As a former collegiate swimmer who has raced against a male competitor and lost opportunities, I know exactly what is at stake if women’s sports are not protected: scholarships, records, roster spots and the promise of Title IX – that women and girls would finally have equal opportunities to compete on a level playing field. It happened in Georgia. And now, in 2026, the safety of every girl in Georgia is still at stake.
When it mattered most, Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff has failed women and girls at every turn.
Start exercising. Senator Ossoff has had three chances to stand up for female athletes – three chances to say girls’ sports are for girls. He voted no three times.
In March 2025, he voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, a simple, common-sense bill that would have clarified under Title IX that female sports are reserved for women based on biological sex. The measure would have strengthened the original intent of the law.
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In March 2024, he voted to overturn an amendment that would have withheld federal funds from schools and states that allow men to compete in women’s programs.
In March 2021, he voted against an amendment to prevent schools from placing male athletes in female categories.
Three opportunities to stand with women. He refused three times.
But it doesn’t stop there. Senator Ossoff is also pushing to override Georgia’s state-level protections by repeatedly supporting the federal Equality Act. He co-sponsored it in 2021 and 2023 and campaigned for it in 2020. The bill would redefine sex and include gender identity in federal civil rights law, with no exceptions for sports. Legal experts and top female athletes – many of whom are not conservatives – have warned what exactly that means: mixed competition, missed opportunities and compromised security.
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The Equality Act is not a compromise. It is a federal mandate that nullifies Georgia’s right to protect its own girls.
Ossoff’s record extends far beyond the playing field. He supported legislation that would enforce access to bathrooms, locker rooms and locker rooms based on gender identity. Translation: He supports policies that require your daughter to undress with a man in a locker room. No regard for privacy. No attention to safety.
He supports policies that tell women:including survivors of sexual violence– that their discomfort and fear don’t matter, that male feelings are more important than a woman’s physical safety.
On women’s sports, women’s spaces, women’s shelters and religious freedom, the Democratic senator backs Washington’s mandates on Georgia families
Think of women fleeing abuse and staying in domestic violence shelters with their children. These women deserve dignity, privacy and trauma-informed policies. Yet Ossoff has supported measures that would force women’s domestic violence shelters to admit men who identify as women, despite survivors repeatedly knowing that these policies could retraumatize them and push them back onto the streets. That’s not compassion. That’s cruelty dressed up as progress.
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Religious freedom is not safe either. Senator Ossoff introduced a bill to override the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which forced Christian hospitals in Georgia to perform transgender surgeries against their deeply held beliefs.
Put it all together and the pattern is clear. On women’s sports, women’s spaces, women’s shelters and religious freedom, Jon Ossoff sides with Washington’s mandates on families in Georgia. Georgia is trying to protect fairness. He’s trying to federalize it away.
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Some say fairness can be maintained with hormone rules or case-by-case exceptions. That’s not possible.
I lived reality. Women are asked to be quiet, to ignore our instincts when it tells us it’s wrong to non-consensually undress next to a man in a locker room, to give up data and set up places to maintain someone else’s feelings. Title IX was never intended to make women invisible in order to resolve a controversy. It was meant to make sure we count.
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Georgia leads with courage. Schools in Georgia can maintain all-girls football teams. Courts in Georgia may soon confirm this simple truth nationwide. Senators in Georgia should help, not hinder.
Senator Ossoff has had multiple opportunities to support Georgia women and girls. He chose politics – and the fear of radicals in his party – over our daughters, even over his own daughter. With the Supreme Court poised to uphold states’ authority to protect women’s sports, it’s time for Georgia’s senator to do the same. It’s time for a real man to send Jon Ossoff home.
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