It was only appropriate that the sport of swimming banned transgender women on this week of the 50th anniversary celebration of Title IX — the landmark legislation that opened the door for female athletes to have the same rights as their male counterparts.
After all, women’s rights is what this issue should have been about from the beginning before it was allowed to be hijacked by the political right and the woke left; before it became a high-profile battle between right-wing politicians such as Gov. Ron DeSantis who pander to their bases and left-wing liberals at the ACLU who tell us to ignore biology and science in the name of unregulated inclusion.
Caught in the middle were those trailblazers who have spent their entire lives fighting the good fight for women’s rights in the athletic arena: women such as tennis legend Martina Navratilova; legendary swimmer and Olympic Hall-of-Famer Donna de Varona, who co-founded the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) in 1974 for the purpose of making sure female athletes were treated fairly and equitably; and iconic former University of Texas women’s athletics director Donna Lopiano, a pioneer in the early days of Title IX.
