McGuckin Asks Democrat Assembly Members to Stand For Women Athletes. Not One Did.
July 2, 2025, 4:32 pm | in
McGuckin Asks Democrat Assembly Members to Stand For Women Athletes. Not One Did.
7/2/2025
Assemblyman Greg McGuckin is taking a stand for women athletes and wants his Democrat colleagues to join him in restoring the once bipartisan effort to prohibit sex discrimination in education programs.
On Monday, the Republican lawmaker from Ocean County challenged members of the Democratic caucus to rise in support of girls and women during the Assembly voting session after motioning to relieve his Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (A775) from committee, both requests were rejected by the majority party.
“The promise of Title IX was to ensure women and girls were never considered second class citizens when it comes to federal funding. They should never be subservient to men. Today, that bipartisan promise is in jeopardy. There are those who believe that certain men should receive more privileges and more rights than women and young girls in this state and in this country,” McGuckin said.
Title IX extended civil rights and anti-discrimination protection to girls and women in all education programs that receive federal funding. It had broad Republican and Democratic support and was signed into law on June 23, 1972 by President Richard Nixon. The landmark law has had a significant impact on female sports participation in high schools and colleges.
“In 1972, less than 5% of girls participated in high school sports. Because of Title IX that number is now 43%. In 1972, before Title IX, 30,000 women across the country participated in college sports. Because of Title IX, it’s now 250,000 women each and every year,” McGuckin added. “The rights of the girls and young women in this state deserve to be treated as they were in 1972 after Title IX.”
McGuckin’s bill would require student-athletes to compete on teams that align with their biological sex.
The legislation supports recent findings by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that schools like the University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX by allowing a male to compete in female athletic programs and occupy female-only locker rooms.
After two years of lackluster swimming performances on the men’s team, UPenn student Lia Thomas decided he was a woman and began receiving hormone therapy. The university allowed him to swim on the women’s team where he went on to set school records and win a national title in the 500-yard freestyle in 2022. After an investigation by the Trump administration, the university announced this week that it would issue apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a transgender athlete and return all school records and titles to the rightful women athletes.
“Women are adult females by biology, but the Democrat majority has adopted a far-out ideology that believes a ‘woman’ is also a costume for confused men. It’s scary,” McGuckin said. “Girls and women in New Jersey deserve a level playing field. They deserve to know that they matter as much as a man who claims he’s a woman. They deserve to know who will stand up for them and who won’t, so at least they can look at the vote record on A775 and now know.”
