AMAC Exclusive – By Katie Sullivan
Earlier this month, 9.9 million people tuned in to watch the NCAA Women’s March Madness final between the LSU Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes – the most ever for a women’s college basketball game. Yet despite enormous advancements for girls’ and women’s sports in recent years, an ongoing effort by the Biden administration to radically rewrite Title IX protections in accordance with transgender ideology could undo decades of progress while stealing opportunities from female athletes.
Title IX is the shorthand used to refer to a section of civil rights law enacted in 1972 which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or educational entity that receives funding from the federal government. In addition to providing more avenues for legal recourse for female victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault in schools and on college campuses, Title IX also led to a drastic expansion of athletic opportunities for women and girls. Thousands of girls have earned college scholarships thanks to Title IX.
Now, however, the Biden administration has proposed an amendment to Title IX that expands the definition of “sexual discrimination” to include gender identity. In effect, this means that schools could not deny a biological male who identifies as transgender the opportunity to compete on women’s sports teams.
The rule would apply to any school receiving federal funds, including any type of student loans – an extremely broad criteria that would cover virtually every school from kindergarten through college.
Notably, the new rule does make an exception for cases where schools believe allowing a biological male to compete against females would create a significant possibility of physical harm for students. However, the administration creates no such carve out for cases where female students feel uncomfortable sharing locker room facilities or overnight lodgings with biologically male students.
The Biden administration – as well as the transgender activists pushing this and other related policies – also make no mention of the psychological harm done to girls by allowing and even celebrating male students participating in and in many instances dominating women’s sports at the expense of female athletes.
Such was the case earlier this year with Lia Thomas, a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania who competed on the men’s team from 2017 to 2020 as William Thomas before “coming out” as transgender and competing on the women’s team from 2021-2022. When competing against other males, Thomas ranked in the mid-500s nationally. After “transitioning,” however, Thomas’s ranking soared to within the top 10 and he shattered several women’s records on his way to a 2022 women’s national title in the 500-yard freestyle.
Along the way, Thomas kept other hard-working female athletes off the podium, including Riley Gaines, a University of Kentucky swimmer whom Thomas tied for 5th in the 200-yard NCAA freestyle championship last year. Despite the fact that Thomas never should have been competing in the race to begin with, NCAA officials awarded the 5th-place trophy to Thomas.
Since then, Gaines has spoken out publicly against allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports, arguing that we must “defend and protect America’s daughters against the woke left and their gender-denying ideology.”
Other athletes and high-profile sports figures have also come out against allowing biological males who identify as women to compete against biological females. Late last month, Canadian power lifter Avi Silverberg made a public mockery of such policies by entering the Alberta women’s power lifting competition and dominating the field, shattering the women’s bench press record.
ESPN personalities Sam Ponder and Sage Steele have also backed Gaines’s stance. “This would take away so many opportunities for biological women and girls in sports,” Ponder tweeted in reference to Biden’s proposed changes to Title IX. “It is a shame that we are needing to fight for the integrity of Title IX in 2023 and the reason it was needed in the first place. #savewomensports.”
House Republicans joined in the fight last week by passing the Protection for Women and Girls in Sports Act, a bill which, if enacted, will ban biological males from competing on women’s sports teams. The bill passed the House along complete partisan lines, with every Republican in support and every Democrat opposed.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), the bill’s sponsor, stated, “Congress in 1972 created Title IX to protect women’s sports to enable women to have an equal playing field in athletics. In worship to their trans idols, the administration wants to flip that on its head. It is insane.”
Predictably, the White House has strongly opposed the bill, claiming that it “targets” transgender students and even falsely suggesting that it prevents trans-identifying athletes from competing in sports at all.
For Biden, it seems, the interests of women and girls come secondary to those of his far-left activist base.
Katharine “Katie” Sullivan was as an Acting Assistant Attorney General and a senior advisor to the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Trump. She previously served 11 years as a state trial court judge in Colorado.
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I’m extremely aggravated with this Biden administration and their ideology concerning women/girls, sports and transgenders!! If there are enough transgenders, set up a league for them to compete with each other and leave the women/girls alone!! It is extremely unfair for biological men to compete against biological women. And some of these women/girls have been working most if not all of their lives to compete well in their chosen sport for the purpose of winning scholarships, trophies, titles only to have some confused, mixed up male come in and steal it away!!! Lia, you are a thief!!! You have stolen so many women’s/girl’s futures and you should be ashamed as should all transgenders who choose to compete against women. To me, that kind of win means nothing – you get to tell all of your transgender friends that you beat some women/girls – that can’t be satisfying or it shouldn’t be!!!
Make this ridiculous behavior of transgenders stop!!
I have lost my entire family because I am a Conservative, and they are Liberals. Since Biden (stole) won the election, there is no debate, either I agree with everything or I am a Racist, Homophobe, Nazi (even though I am Jewish), Capitalist, Anti Abortion, American, and now Transphobe. I do believe in Human Rights. I’m not against medical abortions, or within the first 12 weeks, but I do not want to pay for it with my taxes. How can you argue that you need an I.D. to cash a check, collect welfare, fly on an airplane, buy alcohol and tobbaco, pick up my prescriptions, but you don’t need one to Vote! We might not agree there are only 2 genders, but show me where it is OK for a biological male, to get dressed, use a women’s locker or restroom, and cheat in sports. And lastly, why does something that only pertains to 2% of the population, occupy 80% of the discussion?
