Who Is Adaleia Cross?

My VIP for this week is a young woman named Adaleia Cross who loves sports and was excited to become a member of the track and field team at her middle school. However, she lost her enthusiasm because a biological male who thinks that he is female was allowed to join the girls’ team and is outperforming her.

Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal reported that Adaleia’s parents met with the leadership at her Bridgeport, West Virginia, middle school about their concerns of a biological male competing alongside their daughter in athletics. Their visit did no good because “Nothing changed,” according to Adaleia’s father.

Adaleia is not only losing opportunities to compete, but she has experienced sexual harassment with this biological male saying things like, “You have more testosterone than I do, and I’m still beating you.” This is “incredibly insulting,” according to Adaleia’s mother. The male pretending that he is female also taunted Adaleia, saying, “You just need to work harder. I work harder than you. That’s why I’m beating you,” the mother recalled.

Adaleia is not the only young woman who has lost opportunities to compete. She joins “an ever-growing group of young women who have lost out on sports opportunities because of boys and men entering girls and women’s sports.” They have also been “subjected to having to share locker rooms with males and have even faced harassment from males who identify as females.

The females of across America will continue to face similar risks because the Biden administration change a rule in Title IX that is scheduled to take effect on August 1. Allen reported the following:

The Biden administration has rewritten the definition of sex in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to include gender identity and sexual orientation. The change swings the door wide open for males to enter female-only spaces and compete in girls and women’s sports.

A number of lawsuits have been filed since the Biden administration officially announced the new rule, including one by the conservative legal nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom.

Alliance Defending Freedom is working to block the Title IX rule change on behalf of women and girls such as Adaleia Cross, and ADF attorney Rachel Rouleau says she is “very hopeful that this rule will be stayed and won’t go into effect on [Aug. 1], at least while the litigation in these cases goes on.”

My mother had the opportunity to participate in high school sports. Sometime between when my mother was in high school and when I went to high school (37 years), rules had changed, and my generation of girls did not have the opportunity to play school sports.

I am grateful that Title IX came along because my daughters had the opportunity to play for their schools. One of my daughters went on to play college soccer. Now, my granddaughters may lose the opportunity to compete because some biological males are mentally ill and think that they are females.