This Isn’t Inclusion; It’s Institutional Harassment Against Female Athletes
Originally published by Townhall
As regional and state track and field meets unfold across the country this month, high school girls in several states are being forced to choose between two terrible options: Compete against biological males and risk losing spots on the podium, college scholarships and state titles, or boycott their events entirely and forfeit dreams they’ve spent years training to achieve.
No student should be put in this position.
Yet this is what female athletes face under policies that permit male athletes who identify as female to compete in girls’ events. In doing so, schools and state athletic associations have hardwired unfairness into the system. The result is a loss of competitive opportunity for girls and creation of sex-based hostile environments that violate Title IX.
As the Supreme Court made clear in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, Title IX prohibits schools from remaining “deliberately indifferent” to harassment that denies the victim equal access to educational opportunities. The presence of males in girls’ events is not a neutral fact — it is a policy-backed intrusion that alters the entire dynamic of competition, displaces female athletes, and imposes a psychological burden that no teenager should have to shoulder.
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