Dear Friends,

Along with our allies at North Carolina Family Policy Council, we have an update and urgent request for your help.

Governor Roy Cooper has vetoed three important bills that the North Carolina legislature passed to protect our women and children. These bills are a Health Not Harm bill (HB 808), the Parental Bill of Rights (SB 49), and the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (HB 574). Now we need your help to get these bills across the finish line!

The effort to override Gov. Cooper’s veto could begin at any time, and we need you to contact your legislators and urge them to vote to override these vetoes.

The Help Not Harm Bill would prevent healthcare practitioners from performing dangerous, irreversible gender transition surgeries on children, including mastectomies or “top surgery.” It would also prohibit prescribing children with experimental hormones that cause irreversible effects like infertility and body changes. Finally, it holds doctors accountable by providing a way to sue doctors that perform these procedures on children.

The Parental Bill of Rights affirms parents’ Constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their children. It ensures parental involvement in their child’s education and allows parents to enforce their rights by bringing an action against the school for violations of the Act. Finally, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act protects female athletes from having to compete against biologically male athletes in K-12 education and at the collegiate level. This protects the safety and scholarships of female athletes, as males retain many biological advantages even after hormone therapy, especially following puberty.

Our kids deserve to be kept safe from harmful, experimental gender transition procedures and predatory medical procedures. Our women and girls deserve a level playing field in sports. Please send a message to your legislators today telling him or her to support the veto overrides!

Sincerely,
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy

Today is the 51st anniversary of Title IX, the law that ensures that girls and women have equal access in education – including in sports. Prior to Title IX, girls often lacked the same access to sports teams and opportunities as their male peers. They might have to deal with inferior equipment and practice schedules – if they had a girls’ team at all

For some perspective on the significance of Title IX, consider this stat: before Title IX, 1 in 27 girls played sports, while today that number is 2 in 5. Talk about a difference! 

What does Title IX mean for female athletes? And what did girls’ sports look like before Title IX? Watch this short video we received in 2020 from Pat McWethy, a fellow Family Policy Foundation reader. 

Thanks to Title IX, the top-of-mind threat to girls’ sports today is not whether a typical public school will offer a program. It’s the fact that even though girls have their own sports, they face the real possibility that a male athlete (who has physical advantages) might join the team and take a roster spot, a championship title, or even a scholarship that was meant for a female.  

And that’s why we can’t talk about Title IX without talking about Save Girls’ Sports. At Family Policy Alliance, we were proud to partner with our state ally, Idaho Family Policy Center, to pass the first-ever Save Girls’ Sports law that ensures girls’ sports are reserved just for girls. In the 3 years since then, over 20 states have passed laws to ensure that girls’ sports are reserved just for girls. And, more than half of states have introduced the legislation, even if it didn’t pass. Americans are united on this critical issue. 

The Biden Administration has gone all-out to undermine our success. A new rule proposes to re-interpret Title IX as a way to directly threaten schools that abide by Save Girls’ Sports laws enacted in these 22 states – nearly half the country.

Our sister entity, Family Policy Alliance, submitted an official comment on the rule and encouraged you all to do the same. The end result? Over 4,000 of you spoke out! Now, the Biden Administration has delayed making their final decision on the rule – likely because they received so many comments from people like you! (Something you can be sure we’ll keep you posted about.) 

In the meanwhile, we’re celebrating Title IX, female athletes, and the states that are standing up to protect them – and we’re working to make sure that girls around the country can have such protections! If you want to support our efforts to Save Girls’ Sports (and so much more!), click here. The work we’ve done so far is made possible through your partnership, and we know there’s much more to do! 

Here’s to more victories to come! 

Meridian Baldacci
Director, Strategy 

With a population of over 29 million people, Texas is home to a lot of people – and the policies made in Texas can have influence around the nation. So, what’s hot in Texas? Ensuring that female athletes have a level playing field in sports – that means that girls’ and women’s sports should be just for girls and women!

This year, Texas Values has made great strides in saving girls’ sports and protecting minors from gender transition in Texas. In our live video today, Mary Elizabeth Castle, Director of Government Relations at Texas Values, gives important updates on the persistent efforts of Texas Values.

