In the world of college sports, it is impossible to provide equal opportunities for both sexes without single-sex teams. By allowing biological males on women’s teams the NCAA is denying women roster spots, playing time, and opportunities to compete.
This is sex discrimination.
Tell the NCAA Board of Governors to follow the lead of the NAIA and protect women’s collegiate sports and establish a new policy keeping women’s sports female.
*IMP: Personalize the email before you click send — add your sport and school, include personal stories, and concerns about safety and privacy.
A dangerous, unconstitutional, and anti-woman ballot initiative called “Proposal One” will be on New York ballots this November.
If enshrined into New York’s Constitution, Prop 1 would:
force spaces and opportunities, including sports, prisons, locker rooms, and domestic abuse shelters, meant for women to include men;
harm the safety and security of our communities;
dissolve parents’ rights by allowing minors to “transition” through life-altering drugs and surgeries without parental involvement;
endanger senior rights, threatening senior housing, communities, discounts, and more.
Real-life stories about women’s sports, prisons, and sororities have shown the harms of allowing men to gain access to women’s spaces and opportunities. Stories of those who have detransitioned reveal the irreversible damage “gender transitioning” has had on their bodies.
New Yorkers must:
Say yes to protecting our children;
Say yes to parents’ rights;
Say yes to saving women’s sports;
Say yes to fighting for women’s rights, spaces, and opportunities;
Say yes to keeping our neighborhoods safe and secure;
Say yes to preserving senior rights …
By saying NO to Prop 1 in New York! Prop 1 is bad for our daughters, girls, females athletes, neighborhoods, and seniors across New York.
Raise awareness of the harms of New York’s Prop 1 by downloading these shareable graphics (available HERE). Spread the word and share with your social networks through op-eds, letters to the editors, emails, social media posts, and personal conversations.
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The Biden administration, despite claiming otherwise, is using Title IX to require schools to allow males who identify as women to compete on women’s sports teams and to receive athletic awards for females.
Released on April 19, 2024, the Title IX Omnibus Rule codifies the Biden administration’s unlawful dissolution of women’s sports by demanding that spaces for female athletes, like locker rooms, be assigned based on gender identity. The Biden administration’s unlawful Title IX regulation unilaterally rewrites the landmark sex equality law and undermines women’s rights, free speech, and due process.
Not only is this unfair to female athletes, it is an inversion of the very purpose of Title IX, which was to protect educational opportunities, including athletic ones, for female students by protecting them from discrimination. This new Omnibus Rule, which governs all aspects of the educational experience and will go into effect on August 1, turns Title IX on its head through extra-statutory regulations that require schools to allow males to self-identify into women’s spaces, opportunities, and athletics.
What the Rule Does:
Male Invasion of Women’s Spaces
Denial of Due Process
Violation of Parental Rights
Infringement on Freedom of Speech
Mandating Harmful Medical Practices
As Riley Gaines, former 12-time All-American swimmer at the University of Kentucky and Independent Women’s Forum ambassador said: “With its new Title IX rewrite, the Biden administration is unilaterally erasing fifty years of equal opportunity law for women. The president and his administration can’t act like they care about women or our opportunities and then go and wipe out women’s protections under the country’s landmark sex equality law.”
The CRA has passed the House, and we must now put pressure on the Senate. It’s time to TAKE BACK TITLE IX. Feel free to personalize the message and share how women’s sports and spaces have benefited you
It’s time to fight back. Send a message directly to your legislators urging them to overturn this harmful Title IX rewrite through the use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions, introduced by Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS).
For more information on the effects of the New Title IX Regs, check out these resources:
Words like ‘female,’ ‘male,’ ‘man,’ and ‘woman’ are used thousands of times in state and federal law. Politicians are redefining these words and separating them from biology and their true meaning. We need to define terms like ‘woman’ in order to prevent sex discrimination and preserve women’s rights, safety, and opportunities.
71% of Americans want assurance that men won’t gain unfettered access to women’s spaces and athletic and academic opportunities. We need to have language to provide this protection.
When these sex-based words don’t have uniform, biological definitions, women pay the price.
Urge your Members of Congress to commit to legislation that upholds laws that preserve female opportunities and private spaces. Show that you support leaders who are pro-woman, pro-science, and will fight for policies that prevent sex discrimination and preserve women’s rights, safety, and opportunities!
For more information on the full Hope Agenda, click HERE.
Female runners, mountain bikers and other Wisconsin athletes have been edged out by males competing in women’s leagues. Women deserve their own competitions, teams, and athletic spaces. Title IX guarantees it. But the Department of Education is today advancing a twisted interpretation of this landmark civil rights law that prioritizes the rights of males over females.
Paula Scanlan, IWV spokesperson and NCAA athlete, was forced to share a locker room and compete on the same team as Lia Thomas, the biological male who was allowed to join the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team.
On October 4, 2023, Paula implored the Wisconsin General Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities to “support efforts to keep women’s sports female, particularly at the college level, where the stakes are highest and risks are greatest.”
“If the federal government won’t enforce Title IX,” Paula said, “hopefully this state will.”
Assembly Bill 378 would protect women’s collegiate sports, but Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says he will veto it, allowing continued discrimination against female athletes.
Sign the petition and tell the Governor to put down his veto pen!
I join an army of women in Wisconsin who are fed up with men invading women’s spaces and opportunities.
If the federal government won’t enforce Title IX and provide equal opportunity for female athletes, then Wisconsin must.
Governor Evers, we implore you to set aside the veto pen and stand up for the women and girls of Wisconsin. We urge you to demonstrate your commitment to their rights and future by signing Assembly Bill 378 into law. Wisconsin women and girls deserve nothing less than the full protection of their opportunities and spaces.
IWF broke the story of Coach Kim – Oberlin College’s long-time women’s lacrosse coach – who was harassed by Oberlin college administrators for expressing her opinion that males should not be allowed to compete in competitions meant for women.
Tell Oberlin College to stop silencing women!
Oberlin has taken Kim’s position away from her and siphoned her into another position where she won’t have contact with students and will essentially be left on the sidelines. This is not okay.
Colleges shouldn’t punish employees or students for “wrongthink.” They shouldn’t punish women for standing up for women’s rights.
Stand with Coach Kim! Tell Oberlin they shouldn’t punish women for speaking out in defense of women’s rights.
