civil rights protection. tucker: you go on to say, this is about the erasure of women and girls.iv what does that mean? the erasure? title ix was enacted in 1972 specifically to remedy centuries of discrimination against women and girls because women and girls had been discriminated against and excluded from theen educational arena for thousands of years, at least hundreds of years. title ix was specifically enacted in order to remedy that. but now, if we defined sex under title ix to mean gender identity, what we are essentially saying is that women and girls can mean anyone who self identifies as women and girls, which renders the category women and girls meaningless as a category. it goes further than that. we see this in language all throughout society. we see this for example, women are no longer allowed to talk about body parts, we re not allowed to talk about pregnant women, we have to talk about pregnant people. we are not allowed to say that women have certain kinds of bod