Ispent a recent weekend at my alma mater, Notre Dame, to celebrate 50 years of women’s varsity sports.

It was through the literal blood, sweat and tears of women on the track, turf and field that made the case for sports inclusion in 1975. Women were given opportunities for scholarships, competitions and their own spaces, similar to what male athletes had long enjoyed.

I benefited from women having these athletic opportunities as a varsity fencer at Notre Dame. I had to spend long hours training, traveling and competing, all while balancing my studies.

For decades, society celebrated women’s sports and our spaces were protected. Then came in radical transgender ideology in the past decade, and women’s sports and women’s spaces suffered.

The inclusion and opportunities that female athle

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