In a massive win for the Trump administration — as well as women's rights — the University of Pennsylvania has modified a trio of school records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case.
Even better, the university will announce that it “will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs” and must adopt “biology-based” definitions of male and female.
UPenn will also send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted swimmer, like Riley Gaines.
“There’s going to be a lot of people that are going to be eating their words on that, which is absolutely fantastic,” BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden tells BlazeTV contributor Eric July and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
“But, I’ve got to say this, like where are we that we are looking at this as a win, that now we’re saying that a man cannot swim in women’s races? I mean, it is, don’t get me wrong. I’m loving it. I’m loving the fact that Trump has done it,” he continues.
“I mean, some of the conversations that I’ve been having over the last four years, I’m like, ‘Wow, I wouldn’t even have thought we would have had those conversations ever.’ Like even the whole transitioning of children,” July responds, adding, “but for some reason, there’s doctors that are out there still operating, by the way, and performing these surgeries on minors.”
“That is where the world has gone. It is screwed up. Nothing makes sense,” he continues. “It’s more like a course correction.”
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Former swimmer Riley Gaines has proven herself to be a fierce advocate for women in sports, and her reaction to a Minnesota high school softball team’s championship win sparked a massive debate on social media.
Gaines alleged the transgender pitcher, Marissa Rothenberger, gave the team an unfair advantage.
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles doesn’t share Gaines’ concern.
“@Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight-up sore loser,” Biles wrote in a post on X. “You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!!”
“But instead ... You bully them ... One thing’s for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around,” she added.
“This is actually so disappointing. It's not my job or the job of any woman to figure out how to include men in our spaces. You can uplift men stealing championships in women's sports with YOUR platform. Men don't belong in women's sports and I say that with my full chest,” Gaines responded.
USA Today appears to be taking Biles' side in the debate, with one of its columnists Nancy Armour defending Biles, claiming in an opinion piece that there’s “no scientific evidence that transgender women athletes have a physical advantage over cisgender women athletes.”
And while the statement appears silly to anyone who understands the very real difference of strength between men and women, very few important voices are willing to die on that hill in the midst of cancel culture.
Which is why it was over a decade ago that Serena Williams publicly admitted to the difference.
“Men’s tennis and women’s tennis are completely almost two separate sports. So like if I were to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6-0, 6-0, in five to six minutes, maybe 10 minutes,” Williams said on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in 2013. “The men are a lot faster, and they serve hotter, they hit harder. It’s just a different game.”
BlazeTV host Pat Gray is shocked to hear it from Williams.
“That is from the number one women’s player in the world,” Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “And she knows all of that because she got beat by the 203rd ranked man in the world when she was at the top of her game.”
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Right now in the state of California, a boy by the name of AB Hernandez is competing in high school girls' track and field and has qualified in first place in at least three events.
As the state track and field meet gets ready to kick off, girls who would have qualified otherwise are forced to sit out so Hernandez can claim his medals.
Despite recently sitting down with Charlie Kirk and discussing the issue of men in women’s sports, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is doing nothing about it.
“You, right now, should come out and be like, ‘You know what, the young man who’s about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports, that shouldn’t happen.’ You as the governor should step out and say, ‘No,’” Kirk told Newsom.
“Would you do something like that? Would you say, ‘No men in female sports?’” Kirk continued.
“Well, I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. So that’s easy to call out, the unfairness of that. There’s also a humility and grace, you know, that these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression, and the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with, as well,” Newsom responded.
“So both things I hold in my hand. How we can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think you know is inherent ... but not always expressed,” he added.
BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler points out that not only was Newsom being dishonest in his appearance on Kirk’s podcast, but he was defying the president’s executive order.
“Remember that President Trump signed an executive order several months ago banning states from allowing biological boys, but I repeat myself, from competing in girls' sports, even if those boys identify as girls,” Wheeler explains.
“So the state of California is violating President Trump’s executive order by allowing boys to compete in girls sports,” she adds.
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There’s an epidemic of men identifying as women who then enroll in women’s sports to handily defeat them all — and BlazeTV host Alex Stein has a breakdown of those currently dominating the female sports circuit.
He lovingly calls the breakdown “libtards in the wild.”
The first transgender athlete, Lia Rose, took home first place in a varsity high jump competition at an Oregon high school meet — just two years after finishing last while competing against junior varsity boys.
