Girls Sports

Nebraska Citizens to Vote on Constitutional Amendment Protecting Girls Sports

Nebraskans will consider a constitutional amendment to protect girls sports in the 2026 midterm election, which will be held on November 3.

Through the initiative process, Nebraska citizens submitted over 211,000 signatures to get the “Fairness for Girls” Amendment added to the 2026 general election ballot.

A ballot initiative is a process that allows citizens to propose statutes or constitutional amendments to place on the ballot after gaining a requisite number of signatures. Citizens then vote on the measures in a regularly scheduled election.

Twenty-six states allow for this type of “direct democracy,” where a majority of voters can directly change the law in their states, in addition to the usual process of state and federal elected representatives proposing and passing laws.

The initiative, also called the “Nebraska Sex Requirement for School and College Sports Amendment,” would add the following text to the state constitution:

(1) Schools must expressly designate each athletic team or sport as one of the following based on biological sex: (a) Males, men, or boys; (b) females, women, or girls; or (c) coed or mixed.
(2) Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall not be open to students of the male sex.

If approved, it would establish constitutional protections for sex-separate athletics, ensuring female athletes receive equal access to athletic opportunities. The measure would prohibit “transgender”-identified males from competing in girls sports.

While Nebraska has a law protecting girls sports, those safeguards are only statutory, meaning they can be weakened, repealed or overturned. The Fairness for Girls Amendment would ensure girls sports are protected by the Nebraska Constitution.

Fairness for Girls, the leading campaign supporting the initiative, says the measure would:

  • Protect Fairness in Girls Sports: Allowing men to compete in girls sports destroys a level playing field and undermines fairness for our daughters.
  • Protect Girls’ Opportunities: Over 900 medals have been awarded to biological males competing in girls sports.
  • Protect Girls’ Physical Safety: Protecting girls from preventable, potentially life-altering injuries is not controversial. It’s common sense.

The Nebraska Family Alliance (NFA), a Focus on the Family-allied organization, strongly supports this Amendment. NFA Advocacy & Engagement Coordinator Elizabeth Nunnally said,

Men and women have distinct biological differences, and girls sports protections are common-sense. Equal opportunity, privacy, and safety are fundamental rights of every Nebraskan, and Fairness for Girls will establish these safeguards for girls sports in the Nebraska Constitution once and for all.

The organization added, “Nebraska has the opportunity in November to make history and become the first state to adopt these protections through a voter-led constitutional amendment.”

Citizens living in Nebraska can help ensure girls sports are protected for generations to come by voting “Yes” on the state’s Fairness for Girls Amendment on November 3. You can visit the Nebraska secretary of state’s website to learn more about early voting.

All citizens have additional opportunities to promote life, religious freedom, free speech, the God-given reality of biological sex, marriage and children’s rights this election season. In the 2026 midterm election, please support candidates who most align with your Christian values.

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Judge Dismisses DOJ’s Lawsuit Against California’s Policy Allowing Boys in Girls Sports

A federal judge has dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy permitting biological males to compete in girls sports.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela threw out the case against California on Monday, as the DOJ is considering an appeal.

“We are disappointed by the Court’s order and remain committed to enforcing President Trump’s agenda of preventing boys from playing in girls’ sports,” the DOJ said after the ruling. A department spokesperson said the DOJ is “evaluating our options for appeal.”

Judge Valenzuela was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by former President Joseph R. Biden in 2024.

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) allows students to compete in sports and use locker rooms based on their “gender identity” rather than their sex.

AB Hernandez, a boy who attempts to live as a girl, won two state titles at the California girls track and field championships earlier this year, taking first place in the girls high jump and triple jump, and third place in the girls long jump.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon filed a complaint in the district court on July 9, 2025, alleging CIF’s policy violates Title IX, which ensures both sexes have an equal opportunity to participate in school athletic programs.

