The Biden administration ushered in radical Title IX changes that allowed boys to compete on girls' teams in grade school and college and university-level sports. They were also allowed to use the same locker rooms and showers as their female teammates.
Linda Harvey, president of Mission: America, says the fight continues, but that policy appears to be ending as Donald Trump prepares to reenter office and parents gain the upper hand.
"I think we've seen a lot of progress in the past year with parents and also teachers waking up," she tells AFN. "We recently had a case in Ohio, where a teacher was given a $450,000 settlement with her school after she had been pressured into a resignation when she refused to go along with new names and pronouns for some of her students because of her Christian faith."
She says this kind of turnaround, where schools are realizing "they don't have the leg to stand on that they used to," is very promising for the future. She believes schools will dial back the aggressive agenda they have had over the past few years.
"Schools will be scrambling, because many had been counting on these changes going through – boys in girls' bathrooms, forced pronouns, forced nondiscrimination policies on the gender issue – and none of that will be forced on any school," Harvey predicts. "Parents have a lot of leverage, and they need to continue to make their voices heard at the local level."
While the pro-family advocate celebrates these positive signs, she advises conservatives to remain vigilant.
"I think we will see the radicals continue to bring this around over and over again [until] there will be a door shut on this," she submits. "I think what's going to happen is we're going to see lawsuit after lawsuit, and some of them are going to be malpractices."
That has, in fact, already started because of the medical harm this issue involves.
