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This week, the WNBA revealed three new teams will be coming to the league - The investment strategy for WNBA owners is to build equity for future value gains - These teams won't make money for a while, and ownership is fine with that.

Each year at this time, the staff of the Martin Center share our higher-ed-reform dreams for the coming 12 months. Will all of our wishes come true? Probably not. Nevertheless, we offer them here in a spirit of optimism, for the reader’s enjoyment and edification. Keep Title IX Out of College-Sports Revenue SharingLast year, the Boston College Law Review (BCLR) published an article on the “equity implications” of paying college athletes, a topic made pressing by Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s NCAA v. Alston concurrence and the related settlement of House v. NCAA. As a review, Kavanaugh joined in full the Court’s...

High school students across New York plan to participate in a walkout later this month to protest transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports. The statewide demonstration, set for Oct. 24, is being organized by The Coalition to Protect Kids, a group that has strong backing from the Catholic Church and the New York Republican and Conservative parties. “It’s not right for boys to compete against girls in sports. It’s a huge disadvantage for girls,” said Hannah Pompeo, a 16-year soccer player at Eden High School near Buffalo, who is participating in the “Walk Off for Fairness Day.” Millie McCormack, a...

Five West Virginia middle school students who protested a trans athlete's participation in a shot put competition have been banned from future competitions. Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, competed in the Harris County Middle School Track and Field Championship on April 18, two days after a federal appeals court ruled West Virginia’s transgender sports ban violates the teen's right under Title IX. Five girls from Lincoln Middle School stepped up to the circle for their turn, then refused to throw the ball. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has filed a lawsuit against the Harrison County Board of Education on the student's...

This is the shocking moment five transgender players hijack a women's college volleyball game in Canada. Footage showed the five athletes 'dominate' a women's volleyball match between Seneca College and Centennial College in Toronto on on January 24. The biologically male athletes were seen smashing the ball past their female teammates. The controversial players each stayed on the court for the entire game - while the biologically female players were substituted on and off the bench. This is the shocking moment five transgender players hijack a women's college volleyball game in Canada. Footage showed the five athletes 'dominate' a women's...

A female boxer withdraw from a Canadian tournament citing safety fears after being told hours before the fight that her opponent is transgender. Dr. Katia Bissonette had been due to face off with Mya Walmsley at the 2023 Provincial Golden Glove Championship in Victoriaville, Quebec. The pair were matched up in the event, which intends to give novices a chance to qualify for December’s Canadian Championship, last month but Bissonette says she learned at an hour’s notice that Walmsley is transgender. She subsequently withdrew from the fight at the last minute. Walmsley reportedly arrived for the fight to discover her...

Allowing boys to play in girls' sports is a scourge in America. It not only erases young girls, it destroys their athletic hopes and dreams and puts them in serious physical danger. Examples of young women being seriously injured by their male counterparts increase nearly every week. It is undeniable that teenage boys in general possess natural physiological advantages over teenage girls, and we have seen the results of that over and over. But if that was not enough, the insanity has now reached the inevitable next level: humiliation. It is not enough anymore for boys to beat the girls,...

The Las Vegas Aces, champions of the WNBA, have been offered $1million if they can beat a high school boy’s state champion team. The Las Vegas Aces won back-to-back titles in October and have now been challenged to basketball's version of ‘Battle of the Sexes’ by the host of the “OutKick the Show” podcast, Clay Travis. He took to social media platform X to write that BetOnline.ag would give coach Becky Hammon’s team the prize money if they were to win the game. "Gambling company @betonline_ag has offered $1 million to the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces if they can beat...

Charlie Kirk show today on RAV mentioned a Trans "girl" field hockey player in white uniform knocked two teeth out of a girl playing for opposing team. Here's the video he showed during his program.

While most trans women aren’t winning major titles, here are almost two dozen athletes who have found success. With so much recent public conversation about trans women in women’s sports, I was struck by a post by trans advocate Schuyler Bailar — a trailblazing former NCAA athlete — claiming three trans women who have ever won national or international competitions in the women’s category “don’t exist.” Off the top of my head I could name several, and some digging has found at least 23 trans women who have earned national or international victories. No out trans woman has won an...

