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Locker Room Wars. Title IX was written to protect women's sports. Now it's being used to destroy them. By BRIAN ALMON (08/28/24)
legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2020/…
Title IX was written to protect women's sports. Now it’s under attack by the Biden administration, with rewritten rules that most certainly DO NOT protect women’s rights. In fact, the Biden rewrite would enable biological males to enter women’s locker rooms and to participate in women’s sports.
Not only is the Title IX rewrite deeply unfair to biological females from a competitive and scholarship / financial standpoint, it’s also tremendously unsafe for them.
The locker room should be a protected area for biological females to dress, undress, and shower.
Biological males are generally faster and stronger than biological females; thus, they can seriously hurt females during physical contact in sports, whether they mean to hurt the females or not. Just recall the vicious Summer 2024 Olympics beatings of biological females by biological males in boxing.
Brian Almon discusses the history of efforts to protect women’s sports, with special focus on Idaho. He explains that Idaho has been at the forefront of efforts to protect women’s sports and outlines the state’s recent efforts:
Passed House Bill 500 in 2020 (legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2020/…).
Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined several multistate lawsuits against the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules, winning a victory when the Supreme Court let stand an injunction against the rewrite.
While biological female swimmer Riley Gaines looked on, Governor Brad Little ordered the Idaho State Board of Education to:
Work with the Idaho State Department of Education to ensure public schools are properly following all of Idaho’s laws related to fairness in women’s sports and continue to update all public schools as the legal challenges to the new Title IX rules unfold; and
Work to guarantee every female student in Idaho be provided equal opportunity in sports and school to the fullest extent as guaranteed to them under the original Title IX rules and Idaho law.
