Women are losing the sports gender battle. Let’s help them win the war

Athletes cognize erstwhile they measurement onto the court, they are stepping into battle. Their jerseys are the armor, and the shot is the ammunition. For pistillate athletes crossed the nation, winning the conflict is overmuch harder erstwhile their hostile is simply a bigger, faster and stronger male.  

The Wyoming Cowgirls volleyball team faced the determination to either forfeit their matches against San Jose State University (SJSU) whose women’s volleyball squad included a male, oregon hazard wounded from a volleyball being spiked astatine 80 mph. The Cowgirls courageously enactment their information first, consenting to judge a nonaccomplishment to support the integrity of women’s sports everywhere.  

The University of Wyoming (UW) joined 3 different Mountain West schools successful forfeiting games against SJSU, including Utah State, Boise State and Nevada. The Mountain West Conference and the NCAA are 2 of countless governing bodies that proceed to neglect girls and women crossed the country.  

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Under the Biden administration, woke policies flourished with egregious diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) trainings and quotas. The Mountain West Conference was enabled to let a antheral to vie successful women’s volleyball for the aforesaid crushed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) allowed antheral swimmer Lia Thomas to vie successful the women’s 500-yard freestyle: these organizations were celebrated and revered by Democrat leaders and the media. The atrocity of men competing successful women’s sports and violating the information and information of women’s spaces is the women’s rights contented of our time.  

Congress has a accidental to guarantee pistillate athletes' rights are protected. FILE: University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines respond aft finishing tied for 5th successful the 200 Freestyle finals astatine the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships connected March 18th, 2022, astatine the McAuley Aquatic Center successful Atlanta, Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

As National Girls and Women successful Sports Day approaches connected February 5, we are confronted with this intrusion connected women’s rights. Women fought for years for Title IX protections to springiness america an adjacent accidental successful sports. Ironically, successful the sanction of equality and nether the guise of "progress," Democrats are helping men erase everything that women fought for. But this sex-based favoritism isn’t progressive; it's profoundly regressive and utterly misogynistic.  

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In the 2024 election, Americans voted for change, revolting against the utmost leftist policies that led to record-breaking amerciable immigration, sky-high inflation, and more. President Trump campaigned connected the committedness of protecting women’s sports, and we are arrogant to spouse with Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and 28 Republican senators successful getting the "Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act" crossed the decorativeness line.  

This measure preserves Title IX protections for pistillate athletes, reaffirming that sex beryllium based solely connected genetics and reproductive biology, arsenic opposed to however a idiosyncratic chooses to "identify." 

With Republicans successful power of the House, Senate and the White House, we are well-positioned to instrumentality this last measurement to sphere women’s rights to a just playing tract successful their sport. We beryllium it to the small girls with large dreams crossed the country. 

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In 1972, Title IX paved the mode for American women and girls to vie connected an adjacent playing field, creating a harmless abstraction for pistillate athletes to prosecute their dreams. In caller years, protections nether Title IX person crumbled, leaving women and girls vulnerable. While beingness isn’t fair, sports should be. 

The "Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act" reverses people connected the woke policies that crept into sports, and we impulse Congress to basal with women and girls crossed America.  

Riley Gaines is the big of OutKick's "Gaines for Girls." She is an Independent Women's Forum ambassador, Turning Point contributor, manager of the Riley Gaines Center, and writer of "Swimming Against the Current."

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