Morning Minute: Title IX Was Enacted for a Reason
Tuesday January 13, 2026
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TOP O’LE MORNING’
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WHAT’S ON THE POSTER?
Today, at the Capitol…
The creatures will be busy Tuesday with several meetings/hearings on the Hill, including:
- House Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy — “Protecting America’s Energy Infrastructure in Today’s Cyber and Physical Threat Landscape”
- Senate Armed Services – To receive a closed-door briefing on Operation Absolute Resolve
- House Subcommittee on Science, Space, Technology, and Environment—From Orbit to Operations: How Weather Satellites Support the National Security Mission
- House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, Coast Guard, and Maritime Transportation—“Drugs, Thugs, and Fish: Examining Coast Guard Law Enforcement Efforts”
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Government Operations Subcommittee — “Curbing Federal Fraud: Examining Innovative Tools to Detect and Prevent Fraud in Federal Programs”
What’s new at the White House
President Trump will travel to Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday to participate in a site visit and tour of a Ford factory, and then deliver a speech to the Detroit Economic Club.
Vice President JD Vance just highlighted the main reason immigration enforcement has become chaotic in some places.
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Plenary press…
Big debate at the Supreme Court Tuesday on transgender athletics:
- Little v. Hecox —Do laws that seek to protect women’s and girls’ sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- West Virginia v. BPJ — 1. Does Title IX prevent a State from systematically designating girls’ and boys’ sports teams on the basis of biological sex determined at birth. 2. Does the Equal Protection Clause prevent a state from offering separate sports teams for boys and girls based on biological sex determined at birth?
You can listen to the oral argument today, starting at 10:00 a.m. ET, right here.
SEE ALSO: Biological Boy’s unfair sporting advantage now challenged in High Court
UPCOMING ATTRACTIONS
SCOTUS could issue other decisions on Wednesday – could these include rulings on tariffs and/or the Voting Rights Act? Stay tuned!
MORNING REFLECTION
As noted above, the Supreme Court today hears oral arguments in the related cases of Little versus Hecox And West Virginia v. BPJboth of which involve challenging state laws aimed at protecting girls’ and women’s sports — in other words, preserving them for biological girls and women.
As someone who attended school in the 1970s and 1980s, my female classmates and I were very familiar with Title IX because it had been enacted so recently. We were the first generation of girls and young women to have our own sports teams and to have the opportunity to participate in sporting competitions.
This measure was passed for a reason, and the fact that so many people – especially on the left – have blithely glossed over its purpose – and necessity – over the past decade is infuriating. It doesn’t matter where you end up on the transgender issue. The fundamental principles of fairness and equality that underpinned the enactment of Title IX require the preservation of sports segregation by sex. Let’s hope SCOTUS recognizes this – even if one of its members remains confused about what a woman is.
LIGHTER RATE
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