Fighting the Title IX Menace

Biden’s new regulations would destroy female-only sports, spaces, and services, betraying the original purpose of Title IX.

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Swimmers compete in the women’s 50-meter freestyle during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Neb., June 19, 2021.

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Last week marked the inaugural National Women’s Sports Week and the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. I attended the “Our Bodies, Our Sports” rally, organized by the Independent Women’s Forum. The event coincided with the Biden administration’s release of new Title IX regulations, which — as National Review’s Jack Wolfsohn has highlighted — paves the way for the legal erasure of women and the end of female athletics as we know it.

Dozens of brave women gathered at Freedom Plaza to celebrate past female achievements and to stand in defiance of present threats. “I heard someone say the other day that we must not only be the role models for this generation but the heroes of the generations to come,” said Madisan DeBos, a cross-country and track athlete at Southern Utah State University whose team lost to one with a male athlete.

Madeleine Kearns

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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