Does Title IX permit trans athletes to take women’s scholarships?

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The International Olympic Committee can do whatever it wants, and that includes rigging the game against biological women by allowing transgender women to compete against them in the Olympics. But universities, at least those receiving federal funding, probably cannot. Title IX mandates that federally funded universities, including private schools, grant female students equal access to education, including athletics.

Lia Thomas, a biological male who identities as a woman, who swims at Penn, is currently smashing Ivy League records in the 500-yard freestyle, the 200-yard freestyle, and the 1,650-yard freestyle. The NCAA claims the situation is fair because Thomas has been on testosterone suppression treatment for at least a year. The results, however, speak for themselves.

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