This was always the goal.
Trying to roll back all the advancements of the 20th Century.
Aleksandra Vaca
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1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women’s sports counts, that is.
2. The report, authored by Heritage Foundation senior research fellow and Boise State University professor Scott Yenor, takes aim at Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in schools receiving federal funds and was directly responsible for the creation of women’s sports programs in K-12 schools.
3. And Yenor introduces the topic in a familiar way: transphobia. He opens with a nod to the right-wing conspiracy theories surrounding Imane Khelif, writing that “in 2024, a Tunisian man defeated a Chinese woman for the Olympic women’s boxing gold medal.”
(It must be noted that Khelif is Algerian)
4. However, Yenor is merely using trans athletes—which right-wing groups have employed to get many Americans comfortable with discriminatory policies—as a springboard for his true target: women’s sports, and more specifically, “the deeper feminist settlement that has governed athletics for decades.”
5. His argument is simple: Title IX has created “a prejudice in favor of a male-normed competitive model for women’s sports and a prejudice against men’s programs,” and these “rest on the false premise that differences in competitiveness and interest between the sexes are stereotypes.”
6. As he clarifies, he believes that women, when compared to men, are naturally less ‘aggressive, assertive, and dominant’ and less interested in sports, and therefore, giving men more sporting opportunities isn’t discriminatory. Rather, in his view, the discrimination lies in giving women equality.
7. Apparently, this is because Title IX’s mandate for equality in competitive opportunity meant “colleges learned that the safest (and often cheapest) path to compliance was cutting men’s non-revenue programs rather than adding women’s teams or controlling costs in football and men’s basketball.
8. Here, he’s reversing the rhetoric that the GOP has employed when banning trans athletes. There, they argue that trans women should get fewer opportunities because they are more competitive and aggressive and that every trans woman who wants to compete takes an opportunity away from a cis woman.
9. But now, it’s cis women who should get fewer opportunities for being less competitive and aggressive and that every cis woman who wants to compete is unfairly taking an opportunity away from a man. To solve this, Yenor proposes that Title IX should instead ‘accommodate nature.’
