In 1972, female athletes scored a huge victory upon the signing of Title IX. Women and girls who longed for equal treatment under the law and had worked to achieve their dreams in athletics were finally protected in doing so.
In 2022, those dreams are being shattered, and the law that was signed to protect them is being violated. Biological males are crushing females on the athletic field, destroying their records in the swimming pool, outrunning, outlifting, and outcompeting them at every level.
The recent controversy surrounding a University of Pennsylvania swimmer invites the question of how we ended up here. How do we live in a country, born on equality and opportunity, where such blatant unfairness is acceptable?
The answer to these questions is simple: “Conservatives” have failed to conserve our fundamental values, allowing the Left to seize every institution in our country, from higher education to the Department of Justice to the corporate media. The Left’s control over these institutions has allowed them to penetrate their false, and actually regressive, narratives throughout society, including their illogical message that protecting girls’ sports is somehow discriminatory.
We now live in a country where equality and discrimination are only relevant when the Left decides they are; where blatant violations of federally protected women’s rights are celebrated; and where President Joe Biden makes it a day one priority to sign an executive order forcing the federal government to violate Title IX and allow for outrageous injustices against women and girls on athletic fields.
Whether it be out of fear of political correctness or name-calling, our “conservative” leaders have allowed this destruction to occur, remaining silent on too many important issues for far too long.
As a woman, former NCAA Division II athlete, and Generation Z American, this is personal to me. I spent years making sacrifices and working tirelessly to achieve my athletic goals and compete at the highest level that I possibly could. It’s difficult to imagine if a man had taken from me my well-earned starting position at third base on my high school or college softball teams. My heart breaks for the women and girls enduring that unfair hardship right now.
I am now running for Congress to restore fairness in female sports at the federal level. I will speak about the injustices experienced by female athletes on the House floor in an effort to combat the Left’s narrative that males belong in women’s sports. I will also support legislation, such as the Protect Women’s Sports Act, that will restore Title IX to its original intent.
Most importantly, I will never ever back down from defending the principles that make America great, including the basic, scientific fact that men and women are inherently different but equal.
America can no longer afford spineless conservatives who allow the Left to own these issues of such grave importance. We must elect leaders with the courage to stand up for truth, push back on the Left, and win again.
Karoline Leavitt is a Republican candidate for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st District.
