Approving transgender athlete ban bill doesn’t protect women’s sports

Kids are being slaughtered in their classrooms, on their campuses and at birthday parties. They’re being shot on their way home from cheerleading practice and when their basketball happens to roll into the wrong yard.

Fifty-plus years after Title IX was enacted, female athletes are still being short-changed in pay, funding and opportunities. The number of sports where girls and young women have been abused – sexually, physically and emotionally – is dizzying.