Posted on 03/14/2019 6:55:08 AM PDT by rdl6989
NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh, who championed the federal law banning discrimination against women in college admissions and sports, has died. He was 91.
Bayh died early Thursday surrounded by his family at his home in Easton, Maryland, according to a statement released by his family. His son, Evan, followed him into politics and became Indiana’s governor and also a senator.
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Too bad he did not make it long enough to see how Title IX has been used by trannies to edge out all born females from womens sports.
Another few years would have done it.
Brilliant!
Defeated in 1980 by Dan Quayle
Good ‘un.
And his son was defeated in 2016 by Todd Young
“Another few years would have done it.”
Don’t you love the law of unintended consequences? I am actually rooting for the trannies here. The rainbow coalition is loosely held together only by hatred of straight white males. It takes very little to set them against each other. This is our ace in the hole.
>>I am actually rooting for the trannies here<<
Same here. Other than a handful of events, women sports are not worth watching anyway.
I always thought his dad’s name was the only reason the son was elected.
The only female sport I have found interesting was figure skating...do I have to hand in my man-card for that?
It definitely makes for a “pass the popcorn” moment.
You might consider the 100m hurdles. Michelle Jenneke Women’s 100m Hurdles sexy dance Barcelona 2012
Yet women's soccer players are suing the organization for "equal pay," when they only bring in a small fraction of revenues.
Despite all of our societal devolution, hardly anyone wants to watch a bunch of girls play soccer.
In fairness, some good girl athletes will unfairly lose out. But we are in a situation where it is going to get worse before it gets better. I hope they can make do some other way.
I was in my early teens and stupid at the time, but I remember being excited when he entered the presidential primaries.
Title IX did a lot for female college athletes when it was first introduced. Too bad it was taken to such pathetic and unrelated extremes.
Of course, another form of extremism is currently ruining women’s sports at all levels, so in a way we have come full circle.
Every college ought to have a female beach volleyball team if they wanted to make a profit
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