Title IX went into effect on June 23, 1972. Fifty years later, it’s under attack thanks to woke gender ideology.
Title IX strives to prevent sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. Among other things, the law expanded access to school sports for girls.
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” the law reads.
Yet, in 2022, a small yet growing threat exists to those rights: boys who say they’re girls playing on girls’ teams.
This harms girls because, in some cases, it negatively affects their athletic experience. For example, girls lose playing time to boys who say they are girls, or even a spot on the team of a cut sport. Plus, if a boy who says he’s a girl wins first place in a race, he’s taking the first place spot away from a girl who worked hard to earn that position. Not to mention, he’s bumping down everyone else’s place in the race; this was the case when a transgender track runner won a state championship in Connecticut back in 2019.
When boys have sports teams of their own that they can compete on, there is no reason why they should be playing on the girls’ side. It shouldn’t matter if they say they are female. Just because someone says something, that doesn’t mean it’s true. And biologically speaking, male transgender athletes are not girls and never will be girls. No amount of hormones and cosmetic surgery can change that fact.
If there were no differences between boys and girls, there wouldn’t be separate teams for the two genders. Schools wouldn’t have separate soccer, basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse teams for boys and girls if sex didn’t make a difference; that would be a redundant waste of money.
That’s not to say boys who identify as girls should not have the chance to participate in athletics. However, they should have the same opportunities as the rest of their male peers: to compete on boys teams.
Allowing this unscientific nonsense to continue will only worsen the attack on Title IX and girls’ ability to participate in athletics.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.
