Trump Just Set Women’s Sports Back Decades
By removing Title IX protections from NIL rules, the president is sending a clear message to colleges: Men deserve all of the money and publicity.
Not doing much protecting.
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Last week President Donald Trump’s administration decided that Title IX gender discrimination protections won’t apply when schools begin directly paying athletes for their name, image and likeness rights — or NIL — later this year. The move rescinds the guidance that was put in place in the last days of the Biden administration.
And just like that, rather than divvy up their millions equally between men’s and women’s sports, colleges and universities are free to send all of the money to male football and basketball players.
The Trump administration’s decision is no surprise, but it’s a slap in the face to all of the female athletes whom Trump has recently claimed to be protecting.