started out by saying to us, ‘There’s no difference between men and women. We have to treat them exactly equally.’ And now they’re saying there’s so little difference that a man can be a woman, and if you say that a man can’t be a woman and play sports at another level in the women’s game, you’re being somehow bigoted,” Klavan remarked.
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“The entire thing is genuinely an attack on women,” he continued. “It genuinely is a hatred of women. And I really do believe this, by the way: I believe the Left despises women at their core for the simple reason that the things that women do occur in a different moral structure than the things that men do.”
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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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