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Dear Friend,

The Texas House Higher Education Committee will finally consider S.B. 15, a bill to protect women’s collegiate sports in Texas, on Monday. The bill protects female college athletes from having to compete against biologically male athletes, and we need your help to ensure the bill is passed!

In recent months, we have seen the stories about an Ivy League man dominating women’s swimming events. He has illegitimately broken women’s records and taken the place of deserving women on the winners’ platform, including at both the Ivy League and NCAA National Championships. Parents are now concerned for their daughters’ sports scholarships and educational opportunities. It is a travesty and one which we need to prevent from happening in Texas.

Along with our friends at Texas Values, who have been critical to the effort to get this bill passed, we need your help making sure it becomes law.  The House Higher Education Committee will consider S.B. 15 on Monday, and we need you to send a message to your Representative today urging them to vote “Yes” on S.B. 15 and ensure female college athletes in Texas will not have to compete against men.


Let’s ensure the playing field is level for women’s sports!  Discrimination against women in the name of social expediency has no place in Texas. Send a message to your Representative today requesting that they vote “Yes” on S.B. 15 – it only takes a moment using the form below.

Now is the time to speak up to protect women’s sports in Texas!

Sincerely,
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy

Female athletes deserve a level playing field. One aspect of that? Ensuring that girls and women aren’t forced to compete against male athletes who enjoy inherent physical advantages.

In the past three years, we’ve made remarkable strides toward saving girls’ sports together: 20 states have laws that protect girls’ sports just for girls!

But President Biden has a different vision.

This month, his administration released a proposal to target states and schools that are reserving girls’ sports just for girls. In other words, not only do the members of Biden’s administration want males to compete in female sports, but they will target anyone who dares to say otherwise.

Now, we need your help to fight back.

The effort to protect female athletes is in full swing.

Just this month alone, we’ve joined with national allies in speaking out against the Biden Administration, rallied values-minded Americans like you to support the U. S. House in passing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, and worked behind the scenes on Capitol Hill to share the message that female athletes deserve protection from this discrimination.

None of that would have been possible without your support. But our work to save girls sports is not over – not by a long shot. 

HELP US SAVE GIRLS’ SPORTS

The Biden Administration is posing a direct threat to female athletes – our daughters, granddaughters, sisters – in the 20 states with laws protecting them. And it’s the latest proof that the Biden Administration is out of touch with the rest of America, with families like yours.

We need your help more than ever to fight back. Your partnership will:

We urgently need a one-time or recurring donation of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 or even more to ramp up our fight to save girls’ sports.  Quite frankly, the need for help is more than we’ve been able to keep up with this year – which is a very good thing for female athletes – but a problem we can only solve with your help.

Female athletes deserve a level playing field and a chance at the opportunities reserved for them. The Biden Administration wants to attack those opportunities, but we’re pushing back. Will you join us?

With less than 30 days to push back against the Biden Administration, we need your help to save girls’ sports today.

Sincerely,

Meridian Baldacci
Director, Strategy

Imagine a world where schools no longer offer competitive athletics. Instead, even those who work hard, have talent, and should be at the top of their sport, watch as the gold medal is handed to someone who entered with an unfair advantage.

For female athletes, that possibility may be one step closer to reality, thanks to the Biden Administration.

Women deserve a fair shot in sports, but when males are allowed to compete in female sports contests, that fair shot disappears. Males have an undeniable biological advantage over female athletes – but the Biden Administration wants them to compete with females anyway.

FPA has been fighting hard to protect female athletes. Now, we need your help to continue this fight because it’s far from over! Will you consider giving $50, $100 or $500 or more today?

The Biden Administration has embraced policies and rules that promote radical gender ideology, including the belief that men should be allowed to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. The result? Women lose out on championships, scholarships, and other opportunities meant just for them.

In President Biden’s vision of America, the best female athlete might just be a male.

In fact, officials at the Biden Administration are so committed to their ideology that they recently released a proposal that would target states that are protecting female athletes!

