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As the movement to protect women’s sports picks up steam, so does the opposition. We pray that God would protect those fighting for women!

From Higher Ground Times. Pro-transgender vandals defaced the Our Bodies, Our Sports coalitionā€™s ā€œTake Back Title IXā€ tour bus during a stop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, covering the vehicle with profanity and crossing out messages such as ā€œSave Womenā€™s Sports.ā€

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The bus was discovered early Friday egged and scribbled with Sharpie-written graffiti such as ā€œTrans Women are Women,ā€ ā€œProtect Trans Kids,ā€ ā€œHate Group,ā€ and ā€œBigots on Board,ā€ as shown in photosĀ sharedĀ by the Independent Womenā€™s Forum.

Posted near the bus was a cardboard sign that said ā€œTransphobic Busā€ and a pink-blue-and-white transgender flag. The bus was also egged, according to the IWF.

ā€œIt was an overnight attack. It was sneaky,ā€ said Brianna Howard, IWF external relations manager, told The Washington Times. ā€œThey didnā€™t have the decency to show up to the event and talk to us face to face. Instead, they did it under the cover of night.ā€

The bus arrived in Chapel Hill for a Thursday rally featuring former University of North Carolina womenā€™s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell, one of a dozen stops on the monthlong coast-to-coast tour aimed at drumming up opposition to the Biden administrationā€™s newly releasedĀ ruleĀ adding ā€œgender identityā€ to Title IX.

The Carrboro Police Department is investigating the vandalism, which appears to have been committed by more than one individual.

ā€œIt was a collective effort to thwart what weā€™re doing,ā€ said Ms. Howard, who filed the police report. ā€œIt wasnā€™t just one person. It was multiple people who are anti-women. It was multiple handwritings, different markers.

The bus is hard to miss. It features the faces of a host of current and former female athletes actively opposed to male-born athletes in womenā€™s sports, including Martina Navratilova, Kim Russell, Barbara Ehardt, Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlan, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, and Donna de Varona.

The tour is scheduled for a stop in Richmond, Virginia, before heading to Washington, D.C., for a Tuesday rally celebrating the 52nd anniversary of Title IX on Capitol Hill.

Ms. Navratilova, who is scheduled to appear at the Washington, D.C., event, decried the vandalism, saying on X that ā€œI would call the people who did this cowards and anarchists who donā€™t give a sā€”- about women.ā€

Ms. Gaines, a 12-time All-American swimmer and IWF ambassador, called it ā€œamazing that females wanting female-only sports warrants such a reaction.ā€

ā€œTheyā€™ve resorted to name-calling, defaming, and intentional misrepresentation when they canā€™t dissuade [us] from our position,ā€ she said in a statement. ā€œAnd now theyā€™ve added violence and vandalism to their tactics. Common sense, logic, reason, lived experience, and science are on our side.ā€

Two dozen states have sued to stop the Biden administrationā€™s Title IX rewrite, which extends the landmark civil-right lawā€™s protections to biological males who identify as women. The regulations are scheduled to take effect Aug. 1.

The administration has insisted that the updated rule doesnā€™t apply to sports, although critics disagree. A second rule barring blanket bans on male-born transgender athletes in female scholastic sports is expected to be released after the November presidential election.

ā€œLetā€™s be clear. The trans rights activists donā€™t want inclusion; they want the exclusion of women,ā€ said Ms. Gaines, host of the OutKick podcast ā€œGaines on Girls.ā€

Ms. Howard, the tour bus manager, said the ā€œTake Back Title IXā€ tour wonā€™t be deterred by the vandalism.

ā€œItā€™s crazy. Weā€™re very disheartened by this happening, but itā€™s not going to discourage us,ā€ she said. ā€œWeā€™re going to keep pushing forward and spreading the message.ā€

The Our Bodies, Our SportsĀ coalitionĀ includes right-of-center womenā€™s groups such as the IWF and Concerned Women for America as well as left-tilting organizations, including the Womenā€™s Liberation Front and Womenā€™s Declaration International USA.

Share your prayers for the Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition and the Take Back Title IX tour below.

This article was originally published at Higher Ground Times. Photo Credit: Emma Rahmani/baseimage via Canva Pro.

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NanJohnson
June 26, 2024

Dearest Heavenly Father I pray for those who believe and live the transgender teachings that they would come to a saving knowledge of The Lord Jesus Christ and truly know real love and peace in God. There is no research nor any legitimate studies of the reality or truth of transgenderism. This belief arose through repeated propaganda on the subject. Many young people and children have been drawn into this false belief and suffered major health issues which are now coming to the surface. If someone is promoting a new idea or teaching we truly should explore to find if what they are promoting has any scientific truth behind it. We also need to really spend time praying for truth and those who are involved. God hears and answers our sincere prayers. šŸ™

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