Demonstrators call on President Biden to protect women’s sports in Washington on June 23.
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Bernice Sandler, “The Godmother of Title IX,” said the law she helped create was “the most important step for gender equality since the Article 19 amendment gave us voting rights.” Said that. Title IX is 50 years old this week, but it’s not old enough.
Title IX prohibits discrimination “under federal-funded educational programs or activities.” Buried in the 1972 Education Amendment, this provision was dubbed by ESPN as “37 Words That Changed Everything” for women’s sports. It was initially a boon and opened the door to scholarships and lucrative careers that were unthinkable before its passage. But the procession of gender ideology threatens to unravel that progress.
Take the now infamous photo of Lia Thomas, the victorious victorious towering over female athletes at the NCAA Division I Swimming Championships. Shortly after, when the United States Postal Service released a title IX commemorative stamp, it looked like a gas lamp. One of them features a female swimmer wearing her hat and goggles.
How did women’s sports reach this point? It started over a decade ago, and schools and athletic groups began to change the original intent of Title IX head-on. As it applies to sports, Title IX is not intended to be gender agnostic. It has improved the team and funding shortages. This is a girl and woman scale thumb aimed at equalizing opportunities.
This approach worked. In the 40 years since Title IX was enacted, ESPN states that women’s participation in sports has increased more than 10-fold, while men’s participation has increased by only 22%. Title IX has led to the prosperity of women’s sports. American girls can respect exciting women such as Florence Griffith Joyner, Venus and Serena Williams. Millions of dollars were awarded for exercise scholarships for girls who would not have graduated from high school before 1972.
When schools, athletic meet, and courts began reading Title IX as ignorant of gender, discrimination based on gender came to mean that it was not permissible to pay attention to gender distinction. In 2011, a boy named Will Higgins broke the record for a state women’s swimming competition in a 50-yard freestyle. He would not have been qualified to compete with his gender.Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association favored victory for reasons as the Boston Globe put it“State law requires equal access to sports of both genders, so boys cannot stop competing in girls’ swimming teams.”
So-called gender neutrality paved the way for gender ideology to pursue this principle to the limit.The Supreme Court threw gasoline on fire in a 2020 ruling Harris Funeral Hall v.Equal Employment Opportunity Committee When Bostock vs Clayton County It dilutes the legal meaning of sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity. How broad and therefore meaningless the definition of “sex” actually looks is the fate of women’s sports in free fall.
Current Late 2021, 37 states sought to enact protection to maintain a clear space for women’s sports, and Pauling said that women’s sports should be restricted to biological women. I have found that many believe. But for now, the girl dreaming of the awesomeness of the exercise is at a loss and wonders if her lifelong hard work will be wiped out by the boy at the finish line.
Regarding the extraordinary impact of Title IX on women’s sports, Sandler said: start. “Sadly, the revolution seems to have brought female athletes back to where they started.
McGuire is the author of “Sex Scandal: A Drive to Abolish Men and Women.”
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