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Katelyn Burns at Burns Notice:

It was never about fairness in women's sports, it was about worming sex discrimination into federal law. And you all fell for it. A new report from the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative policy thinktank in the US, signaled a full frontal attack on the legal legitimacy of Title IX as a whole. The author was Scott Yenor, a man of despicable ideological pedigree, and his new paper argues that Title IX "has evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into a powerful engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates."

The piece launders transphobic talking points into an argument for taking "an approach that accommodates the partly natural, partly cultural differences between the sexes" to federal protections against sex discrimination, particularly in Title IX.

The piece begins with a transphobic lie and an error, incorrectly stating that in 2024, a "Tunisian man" defeated a Chinese woman for a gold medal in Olympic boxing. Except the gold medalist that year is neither a man nor is she Tunisian. She's from Algeria. The international transphobic press ran wild with rumor and speculation of Imane Khelif's sex based on nothing but an alleged report by one of the most corrupt entities on the planet (Russian sports officials). Khalif was identified as female by a doctor at her birth, and raised as a woman. It wasn't until she started defeating white women at boxing that white sports officials began meddling in her private business. Regardless, the fact that the paper starts with such a laughable factual error does not promote confidence in the rest of the report. [...]

Yenor argues that Title IX should be reworked to remove the equality measures in place for the sports side of the law which requires schools pass a three pronged compliance test as described by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS): [...]

Yenor points out correctly that only varsity level sports are considered for Title IX compliance purposes. He obfuscates why this is: these are the highest cost sports, and those that likely reward women with athletic scholarships. It's a way for athletic women to further their lives, educations, and future careers through athletic excellence.

Yenor argues that we should dispose of the varsity requirement and instead let schools count cheerleading, fitness and yoga classes, and intramural sports as part of their Title IX compliance.

[...] All of this is glossed over by Yenor who argued instead that Title IX should allow a broader classification of women's physical activities to be counted under Title IX to account for "natural and cultural difference between the sexes."

This would be a huge mistake for women athletes. I can easily envision Yenor's proposal being implemented and then sudden cuts to women's varsity sports come across the board. "Sorry lady, you can't play varsity soccer anymore, but can I interest you in a yoga class?" Let's remember also that none of these attacks on Title IX happen in a legal vacuum. What affects sports also effects the law more generally. We have seen this with the trans athlete cases, and we would see it again in Yenor's hypothetical world.

The Heritage Foundation’s Scott Yenor released a report full of sexist and transphobic tropes attacking women’s sports by making broadside swipes against Title IX.

The attacks against Title IX are a bigger threat to women’s sports than a single trans female competing in sports, despite what Riley Gaines, Heritage, IWF, and other anti-trans dolts claim otherwise.

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Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:

Two religious parents filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly “socially transitioning” their child with a masculine name and pronouns without notifying them. The parents, identified in court documents only as John and Jane Doe, are being represented by America First Legal (AFL), an anti-LGBTQ+ conservative legal organization. The parents want school officials to start misgendering their child and for the judge to declare the school district’s trans-inclusive name and pronoun policies as illegal. The school district has declined to comment on the case. The lawsuit, filed in Maryland’s U.S. District Court, says the school began referring to the child with a masculine name and pronouns at the beginning of the school year at the student’s request. The parents only became aware of this last December 10 when the school emailed the parents about a lab experiment happening in class the next day. The email used a male name to refer to their child, The Baltimore Banner reported.

The staff member who sent the email reportedly tried to unsend it and then sent the parents a message saying that the email wasn’t intended to go to them, the lawsuit said. The following day, the parents allegedly spoke to the staff member who “admitted to lying in the emails” and informed the parents that their child had requested the masculine name and pronouns, the lawsuit adds.

The parents reportedly told the school to start using their child’s legal name, but school official refused. The principal allegedly told the parents that school staff are trained to refer to students by their “preferred names and pronouns in the school setting,” the lawsuit claims. The district’s policy says students have “the right to be addressed by a name and pronoun that correspond to the student’s gender identity.” The parents say that their religious beliefs dictate that “God creates each person as male or female, that sex is based on biology rather than internal self-perception, and that sex cannot be altered.”

Kyle Mantyla at RWW:

As Trump's approval rating plummets and his former voters turn against him, Vaughn is lashing out at those who refuse to blindly support Trump as the midterm elections approach.  That was the subject of the monologue that Vaughn delivered during his livestream on Tuesday night, in which he literally declared that Trump voters who "think for themselves" are being "selfish." "Get behind your quarterback and shut your mouth about what you don't agree with," Vaughn demanded. "Do you agree the ball has been moved in the right direction? Then be a team player. Help us keep moving the ball and the only way you can help move the ball is if you support the man that's moving it: the quarterback."

MAGA cultist hack Shane Vaughn says that those who aren’t 100% behind Donald Trump are “selfish enough to think for themselves.”

Raquel Coronell Uribe, Kyle Stewart, and Frank Thorp V at NBC News:

The measure, known as the Sunshine Protection Act, passed 308-117. It would put the country on the time currently observed from March to November unless a state exempted itself before the act took effect. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., who presided over the vote on the House floor, started playing the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” on his phone as he read the final tally. President Donald Trump has publicly pushed Congress to pass the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla. He wrote May 21 on Truth Social that he was “going to work very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law.”

“It’s time that people can stop worrying about the ‘Clock,’ not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production. It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it!” Trump wrote. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. Though the House overwhelmingly passed the bill, the Senate is not expected to quickly take it up and pass it as well. A Senate version of the Sunshine Protection Act stalled last year after Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., objected to fast-tracking the bill’s passage via unanimous consent in October.

Cotton said the change to permanent daylight saving time could lead to overlooked negative consequences, pointing to parts of the country where the sun wouldn’t rise until 9 a.m. or later and citing potentially dangerous, dark morning commutes and workers who would need to work early mornings without sun. A senior Hill aide said Tuesday that Cotton has the “same concerns” he’s had about the proposal, and that several senators on both sides of the aisle have opposed the Senate version of the Sunshine Protection Act in committee. The aide said Cotton will ask Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., not to bring up the legislation for a vote.

The US House passed the Sunshine Protection Act that would put the US on permanent DST 308-117. The bill heads to the Senate next, and if it passes there, Donald Trump's desk.

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