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Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where somewhere right now a grown man with a government salary is thinking very hard about your uterus. Today the Heritage Foundation wants to end Title Nine so girls stay fertile, two former NBA players say they identify as women now so they can enter the WNBA draft, the administration pulls health care from trans kids, and a federal judge in Idaho says out loud what that state spent five years burying. Let’s get into it.

Heritage Comes for Title IX

The Heritage Foundation published a paper calling for the end of Title Nine. Title Nine is the nineteen seventy two law banning sex discrimination in any school that takes federal money. Gender equality in education, sports included. It’s why your daughter has a soccer team, why women are more than half of medical school, and why a university has to do anything at all when a student reports a sexual assault. One sentence. It’s been sitting there since nineteen seventy two, quietly ruining everything.

Heritage wants it gone. The paper’s by a fellow named Scott Yenor, who doesn’t work on education and doesn’t work on athletics. Heritage’s own website says he writes primarily on the family. So naturally they handed him sports. Yenor calls Title Nine “a powerful engine of feminist social engineering,” and says it’s produced “a new sort of woman,” one who’s “more aggressive, more competitive, more male, less relational, and less oriented toward the goods of family and motherhood.”

His problem is your fertility. He writes that high intensity exercise increases infertility and that “moderate exercise assists fertility more than any other approach.” So he wants girls steered toward activities that emphasize “rhythm, coordination, community, and graceful exertion.” He’s not offering them a different sport. He’s telling them to stop competing. Two hundred and forty three thousand women played college sports last season, and a man who writes about motherhood has decided they should shut down the basketball team and take a yoga mat, so their ovaries can rest.

They spent six years telling us this was about protecting women’s sports. They banned trans women from darts. From billiards. From chess tournaments. Utah passed a sports ban that applied to exactly one child in the entire state. And now that there’s nobody left to keep out, Project Twenty Twenty Five’s own think tank has come for the sports. It was never the trans girls. It was the girls.

WNBA Trans Ban Fight

Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever told ESPN she wants to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men,” and she was a Fox News star by dinner.

The WNBA has no transgender policy. None. The league and its players ratified a new contract this spring, and the only thing it says is that players who are women are eligible. It never defines the word, because in twenty nine years nobody has needed it to. That undefined word is the whole fight, and the fight started the moment a fresh contract showed up with a gap in it.

So former NBA players Enes Freedom and Royce White announced they’ll declare for the twenty twenty seven draft, on the grounds that they now identify as women. They’re not trans. Nobody involved thinks they’re trans. They’re doing it to force the league to write a ban.

And the number of people they want banned is zero. Not one openly trans woman has ever played in the WNBA. There isn’t one in Division One women’s basketball. Trans girls are already banned from high school basketball in thirty states. Back when the NCAA still allowed trans women to compete, they had to document a full year of testosterone suppression and keep documenting it every year after, and NCAA president Charlie Baker told Congress that out of five hundred and ten thousand college athletes he knew of ten who were trans. Gentlemen, you’re two grown men demanding protection fro