It is truly astounding how “gender-equity advocates” keep coming up with new ways to distort Title IX. Inside Higher Ed reports today that the lobby’s latest crusade is ending the common practice of letting women’s basketball teams train against male athletes. Teams do this for several reasons, most importantly “in the belief that going up against bigger, stronger, faster men will sharpen the female players’ skills and toughen them up for games against their peers.” That shouldn’t be surprising the anyone. Athletes and coaches are always on the lookout for ways to challenge themselves in practice and improve their skills. Now the NCAA’s Committee on Women’s Athletics wants to end the fun, alleging that it “undermines the spirit of Title IX and gender equity.” Meanwhile, coaches and players are in a state of disbelief:

In their responses to the panel’s call for banning male participation in women’s practices, many female athletes and coaches seem mystified that the committee appears reluctant to accept that physical differences remain between men and women. “Men are so much more athletic than females,” Renee Montgomery, a junior guard at the University of Connecticut, told the New Haven Register. “When you are playing against guys who can do what you can do and better every day, it is going to make you better.”