Anti-trans groups hitch their cause to Title IX on 50th anniversary
“The Biden administration’s actions today are seeking to erase the entire female sex,” said Gabbard, the former congresswoman. “At its core, it’s a hatred for women.”Title IX was hardly about sports to begin with when it was written in 1972 to make sure women had a fair shot at higher education. This was a time when universities worried they were wasting money educating women who were only at school to get their MRS degrees.
“Why are you here occupying a seat that could be held by a man?” Harvard Law School Dean Edwin Griswold famously asked Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she was a student there.That’s the ethos Title IX was created to quash, though it paved the way for women’s sports, too. And that’s the part that conservative, family values, evangelical and anti-LGBTQ folks have hijacked as a way to forward their queer-fearing agenda.
This new swimmer that Barker was wondering about had raced for three years on the University of Pennsylvania men’s team. And, by that time, Thomas was the most famous trans athlete in this explosive debate.showed that a majority of Americans oppose allowing transgender female athletes to compete in women’s divisions. But it wouldn’t be right — or legal — to ban trans athletes from all sports. A ruling against a trans athlete can set a precedent turning all trans kids away from sports.
“Yeah, yeah — the humanity, the participation, inclusion. They all want to talk about that,” Idaho Rep. Barbara Ehardt , a former college basketball coach and player, snarled on Thursday. “But it’s really about winning.”which made Idaho the first state to ban trans athletes when it passed two years ago. And she now travels the country testifying before other state legislatures copycatting her bill and going further to curtail other rights for LGTBQ youth., as debate swirled about Thomas.
Arguments about what women supposedly can’t do have been used against those who wanted to become firefighters, soldiers, welders, construction workers and police officers. But women use their strength and agility to save lives, build buildings and fight wars every day. Since the first women graduated from the U.S. Army Ranger School in 2015,
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