Concerned Women for America Commends Trump Administration’s Pause of $175 Million to the University of Pennsylvania
Concerned Women for America Commends Trump Administration’s Pause of $175 Million to the University of Pennsylvania For Immediate ReleaseMarch 19, 2025 Contact:[email protected] Washington, D.C. — Concerned Women for America (CWA) applauds the Trump Administration’s decision to pause $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) amid an investigation into potential Title IX […]
Women for America Podcast: Women’s Sports
In this episode of Women for America, we explore the latest developments from the NCAA Convention and the ongoing fight for women in sports. With Legislative Strategist Macy Petty, CEO and President Penny Nance discuss the challenges, triumphs, and role of politics in shaping the future of women’s athletics. From the halls of Congress to […]
Denny: The Clock is Ticking for the NCAA to Change its Trans Policy
As the National Collegiate Athletic Association convened in Nashville for its annual convention, CWA’s Doreen Denny was featured in Fox News observing that the meeting of NCAA colleges comes at a pivotal moment with a new Administration and a new court decision confronting the NCAA with demands for change to protect women’s sports. “It seems […]
CWA Exclusive on Fox News: CWA of Louisiana Letter to Louisiana Tech Volleyball Prompts Soul-Searching Response: “We would have sought a different outcome”
CWA State Director of Louisiana, Laura Huber, and CWA Legislative Strategist, Macy Petty, are featured in this Fox news article reporting on responses from Louisiana Tech officials to Huber’s letter regarding LA Tech women’s volleyball team playing its opening match against San Jose State University and transgender player Blaire Fleming. It showcases CWA’s pathbreaking work […]
Brave Coach Punished for Speaking Up Against Title IX Violations
Melissa Batie-Smoose of San Jose State University (SJSU) filed a federal Civil Rights Complaint against SJSU after witnessing discriminatory actions against members of the women’s volleyball team. After speaking out on behalf of the girls on her team, the school placed Coach Batie-Smoose on indefinite leave. San Jose State University remains at the top of […]
Sen. Blackburn Demands NCAA Prohibit Men from Playing in Women’s Sports
While the world watched a biological man steal the women’s boxing gold medal at the Paris Olympics, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) demanding that they stop such atrocities from happening on American soil. The time for the NCAA to step up and protect its female athletes […]
Everyone Should be Equal at the Starting Line
Summary of Riley Gaines, et al. v. NCAA, et al. Complaint, filed 03/14/2024 Sixteen current and former collegiate female athletes are reiterating Justice Kavanaugh’s assertion from Nat’l Collegiate Ass’n v. Alston, (2021), that “[t]he NCAA is not above the law,” in their class action lawsuit against the NCAA. The full text of the Complaint can […]
Rights of Female Swimmers Protected
For Immediate Release June 13, 2024 Contact: CWA Communications [email protected] Rights of Female Swimmers Protected Decision not to allow males to compete in international female competition is upheld in court Washington, D.C. – Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, praised World Aquatics and the Court of Arbitration for […]
Hyde-Smith, Miller Introduce Bill to Protect Title IX
Title IX was once the crowning achievement of the women’s rights movement, but with the stroke of a pen and some bureaucratic maneuvering, a new rule from the Biden Administration will unconstitutionally undo what women spent decades fighting for unless the Courts step in or Congress can pass legislation to stop it. Title IX was […]
CWA’s Macy Petty Talks Fairness in Women’s Sports on Varney & Co.
Concerned Women for America’s Macy Petty reacts to former professional soccer player, Megan Rapinoe’s pressure on the NCAA to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports. Macy Petty on Varney and Co from Concerned Women for America on Vimeo.
NCAA’s Dark Secrets
As the NCAA Board of Governors meets this week, NCAA volleyball player and Young Women for America ambassador Macy Petty writes in a new op-ed: “Though the NCAA claims a priority to ‘deliver safe, fair, and inclusive competition,’ the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Rule, announced a few weeks ago, affirms protections of female […]
URGENT: Tell NCAA Governors to Protect Women’s Sports!
Calling all current and former NCAA female athletes! This is an urgent request to contact the NCAA. (Please share with any you know who are concerned about males competing in women’s sports.) The NCAA Board of Governors is meeting on Thursday, April 25, under a spotlight of major developments in the fight to protect women’s […]
Podcast: NCAA’s Day of Reckoning
On March 14, 2024, 16 brave women filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Georgia against the NCAA for sex discrimination. Among the plaintiffs is Young Women for America (YWA) ambassador and 31-time All-American swimmer Kylee Alons who competed in the 100-yard freestyle against Lia Thomas, a biological male. Kylee joins YWA National […]
Real March Madness
As the sports world marked two years since Lia Thomas, a biological man, stole a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women’s national swimming championship, YWA Ambassador and NCAA athlete Macy Petty gives her insights into what young women have had to face in sports with males competing in women’s sports and how she has being […]
NCAA’s Day of Reckoning as 16 Female Athletes File Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
For Immediate Release March 14, 2024 Contact: CWA Communications [email protected] NCAA’s Day of Reckoning as 16 Female AthletesFile Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Allowing men to compete in their sports violates women’s rights Washington, D.C. – Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA) proudly stands with the sixteen brave women who have filed a lawsuit in federal district […]
What NCAA Blockbuster Admission Says About the Future of Women Sports
At a time when the NCAA faces backlash for suppressing women’s achievements, NCAA President Charlie Baker made a blockbuster admission buried on page 18 of a recent letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: “The NCAA has never studied the harm of its policy allowing males identifying as women to participate and compete on women’s […]
Women Stand Along Virginia Attorney General Demanding an End To NCAA Discriminatory Policy
On March 8, Concerned Women for America (CWA) leaders and Young Women for America (YWA) ambassadors, including 31x All American and 2x NCAA national champion swimmer Kylee Alons, stood boldly at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships in Virginia Beach, Virginia demanding the NCAA abide by long-established protections […]
Female Athletes to Rally Outside NCAA D-III Championships Friday
For Immediate Release March 7, 2024 Contact: CWA Communications [email protected] Female Athletes to Rally Outside NCAA D-III Championships Friday Male athlete “identifying” as female,Sadie Schreiner, to compete in 200 m. Washington, D.C. – On Friday, March 8, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, and its collegiate leadership Young Women […]
Doreen Denny Discusses Notable Resignation of NCAA Committee Official
Concerned Women for America Senior Advisor Doreen Denny joined Tony Perkins on Washington Watch to discuss the notable resignation of an NCAA committee official in protest of the NCAA’s transgender participation policy that discriminates against female athletes. You can watch the interview here. Read more about the resignation of William Brock, former general counsel for […]
Punch in the gut to female athletes.
“USA Boxing rang in 2024 by codifying a new rule in female boxing; participants need not be female,” writes NCAA athlete Macy Petty, a Young Women for America (YWA) leader. “Because of this opened floodgate, you can turn on your TV, perhaps even pay a few extra dollars, and see a biological man punching a […]