Local scientist and women’s advocate is a guest as Trump signs order outlawing boys in girls sports
Shannon Grady, a world class triathlete, sports scientist, and Delco native, advocated keeping boys and men out of girls and women’s sports long before it was the mainstream view. She appeared on a local TV program in 2021 and explained that Biden’s executive order was in direct conflict with Title IX.
“Anytime a male takes the place of a female, you are eliminating opportunities for a female, but in essence, you are actually changing the dynamics of the entire team and the teams you play against.”
Grady, a physiologist and the author of The Lactate Revolution, said there is a trickle-down effect on allowing boys in girls sports. “Both the team with the boy and the team playing against that team are adversely impacted.”
In the 2021 interview, she said, “men can run ten to 15 percent faster, jump fifteen to twenty percent higher, and lift 50 to 60 percent more than women.”
Grady continued to call out the Biden order as unconstitutional and unfair to women and girls. Her efforts paid off this week when she was invited to the White House by President Donald Trump to attend the signing of the “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” executive order.
She traveled to Washington D.C. with her husband and sons to participate in the monumental event, and said, “we have come full circle.”
Grady described President Trump as engaging and entertaining, and appreciated his statements, “this is all about common sense,” and “it should have been done long ago.”
During the signing ceremony, the President made the consequences very clear for schools that do not comply.
“With my action this afternoon, we are putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women’s sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding,” he said. “So this will effectively end the attack on female athletes at public K-12 schools and virtually all U.S. colleges and universities.”
Grady is thrilled with the order and potential consequences for schools that do not comply. She has witnessed first hand the detrimental effects of the prior president’s orders and looks forward to righting the ship. She currently lives in Chester County and serves at the Chair for the local Moms for Liberty chapter.
“It will be interesting to see what actions the Chester County school boards make regarding this executive action given their recent history of admitting abiding to federal guidelines especially when it comes to Title IX and risks of losing federal funding. For example, most school boards in Chester County continued mask mandates absent any emergency declaration in Pennsylvania because they claimed they were at risk of losing federal funding if they did not follow the federal guidelines on masking,” said Grady.