Female athletes, women's sports advocates, sound off on Biden's new Title IX regulations: '180 for the worst'

Three-time Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson and Independent Women's Forum President Carrie Lukas joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss fairness in women's sports.

Female athletes and women’s sports advocates spoke out in Washington, D.C. about Biden’s proposed changes to Title IX, on the 50th anniversary of the rule. 

The Biden administration proposed new regulations Thursday, which would sweep gender identity into the law’s protections, "strengthen[ing] protections for LGBTQIA+ students who face discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity," according to the Department of Education. 

Riley Gaines, a Kentucky swimmer, who tied transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for fifth place at the NCAA championships, told Fox News Digital Biden’s new proposed rules are a "complete 180 for the worst." 

"Rewriting Title IX and redefining what sex is, is taking away everything that sex has stood for the past 50 years, and everything that women have fought so hard to get, like equity and fairness, and equal opportunities," she said. "This destroys that and the integrity of woman’s sports will be completely lost and a thing of the past."

BIDEN PROPOSES NEW RULES TO SOLIDIFY ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ PROTECTIONS IN SCHOOLS UNDER TITLE IX

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Chelsea Mitchell, a former high school athlete who lost four state championships and two all-New England awards to biologically male competitors, said at an Our Bodies, Our Sports rally the