“California’s … discriminatory policies and practices ignore undeniable biological differences between boys and girls, in favor of an amorphous ‘gender identity,’” the lawsuit alleged. “The results of these illegal policies are stark: girls are displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for college scholarships and recognition.”

California’s policy threatens Title IX, the complaint stated, saying, “It erodes the integrity of girls’ sports, diminishes their competitive experience, and undermines the very purpose of Title IX: to provide equal access to education benefits, including interscholastic athletics.”

The DOJ has been attempting to enforce President Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which he signed in February 2025, directing the secretary of education to “take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms” and prioritize enforcement against schools that violate the policy.

In April 2025, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education created a Title IX Special Investigations Team to investigate and prosecute schools, states and athletic conferences that allow boys in girls sports.

The DOJ has also filed lawsuits against Maine and Minnesota for violating Title IX, and the DOJ’s Special Investigations Team has initiated dozens of investigations into school districts for discriminating against girls and women, the Daily Citizen has previously reported.

In this case, you might be wondering why California is still fighting to let boys compete in girls sports after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year states can protect girls and women’s sports.

The Court decided in State of West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox, in which “transgender”-identified male athletes challenged West Virginia and Idaho laws protecting girls sports, that the 14th Amendment and Title IX permit states to enact such laws.

However, the Court did not decide whether Title IX requires states to do so. The Court could consider that in a future case, perhaps even in this case if it’s eventually appealed to the high Court.

Any appeal filed will next be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which hears appeals from Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

Once widely seen as the most liberal federal appellate court, the 9th Circuit has become increasingly conservative thanks to 10 appointments by President Donald J. Trump in his first term, and an additional appointment in his second term. President Biden nominated eight judges to the 9th Circuit who were confirmed in his single term.

The court now has 13 judges nominated by Republican presidents and 16 judges nominated by Democrat presidents.

After the judge’s decision, Dhillon intimated the agency would imminently file an appeal.

 “California judge …,” she wrote on X. “Stay tuned.”

The case is United States of America v. California Interscholastic Federation.

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WNBA Issues Non-Apology After Mother and Daughter Were Told to Cover XX-XY Shirts

The WNBA continues to make headlines over its unwillingness to stand for women’s athletics. 

The most recent controversy occurred when the security guard at a game between the Indiana Fever and the Atlanta Dream told Kasey Thomason and her daughter, Annie, to cover up their “offensive” XX-XY Athletics t-shirts – or be removed from the game.

The league compounded its wrongdoing with this tepid statement:

The WNBA is aware of interactions at last night’s game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts. This should not have happened.

With this lame non-apology, the WNBA takes no ownership of the incident. The league does not apologize directly to the Thomasons or explain how it will stop similar incidents from happening again. 

The Thomasons paid $1,000 apiece for tickets near courtside at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena. Both wore shirts with the XX-XY logo on the front, while Annie’s also said, “For the girls,” on the back.

XX-XY Athletics was founded by Jennifer Sey, an elite gymnast, seven-time member of the U.S. Women’s National Gymnastics Team and the U.S. Women’s All-Around National Champion in 1986.

Sey explains the company’s mission on the XX-XY website: 

We are unapologetic about our goal. We are here to protect women’s sports and spaces.
Women deserve the opportunities that sports and single sex spaces provide. Sex matters. It is the single biggest determinant of athletic performance. It is unfair and dangerous to allow males (XY) to compete in girls and women’s (XX) sports.

Social media content creator Adam Francisco reported the Thomasons attended the game to support Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham, who has been outspoken in her support for girls and women’s sports. 

Mother and daughter wore their shirts the entire game until a security guard approached them halfway through a five-minute overtime, as Fox News explained: 

The security guard told them that a fan(s) were offended by their shirts, so they had the choice to wear the provided Atlanta Dream “Wellness & Health Night” shirts, or they would be escorted out of the building.
To this, Kasey responded by saying, “Biology and science is offensive?”, before reluctantly agreeing to put the shirts on so they didn’t miss the last two minutes of overtime, where the Indiana Fever eventually secured a 95-91 victory.

