Riley Gaines (RealClearPolitics)
you 70% How many American adults support protecting the integrity and fairness of women’s sports by opposing men and women competing against each other, or men and women pitted against each other? If so, you have a chance to stand up with women when America goes to the polls in two months to elect leaders who will create the laws and rules that will ensure that women’s sports remain women’s and women’s.
Let’s be honest, this election is about women’s rights. The attacks on our ability to compete fairly and safely in athletics are the likes of which we haven’t seen since the passage of Title IX in 1972. This law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools and education programs that receive federal funding and has been a major factor in the rapid growth of women’s sports over the past 50 years.
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that Increased participation It matters: In 1970, only 15 percent of college athletes were women; today, 44 percent of college athletes are women. Female participation in high school sports has also skyrocketed over the past 50 years. In the 1971-72 school year, fewer than 300,000 girls participated in sports; by the 2018-19 school year, that number had increased more than tenfold, with nearly 3.5 million girls competing.
The increased participation brought about by legally mandated gender equality is now being threatened by politicians, many of whom seem more committed to ideological goals than biological reality.
Since the Biden-Harris administration took office, federal bureaucrats have been aggressively working to tilt the playing field in their favor. Rewriting Title IX RulesThe bill, introduced on April 19th of this year, takes the position that limiting girls’ sports to women only violates Title IX. This is simply false.
I’ve been fighting this kind of thinking for a long time, at the federal and state levels. We’ve made great progress. Twenty-six states now have laws or regulations in place to protect women’s sports. And at the federal level, Pass a bill Passed the House of Representatives, we forced to vote In the Senate, we can see who is in favor and who is against. (Records show that in the House vote, all of the senators who voted for the Women in Sports Act were Republicans and all of the senators who voted against it were Democrats. Also, in the Senate, all of the sitting Democratic senators voted against putting the Women in Sports Amendment to a floor vote, and all of the senators who co-sponsored the Title IX Congressional Review Act voted against it.) Solution I am a Republican.
We still have a long way to go. Following the election, with a new president and a new Congress, we will again be pushing for legislation at the federal level to protect women’s sports and spaces (e.g. domestic violence shelters, rape victim support centers, women’s prisons, locker rooms, etc.). Therefore, electing the right leaders in November will be crucial to the success of our efforts next year.
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To that end, Independent Women’s Voice Riley Gaines Stands Up With Women Scorecardis a useful tool to draw a clear contrast on this issue: on the one hand, there are MPs and candidates who support fairness, equal opportunity, safety and privacy in women’s sports and spaces, and on the other, there are MPs and candidates who do not.
The Scorecard is as simple as its name suggests: it’s the first resource to score every candidate running for federal office on whether they’re “pro-women,” meaning whether they’re committed to supporting laws that protect women’s opportunities and private space. Riley Gaines Stands Up With Women Scorecardbrought to you by Independent Women’s Voice, will be a vital tool as we work on this important issue.
An election is a choice, a campaign is a contrast. The choices we make in November will guide the policies our governments enact and implement at the federal, state and local levels and, in many ways, shape the contours of the pageants in which our sisters and daughters compete and the safety they feel in women-only spaces.
This new tool, which helps us identify candidates who are as committed to the cause as we are, will make it easier for us to move forward in the fight to maintain gender equality.
We know what women are and what it means to be a woman. And we are committed to standing with women for fairness and equality. We believe our political leaders should know and be committed to these things, too. And now, the Independent Women’s Voice Riley Gaines Stands Up With Women ScorecardThis will help you understand which politicians are worthy of your support and which ones are not.
Riley Gaines is an ambassador for Independent Women’s Voice and host of the Outkick podcast. “Gaines for Girls”.
Distributed with permission From RealClearWire.