And now, radical transgender activists are protesting women who have spoken out on this issue. Athletes like Riley Gaines – a 12-time All-American swimmer who competed against male swimmer Lia Thomas – have been discriminated against and even attacked by transgender activists during speaking engagements at liberal college campuses, assaulted for simply speaking out.

At Family Policy Alliance, we’re standing up for female athletes. Just this month alone, we’ve joined with national allies in speaking out against the Biden Administration, rallied values-minded Americans like you to support Congress in passing of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act today, and worked behind the scenes on Capitol Hill to share the message that female athletes deserve protection from this discrimination.

None of that would be possible without your support. But our work to save girls sports is not over – not by a long shot.

Will you join FPA in speaking out by giving a generous donation today?

At this point in our nation’s history, it’s difficult to imagine girls not having a level playing field – and that’s why we need your help more than ever. Please consider giving to save girls’ sports today.

For female athletes across the country,


Ruth Ward
Director, Government Affairs

Dear Ohio Friends,

We have a request for your urgent help.

The Ohio legislature is considering the Save Women’s Sports Act (H.B. 6), a bill to protect girls’ sports in Ohio. The bill, sponsored by Statesman Academy alum Rep. Jena Powell, protects female athletes from having to compete against biologically male athletes in K-12 education and at the collegiate level.

We need you to encourage your legislators to support it!

Currently, biological males are allowed to compete in women’s sports at every level in Ohio. This denies women and girls opportunities to compete for the scholarships and championships that their hard work deserves. Parents are now concerned for their daughters’ opportunities and physical safety during play.

And now, even elected Ohio Representatives are defending all of this by denying scientific reality.

For example, in this video, Rep. Joe Miller says, “We have to establish, today, in this body, that [transgender women] are not biological males. They are transgender. There’s a huge difference…. Biological males, as you term them, males assigned at birth, who are transgender, are not biological males.”

Along with our friends at Center for Christian Virtue, who have worked tirelessly on this bill, we need your help making sure it becomes law. We need you to send a message to your legislator today urging them to vote “Yes” on H.B. 6 and ensure female athletes in Ohio will not have to compete against men!

Let’s ensure the playing field is level for girls’ sports!  Discrimination against girls in the name of social expediency has no place in Ohio. Send a message to your legislators today requesting that they vote “Yes” on H.B. 6 – it only takes a moment in our using the form below.

Now is the time to speak up to protect girls’ sports in Ohio!

Sincerely,
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy

Dear Friend,

We made a slight mistake yesterday regarding the timing of a bill that we asked you to take action on. There are two critical Texas bills that both deal with the transgender agenda. The bill to protect minors from transgender drugs and surgeries (S.B. 14) should be heard soon. But the priority bill – being heard on Monday in the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee – is the bill to protect women’s sports (S.B. 15).

For those of you who have taken action on S.B. 14 already, thank you! You are ahead of the curve—that bill will be heard soon, and we will update you as needed.

But Senate Bill 15 is equally important, and we urgently need your help to ensure it passes out of committee on Monday! That’s when the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee will consider S.B. 15, a bill to protect women’s collegiate sports in Texas. The bill protects female college athletes from having to compete against biologically male athletes.

In recent months, we have seen the stories about an Ivy League man dominating women’s swimming events. He has illegitimately broken women’s records and taken the place of deserving women on the winners’ platform, including at both the Ivy League and NCAA National Championships. Parents are now concerned for their daughters’ sports scholarships and educational opportunities. It is a travesty and one which we need to prevent from happening in Texas.

Along with our friends at Texas Values, who have been critical to the effort to get this bill passed, we need your help making sure it becomes law.  The Senate State Affairs Committee will consider S.B. 15 on Monday, and we need you to send a message to your Senator today urging them to vote “Yes” on S.B. 15 and ensure female college athletes in Texas will not have to compete against men.

Let’s ensure the playing field is level for women’s sports!  Discrimination against women in the name of social expediency has no place in Texas. Send a message to your senator today requesting that they vote “Yes” on S.B. 15 – it only takes a moment using the form below.

Now is the time to speak up to protect women’s sports in Texas!