Francisco videotaped the Thomasons after the game and posted the incident on X, writing: 

Earlier in the game, a woman wearing a “Protect Trans Rights” shirt was prominently featured on the Jumbotron. Only after receiving that stadium spotlight was she also told to cover her shirt.

Kasey supported the other woman’s right to wear a “transgender” t-shirt, saying she shouldn’t have had to cover up her message, either. 

The WNBA has completely mishandled the issue of males in female sports and private spaces. The WNBA’s official policy reserves the league for women: “Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.”

However, the policy does not define “women.” 

A WNBA task force of team presidents and general managers met to discuss males who claim to be women playing women’s basketball, but the league could not clarify its eligibility rules. 

It shouldn’t be that difficult. Women and men are different, and we acknowledge those differences with separate sport teams, locker rooms, restrooms and showers. 

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Enes Kanter Freedom Declares for WNBA Draft Amid ‘Trans’ Controversy

Enes Kanter Freedom, an NBA star, anti-communism advocate and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is calling the WNBA’s bluff by declaring for the league’s 2027 draft.

“Well, it’s officially official. I just declared for the 2027 WNBA draft in April,” Freedom said in a social media video. “Join me in this journey.”

“If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA,” Freedom said days earlier.

“I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone – the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for. … I look forward to the WNBA honoring its stated principles.”

What are those “stated principles?” Following Freedom’s declaration, the Women’s National Basketball Players Association released a statement on social media re-emphasizing “equity, diversity, and inclusion” as “values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women’s sports while creating transformational change.”

“Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns,” the association claimed.

The WNBA’s official policy reserves the league for women: “Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.”

However, the policy does not define “women.” And the players association strongly supports men participating in girls and women’s sports.

“The WNBPA will fight for trans youth across the country,” the association asserts. “Banning trans kids from sports ostracizes them from a fundamental part of growing up and a lifeline to feel welcome and a part of their community.”

The WNBPA’s open invitation for male inclusion meant it was just a matter of time before a talented male athlete like Enes Freedom called its bluff. Will the association stand behind its “transgender” activism when its lofty language meets reality? Time will tell.

Enes Freedom was raised in Turkey and moved to the United States as teenager. He spoke out against President Erdogan’s human rights abuses in his home country. In response, the Turkish government “canceled his passport, placed his name on an Interpol list, banned communication with his family, imprisoned and tortured his father, [and] placed a $500,000 bounty on his head.”

The Utah Jazz selected the 34-year-old as the third overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. He went on to play for the Thunder, Blazers and Celtics, and used his famous “Freedom Shoes” in NBA games to speak out about the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses.

HOUSTON, TEXAS – OCTOBER 24: Enes Kanter #13 of the Boston Celtics sneakers are seen at Toyota Center on October 24, 2021 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

After wearing “Anti-CCP” shoes in 2021, every Boston Celtics game was immediately banned by China and Turkey. The Celtics traded him to the Houston Rockets in February 2022, which then released him just three minutes later, a decision which Freedom believes was made to silence him and cost him around $50 million.

Freedom, who became a U.S. citizen in 2022, is now using his freedom to advocate for the right of women to compete freely, fairly and safely in athletics. And he’s not alone.

Royce White, a former NBA player, has also declared for the WNBA draft, saying the league is “an example of a herald of us losing a lot of things in this country.”

Sophie Cunningham, who plays guard for the Indiana Fever, recently ignited a firestorm by speaking out against men playing in women’s sports.

“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans,” the star player said. “And I’m like, ‘I never once said that.’ I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”

Cunningham’s bold remark stands in stark contrast to Cheryl Reeve’s, head coach of the Lynx, outspoken advocacy for transgender-identified players.

When the Lynx faced off against the Fever, Reeve wore a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt.

“We need to protect trans kids,” Reeve said. “To me, it’s a human rights issue. Every kid has a right to sports.”

