USA Today columnist who attacked Caitlin Clark goes after Heritage Foundation 'coming for' Title IX

USA Today columnist Nancy Armour accused nan Heritage Foundation of "coming for" Title IX connected Thursday, soon aft facing backlash for her controversial Caitlin Clark column.

Armour cited nan blimpish deliberation vessel study titled "Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity," released earlier this month, which criticized nan modern exertion of nan 1972 national civilian authorities rule barring sex-based favoritism successful acquisition activities aliases programs that person national funding.

The report's author, Scott Yenor, elder investigation chap astatine nan Heritage Foundation's American Citizenship Initiative, wrote that stricter interpretations of nan rule person enforced rigid equality successful schoolhouse sports to nan detriment of some antheral and female student athletes.

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The Heritage Foundation put retired a study criticizing nan constrictive enforcement of Title IX regarding female sports. (Wavebreakmedia / Getty Images)

"Title IX evolved from a seemingly humble anti-discrimination statute into a powerful motor of feminist societal engineering, complete pinch proportionality mandates," nan Heritage Foundation study read. "The consequence has been 2 systemic distortions: a prejudice successful favour of a male-normed competitory exemplary for women’s sports and a prejudice against men’s non-revenue programs."

Armour claimed that this signaled nan statement is seeking to region protections for female sports and rotation backmost women's rights.

"Our bodies, our self-confidence, our independency — they’re not going to extremity until women person nan aforesaid authorities and opportunities they did earlier nan 1970s. Which were almost none," Armour wrote.

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The USA Today columnist dismissed nan thought that nan Heritage Foundation’s efforts "will spell nowhere" contempt nan law's wide support.

"Project 2025 has done excessively overmuch harm already not to return nan threat to Title IX seriously. The Heritage Foundation wants a United States that reflects their White, Judeo-Christian and heteronormative 'values,' and is steadfastly moving to destruct thing that deviates from them," Armour wrote.

She added, "It’s besides astir enforcing a circumstantial meaning of femininity. It started pinch banning transgender women from sports. Now that that’s been accomplished, nan Heritage Foundation and their ilk are going to effort and make nan remainder of america women conform."

USA Today columnist Nancy Armour antecedently faced backlash accusing Caitlin Clark of putting number WNBA players successful danger. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to nan Heritage Foundation for comment.

Though Armour suggested that nan Heritage Foundation is seeking to destruct Title IX, Yenor alternatively based on successful favour of reforms to nan rule that focused little connected proportionality successful male-dominated sports and much connected opportunities for female-centric athletics specified arsenic cheerleading, gymnastics and volleyball.

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"Equality nether Title IX does not require identical outcomes aliases nan erasure of activity differences. It requires opportunity rooted successful quality quality that will uncover genuine differences betwixt nan sexes. Recovering an attack that accommodates nan partially natural, partially taste differences betwixt nan sexes tin prolong vibrant women’s sports, protect and possibly grow antheral opportunities, and lend to a healthier, much humane societal order," Yenor wrote.

Armour's latest file came aft she received backlash for accusing Indiana Fever prima Caitlin Clark of putting Black and queer WNBA players "in danger" by flopping and berating tribunal officials.

Armour later apologized for her "inartful comparison" of Caitlin Clark to Emmett Till's murder. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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"It shouldn’t request reminding this state has an atrocious history of Black group being harmed, moreover killed, successful nan sanction of 'defending' achromatic women. The WNBA’s All-Star Game this play is successful Chicago, Emmett Till’s hometown, and a section creation assemblage is presently hosting an grounds imagining his life if he hadn’t been lynched. While it’s incumbent connected nan WNBA to do much to protect its players, location besides should beryllium an anticipation connected Clark to admit nan wider consequences of her actions," Armour wrote.

Armour later apologized for her "inartful comparison" of Clark's actions to nan execution of Emmett Till and has updated nan column.