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Perhaps the most confounding aspect of the legal and political battles over gender-confused males being allowed in nearly half of all states to interlope in female athletics is why female Democratic politicians (and the three liberal women on the U.S. Supreme Court) would side with that microscopic sliver of 1% of the population over the 51% of the population with XX chromosomes like their own.<\/p>\n

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Most likely, it is because they have no sisters, daughters or female friends who have ever lost athletic competitions unfairly to these make-believe \u201cgirls\u201d and \u201cwomen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maryland Delegate Kathy Szeliga is not one of them. The Republican state lawmaker has fought repeatedly to get the Democratic-supermajority Maryland General Assembly to come to its senses and prohibit transgender \u201cgirls\u201d and \u201cwomen\u201d from participating in and, when they do, dominating female sports.<\/p>\n

After the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on June 30 in a pair of conjoined cases, West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox \u2014 a unanimous decision on the Title IX question and 6-3 on the equal protection clause \u2014 upholding the right of states to bar faux females from participating in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports, Ms. Szeliga renewed her push for Maryland to follow the lead of next-door West Virginia and Idaho, the two states from which the cases arose.<\/p>\n

Ms. Szeliga, who has fought for such a ban five years running, vowed July 6 to reintroduce the Fairness in Girls\u2019 Sports Act during the 2027 legislative session. It would bar transgender \u201cgirls\u201d and \u201cwomen\u201d from participating in females\u2019 intramural, junior varsity and varsity teams, she told MarylandMatters.org.<\/p>\n

Although the 29 states that have secured girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports solely for actual females now have the high court\u2019s imprimatur, Maryland and 20 other states, along with the District of Columbia \u2014 most of them Democratic-run \u2014 have obstinately refused to do likewise.<\/p>\n

The high court majority held that the state bans violated neither the equal protection clause of the Constitution nor Title IX, the 1972 federal law that bars discrimination based on sex in federally funded educational programs.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court decision, however, does not require the holdout states to protect girls\u2019 and women\u2019s athletics. That unfairness and wrongheadedness are permitted under federalism and states\u2019 rights, in a rare instance where the left has given a whit about those principles.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Education\u2019s Office for Civil Rights said in late June that it was launching a Title IX investigation into the Maryland state Department of Education and three local school districts \u2014 Montgomery, Frederick and Prince George\u2019s counties \u2014 for policies allowing transgender students to use restrooms and play on sports teams that align with their gender identities, rather than their biological sex.<\/p>\n

However, President Trump and the Education Department under Linda McMahon have made clear they have a trump card (pun intended) to play to protect girls and women from unfair competition and losing athletic titles, trophies and scholarships to make-believe females.<\/p>\n

That is not as rare as chromosome-science-denying Democrats would have you believe. According to SheWon.org, a site that tracks this issue, 3,547 female athletes have been robbed of 5,095 titles, medals, records and\/or scholarships across 2,126 competitions in 53 various sports by these intersex interlopers worldwide over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump, who won reelection in 2024 in no small part by vowing to protect girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports, can and should leverage the carrot and stick of federal education funding to prod blue states to do the right thing.<\/p>\n

Ample precedent dates back 40 years to October 1986, when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act \u2014 signed into law by President Reagan on July 17, 1984 \u2014 set its compliance deadline for states, which risked losing up to 10% of their federal highway funds if they had not raised the drinking age to 21. By mid-1988, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had done so.<\/p>\n

It would be interesting to see how quickly Maryland and the other holdout states would fall in line and act to protect female interscholastic athletics if federal education dollars were similarly sequestered.<\/p>\n

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