Womens Sports activist Rylee Gaines addresses a meeting of the Our Bodies Our Sports organization/OBOS website
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a late Friday afternoon ruling the United States Supreme Court has blocked changes to the federal Title IX education law redrafted by the Biden/Harris Administration that allowed men claiming to be women to participate in women’s sports, with access to their restrooms and locker rooms, in all public schools receiving federal funding.
Biden’s revised ruling went into effect August 1st for 24 states. The remaining 26 state governments, including Kansas, passed laws protecting women’s sports and private facilities from male incursion.
The Biden/Harris Administration’s Title IX changes expanded the definition of “sex” to include ”sexual orientation and gender identity.” The original law was passed in 1972 and prohibited discrimination against students based on sex in schools receiving federal funding, and was broadly credited with a massive expansion of women’s sports at the high school and collegiate level.
It took Kansas legislators three attempts to override Governor Laura Kelly’s vetoes of bills aimed at banning men from women’s high school and collegiate sports and facilities in Kansas. The law went into effect July 1, 2023.
Representative Marvin Robinson, a Democrat from Kansas City, was the deciding vote in the Kansas ban. Robinson was defeated by Wanda Brownlee Paige in the primary vote in District 35 in the August primary.
Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels "The Skinning Tree" and "A Whisper For Help." As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association's Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
