Title IX now has a 50-year anniversary. The landmark 1972 law ensured 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.”
Title IX provided more funds for educational opportunities for women. However, Title IX’s most significant and quantifiable benefits were in the sports world.
Now, we are in the 21st century. Bend It Like Beckham the WNBA, Women’s Volleyball Olympic medalists, and Women’s World Cup champions. Young Zoomers and Millennials will not be able to imagine that women could only play their preferred sport at college, leaving them with no pathway to professional sports. Title IX was the catalyst for greater participation of women in competitive sport.
There were only over 300,000. Girls and women playing high school and college sports in the United States. Female athletes received 2 percent of college athletic budgets, while athletic scholarships for women were virtually nonexistent.
By 2012, the 40th anniversary of Title IX’s passage, the number of girls participating in high school sports nationwide had risen tenfold, to more than 3 million. More than 190,000 women were competing in intercollegiate sports—six times as many as in 1972. By 2016, one in every five girls in the United States played sports, according to the Women’s Sports Foundation. Prior to Title IX’s passage, this number was 1 in 27.
Title IX opened the floodgates for athletically-minded young women to be eligible to apply for federal scholarships and funding in order to play competitive sports. Now, collegiate and professional women’s leagues are in abundance, competing on the world stage without any thought to what occurred before the law was instituted. Title IX was not able to make financial equality possible for certain women athletes.
Title IX’s gains will be lost if the transgender lobby continues to dominate the area with male biological transgendered athletes.
This does not appear to be a concern for the Biden administration. They are more interested in reinventing the law than honoring the law. Title IX is to be utilized by the trans-athletes and LGBT+ alphabet mafia to improve diversity, equity and inclusion.
On Wednesday evening, First Lady Jill Biden joined tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King to celebrate Title IX’s 50th anniversary. This was the event organizersThe handlers made sure every speaker understood all buzzwords. How many times and ways can you say, “equity, diversity, inclusion?”
Billie Jean King was keynote speaker. She was not riveting or cogent. However, she was given a word salad to eat and was asked to regurgitate the words.
King’s deepest thought:
“We can never understand inclusion until we understand exclusion,” King said.
Yes, Sensei.
King gave her speech after dropping more shibboleths. Title IX and the future. Follow the law to its full extent.
Here is where your wallet should be.
“We must increase compliance of the law. The primary beneficiaries of Title IX have been white, suburban girls.”
Ahh… now we get to it. Title IX isn’t being applied properly because too many girls of color take advantage Title IX. The hatred of old, white men is being replaced by “White, suburban girls.”
Uh oh.
The Biden Agenda Ball was then handed to King:
“Let’s use this milestone anniversary to reenergize our focus on strengthening and advancing EquityOpportunities for All Girls and Women ParticularlyThose who are left out of the law. These include girls from diverse backgrounds, girls with disabilities and trans youth. We have to look forward.”
Either King is not very bright (doubtful) or she’s delusional. If this is what she and the Biden administration want for the future of women’s sports, then Title IX is essentially going to be gutted and rendered meaningless.
Lady McBiden and Co. were enjoying their own farts, but a group called Our Bodies, Our Sports kept busy with Title IX celebrations.
Planned for Thursday at 11:00 a.m., Our Bodies, Our Sports will rally on the Capitol steps to keep women’s sports female ONLY, as Title IX intended.
Come celebrate Title IX’s 50th anniversary and join us in supporting single-sex competition.
Sponsors include the Independent Women’s Forum, Women’s Liberation Front, the Heritage Foundation, Women’s Declaration International USA Chapter, Concerned Women for America, ICONS, Save Women’s Sports, Alliance Defending Freedom, Independent Women’s Voice, Family Policy Alliance, and quite the lineup of female athletes. Obviously Our Bodies, Our Sports’ goal is to directly oppose the Biden agenda.
On June 23, female athletes, parents, and advocates will join fourteen organizations from across the political spectrum to rally for “Our Bodies, Our Sports.” June 23rd marks the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, the federal civil rights rights law as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education.
Title IX was adopted in 1972 and has revolutionized sports by giving women equal sporting opportunities. Only one out of 27 girls had ever participated in sport before Title IX. Today, two in five do. However, this is a step backwards for female athletes. This isn’t right, and it isn’t fair. It’s time to take back Title IX.
Some of the athletes who will speak at the Rally have had the indignity of competing against trans athletes, and some are <*Keep the pearls in your clutch*> women of color!
So much for the “white, suburban girls” trope. I’m sure in their speeches these ladies will be more compelling (and honest) than Billie Jean King.
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