Women faced unchecked discrimination in U.S. schools—until Title IX

in school sports nationwide. Schools funneled women away from elite professions like medicine and law.

“We maintain that this country no longer can afford to waste the resources of its women citizens,” wrote a representative of the newly formed National Organization of Women in a 1966 letter to Johnson. It was just one of aKnown as the"godmother of Title IX," Bernice Sandler fought tirelessly for equal rights for women in education.

Persuaded by the testimonies put forth during the hearings, Representative Patsy Mink of Hawaii joined Green in drafting legislation that would prohibit sex discrimination in education. Their bill was introduced in the Senate by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh and passed as Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.But the law met with fierce public resistance, even after its passage.

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Stiff resistance from democrats

huh. Well even in 1975 I played HS basket ball with an unpaid coach, no transportation and had to buy and SEW my own uniform and practice at 7:00PM because PEE WEE boys teams had priority for the high school gym. Girls basketball was not sanctioned or funded until 1976

and now a complete 180 as biological MEN are poised to dominate Womens sports.. What Progress

And yet in 2022, Biden's America is brazenly reversing female sporting progress by allowing men to medicate themselves and 'identify' into our sex class taking our medals and records and disrespecting us all IvyCheats PennCheats SexNotGender SaveWomensSports

laws unfortunately do not change attitudes...

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When finally in 2021, it was fatally undermined by recategorising any male who said so as female, turning female sports into an open category and erasing all the gains women had hitherto made in sport. See also: women's prisons and rape crisis centres.

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