Friend,
In a remarkable return to sanity, the Supreme Court proved that it does, as a whole, know what a woman is (even if individual justices do not).
In a 6-3 ruling, the Court handed down a decision affirming that Title IX and the Javits Amendment were written for women.
The gender equity protections granted to women under Title IX in 1972 remain intact.
It's a breath of fresh air to this old basketball hand, and to every girl-dad and girl-mom in the country, who simply want their daughters to have the same opportunity I had to compete at the highest level without facing unfair competition, fear of injury, or the loss of privacy in locker rooms.
My life would have been radically different if I were forced to compete against biological men during my college basketball days at Notre Dame. I may not have been granted the scholarship I was given, and I could have missed out on one of the best meritocratic and leadership building spaces in America—the world of sports.
All that would be out the window, along with basic safety, if the court had ruled otherwise.
The next question SCOTUS will tackle on this front will be not whether states MAY ban men from women’s sports and spaces, that has now been established, but whether they MUST.
We will continue to pray for that return to sanity.
While I am relieved we were not subjected to revisionist history based upon a false and circular definition of trans men as women, the Court’s second decision today on birthright citizenship was enough for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to express a “serious concern for the future of the country.”
In a mixed decision, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s attempt to rein in birthright citizenship, a practice that misinterprets the Constitution, granting automatic citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil.
To rule as the Court did, one must ignore both the author of the Fourteenth Amendment’s own speech on the House floor describing its rationale AND the genuine threat so-called “birth tourism” poses to our country.
The Chinese are especially adept at this. They visit remote U.S. territories or set up surrogacy houses for pregnant women to give birth, giving their children citizenship and the parents an opportunity to influence life and policy in the United States from afar.
CatholicVote will now turn to Congress to address the obvious dangers of this policy.
The Supreme Court has given an interpretation of existing law. Congress needs to provide iron-clad legislation on the subject that isn’t open to interpretation.
Go forward bravely,
