Title IX's Modern Fight Over Women's Sports
Showing 12 Title IX videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Title IX, the 1972 law originally meant to guarantee women equal access to education and athletics, has become the center of a fight over its own meaning in this material. Senator Josh Hawley pressed NCAA President Charlie Baker on policies allowing biological males to compete in women's sports and use women's locker rooms, highlighting that the NCAA itself has argued in court that Title IX doesn't apply to its own eligibility rules. Riley Gaines testified before a Senate committee about being confined for hours by protesters after speaking out on the same issue, and two New England high school athletes described losing qualifying spots to male competitors during their track careers. Steven Crowder covered a related flashpoint in the WNBA, where player Sophie Cunningham faced backlash after commenting on the same debate. Away from that fight, Charlie Kirk addressed the Young Women's Leadership Summit on abortion and womanhood more broadly, and separately found himself defending a lighter, unrelated comment about a foul call involving Caitlin Clark that critics accused him of racializing. Together, the material traces how a decades-old law about equal opportunity is now argued over almost entirely in the context of transgender athletes.