GOD doesn’t make mistakes! If you are born a biological male, then you are a male, DEAL WITH IT!!!!!
… taking a free ride on America’s equal rights movement, 5 guiding principle objectives of LGBTQ special interest politics:
1). normalization of sexual ambiguity, gender uncertainty in K-12 –
2). top down control over television & television advertising –
3). infiltration, subversion & control of public education –
4). normalization of child sex –
5). infiltration and subversion of America’s judicial system –
These transgender men will always be men by DNA no matter what they do to try and be a woman. YOU CAN NOT CHANGE DNA! I do not want men in our bathrooms. Why do we have separate men’s and women’s bathrooms? Let Transgenders have their own bathrooms, their own sports and their own everything else and leave the women’s sports and bathrooms alone!
Does this farce called TitleIX apply to; mermaids, centaurs, and unicorns? They are just as natural as transgender creations and Joe Biden’s synthetic brain.
Another “Civil rights” doctrine in the history of this Marxist movement.
I have played card games and board games with people that constantly cheat so they can win. I quit playing with them. Let them play with other cheats! When all the cheaters cheat only one can win. What fun is that for them. Think what would happen if all the female athletes in America said, “Enough! I quit!” The people making these idiotic rules would have no power. There is too much money in these programs for them to allow them to end. You would see some legislative action and some new laws. War is not easy. You have the wounded, some casualties, and finally a victory. Sometimes we are soldiers.
Biden’s amendment is a natural outgrowth of the civil rights movement.
No news here!!! Biden has fouled up everything he has touched!
Hang on to your hats folks. It gets worse. A high school not 15 miles from my home allows students to identify as any creature they wish. If anyone wishes, he or she is allowed identify as a dog or a cat and move about and make sounds that are appropriate for said animal. Even in class! Talk about disruption! And the teachers are not allowed to do anything about it.
The statement, “It is insane!” fits perfectly. And this administration is moving to defend this insanity, which is itself insanity.
The clown in chief wants to call this progress and desires to finish the job!? I don’t think so!
America did not have problems like these, before Biden and all his clowns took the office!
Now we have a perp in command where everything is antithetical to decency and good morals.
The Biden family is morally corrupt just as the Clintons and Obamas are.
The whole thing is mind boggling. This is the stuff of insanity. Who voted for this dementia riddled idiot that is the puppet of Obama, Soros, someone similar or all of them? We are truly living in a time that is reminiscent of the fairly tale…….. The Emperor’s New Robes.
As far as Amac is concerned they have to Approve my comments Why??? Free Speech is Gone.. The Criminals Have MORE RIGHTS THAN The People who ALWAYS DID THE RIGHT THING!!! Quit with the Play Nice B.S. The U.S. is going DOWN FAST …
Its only fair men who think they’re women play womens sports: Biden thinks he’s President of the United States and is actually in charge of things.
Regards to these disgusting MEN competing in WOMAN’s sports, it’s nothing more than a cheating, coward MAN who can’t win competing with other MEN. There is no such thing as “transgendering” from one gender to the other (yes you lying, delusional propagandized beyond all sanity IDIOTS, there are only TWO genders). Unless born hermaphrodite, either XX or XY,..lopping off appendages, taking hormones, reconstructive surgery, and adopting female styles such as makeup and apparel cannot change that!
Calling a he a “she” is aiding/abetting either a mentally ill person, or an expletive taking advantage of the lefty proggy traitor’s game plan to destroy normal order, another facet of their plan to usher in their NWO utopia…all the wealth/power/control for them, and totalitarian hell for us.
He has been destroying America. We are almost there!
No joke people, even if he is not voted in again, it is not going to be easy to clean this nation up!
What hasn’t Jackass Joe screwed up? . . . If he touches something, he screws it up!
I think a bio man should never be allowed to compete against bio woman they need to establish a transgender group to participate in. That’s the only fair way to do it. Not steal bio woman’s sports it is just not fair to women to have to complete with bio males. That way they could fairly play against other transgender players. It would put a end to the whole mess.
When did “transgender” become the byword (bi-word?..sorry) of 21st century America? With all the other possible rallying causes, why pick the one that will be the most divisive and fringe? I will never understand this as long as I live. Why give 100% attention and support to 1-2% of the population…it just makes no sense.
Like Barry Obama reportedly said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s [Biden] ability to F _ _ _ things up.” Others have said that everything Biden touches turns to s _ _ t. Democrats and others who support this babbling “you know what” are included in that. Leave the girls alone. If some guy wakes up one morning and wants to be a “queen for the day” that does not make him female or a woman. Stop calling them by their females names. Thomas should not be referred to as her or female or even Lia because he is not female, a girl, a woman . . . he is a male, boy, man and needs to be addressed as such and called William Thomas.
I would think they should allow women into the NFL, NBA and the NHL and see what happens to the quality. No offense against women, but they are not as strong!!!
