USA Today columnist Nancy Armour accused the Heritage Foundation of "coming for" Title IX on Thursday, shortly after facing backlash for her controversial Caitlin Clark column.Armour cited the conservative think tank report titled "Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity," released earlier this month, which criticized the modern application of the 1972 federal civil rights law barring sex-based discrimination in education activities or programs that receive federal funding.The report's author, Scott Yenor, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's American Citizenship Initiative, wrote that stricter interpretations of the law have enforced rigid equality in school sports to the detriment of both male and female student athletes.MEGAN RAPINOE SAYS EFFORTS TO BAR TRANS ATHLETES FROM WOMEN'S SPORTS ARE 'ATTACK ON WOMEN IN SOCIETY'The Heritage Foundation put out a report criticizing the narrow enforcement of Title IX regarding female sports.(Wavebreakmedia / Getty Images)"Title IX evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into a powerful engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates," the Heritage Foundation report read.
"The result has been two systemic distortions: a prejudice in favor of a male-normed competitive model for women’s sports and a prejudice against men’s non-revenue programs."Armour claimed that this signaled the organization is seeking to remove protections for female sports and roll back women's rights."Our bodies, our self-confidence, our independence — they’re not going to stop until women have the same rights and opportunities they did before the 1970s.Which were almost none," Armour wrote.ACTIVISTS UNLEASH A 'NEXT WAVE' BALLOT STRATEGY FOR WOMEN'S SPORTS INSIDE DEEP BLUE STATESThe USA Today columnist dismissed the idea that the Heritage Foundation’s efforts "will go nowhere" despite the law's widespread support."Project 2025 has...