Kendall County Times

Kendall County GOP Chairman James Marter is blasting President Joe Biden's push to change Title IX rules.

In the wake of Biden’s recent announcement about amending the parameters of Title IX, a report by the Prairie State Wire found that Illinois is now one of 29 states that allow boys to compete in girls’ sports on the high school level.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped short of reversing a lower court’s verdict that blocked enforcement of a law passed two years ago in West Virginia that prohibited boys from taking part in girls’ high school sports.

Just over a year ago, University of Pennsylvania male swimmer Will “Lia” Thomas won two titles in the women’s NCAA swimming championships but was scorned and labeled a “cheat” by many, such as University of Kentucky star Riley Gaines, whom she tied in the 200-meter freestyle championships.

The Kendall County Times reached out to Marter for his opinion on allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports. 

"What Biden is trying to do is tell women they don’t mean anything in sports because this would basically decimate women’s sports," he told the Times. "I stand with all the women fighting for women’s sports."

Marter justified his opinion by stating that males and females are just different and called the proposed amendment a "sham" by Democrats meant to "lessen our Constitution."

"All you have to do is follow the science," he said. "There’s a reason why there’s a difference in all the sports when it comes to the sexes. We just can’t tolerate anything like this. As individuals, we can treat people with respect, but we don’t have to go along with any of their ideology.

"Real men would not tolerate anything this. It’s not the way things were intended to be."

Along with Illinois, the states that allow boys to participate in girls’ high school sports are Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin; the Wire said.