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a new interview that he does not support transgender females participating in women’s sports. The Democrat told CNN on Saturday that “biological males” threaten the integrity of women’s athletics. “I am against people participating in women’s sports who are biologically male,” Kennedy, 69, said, “I think women who have worked too hard to develop women’s sports over the past 30 years I watched it happen and I don’t think that’s fair.” Kennedy — who announced his candidacy April 19 — said his lack of support for transgender participation is just one of...

Men who identify as women will be barred from competing with women in high school sports in Wyoming under the new legislation. Though Gov. Mark Gordon (R-WY) did not sign the bill, he did not veto it either and instead allowed it to pass without his signature. However, Gordon did write a letter to Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray in which he described the legislation as “discriminatory” and “overly draconian,” while also claiming that it “pays little attention to fundamental principles of equality.” Gov. Mark Gordon (R-WY)... RELATED: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Tells Trans Student ‘Not Fair’ For ‘Biological...

Republicans across the country have made protecting girls' sports from biological male transgender athletes a campaign message as they seek to retake control of Congress next month, with at least one gubernatorial candidate highlighting the issue in recent campaign ad. The issue of biological males who identify as females competing against women in women's sports has garnered national attention and resulted in a feud among the two political parties in America, and one group believes the issue may help turnout for Republicans in the November 8 election. "Americans understand that female athletes have had their scholarships, their trophies and their...

Having colleges or even the Olympics permit biological men to compete in women's sports is one thing; pretending that it is fair, is something else. There is no argument that a person's sex is determined at the moment of conception, and that fertilization of an egg occurs with either an "X" or "Y" sperm cell, which will only determine one of two sexes. Following conception, the development pathways of males and females diverge immediately and substantially, right down to a cellular DNA level. These bifurcating pathways endure throughout an individual's lifetime. Every single nucleated cell in the human body has...

Minnesota-based doctors working in the lucrative youth transgender medical field are condemning a state bill seeking to ban biological males from competing in women’s sports and using female locker rooms. In an op-ed at the Star Tribune this week, the medical professionals – pediatricians and those treating gender dysphoric youth in “gender clinics” – called the legislation a “hateful distraction, an imagined problem created only to politicize the lives of transgender youths.” The authors defended males in girls’ and women’s sports with a statement denying the existence of evidence that boys and men “have any type of biological advantage over”...

[WHOA! WHO KNEW??? WHOEVER COODA TOLE???] - A recent study has shown that biological males identifying as transgender women, still retained considerable advantages over biological females in strength and muscle mass, even after a full year of hormone therapy. The study, conducted by the the Karolinska Institute — a medical university in Sweden — and Linkoping University, a university in Sweden, showed that the biological males (transgender women) who took a full year of hormone therapy, still had muscle mass and strength advantages.

Rep. Joe Kennedy decried sports leagues for only women and girls and said sports competitions must be for all “human beings.” Kennedy, who chairs the Democrats’ transgender equality task force, dismissed women’s sports when Breitbart asked him during a brief interview on Capitol Hill what he would say to women and girls who lose sports competitions to “transgender” men and boys who say they are females. “Human beings are human beings, man, that’s exactly what I’d say,” he said April 9, adding: “Human beings are 100 percent entitled to compete with whatever sport they want to compete with. Human beings...

Brother and sister skiers Anders and Alissa Johnson have trained together in the ski jump for their entire careers, and both are considered among the best jumpers in the country. But at the Olympics today, Alissa will be on the sidelines while her brother goes for the gold. "I'm here [only] to support unfortunately," Alissa, 19, said. "I wish I was here to train and jump, but I'm here to support Anders." The International Ski Federation has ruled that ski jumping is too dangerous for women, making it the only winter Olympic sport that has male competitors and no female...

I HAVE A CONFLICT of interest. My wife, Jessica Gavora, has just written a devastating and wonderful book, “Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX.” Actually, she didn’t just write it, she spent more than a year writing it before she signed up as an adviser and chief speechwriter for Attorney General John Ashcroft. During that time, I had no choice but to learn about how colleges across the United States are eliminating men’s sports in abject surrender to a feminist quota scheme. More on that in a minute. Conflicts of interest are a pain for columnists...