another way in which gender ideology destroys women s and girls by dissolving legal protections for women in athletics. until recently, female student athletes might have felt they were protected by title ix. it s simple. prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in programs run by schools that accept federal money and that s basically all of them. those programs include sports. title ix recognizes that providing equal opportunity for the sexes can mean recognizing inherent differences between the sexes. that s why the title ix statute explicitly allows schools to provide different living arrangements for the sexes. so too in sports. in introducing title ix senator bye explained it would not require sticking women on men s football teams and why congress explicitly asked that the
began participating as a member of the penn women s team. leah, formerly will had personal best times that were faster than the women s world records. once the season began thomas was leading the country in multiple events while only placing in the top 500 in those events on the men s team. thomas later became an this, yaa champion. the first ncaa champion in our women s history program. while many of you already know this. what you don t know is the experiences of the women on the university of pennsylvania swim team. my teammates and i were forced to undress in the presence of lia, a six foot four biological male with male again tailian 18 times per week. some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls and others used the family bathroom to avoid this. when we tried to voice our