Maggie Mertens

That, of course, is what many anti-trans athletes in women's sports politicians hang their arguments on, that it's sex discrimination against women in college under Title IX.

But what about all the other ways Title IX is supposed to be an anti-discrimination law when Trump and company are dismantling anti-discrimination policies one after another as being anti-DEI? The slate piece is called The Dismantling of Title IX, and it tells that story through two college beach volleyball players in Texas for the most part, but also with some bigger thoughts joining us now to discuss her reporting is maggie mertens the journalist who wrote that piece she's also the author of better faster farther how running changed everything we know about women and host of the forecast seattle's weekly women's sports show on kvru out there maggie welcome to wnyc hello

hello thanks for having me

So you tell the story through two beach volleyball players at Stephen F. Austin State University in East Texas.

You know, and it gets very muddy and very messy.

And I do think Title IX is complicated and deserves, you know, maybe more attention as opposed to sort of stripping it down and stripping it away as this administration kind of continues to do.

Maggie Mertens, journalist, author of Better, Faster, Farther, How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women, and host of The Forecast, Seattle's weekly women's sports show on KVRU.

Her piece in Slate is called The Dismantling of Title IX.

But what about all the other ways Title IX is supposed to be an anti-discrimination law when Trump and company are dismantling anti-discrimination policies one after another as being anti-DEI? The slate piece is called The Dismantling of Title IX, and it tells that story through two college beach volleyball players in Texas for the most part, but also with some bigger thoughts.

Joining us now to discuss her reporting is Maggie Mertens, the journalist who wrote that piece.

She's also the author of Better, Faster, Farther, How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women, and host of The Forecast, Seattle's weekly women's sports show on KVRU out there.

Maggie, welcome to WNYC.

while they make billions of dollars and, you know, these and men who, you know, we don't want to ruin their futures by expelling them all, you know, and it gets very muddy and very messy.

And I do think Title IX is complicated and deserves, you know, maybe more attention as opposed to sort of stripping it down and stripping it away as this administration kind of continues to do.

Maggie Mertens, journalist, author of Better, Faster, Farther, How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women, and host of The Forecast, Seattle's weekly women's sports show on KBRU.

Her piece in Slate is called The Dismantling of Title IX.

Jack LaLange or something like that, you know, from that all the way through.

And then Maggie Mertens wrote a book on kind of women and running and all of that.

And there's so many things like societally it kind of comes through, but you're, you're right, right about that time that you're coming out.

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