Growing Up With Title IX

I grew up in the 60's and 70's. I got involved in Girl's Sports in High School and earned a JV and Varsity letter in Basketball and a Varsity letter in Track. There wasn't a lot of respect for Girl's sports at first but the level of play elevated us. We had competitive girls in cross country at the State level.

There were so many elements of sports that were not taken seriously but were earned through hard work and determination. I am proud to have participated in that history.

Today Title IX has been gutted. Today we actually have to allow biological men into our locker rooms (In some States). I don't care if they are transitioning, they're bigger and stronger than biological women. I know this first hand because I learned all the sports I participated in from my neighborhood playing the sports with boys.

Thankfully the craziness appears to have stopped. I hope that the damage done can be repaired. I have to say, I didn't like changing in the locker room when it was only women. I would have just gone home if I had to share a locker room with boys. Why is this important? First, it's about feeling safe. Second, it's about fairness. It redefines women. We have become "birthing people" and the lie that men give birth started to be propagated. Women are being erased. The proponents of this philosophy make women unimportant. They discount our contribution to society. I appreciate the Education Department coming out in support of Title IX and defining a woman as a human with the XX chromosome.

After so much work to show women have value, it took four years to erase all that. We had a Supreme Court Nominee say she could not define what a woman is. It's ridiculous. How can a woman give opinions on life changing laws when she can't define a woman? Well, she's now a Supreme Court Justice so well see how that works. Women in the military? A woman or man should only be allowed to be in the military if they can pass the physical, mental, and intellectual requirements. I find it insulting that evidently all you have to do to be a woman now is put on a dress and makeup. Women are so much more than that.

The Women's Movement lied. It said it stood for equal pay for equal work. It said it stood for choices. Liars. Women my age were questioning if they had families were they "selling out" on the Women's Movement. Isn't having a family a choice we should rejoice in? This has culminated in falling birth rates. Families became less common. Other women began using abortion as a form of birth control. How can that be acceptable? I come from a long list of working women. My great grandmother kept books for several businesses. My own mother became a nurse anesthetist. I worked in the stock market, office management, and as a small business owner. No one helped any woman in my family. We achieved goals through hard work. I also chose to have a family. I would never change that choice. I realized that the Women's Movement lied when I found out how horrible Oregon Senator Bob Packwood was in the 1980's. The Women's Movement actually supported and covered for him. He supported abortion rights so these women ignored the sexual harassment he had been accused of for years. Eventually he was expelled from the Senate in the 90's. My question, how can you support someone that sexually harasses women?

Bottom line:
Women are born as women
Women are more than makeup and dresses
Women are the only one's that can give birth
Women have fierce loyalty and protect our families, especially our children
Women fiercely support our husbands

Of Course there are exceptions. Women are individuals and have these qualities in varying increments. The first 3 in my list are 100% true for all biological women. Lets stop the madness. Lets value everyone, including women.