Miyares uses office to bludgeon Roanoke College over trans swimmer

Attorney General Jason Miyares is highlighting the sad MAGA underachievers from the Roanoke College women’s swim team to try to score political points.

“Women deserve an equal opportunity to participate in competitive sports,” said Miyares, in a taxpayer-funded press release that went out on Monday, to make issue with an “investigation” that his office purportedly just finished that he claims found “reasonable cause” that Roanoke College violated Title IX by discriminating and retaliating against female student-athletes on the basis of sex.

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The alleged “discrimination” was the school’s choice to allow a trans swimmer – the press release, of course, refers to the swimmer as a “biological male” – to compete on the D3, non-scholarship team in 2023.

The team, the press release tells us, “unanimously objected,” though reporting on the issue from 2023 had it that team members were given the opportunity to vote in an online poll about whether to allow the trans swimmer to remain on the team, and a majority voted in favor.

But then, there was politics to be played, which changed everything.

Riley Gaines, history’s most famous fifth-place college swimmer, got involved, and team members made a special guest appearance at a Donald Trump campaign rally last fall.

Oh, and as you can guess, the trans swimmer ended up not competing for the team.

So much for the “equal opportunity to compete in competitive sports” line from Miyares.

Equal opportunity for MAGA, not for thee.

“That opportunity is protected by state and federal law,” the Miyares quote in the PR continued, oblivious to the obvious contradiction.

“The Roanoke women swimmers endured harassment, discrimination and retaliation just for standing up for their right to compete,” Miyares then said.

Again, seriously?

Who “endured” more “harassment, discrimination and retaliation” here?

Perhaps the swimmer who was bullied into quitting?

“My office will keep working to ensure equal opportunities for female athletes in sex-separated collegiate sports,” Miyares said.

Now do reproductive rights.

And pay disparity.

And protection from domestic and sexual assault.

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