Celebrities Push to Let Boys Compete Against Girls in Sports

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Hollywood celebrities and retired athletes are pushing to let biological males compete in women’s sports.

The ACLU recently released a 30-second video featuring nine celebrities urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down laws protecting girls’ sports. The ad aired as justices heard arguments in two key cases that will determine whether states can keep boys out of girls’ athletics.

The ACLU ad claims politicians are “fixated on keeping transgender student athletes out of sports” and setting unfair “limits” on children. But the real issue isn’t about keeping anyone out of sports—it’s about fairness and safety for female athletes.

Letting men compete in women’s sports reverses 50 years of advancements for women and effectively erases women’s athletics.

It hampers their ability to compete for athletic scholarships and hurts their professional opportunities as adults.

Female swimmers, powerlifters, cyclists, sprinters, volleyball players, and others have seen their sports radically changed by men who claim to be women. In some sports, it can even be dangerous.

Concerned Women for America estimates that more than 1,900 male athletes who claim to be female have taken first place medals away from women and girls.

Most Americans agree that athletes should compete according to their biological sex — not their gender identity.

In 2021, Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) preventing male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school. This good law protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas.

Right now the U.S. Supreme Court is considering laws from West Virginia and Idaho that are similar to Act 461. If the Court rules against these protections, it could affect states like Arkansas.

That’s why Family Council joined dozens of state policy organizations and more than 200 state legislators in a legal brief in the case last September.

Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom are heavily involved in standing up for fairness in women’s sports, and they recently published a video highlighting some of the girls who have been harmed by school policies letting boys compete in girls’ sports. You can watch that video on YouTube.

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Family Council Joins Legal Brief Asking Supreme Court to Protect Parental Rights

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On Wednesday, Family Council joined 65 other organizations in a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to defend parental rights and stop a California school district’s secret social gender transition policy.

The case is Mirabelli v. Bonta. Parents and teachers are challenging a school district policy that required teachers to deceive parents about their child’s gender transition at school.

Advancing American Freedom led the amicus brief filed last week. In a statement, AAF said:

One of the families who brought this challenge did not find out that their daughter was being treated as a boy at school until after she attempted suicide.

The federal district court in San Diego rightly found for the parents and teachers and permanently enjoined Gavin Newsom’s California from imposing secret social transition policies on teachers and parents. However, the Ninth Circuit temporarily stayed the district court’s injunction leaving families and teachers exposed once again.

AAF’s brief on behalf of itself and other amici argued that this case is part of a nationwide pattern affecting parents and families, often irreversibly. The Supreme Court has, so far, avoided these critical questions. They must do so no longer.

Unfortunately the school policy in California is not an isolated incident. Over the years, we have seen pro-LGBT activists use public schools to promote transgender ideology and gender confusion to kids in many different ways.

Last year the U.S. Department of Education announced it was investigating four school districts in Kansas for alleged secret gender transitions after a complaint alleged that school officials let male students into females’ private spaces and sports at school and hid students’ sexual identity confusion from their parents.

Last summer, Family Council joined dozens of other pro-family organizations from across the country in an amicus brief regarding a New York school district that treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent.

Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom have spoken out about how schools are hiding important information about students from their parents. But policymakers, legal experts, and parents are pushing back.

Arkansas has enacted good laws to help prevent schools from socially transitioning children or promoting radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom. These are good laws that protect children and affirm parental rights. But federal court cases like the one in California could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for students and parents in this case.

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U of A Rescinds Job Offer to Applicant Who Signed Legal Brief Against Fairness in Women’s Sports Law

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The University of Arkansas School of Law has withdrawn a job offer to an applicant who signed a legal brief against a state law protecting fairness in women’s sports last November.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette writes:

Less than a week after announcing Emily Suski as the next dean for the University of Arkansas School of Law, the university has rescinded that offer, citing “feedback from key external stakeholders.” . . .

Suski, a professor of law and the associate dean for strategic and institutional priorities at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law, was appointed dean of the UA Law School, effective July 1.

The newspaper also reports that Arkansas Senate President Pro Tempore Bart Hester (R — Cave Springs) told university officials he believed Suski was unfit to lead the law school after he learned that she opposed a law in West Virginia protecting fairness in women’s sports and that she supported former President Joe Biden’s nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2020, Idaho passed The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act to prevent male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school. However, the ACLU sued, claiming the act is unconstitutional, and a panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the law.

The case has been combined with a federal lawsuit against a similar measure West Virginia enacted.

Both state laws are currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, and a decision in the case could affect similar laws nationwide.

In November, Suski joined an amicus brief from the group Scholars of Equal Opportunity and Antidiscrimination Law encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against West Virginia’s law that protects fairness in women’s sports.

In 2021, lawmakers in Arkansas passed Act 461 preventing male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school. Act 461 is very similar to the West Virginia law that the amicus brief opposed. Given that fact, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R — Jonesboro) told The New York Times that Suski’s views expressed in last November’s amicus brief are inconsistent with Arkansas law.

As Family Council has said for years, letting men compete in women’s sports reverses decades of advancements for women, and it effectively erases girls’ athletics.

It hampers their ability to compete for athletic scholarships and hurts their professional opportunities as adults.

Concerned Women for America reports that more than 1,900 male athletes who claim to be female have taken first place medals away from women and girls.

Female swimmers, powerlifters, cyclists, sprinters, volleyball players, and others have seen their sports radically altered by men who claim to be women. In some sports, it can even be dangerous.

Most Americans agree that athletes should compete according to their biological sex — not their gender identity.

Given what a significant role the dean has at the law school, we believe the University of Arkansas made the right decision by withdrawing the job offer, and we appreciate Sen. Hester’s leadership in this matter.

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