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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Turburtuün felt that a good cooking class should focus on mac and cheese basics before haphazardly beelining to the foie gras.
It’s weird how things played out on Tuesday afternoon. After finishing up my latest VIP column — which kind of came out of nowhere — I remembered a something I’d started almost two weeks ago, and had forgotten about. I immediately got to work on that, not paying attention to anything else that was going on in the news.
My column was about transgender issues, and while I was writing it, Matt was covering this news:
The Department of Education just delivered a major dose of accountability: The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to resolve Title IX violations tied to its decision to let Will “Lia” Thomas—a biological male—compete on the women’s swim team during the 2021-22 season. It’s the latest fallout from a controversy that never should have happened in the first place. UPenn’s reckless embrace of gender ideology came at the direct expense of female athletes, who were sidelined, stripped of titles, and told to stay silent in the name of “inclusion.” Now, they’re finally getting some justice.
But it doesn’t stop there. The university will also restore the records and titles that were effectively stolen from female athletes and issue personal apologies to each woman impacted by the farce they were made to endure.
It’s welcome news, a sign that maybe we are returning some sanity to a thoroughly insane situation that never should have happened in the first place. The apology is largely an empty gesture that serves mostly as an admission of wrongdoing. As with all of the progressive lunacy from the Biden era, the damage can never really be undone. College athletic careers go by in the blink of an eye. My daughter was a college athlete, so I know whence I speak. Those young women will never get back what the Democrats’ psychotic use of “inclusion” as norm-destroying cudgel took from them.
Once again, the Dems don’t have to deal with real consequences.
This is from one of Thomas’s teammates:
I wanted to take a quick moment to thank @Riley_Gaines_
She’s become the teammate I wish I had in college. I was silenced, bullied and unsupported by my teammates and my university.
Today and everyday, I’m grateful for our friendship and how much she’s helped me grow ❤️ pic.twitter.com/u1RljDLuue
— Paula Scanlan (@PaulaYScanlan) July 2, 2025
Riley Gaines is the young woman who became the face of the good side of this fight. She also competed against Thomas. It’s encouraging to see young people working so hard to turn an overwhelmingly negative experience into something positive.
While Matt was writing that this was all part of “The Biden-era weaponization of Title IX,” I was offering a similar take::
Liberals in blue states and Academia opened the floodgates for trans participation in women’s and girl’s sports just so they could call us bigots for rightly saying that it was all wrong. The unfairness to young female athletes is staggering. Feminists who hadn’t shut their mouths for decades were eerily silent and nowhere to be found on the issue.
That’s how they operate — they deploy their victim group du jour as part of the wrecking ball they use to in their pursuit of destroying decency, institutions, and, ultimately, the Republic.
The individuals who orchestrated the obliteration of so many young women’s dreams will never be held accountable, but this is still an important correction. The University of Pennsylvania put itself in the center of this controversy, no doubt hoping that the institution would forever be given a place of honor in whatever leftist Utopia that they thought the Biden Commie Cabal was leading them towards. It’s good that the school has to take its lumps, even if the mea culpa is a faceless one.
Now, the wheels are in motion to reverse the policies that attempted to erase women from women’s sports. President Trump and his administration have delivered on yet another promise. If they don’t get any sleep for the next three-and-a-half years, they might just be able to clean up all of Joe Biden’s worst messes.
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