Subject: Please Protect Women's Sports

Dear NCAA Board of Governors,

Title IX is a federal law that was enacted to prevent discrimination against women and girls in their educational opportunities, including in school sports. It has served to ensure girls are not relegated to the sidelines in their own sports.

While some, like the ACLU, have attempted to argue that prohibiting boys from playing on girls’ sports teams is a violation of Title IX, this argument is far from true. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights recently ruled that a policy allowing boys to compete on girls’ teams violates Title IX. The Department’s reasoning: when we allow boys on girls’ sports teams, we are denying girls the opportunity to compete fairly because the boys have a biological advantage and are able to force girls out of winning spots.

Female athletes deserve fair competition — that means the chance to compete in women’s divisions distinct from co-ed or men’s categories, and free from males competing in those female-only competitions.

Sincerely,