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Bringing Sanity Back To Women’s Sports

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On Monday, The Daily Signal posted an article about the Department of Education rescinding the Biden-era ruling concerning Title IX and gender identity.

The article reports:

Supporters of women’s sports and sex-based protections have reason to celebrate. The Department of Education announced Sept. 28 that it is formally rescinding the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX rule and reinstating the 2020 Title IX regulations promulgated under the first Trump administration.

Ongoing litigation has prevented the Trump administration from being able to formally rescind the illegal 2024 Biden regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, even though the Education Department has been following the 2020 Trump-era Title IX regulations since January of last year.

In April 2024, the Biden administration issued final regulations rewriting the more than 50-year-old civil rights law, Title IX, to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Essentially, it allowed boys who claim to identify as girls to participate in girls and women’s sports at schools that receive federal funding.

Women’s sports advocate and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines said at the time, “Fifty-two years of progress and sex-based protections have been erased with the stroke of a pen.” She was right. Thankfully, many states agreed, and seven circuit courts temporarily blocked the Title IX rewrite, preventing it from taking effect in 26 states.

The article concludes:

Advocates for child protection must still work from state to state, however. As our Heritage Foundation colleague Laura Hanford explains, child-welfare workers are classifying parents as “abusive” if they treat a child according to his or her sex instead of self-proclaimed “gender.” Social science research has found that affirming a child who claims to have been born in the wrong body does not resolve mental health issues underlying a child’s sexual confusion. Adults who do not caution a child confused about his or her sex could be neglecting that child—and failing to address the true reasons for the child’s distress. Conditions such as anxiety and depression can go untreated or worsen when adults focus on advocating “gender affirmation.”

So-called gender advocates claim that children will become suicidal if adults do not affirm their children. Yet no scientific evidence supports this claim, as even the ACLU acknowledged before the Supreme Court. And contrary to activist statements, new findings from the research and advocacy organization Do No Harm show that laws banning “gender-affirming care” do not increase suicide rates.

Nevertheless, Hanford explains that some courts are removing children from their homes even when there is no evidence of actual abuse. Social workers in the foster care system, meanwhile, are affirming children’s confusion about their sex.

The Department of Education’s rule change should bolster families and state officials protecting children from making irreversible medical decisions they may come to regret. In the states, policymakers must remain vigilant.

Fighting Absurdity With Absurdity

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On Saturday, The Dallas Express posted an article about two basketball players who have asked to be included in the 2027 Women’s National Basketball Association draft. The two players are Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, both retired National Basketball League players.

The article reports:

A second former NBA player has declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft.

Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White have announced plans to pursue the 2027 WNBA Draft, arguing that the league’s current eligibility rules do not clearly define who qualifies as a “woman” or establish a specific “transgender” eligibility standard.

Royce White was the first to publicly declare his intentions. On August 4, 2026, the former NBA player posted on X: “I’m now transgender. I’m going to pursue a career in the WNBA… I identify as a sometimes identifying trans woman. I wish to be treated fairly and don’t want to be discriminated against. This is a serious pursuit. I realize after 35 years, I’m actually a woman.”

Three days later, on August 7, Enes Kanter Freedom posted a detailed video announcement formally declaring himself a WNBA prospect for the 2027 draft, stating he had reviewed the league’s eligibility guidelines on self-identification and inclusion.

White then expanded on his earlier comments that same day in an interview with Fox News Digital, noting that he had already made his declaration first.

“How you gonna pass up on a 6-foot-8, 270-pound point forward?” White told Fox News/Outkick Sports.

Freedom is 6-foot-10 and listed at 250 pounds during his career, while White is listed at 6-foot-8 and over 260 pounds.

The article concludes:

The declarations come during an ongoing WNBA debate over “transgender” participation in women’s sports that intensified after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham publicly opposed allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports in July.

“I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men,” Cunningham told ESPN.

Freedom and White have framed their moves as tests of consistency with stated inclusion principles rather than formal entries into the league.

The 2027 WNBA Draft is scheduled for April. White has indicated possible legal action if denied participation based on identity. Formal eligibility determinations would occur closer to the draft process.

Stay tuned.

Quote Of The Day

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You can always count on Senator Kennedy from Louisiana for a good quote.

On Tuesday, Red State quoted Senator Kennedy who was sharing his advice to the Democrat Party:

“Look, you just gotta try harder not to suck,” said Kennedy. 

Kennedy elaborated, saying that Democrats spent the past four years mismanaging everything they were put in charge of, including congress, the pandemic, the economy, Afghanistan, and more. Now, with Trump and Musk ripping through the government to trim away the fat and corruption, they’re going out of their way to side with bureaucracy. 

This is one of those losing “80/20” positions Scott Jennings talked about a while back, but Democrats can’t stop themselves from automatically taking the opposite position that Trump is at every turn. 

