In 1972 the US government passed legislation known as Title IX abolishing discriminatory differential treatment based on sex in federally funded high school and college education.

It opened, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

By 1979 this ruling started to creep and then roar into college sports participation.  By the mid-1980s over 400 men’s sports programs were eliminated, an unintended but direct result in order to achieve compliance.

The “why” is simple.  Women’s sports on campus are money drains.  In fact, most sports programs are.  If you add new money drains you have to reduce existing money drains.

Colleges make a lot of money each fall on men’s football, some do on men’s basketball, a scant few do on men’s baseball, and then they hold on for dear life as the other programs drain the positive cash flow to zero.

Men’s scholarships went to women’s scholarships.  Equality has a price.

Now men are going into women’s sports.  Fifty years after Title IX gender identification has a price.

At its January 19, 2022 meeting, the NCAA Board of Governors updated the transgender student-athlete participation policy governing college sports.

The resulting sport-by-sport approach preserves the opportunity for transgender student-athletes while balancing fairness, inclusion, and safety for all who compete.

How do you balance fairness?  You don’t.  Males that choose to wear a women’s bathing suit swim faster than females.  Fact.  Period.  End of story.

Participation is scant as of now.  But, like the southern border, once you announce an open door people walk/run in.

What isn’t shocking is that women transitioning haven’t attempted to enter male sports.  We all know why.  It’s the opposite sentence of the swimsuit one above.

What is shocking is the relative silence of the feminist community, women’s rights groups, etc.  What it took forever to balance is now being undone.

Why oh why aren’t more biological females coming to rescue themselves from the want to be women?  A few speak out, but fear in today’s society about not being politically correct (some call it woke) outweighs calling a male a male.

Cancel culture is the great equalizer.  It’s stronger than all of the Title IX words combined.

The aforementioned updated participation policy has three phases.  Each phase lowers the bar for participation.

And, unfortunately, this will phase out the real competition and marginalize that which many have rightfully fought so hard to get.

Some people that shouldn’t now get to participate and win.

Others actually don’t want participation ribbons and no longer have a chance at winning.