Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

The funny thing about the Heritage Foundation is that they have always been upfront about their plans. They write hundreds of pages of plans for the dystopian future they envision, and they don’t hide the plans. They publish them online for the world to see…remember Project 2025?

Analyses by the Center for Progressive Reform, an organization tracking the progress of Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation indicate that about 53 percent of the domestic administrative policy recommendations outlined in Project 2025 have been initiated or completed.

The Project is a far-right governing blueprint, and the Heritage Foundation has never been shy about its agenda. Project 2025 told us what they wanted to do to government, and a new report published by the Heritage Foundation tells us what they think about women.

We are not partners in public life, but people to be managed and separated and minimized.

I happened across a sentence in the new Heritage report entitled, “Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity.” The Report was released by the Heritage Foundation on July 8, 2026.

Here is the sentence that caught my attention:

“The current Title IX regime as applied to sports is part of a sustained social engineering effort that is designed to produce a new sort of woman—one that is more aggressive, more competitive, more male, less relational, and less oriented toward the goods of family and motherhood.”

That sentence shook me. I couldn’t believe I read it in a report from an organization that is actively working inside the Trump regime. Trump appointed several contributors and authors tied to Project 2025 and the Foundation, such as Russell Vought (Office of Management and Budget), Tom Homan (border policy), and Brendan Carr (FCC). The Heritage Foundation is now fully embedded in the Trump regime.

I went on to read the entire report on Title IX, and I could barely contain my anger and outrage.

The plan is to end, or severely limit, women’s competitive sports and return to sex-segregated opportunities for men and women in schools across the country. To assert that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need competitive sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes…” would suffice.

To instead encourage “activities that emphasize rhythm, coordination, community, and graceful exertion.” To prove that women don’t need to compete at elite levels, but rather benefit from activities that build, “health, good habits, vigor, grace, confidence, and beauty.”

The report outlines that the goal for women’s sports should be, “…virtue and health grounded in reality and freedom, not the imposition of a male-oriented competitive ideal.”

Our oldest daughter at bat.

I know a little about competitive sports. I am married to a Head Football Coach, and we have five kids. They played varsity sports, and two were recruited to play at the collegiate level, including our oldest daughter. She has played softball on competitive teams since her middle school days. She also ran the 4x100 and competed in the long jump.

But her true love was softball. She excelled at softball and I can tell you that the Title IX that insists that girls have the same right to a competitive sport as boys, made a difference in her life. A competitive sport gave her confidence. It gave her stability. It gave her lifelong friendships. It gave her the ability to understand teamwork and her own role in life.

Softball made her the person she is today. Competition made her better prepared for her adult life. She understands persistence and grit. She knows what it’s like to win and lose. She handles both well thanks to elite competition.

I read the entire Title IX report produced by the Heritage Foundation, and it took a while. Not because it is that long, and certainly not because the report is complex — it’s a 45 minute, easy read.

It took me a while because I couldn’t stand to read the faux-academic drivel. I couldn’t bear to read the anti-woman words formed into random sentences. I couldn’t stomach the pseudoscience used to prop up the thesis that women do not need competitive sports.

So, I did a little digging into the man who wrote the report: Scott Yenor, PhD. He is the acting Chair of the American Citizenship Initiative and a Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

The page dedicated to him on the Heritage Foundation’s site has praise for his work, saying: “Yenor is a student of the hostile forces of feminism and liberals that rip the family apart or prevent families from forming.”

Well, there you go...a lengthy report that I am positive will land on the Department of Education’s desk, written by a man spewing venom toward feminists and liberals. Toward women in general it seems.

Yenor included so many anti-woman tropes that it would be impossible to include them all, but the goal of the report, beyond ending competitive sports for women and girls is to add more sports for men. Yenor consistently argues that adding women’s sports created a system unfair to men’s sports. That men derive more benefit from competitive sports than do women.

From the report:

“Nor should we forget what happens when we ignore the effects of Title IX on men. Competition is much more central to male identity…both competitive drive and male friendship have suffered under the weaponized application of Title IX.”

The “weaponization” Yenor is referring to is the inclusion of women and girls in school sports.

Sounds like the old and tired DEI arguments from the Right. Giving equal opportunity to women and people of color is somehow diminishing the opportunities of others. We can clearly see where anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion have landed us since they have been dismantled by the Trump regime.

Our country is not better without DEI — we could argue that it is worse.

The irony in all of this is not lost on me. The Heritage Foundation has consistently fought to “save” girls’ sports and has taken a stand against trans athletes in sports. They argue that “male genetics and physiology provide inherent competitive and safety advantages that undermine fairness for female athletes under Title IX” all the while the true intention was to dismantle women’s sports.

The “men in women’s sports” rhetoric was just anti-trans rhetoric. The anti-trans sports fight was always a vehicle for a broader rollback of women’s sports protections.

The Heritage Foundation was never committed to an effort to save or better women’s sports. They used their anti-woman, anti-trans, anti-inclusion talking points to try to attain their true goal: the elimination of competitive sports for women. To keep women segregated from men starting in school sports.

Ultimately, to keep women in their place — limiting women’s ambition and opportunities. Away from competition and excellence.

~Jess