the concerned mother of the female athlete you just heard and she joins me now along with her attorney chris young a whole come from the alliance defending freedom which is a fantastic organization. why do you feel it s so important for your daughter with all the politics floating around that she compete with only biological females? girls deserve the right to compete on a level playing field, and forcing female athletes to compete against biological males is in fair and it destroys their athletic opportunities. laura: this is not a political issue, right? this is about your daughter working her tail off and i played quite a few sports in high school, some in college, it s a lot of work. boys are built differently and all the studies are showing that
thinking rationally is not his style. rational thinkers don t get anointed as presidential material by cnn in the first place. but milano, c. p.l. it s tough to decide. for decades they have provided athletic opportunities to women and girl on the same footing as boys but now the opportunities for women are shoved aside for the new priority. transgender athletes. biological males who identify as female identify and dominant in many sports. the power lifting for example may have to go to court protect the right of the girls to compete on fair playing field. j.c. cooper biological male was barred from lifting in a minnesota competition and filed discrimination complaint against the organization. a connecticut high school track athlete who failed to qualify for regionals in the 55-meter dash by two spots.
under the lights at the rose bowl, in front of 100,000 people, there is only billie jean king, demanding equal pay for equal work at the u.s. open. and no small achievement when a married woman can t open a credit card in her own name. in 1970s, billie jean king convinces her colleagues to form a players union, a wta, the women s tennis association. she s part of the first tour of tennis tournaments for women players, sponsored by virginia slim cigarettes. sometimes she and the other players would show up and there wouldn t be any tennis balls at the arena. they would have to hand out tickets on the streets, sometimes even stopping cars. billie jean king starts women s sports magazine, and the women s sports foundation, an organization devoted to promoting athletic opportunities for women. billie jean king also sets out to prove that women who play tennis can be just as talented as the men are. meet bobby riggs, a retired tennis pro, former wimbledon champion, he s 55 years old, and he
of three things. make sure the number of female athletes is representative of the number of female students. show a history of increasing athletic opportunities for women. or prove that the school is meeting its female students level of interest in sports. but that last one can be complicated. so let s turn to james rosen to sort it out for us. james? shep, good evening. today the obama administration effectively repealed a 2005 ruling by the bush administration. this ruling allowed colleges to use surveys to indicate that there was a lack of interest in the establishment of a new women s college sports program on their given campus. no evidence exists showing that women were denied opportunities of this kind or over the last five years. but the administration claimed today that repealing this rule will encourage greater compliance with title 9 which, as you say, was enacted almost 40 years ago to equalize women s access to academic and sports programs. in a half hour talk today at