Title IX has protected students from sex discrimination since 1972, and I want my representative to keep it that way. Before this law, women were a fraction of college athletes and could be turned away from programs for being pregnant. The same law that opened the gym door also protects students from sexual harassment, protects pregnant and parenting students, and protects employees from retaliation. It does a lot of quiet work that most people never see until they need it.
The worry now is how the federal government is using it. Executive Order 14201, signed in February 2025, points the Education Department at schools that let transgender girls play sports and threatens their federal funding. That turns a civil rights law into a tool for cutting money from local schools over one contested question, while two cases sit before the Supreme Court and the law itself is unsettled.
Families and local school boards have handled student sports for decades. Whatever a community decides, that decision should not come from a funding threat out of Washington aimed at a handful of kids. Cutting a district's federal money hurts every student in it, not just the few the order is about.
The rules underneath Title IX have already flipped four times in fifteen years. The 2011 guidance, the 2020 rule, the 2024 rule, and the 2025 reversal each changed how schools must respond to sexual assault reports. Survivors and accused students both deserve a process that does not get rewritten every election. The whiplash itself is the harm.
I'm asking you to protect Title IX's core protection against sex discrimination in education, and to oppose any move that uses federal funding as a weapon to override how local schools handle students. Defend the law, and keep enforcement out of the business of policing who counts as a girl.
Tell me where you stand on protecting Title IX. I'm your constituent, and I vote.
