#title ix

[thelegendofeowyn]

[onirislanding]

This was always the point.

After Trans Athlete Bans, Heritage Foundation Sets Its Sights On Dismantling Title IX

The Heritage Foundation report argues Title IX rollbacks are needed to preserve girls’ “fertility.”

And by the point I mean destroy trans rights, use that precedent, destroy women's rights, rinse and repeat as far and wide as they can get away with.

[justinssportscorner]

The Heritage Foundation is Coming For Women's Sports

Fresh off a SCOTUS ruling against trans women in women's sports, the ultra conservative lobbying and policy group is ready to take on Title

Katelyn Burns at Burns Notice:

It was never about fairness in women's sports, it was about worming sex discrimination into federal law. And you all fell for it. A new report from the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative policy thinktank in the US, signaled a full frontal attack on the legal legitimacy of Title IX as a whole. The author was Scott Yenor, a man of despicable ideological pedigree, and his new paper argues that Title IX "has evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into a powerful engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates."

The piece launders transphobic talking points into an argument for taking "an approach that accommodates the partly natural, partly cultural differences between the sexes" to federal protections against sex discrimination, particularly in Title IX.

The piece begins with a transphobic lie and an error, incorrectly stating that in 2024, a "Tunisian man" defeated a Chinese woman for a gold medal in Olympic boxing. Except the gold medalist that year is neither a man nor is she Tunisian. She's from Algeria. The international transphobic press ran wild with rumor and speculation of Imane Khelif's sex based on nothing but an alleged report by one of the most corrupt entities on the planet (Russian sports officials). Khalif was identified as female by a doctor at her birth, and raised as a woman. It wasn't until she started defeating white women at boxing that white sports officials began meddling in her private business. Regardless, the fact that the paper starts with such a laughable factual error does not promote confidence in the rest of the report. [...]

Yenor argues that Title IX should be reworked to remove the equality measures in place for the sports side of the law which requires schools pass a three pronged compliance test as described by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS): [...]

Yenor points out correctly that only varsity level sports are considered for Title IX compliance purposes. He obfuscates why this is: these are the highest cost sports, and those that likely reward women with athletic scholarships. It's a way for athletic women to further their lives, educations, and future careers through athletic excellence.

Yenor argues that we should dispose of the varsity requirement and instead let schools count cheerleading, fitness and yoga classes, and intramural sports as part of their Title IX compliance.

[...] All of this is glossed over by Yenor who argued instead that Title IX should allow a broader classification of women's physical activities to be counted under Title IX to account for "natural and cultural difference between the sexes."

This would be a huge mistake for women athletes. I can easily envision Yenor's proposal being implemented and then sudden cuts to women's varsity sports come across the board. "Sorry lady, you can't play varsity soccer anymore, but can I interest you in a yoga class?" Let's remember also that none of these attacks on Title IX happen in a legal vacuum. What affects sports also effects the law more generally. We have seen this with the trans athlete cases, and we would see it again in Yenor's hypothetical world.

The Heritage Foundation’s Scott Yenor released a report full of sexist and transphobic tropes attacking women’s sports by making broadside swipes against Title IX.

The attacks against Title IX are a bigger threat to women’s sports than a single trans female competing in sports, despite what Riley Gaines, Heritage, IWF, and other anti-trans dolts claim otherwise.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Heritage Foundation now targeting women’s sports after SCOTUS’ anti-trans sports ruling

[odd-birdie]

in 2026 we're putting a stop to the idea that strength is a "manly" quality. women are strong and fast and determined and they are women. women of all races and sizes excel in sports. their excellence is not manly. their strength is not manly. their success is not manly. "manly" is not a compliment to be bestowed on women who succeed. they are women AND they are strong.

[definitlynotdwr]

The Left’s Betrayal of Women Was a Refusal to Respect Reality

For decades, the political Left told women it alone could be trusted to defend their rights. But the promise was narrower than advertised. In practice, women’s rights often meant abortion access, workplace rhetoric, and the expectation that women would keep voting for the party that claimed ownership over “women’s issues.” Then a harder test arrived. What happens when women ask for boundaries?…

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The Supreme Court’s trans athlete ruling is a threat to gender equality

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is “not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection all women get.”

[nerdynessa]

3 hours until hrt consultation screaming clawing biting at the bars of my enclosure (my office at work)

Anyone wanna reassure me that title IX not including gender anymore Isn't going to ruin my ability to be a teacher? Im staying under the radar in IA but im not hiding myself away once I move to a blue state, in about 6 months

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The trans sports stuff is so fucked from every single angle. Like every aspect says something awful about sexual politics.

Biology: Biologically fucking what? I've been on HRT for a while and I can promise you that the human body is a dumb machine and will follow whatever instructions you provide. I've lost muscle mass, grown boobs, lost height, my emotions have changed. Biology is not static and I have taken control of mine.

Fairness: This is both rank misogyny and magical thinking. Are you really going to sit there and argue that women are inherently so weak that they can't fairly compete with cis men in any arena? And do you think that testosterone is so magically powerful that a trans woman who, however briefly, developed under it has a magical fucking man ability to dominate women in any activity? Fuck off with that condescending shit.

Men: The idea that men are inherently dangerous is both fucking untrue and permissive. The way men move through society is nurture not nature. They take a bunch of children and tell them that they are predators and those ones over there are prey, and you're not supposed to hurt them, but we already kind of expect that you will. Also, when you do you'll probably get away with it, examples provided daily on the evening news. This is before you even arrive at the fact that trans women are women.

Trans Women: Trans women are women, jot that down. We didn't "become women" in the same way that gays or lesbians weren't somehow straight before they came out. Living closeted and trans does not give you a cis male experience in any way. You grow up pretending to be something that seems to come naturally to your peers. You suppress your natural reactions as much as possible and still get called a girl or gay. And the fucking thing is, they were right, I am a girl and gay. Perhaps if you'd stated your observations in a more constructive way I wouldn't have cried.

Women in general: Policing gender harms all women. These dipshits who think "We can always tell" fire off false positives left and right. All this amounts to is control over women's bodies and presentation. To enforce these things you'll need to give authority to a collection of gender busy-bodies to poke, prod, and ogle women with few restrictions or recourse. It is just a license to sexually assault women at whim.

Intersex people: Exist but aren't to be used as a shield or argument in debates about trans people. Most intersex folks I know personally had no idea until later in life because their doctors lied to them, including straight up lying about the kind of surgery they were having. I cannot imagine the kind of trauma that would be caused by being forcefully outed as intersex by some shithead on a gender crusade.