If the left believes that there are 68 genders, then let each gender compete in its own category.
Any woman who votes democrat is a traitor to her gender.
I’m curious what the international picture on this looks like. What are other nations saying about this issue? Are other nations willing to allow our transgenders to compete against their female teams in the Olympics? I think we should just let boys be boys….
to be a transgender to compete in womens sport I think they should be castrated and hav their penis removed
Since Beijing biden loves sniffing underage girls hair does this mean he’ll start sniffing all the gay boys hair who think they are girls?
Boys, especially gay boys do NOT belong in girls sports. Just as girls do NOT belong in boys sports including gay girls who think they are boys belong in boys sports.
Simple common sense.
That’s why it’s called Boys Sports and Girl Sports.
Each has it’s own unique competition.
If they want to compete in women’s sports, then let them compete against other transgender female athletes and leave the biological females alone!!
Communist equity elevates one by destroying another! I will refer you to the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence and the clause regarding abuses and usurpations.
The LEFT destroys everything it touches. Joe Biden and his Administration are the Left and they are destroying the US of America. Scary!
There is not one topic that Dems have made an issue that has not turned out bad for most of the folks involved.
It’s simple, the marxist democrat party and joebama are intent on DESTROYING everything and everyone Great in America.
Babies, women,seniors,Citizens, veterans,Christians and Freedom ateall enemies of these Godless,immoral, power hungry establishment politicians.
Throw them out!!!
They should be allowed to play women’s sports after it is all cut off and reconstruction complete. (That process will set them back so far they will never play sports again and will no longer be a problem)
First of all, the word “transgender” is a false word. It has no meaning. A person can’t go across genders to the other gender. Just stop using that word ever! Second, parents and their parenting needs to get a grip on reality and raise boys and girls.
This is disgusting! A total disregard for one’s birthright. Next it will be Serial Killer claiming he’s the opposite sex and needs to be released because a man murdered say 29 women and it saying: But I’m a woman. brain dead biden will go for it. Maybe this is all done to make us
Miss the fact they want a communist America?
just one part of the democrats war on women. Forcing them in it the work place and abortions are additional parts of their war on women.
Once again, Biden is doing the exact opposite of being fair and scientific. He is falsely claiming that transgender females can fairly compete with biological females in sports. Since transgender females who transitioned after puberty are actually biologically males, Biden is allowing girls/women sports to be destroyed, all for the sake of satisfying many of the woke fanatics. Biden has absolutely no compassion and empathy for true female athletes, and is obliterating the futures of many biological females in sports. All the people who think that Biden is justified in his illogical and poisonous policies against true female athletes are sad excuses for human advocates of human rights. A very small minority of fringe extremists are pretending to be humanists, when, in fact, they are miscreant monsters.
The only way all of the illegal, outlandish, misrepresented actions being imposed can and will be stopped is if everyone and every affected institution just refuses to abide. If penalties are thrown at the nonconformists, just ignore them, over and over if need be. God’s definition and common sense MUST prevail.
If you have boy parts and no girl parts then you are a male. Never be allowed to be on a girls team. Kyle L.
Well what do you know. Men can do everything better than women. Even being a women!
Honk Honk!
Embrace the clown world.
These trans people are a separate category. They should not be allowed to compete in woman’s sports. This is a disgrace. The medical procedures trans go through do not make them woman! This is wrong and it is a disgrace and all right thinking people should be agains trans competing as woman!
i am making a sign for a tee shirt – “communism and marxism isn’t wanted or welcomed in this country”
It’s a shame we all fought for women’s rights in the seventies and eighties only to be reduced to this now, here just a mere 40-50 years later. It should be a crime. We’ve hardly had time to make our mark on the world. Ridiculous.
he has destroyed the whole country – it’s a disgrace and you have people who still want to vote for him. can you say dums
In my opinion, seeing how .2 and .1 percent of the population can change the rules in their favor (cheating) from the 99.8 and 99.9 percent of the population. It is just a way to negate the human race.
We were created to be male and female with one purpose to procreate and populate the earth as directed by the Creator! Man wants to be in total control (impossible) and with doing away with genders we are becoming non-essential.
We are destroying all of the past positive movements to level the playing fields for women and allowing each to participate fairly. The one thing that needs to be done is the transgenders to organize and compete with each other. With their own org. they would have their special locker rooms and stop the corrupt nonsense of males claiming to identify as female to get into the female locker rooms Quite a tool for abuse by a man with only sex on his mind!
Where is the logic in all of the politics being forced by government? Maybe we need to flood our legislators with an avalanche of letters letting them know that they need to stand on truth and morals.
…and Congress is where?
Biden is surrounded by degenerates who will fight to the death for transgenders but will take others rights away and offend everyone else. Biden is a man without character, common sense or backbone, who will fall for whatever comes along.
If an individual is born with a penis and set of testicles and X and Y chromosomes they are male and will always be male. Nuff said.
These boys male) athletes are nothing more than bullies. When I was growing up any of the big guys picking on the little guys we would all say “pick on somebody your own size” They are BULLIES. period.
Satan’s puppet…