Rose, who used to compete as Zachary, won the high jump at the Portland Interscholastic League Varsity Relays. In a video featuring his athletic prowess, someone in the crowd yells, “That’s a boy!”
Ana Caldas, another transgender athlete, has also been dominating female competitions this year. Most recently, the trans swimmer destroyed his female competition while winning five races at a national championship meet.
Caldas defeated his female competitors in the 50- and 100- yard breaststroke races by a whopping four seconds.
“His real name is Hugo, by the way,” BlazeTV media columnist Andrew Chapados tells Alex Stein. “This is a guy who’s just joining an older woman’s swimming category and just dominating them. It was a 45-year-old to 50-year-old women’s swimming category, and this guy just shows up, and he dominates them.”
But those aren’t the only transgender athletes who have been blowing away their female competition this year.
Last year, transgender student Ada Gallagher finished in first place in 200M and 400M races during the 6A-1 Portland Interscholastic League Championships. And while many were outraged over the wins, Gallagher was back in 2025 at his Oregon high school to win again.
This year, the trans athlete finished more than seven seconds better than the rest of the field.
“People don’t want to believe it’s happening, and this is what happens regularly,” Chapados explains. “They’re successful, breaking records week after week, and the women are just sort of sitting there being like, ‘What can I do besides participate now?’”
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The fight for women to maintain their spaces without males infiltrating them is important and only just beginning — but they’re not the only ones whose sacred spaces are being threatened.
“We’ve had this debate here over the past few years about women’s-only spaces and how guys who say that they’re women seem to be invading them quite a bit, and I think that’s set off the appropriate amount of outrage,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” tells Independent Women’s Forum senior legal analyst Inez Stepman.
“We’ve been having this huge national conversation mostly spurred by people of one sex who claim to be the opposite sex, and of men, biological men, invading women’s spaces. And of course, that’s a big deal in some ways, more sort of direct or obvious or urgent, when we see girls losing sports competitions and in a totally unfair way,” Stepman explains.
“Or even we see women’s safety threatened in prisons because we’re putting male sex offenders who claim that they’re women in women’s prisons,” she continues, noting that when the tables are turned and it’s men losing their spaces, it's a “slower burn.”
“Slowly, one by one, since the 1990s and early 2000s, there have been virtually no organized spaces where men can gather together and know that there won’t be any women around, and I think that’s been a negative,” she adds.
And this has been affecting their social lives gravely, as one in four men under 30 don’t consider themselves to have any close friends.
Stepman believes this to be a consequence of not only having fewer and fewer male only spaces, but also the modern obsession with sexualizing male friendships.
In a piece she wrote for National Review on this topic called “Men Need Single-Sex Spaces Too,” Stepman uses Frodo and Sam from "The Lord of the Rings" as an example.
“There’s all those gay jokes; it seems homoerotic to people because we’re so unfamiliar with the idea of close bonds and close friendships,” she explains, adding that even the military has now been infiltrated by women.
But it doesn’t stop there. Once just for boys learning survival skills and, ultimately, how to be men, the Boy Scouts are now allowing girls to join.
“I just think we have lost a lot by making sure that even the Boy Scouts is not allowed to be just for boys to learn how to be boys and grow up into men,” Stepman says.
“I think it’s really time to reconsider that cultural push,” she adds.
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While some forms of "protest" -- ones that seem manufactured, or paid for by left-wing special interests -- are useless (and annoying), protesting of this kind has been fruitful, because it is organic, genuine, and righteous.
UPenn came to an agreement with the Depart. of Education not because it was the right thing to do but because it could have lost funding.
The agreement does not just require UPenn to recognize rightful female winners, but also directs the university to acknowledge that 'male' and 'female' are biological realities and change its definitions to cohere with that obvious understanding.
'[T]o the extent Smith’s accommodations for so-called gender identity encroach upon sex-specific programs and spaces, it is in violation of Title IX.'
Many are calling for boycotts of Simone Biles’ sponsors after she insulted women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines on X over the weekend. On Monday afternoon, Biles’ website listed nine companies as her sponsors, including Athleta, Wheaties, and Powerade. By Tuesday morning, her website had been taken down, promising a new one “coming soon.” Gaines commented […]
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