Women’s Sports Should Be Women’s Sports
Excerpt: Enacted in 1972, Title IX was designed to ensure that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” For sports, this meant that women were to receive equal opportunities to men. (Overeager implementation of the provision has, regrettably, caused many universities to scuttle men’s sports teams.) Between 1972 and 2011, female participation in high-school athletics increased from around 250,000 to 3.25 million students, with similar increases at the collegiate level. Transgender sports policies threaten women’s participation in sports. The CIAC’s transgender policy allows an individual to compete against the opposite sex so long as his proclaimed gender identity is the same as how he presents at school. [Does that mean that if I dress in a basketball uniform every day for school, wear sneakers with built-in platform soles, and “self-identify” as being 6' 11" tall, they have to allow me on the basketball team even though they can see I’m more than a foot shorter than I claim and can’t shoot for beans? Back in the original Greek Olympics, all the sports were done in the nude. That might help sort this out–as in “Hey, if you’ve got one of those, you have to play over there!” It would definitely sell a lot more tickets, too. I added emphasis. Ron P.]
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