Ignore Any Argument That Asks You To ‘Protect Girls’ Sports’
The way the right uses it, "protect girls' sports" doesn't actually mean protect girls sports. It means "ignore trans athletes' rights."
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column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns
It sounds right: protect girls’ and women’s sports. They are historically underfunded, under-covered and underappreciated, after all. That’s why landmark legislation was passed for that exact purpose — to codify inclusion in federal law — nearly 50 years ago. But as Title IX approaches the half-century mark, some self-proclaimed feminists would have you believe the spaces it created for girls to compete are threatened.