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If there is one thing learn to play sportsit is persistence. Discipline yourself to keep trying, keep practicing, keep competing. You win, many times, because you kept going a little longer, kept pushing yourself a little harder than the other people on the field or track with you.
I am learning that it is the same with the law. You get good laws passed – and bad ones removed – mostly by staying there. You present the truth to enough people, present your case to enough judges and to enough people, and there’s a pretty good chance that justice will prevail, either in the courtroom or in the court of public opinion.
As women who try to keep men out of our private spaces and our sports, many of my fellow athletes and I know that our days of fighting for sanity are far from over…but we are thankful for some big wins that we’ve won just this month at in court, in Congress and, now, in the White House, with the President Donald TrumpThe new executive order upholds the biological reality that men and women are different and protects intimate spaces for women and girls.
President Donald Trump holds up the executive order he signed during the inaugural parade in Washington, DC, Monday, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
One of those major court victories came in Kentucky, where a federal district court — ruling in the case of State of Tennessee v. Cardona — finally stopped the Biden administration’s attempt to rewrite Title IX. (Title IX was created in the early 1970s to prevent “sex” discrimination in public schools.)
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Biden’s rule insisted that “gender” must include gender identity — so schools that received state money had to let male athletes into women’s locker rooms, restrooms, showers and even their bedrooms on overnight team field trips.
It’s not safe, it takes away our privacy and it doesn’t make sense. A Kentucky judge saw it all and ruled accordingly, repeal of Biden’s Title IX rule across the country. It was a great victory, and women across the country are celebrating. With that rule gone, now states and the federal government have the green light to implement good policies to protect women.
More than most, I had good reason to celebrate that court decision. Tennessee vs. Cardona was my case. After years of successfully competing on the high school track team, running the 4 x 100 relay, pole vaulting, and throwing the shot put and discus, I watched it all disappear in the eighth grade. Suddenly, a boy who was one grade behind me identified as a girl, joined my team, started entering all my competitions, and eventually grew into an athletic powerhouse.
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In just three years, he displaced almost 300 of them in the competition, beating us more than 700 times. That’s not all. Between practices and events, he was in our locker rooms and next to us on the field, watching us change and making rude, sometimes threatening, sexual comments to me.
Sports stopped being fun – and stopped being fair. We knew we were going out on the track only to lose. But whenever we talked to our administrators, nothing changed.
Tired of feeling vulnerable, embarrassed, frustrated and afraid, I decided that I had to stand up for myself and for other girls.
With the help of my attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom, I joined the other plaintiffs in Tennessee v. Cardona – and was thrilled when the judge ruled in favor of women’s privacy and safety. It seems that finally someone understood what girls like me were up against.
And finally, it seems some people in Washington, DC, might understand, too.
On January 14, the House of Representatives of the US Congress passed Law on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sportswhich basically says that allowing men to compete on women’s teams violates the original intent of Title IX. Now that bill has been sent to the Senate.
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Recently, President Trump – on his first day in office – signed an executive order affirming the definition of gender as male and female, a major step in protecting women’s sports.
That’s all in addition to the 25 states that have enacted laws protecting women’s sports and two lawsuits — one in West Virginia and the other in Idaho — they asked US Supreme Court to decide the women’s sports question forever.
After four years, we hardly managed to get anyone to listen to us, as if the dam was finally bursting. Common sense is returning and I am grateful that Trump’s recent order recognizes the inherent differences between men and women.
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But that’s what comes from persistence. And it gives me great hope that – there is still a lot of work to be done restore women’s sports and women’s private space for women – we are no longer alone. We have many great players joining our team.
And we are on the right track.
