Protect Women's Sports

Fairness in girls' and women's athletics

Chris Brandlin sets out his position on eligibility in girls' and women's sports, and why he says Nevada parents continue to raise the issue at school-board and legislative meetings.

His argument is framed around competitive categories: that sex-separated divisions exist in the first place to make competition and athletic scholarships attainable for female athletes, and that eligibility rules should be written with that original purpose in mind. He presents it as a question of category design rather than as a judgment about any individual student.

This is a contested area of policy on which Nevadans hold sincerely different views, and it is being presented here as the candidate's position. Eligibility rules for Nevada school athletics are set through the Nevada Legislature and the interscholastic association, which is why it recurs as a legislative question rather than a settled one.

Related: parental rights in Nevada, the children's health agenda, and education reform. The broader platform is at the nine commitments.