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This is all about trans people.

And so as we continue to examine the grift that keeps on giving,

billbox legal argument here in Gaines v. NCAA, which is filed in 2024, it does have to do with Title IX.

This is the law from the 1970s that banned sex discrimination in American schools.

Quote, no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

End quote.

Riley Gaines is the lead plaintiff in this lawsuit, but Bill Bach also filed on behalf of 15 more female athletes who all have complaints about trans people.

And they say that letting Leah Thomas swim, but also letting any other trans athlete compete in the women's division, violates Title IX.

Right.

The way to get there is legally portray Riley Gaines as this victim and provide a roadmap for the permanent extinction of trans women, trans girls in K through 12, all the way up to college in terms of their ability to participate in sports.

And I just have to imagine here, hiring the guy who represented Donald Trump himself, like that cannot be cheap.

No, I have a tab in my spreadsheet also called Contributions to Icons.

And this gets us to yet another nonprofit in the anti-trans movement.

So ICONS is an acronym for the Independent Council on Women's Sports.

And at the New York Times last year, they called it the, quote, preeminent organization in the trans sports band movement, end quote.

This nonprofit started with press conferences, but it pretty quickly pivoted to focusing on the legal arena.

It exists pretty much exclusively to fund lawsuits in the name of Riley Gaines and Company.

It's got a handful of them all pending in court, all making pretty much the same argument.

And ICONS is pretty interesting, too.

It was started by a former champion college swimmer at the University of Arizona and a swim mom, herself a former tennis player at Stanford, who got fired up about these issues because, can you guess?