Opinion: Biden’s Title IX rule adds discrimination against women through the backdoor

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Fifty years ago, pioneering women and men fought for Title IX’s passage. 

They knew their efforts would pay off by giving girls and women like us opportunities our mothers and grandmothers didn’t have. The results have been profound. An entire youth sports ecosystem for girls has blossomed, giving countless females the same chance to develop skills critical to achieving equality in the workplace with their male counterparts.

A recent Ernst & Young study found that fully 94% of female business executives participated in sports as girls, making sports participation the most straightforward path to business success as an adult.

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Lia Thomas looks on after finishing fifth in the 200-yard freestyle at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at McAuley Aquatic Center on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta on March 18, 2022. (Mike Comer/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

As former collegiate swimmers, we know achievement does not happen by accident. It takes work, dedication, perseverance and sacrifices. We learned this as little girls, waking up at 4:30 a.m. to go to swim practice and then returning to the pool that afternoon to keep working to master our craft. We learned this in the recruiting process, where we each earned a place on the swim teams of our dream schools where we could continue pursuing our dreams on a higher level. 

Despite this, it was not until 2020 that we each realized how much we had taken for granted the opportunities made available to us by Title IX.

Today, as we approach the 52nd anniversary of the landmark