President Biden handed his political foes an easy lay-up by calling on Americans to “support women’s sports” after overhauling Title IX to include biological males who identify as female. The president gave a shout-out to female athletes during a White House ceremony honoring the Las Vegas Aces, the 2023 WNBA champions, saying it has been […]
Maggie Steffens asked for more support for the U.S. women’s water polo team, and the captain received one particularly surprising response. From a clock-wearing rap icon. Moved by Steffens‘ Instagram post, Flavor Flav has stepped forward to help the U.S. team as it goes for an unprecedented fourth consecutive gold medal at the Paris Olympics […]
President Biden supports women’s sports except when it comes to flipping Title IX. The Biden White House welcomed the Las Vegas Aces on Thursday at the White House. They are the WNBA 2023 champions. Kamala Harris joined Biden. Biden acknowledged the team’s back-to-back championship victories. “…The first WNBA team, in over 20 years, to win […]
Former President Donald Trump is refuting claims that he told a Time magazine reporter that states might monitor women to see whether they had had an abortion. “I never said that ’some states may choose to monitor women’s pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans.’ This was made up by Democrats and the […]
NEW YORK — Billie Jean King’s $5,000 check sure went a long way for women’s sports. King used the money from a sportswoman of the year award to launch the Women’s Sports Foundation in 1974. Since then, the foundation has invested more than $100 million to help girls and women gain opportunities and equity in […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — On a recent weeknight at this bar in northeast Portland, fans downed pints and burgers as college women’s lacrosse and beach volleyball matches played on big-screen TVs. Memorabilia autographed by female athletes covered the walls, with a painting of U.S. soccer legend Abby Wambach mounted above the chalkboard beer menu. The Sports […]
NEWS AND OPINION: This phrase comes to us from Women’s March, a large group of feminist activists that has been staging large-scale marches and protests in the nation’s capital and other U.S. cities since 2017. “On Thursday, starting at 10:00 a.m. — as the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments over Donald Trump’s claim of […]
Twenty-five states have approved measures barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s scholastic sports, but West Virginia could become the first to have its law taken up by the Supreme Court. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced he will ask the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of the 2021 Save Women’s Sports Act […]
VENICE, Italy — A pair of nude feet – dirty, wounded and vulnerable – are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel. It’s the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and part of the Vatican’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale contemporary art show in an innovative collaboration between inmates and artists. That […]
The Biden administration released Friday its long-awaited overhaul of Title IX, inserting “gender identity” into the watershed civil rights amendment aimed at eliminating discrimination against girls and women in education. Nearly two years in the making, the Education Department’s final rule “builds on the legacy of Title IX” by extending protections to transgender students, meaning […]
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