Kennedy continues by noting the Democrat Party’s support for illegal immigration and transgendered people in women’s sports, and sympathize with Hamas, which are just more 80/20 positions Democrats can’t seem to stop advocating for. 

“The party is being controlled, right now, by people who majored in online activism with a minor in puberty blockers,” said Kennedy. “I know these people. They think men can breastfeed!” 

“Most fair-minded Americans look at this, and they go, ‘these people are about ten exits past normal!” he added. 

It’s hard to believe the Democrats are fighting to keep the corruption in Washington going.

The War On Women In Sports

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The political left has declared war on women in sports. They are supposed to share their locker rooms and their private spaces with men, and they are expected to compete with men in various sports. In some cases, competing with men has caused serious injuries to the women involved, but those pushing the transgender movement do not seem to be concerned about that. Seeing an Olympic competition where a man was actually hitting a women was totally offensive to me. The political left has chosen to ignore the basic differences between men and women. However, the statistics on athletic awards tell the story.

On Tuesday, BizPacReview reported:

Arguments about the rarity of men and boys stealing opportunities from women and girls crumbled as a United Nations report quantified the growing number of medals lost.

Too often, leftist claims of troubling matters being rare and of little consequence have proven to be neither. Now, according to the findings of U.N. special rapporteur Reem Alsalem, such was the case for gender ideology’s impact on sports as nearly 900 medals that would have been awarded to females had gone to males as of March 2024.

In the report initially published in August, Alsalem indicated, “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals when competing against males.”

“According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports,” she continued marking the minimum number of incidents.

The article concludes:

As far as concerns regarding how to police the matter, Alsalem recognized the sensitivity of the issue for some and proposed, “In cases where the sex of an athlete is unknown or uncertain, a dignified, swift, non-invasive and accurate sex screening method (such as a cheek swab) or, where necessary for exceptional reasons, genetic testing should be applied to confirm the athlete’s sex. In non-professional sports spaces, the original birth certificate for verification may be appropriate. In some exceptional circumstances, such tests may need to be followed up by more complex tests.”

Most recently, bureaucratic decisions to allow men to compete with women found the University of Nevada-Reno volleyball team at odds with their own school as they became the fifth team to choose forfeiture over competing against San Jose State University with a male athlete as their star player.

While the rapporteur argued “the failure to protect the female category is one of the most egregious forms of violence against women and girls” Waggoner (Alliance Defending Freedom International CEO Kristen Waggoner) contended, “Our plea to the world is to learn from the mistakes that have been made — and that are now being corrected — so that your daughters can walk into a future of fair and safe sports.”

A man competing in women’s sports is not a whole lot different than a teenager playing on a kid’s t-ball team. They simply do not belong there.

Who Has The Right To Compete In Women’s Sports?

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On Tuesday, Hot Air reported that H.R. 734 is currently making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives.

This is how Congress.gov (you have to type in the bill number as the specific page expires) summarizes the bill:

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023

This bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.

Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities, including in public elementary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities.) Under the bill, sex is based on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

The bill does not prohibit male individuals from training or practicing with programs or activities for women or girls as long as such training or practice does not deprive any female of corresponding opportunities or benefits.

This sounds like common sense to me. However, not everyone agrees with the concepts stated in the bill.

Hot Air reports:

A new bill (H.R. 734) titled the Protection of Women and Girls Sports Act is currently making its way through the House with a vote anticipated later this week. The measure would prevent biological males from competing in women’s and girls’ sports in schools. The bill has even attracted some bipartisan support in the Senate, meaning that is should have a realistic chance of making it out of the legislature. But yesterday, the White House issued a statement saying that Joe Biden will veto the bill if it reaches his desk. This statement is the clearest sign yet that the President has fully bought into the ongoing transgender craze. But one aspect of the legislation could provide a watershed moment if a challenge to it reaches the courts.

…One interesting twist in this debate comes with the bill’s references to Title IX. For a long time now, starting with Barack Obama, Democrats have been fighting to expand the definition of the protections offered in Title IX to include transgender definitions. H.R. 734 seeks to turn the tables and invoke Title IX to apply directly to actual women as it was originally intended.

The second and more important facet of the legislation is found in its definition of the word “sex.” It clearly defines sex as being “based on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” This is precisely the sort of legal barricade that we need to drive home and put before the Supreme Court. The unscientific nonsense driving the entire transgender debate can’t be allowed to impose insanity on our legislative process and the laws of the land.

The fact that this bill is drawing at least some bipartisan support could be a signal of things to come.

What would happen if I decided to identify as a six-year old and signed up for t-ball? I might score a lot of home runs. Generally speaking, the physical structure of a man has more muscle mass than that of a woman. Men have no place competing in women’s sports. It’s not a fair competition.