Title IX is a law passed under the Education Amendments in 1972 to protect all sexes, ethnicities, and sexual orientations from harassment, prejudice, or discrimination by institutions that receive Federal funding. Transgender women are women too, whether cisgender women like it or not. The allegations in the lawsuit stated that the cis women athletes were at a competitive disadvantage in women’s track. While this did not provide a definitive answer on Title IX, it also did not provide the coveted win that the plaintiff’s desired. As such, unlike Roe v. Wade, which actively directed how abortion would be treated across the country on a Federal level, Title IX passively protects the people most at-risk for being systematically oppressed.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2023 06:58 UTC