Outkick founder Clay Travis devised a creative proposal to expose the WNBA’s transgender activism: A head-to-head basketball game between the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces and a boy’s high school state team.

“If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million,” Travis said. The Las Vegas Aces and WNBA have not accepted, or even acknowledged, Travis’ offer.

In recent days, the pressure being placed on the WNBA by Freedom, White, Cunningham and Travis may have started to break through.

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams addressing the controversy.

“I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention,” Engelbert wrote.

A task force of team presidents and general managers will discuss the topic at a meeting this week, she acknowledged.

For a league dedicated to female participation – it is the Women’s National Basketball Association after all – it’s quite silly to think there’s anything to “discuss.”

Nevertheless, the WNBA must recognize what a woman is – and fast. Otherwise, its players may be competing against the 6’ 10” Enes Freedom and the 6’ 8” Royce White next season.

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Clay Travis Calls the WNBA’s Bluff With $10 Million Challenge

Outkick founder Clay Travis is calling the WNBA’s bluff.

In response to the latest kerfuffle within the professional women’s basketball league over Sophie Cunningham’s defense of women’s sports, Travis, who’s also a sports journalist and co-host of “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” tweeted out a provocative offer this past Tuesday:

“Important announcement: I am upping my offer, $10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy’s high school state title team of my choice,” he wrote. “If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.”

The Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham has ignited a firestorm of criticism from leftists for suggesting women’s sports should be reserved for women.

Cunningham’s position is straightforward common-sense that’s been widely accepted forever. It’s only been in recent years with the introduction of the “trans” movement that anyone would have objected to such a position. Sadly, even Cunningham’s coach has been infected by the inanity. Asked recently whether sexually confused men should be permitted to play in the league, the Fever’s Stephanie White refused to answer. 

“I don’t know that I would say I’m educated enough from a scientific standpoint,” the coach told the press. “I don’t ever believe that exclusion is the answer. I just don’t. I do think that when we think about various levels of sport, various governing bodies of sport, and things that go into that, like I said, I’m not educated enough at the different levels. I know growing up I played with the boys all the time.”

So Coach White is educated enough to coach a women’s basketball team, but not informed enough to recognize the fundamental and foundational physiological differences between male and female athletes?

It’s been long established that males have between 30% and 40% more upper-body muscle mass and between 20% and 30% more lower-body muscle mass than females. Males generally have larger skeletons, longer limbs, broader shoulders, larger hands and feet, and higher bone density. They also have larger hearts and greater lung capacity. As a result, men run, on average, 8% to 12% faster than women.

Clay Travis is aware of these significant differences, which is why he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is and challenge the absurd premise underlying the “trans” debate, specifically that men and women are interchangeable.

Sophie Cunningham’s famous teammate, Caitlin Clark, has deliberately sidestepped the controversy, a decision that has disappointed many of her fans. Asked about the raging debate this past weekend, Clark deferred.

“I think it’s for leagues and governing bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions,” she told reporters. “Our focus is on basketball. That’s what we talk about and how we can get wins and obviously we didn’t do that tonight. So we need to find an area to improve in that way.”

Cheryl Reeve, head coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, tackled the issue in the exact opposite manner. During a recent game against Cunningham’s and Clark’s Fever, she wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Trans Kids Belong.” She told reporters, “We need to protect trans kids.”

Never mind that there’s no such thing as a “trans” kid – there are boys and girls, and yes, they should be protected, especially girls from boys who claim to be girls.

As of this writing, the Las Vegas Aces haven’t yet responded to Clay Travis’ offer, nor are they expected to take him up on the $10 million challenge. Critics may not appreciate the theater of such an offer, but the Outkick founder is simply using the tactic to make an irrefutable point: the physiological differences between male and female athletes are real and significant. 

In the end, the “trans” delusion is theater itself, and a very bad show where the curtain is falling and whose run is hopefully and prayerfully drawing to a close.