Chaos Erupts as Trump Administration
Moves to Protect Women’s Sports

The same suspects — mostly liberal Democrats, Progressives, and various other leftists — who were once the loudest champions of Title IX and women’s sports, are now flouting federal law and filing lawsuits to prevent women from successfully competing in those sports. The favored class these days appears to be men who either believe they are women or, as many suspect, are merely pretending to be women.

A high-profile example is that of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), which the U.S. Department of Education announced at the end of April is in violation of Title IX by allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports and use women’s locker rooms and bathrooms. Specifically, the department is referring to the 2022 swimming competition in which a biological male, “Lia,” a.k.a William Thomas, who ranked 462 in men’s swimming, overwhelmingly beat his female competitors in women’s swimming when he decided he was really a girl.

Transgender Pushback Flares Across the Country

As a recent case in Virginia shows, not all sports-related transgender issues arise from men pretending to be women. The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Jaryn Crouson reported on an investigation involving several male students who “expressed discomfort with a female student using the boys’ locker room.” The girl had allegedly used the boys’ locker room several times previously, and had reportedly filmed the boys’ reaction on her cell phone.

But instead of looking into what were valid concerns of the boys, the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) opened a “Title IX investigation into the three boys attending Stone Bridge High School, questioning whether they perpetrated sexual harassment by complaining about the girl’s presence.”

The South May Rise Again in an Educationally Positive Way

Like a few brave flowers blooming among weeds, several southern states have emerged as educational success stories, at least in the subject of reading. It turns out that, surprise, surprise, the difference in a nutshell was implementation of the tried-and-true phonics instruction method in their public schools.

An article by the online financial, economic, and political information source, ZeroHedge, singled out as an example the GEO Prep Mid City Academy, a K-8 public charter school in Baton Rouge, LA, “which is almost entirely filled with disadvantaged black students drawn from a lottery.” The school reportedly received failing grades for performance until it assumed new leadership in 2017, after which it “steadily improved and landed in the top third statewide in reading proficiency last year.”