Sincerely,
Joseph Kohm
Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy


We are seeing a trend happen across the country. And, not the good kind.

Women are being sidelined by biological males in sports competitions. Examples of this are being seen throughout the country, such as in Connecticut where women athletes have been denied state championship titles due to biological males competing and last year when a biological male robbed female swimmers of their places on NCAA national championship platforms.

This is unfair, unsafe and discriminatory.

The Biden administration is protecting males in women’s sports by embracing policies and rules to promote a radical gender ideology that only harms women and takes away equal opportunity for women in sports competitions.

And, Biden’s Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, has unfortunately stated that he supports the move to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports—a view in direct contradiction with the majority of Americans.

But, together, we can save girls’ sports!

You might have seen the letter that Family Policy Alliance and nearly 30 other  allied organizations recently sent to the Biden administration’s Department of Education opposing any proposed rules that would undermine women’s opportunities to excel in sports.

This is unlawful and unthinkable, and FPA is fighting back.

Since 2020, a total of 18 states have passed commonsense protections for women in sports, and many more have introduced legislation this year. Now, we need the federal government to respond. Fortunately, Congressman Greg Steube (R-FL) has introduced a bill in the House to protect equal opportunities for women and girls in athletics, and now more than ever we need you to encourage your member of Congress to support this legislation.

H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, will go a long way to restore women’s chances at a fair competition by enforcing the Title IX provisions that protect women and girls from discrimination and physical harm in athletics. Title IX was enacted in 1972 to advance women’s rights by ensuring no one can be denied equal access to educational opportunities on the basis of sex. Since that time, the number of women and girls in sports has grown from under 300,000 to 3.5 million!

Please take a moment using the form below tell your congressional member to cosponsor the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Then, share this message with a friend who also supports protecting women and girls from discrimination in sports.

Women and girls deserve better. Thank you for standing to protect and promote equal opportunities!

Sincerely,

Ruth Ward
Director, Government Affairs


On June 23rd, the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, we should have been celebrating 50 years of equal opportunities in education and athletics for women and girls. Instead, the Biden Department of Education continued to peddle its woke agenda by proposing a federal rule that redefines “sex” in Title IX policies to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”

In other words, the Biden Administration is using the federal rulemaking process to take away those opportunities from women and girls and force the LGBT political agenda in every public school, .

TELL THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION YOU OPPOSE REDEFINING SEX IN TITLE IX!

The irony can’t be missed. President Biden intends to use the very law passed to increase women’s opportunities to instead give those opportunities back to men on its 50th anniversary. So much for 50 years of progress.

If this rule goes into effect, the Department of Education will use the power of the Federal Government to:

This rule comes from the same administration that deployed the FBI to investigate your community because parents are standing up and speaking out against gender theory and government mandates at their local school board meetings.

But, there is good news! Your voice is making a difference! The Biden Administration originally hinted that the new Title IX rule would also specifically harm girls’ sports. Instead, the movement to #SaveGirlsSports is sweeping the nation. Starting with just Idaho in 2020, now 18 states have laws to save girls’ sports. States—and female athletes and their parents—are pushing back.

In fact, the Biden Administration explicitly excluded girls’ sports from the proposed rule—demonstrating that they know an end to girls’ sports would not be well received by the public.

Keep the momentum going—your voice can make a difference! Please submit a public comment opposing this dangerous rule! Tell the Department of Education you STRONGLY OPPOSE ANY CHANGES in their education policies that redefine “sex” to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”

We’ve provided some comments for you to use, but the more personal you can make your comments, the better!

For example:

Tell the Dept. of Education how this will impact your daughter or family.

Tell the Dept. of Education how this policy violates privacy and opportunities for women.

Tell the Dept. of Education how this will impact students and teachers.

Tell the Dept. of Education how redefining sex in Title IX defeats the purpose of providing opportunities for women.

We encourage you to share this information with your family and friends-every comment can help slow down and may even stop this rule!

 TAKE ACTION NOW

Thank you for using your voice to protect women and girls!

For America’s girls,

Nicole Hudgens
Government Affairs