Will This Lawsuit Bring Back Title IX Protections?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns biological males playing on female sports teams. Female athletes are fighting back to an evil plan to put biological males and their sports teams. Brandon Poulter reported on the battle in The Daily Signal. 

A group of female athletes sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday over the organization allowing “transgender” athletes to compete against them and use locker rooms for women.

The lawsuit, filed by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) on behalf of more than a dozen female athletes, alleges that the NCAA violated Title IX, a federal statute that guarantees equal opportunity for men and women in college sports. It seeks to prohibit biological males from competing against female athletes and demands the NCAA revoke awards given to “transgender” athletes who competed against women in tournaments governed by the organization.

“We’re not just fighting for ourselves; we’re fighting for every young girl who dreams of competing in sports,” Riley Gaines, a conservative female activist and former NCA athlete, said in an ICONS news release announcing the lawsuit.

“I’m thankful for ICONS’ commitment to our cause, especially their financial commitment, allowing us to take this to court. I urge anyone who cares about protecting women’s sports to help get behind us,” Gaines said.

The lawsuit highlights an event hosted by the NCAA and Georgia Tech University with Lia Thomas, the “transgender” person who competed in the 2022 NCAA swimming championships. It also states that the decision to let Thomas compete against women is based on an “illegal premise” that “testosterone suppression and personal choice alone can make a male eligible to compete on a women’s sports team.”

The lawsuit also says the NCAA’s rules allow “men to compete on women’s teams with a testosterone level that is five times higher than the highest recorded testosterone level for elite female athletes.”

There is a rumor going around that the NCAA stripped Lia Thomas of her titles and gave them to Riley Gaines. This site claims that the rumor was started by a “satire” article. However, Poulter’s article stated, “The international governing organizations for cricket, track and field, and swimming barred biological males from competing in women’s events in 2023.” Therefore, there is hope that sports officials in the United States could realize that their “woke” decisions are not fair. Maybe the lawsuit by the female athletes will start the waking up.