Staff Reports
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a powerful blow to the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to rewrite Title IX, somehow managing to keep the integrity of women’s sports intact, at least for the time being. In a decision that came down on August 16, 2024, the justices voted 5-4 against the administration’s plans for Title IX, which now officially requires a mental gymnastics routine to understand. It seems Justice Neil Gorsuch has decided that gender identity wasn’t part of the original edition of Title IX, surprising many who thought he was just another member of the liberal club.
For those who’ve had their heads buried in the sand, Title IX, established as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, forbids discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded educational program. Initially championed for ensuring equality in college sports, it has since become a playground for progressive lawyers pushing every imaginable agenda, including a rather bizarre attempt by the Biden administration to add gender identity and sexual orientation to the mix.
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The administration rolled out their grand plans in April, eager to expand Title IX’s reach to cover – get this – lactation spaces for postpartum students while aiming for a “protective” net around LGBTQ+ individuals. It’s almost as if they think the original purpose of Title IX was to tackle everything except the real issues in education today — like, say, actual educational performance. No one seems to be too clear on what being “protected” from discrimination really entails in a practical sense, but the courts have thankfully stepped in to hit the brakes on this runaway train.
Despite the best efforts of the administration, which included seeking intervention from the Supreme Court to plow through legal blocks set by federal judges across ten states—including Idaho and Kentucky—the justices thought better than to leap onto the administration’s bandwagon. According to the high court, the government’s case lacked the necessary sparkle to disrupt the lower courts’ conclusions on this rather tangled mess of legal challenges.
Now we see what happens when higher education gets a heavy dose of ideology: the dangerous mixing of sports, gender identity, and some headlines-grabbing initiatives that have had citizens scratching their heads in disbelief. A silver lining of this ruling is that it allows conservative voices to cheer that women’s hard-fought rights and competitive sports haven’t been tossed into the progressive blender just yet. Clearly, losing the interpretation of Title IX to this administration—where “women” could very well be anyone at this point—would be a calamity for anyone who has a clue about what fair play really means.
As the dust settles, those ten states that remain immune to this radical reinterpretation can celebrate this legal win, reaffirming that protecting women’s rights as a distinct group is not an outdated notion. It’s more important than ever in the era where reality seems to play second fiddle to ideology. The fallout of this ruling could indeed ripple through the education system, and perhaps serve as a warning shot that the American people are still holding the line when it comes to common sense and fairness in women’s sports.
