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PR: NC Values Institute Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Protect Fairness in Women’s Sports

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 16th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org

NC VALUES INSTITUTE FILES AMICUS BRIEF URGING SUPREME COURT TO PROTECT FAIRNESS IN WOMEN’S SPORTS

Yesterday our sister organization, the NC Values Institute, filed an amicus curiae brief in Little v. Hecox & West Virginia v. Jackson urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse recent rulings by the Fourth and Ninth Circuits that threaten the future of safety and fairness in women’s sports. The courts blocked state laws in West Virginia and Idaho that protect female athletes by requiring sports teams to be designated on the basis of biological sex. The brief emphasizes that separating athletic teams based on sex is both constitutional and necessary to preserve equal opportunities for women.

“Title IX was enacted to protect women and girls and to ensure they have opportunities in sports, not erase them,” said Tami Fitzgerald, Executive Director of the NC Values Coalition and the NC Values Institute. “It is not only unfair, but it is also dangerous when males are allowed to compete against females. The Supreme Court must uphold laws like those passed in North Carolina, Idaho, and West Virginia that protect fairness and safety in women and girls’ sports.”

The brief highlights recent real-world consequences of males competing against females that took place in North Carolina, where in late 2022 a female high school volleyball player suffered severe head and neck injuries after a spike from a male competing on the girls’ team. It also warns against the reckless expansion of the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County ruling, which redefined “sex” by identity – not biology – under Title VII in the context of employment discrimination. Lower courts have improperly extended Bostock to education and athletics—areas that raise fundamentally different issues tied to biological differences between men and women.

The NC Values Coalition supported the passage of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which went into effect in North Carolina on August 16, 2023, ensuring that female athletes are not forced to compete against biological males. The Court’s decision in this case will have nationwide implications for the future of Title IX and women’s athletics.

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PR: RFK Jr. Says Biden Twisted Abortion Pill Safety Data, Promises Investigation

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September 5th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org

RFK JR. SAYS BIDEN TWISTED ABORTION PILL SAFETY DATA, PROMISES INVESTIGATION

US Health Secretary RFK Jr. said Thursday in a Senate committee hearing that the FDA is actively reviewing the safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone. He testified that the agency has new data on adverse events, and he also said that the Biden administration “twisted the data” to make the drug appear safer than it is.

“The Biden administration and the abortion industry have endangered women with false claims about the safety of mifepristone. Thankfully, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy values the health and lives of American women enough to take an honest look at the data,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “We are confident that the FDA’s review will be consistent with recent findings that the adverse event rate is close to 22 times higher than previously reported.”

Back in May, RFK Jr. directed the FDA to complete a review on the safety of mifepristone. This came after a study revealed that the adverse events are 22 times higher than the FDA claims. RFK Jr. indicated that the FDA label should be changed.

This review comes at a time of increasing alarm about the unchecked shipment of abortion drugs into states which prohibit or restrict abortion.  According to a 2023 Guardian article, there are over 2000 shipments of abortion pills coming into North Carolina each month.  These shipments ignore safety restrictions in North Carolina law and, possibly, include pills not approved by the FDA. Additionally, there are an increasing number of reports of abortion pills ordered online being used to poison pregnant women.

In the upcoming year, North Carolina legislators need to consider HB553, “Ensuring Patient Safety with Mail Order Meds,” sponsored by Rep. Jackson, Campbell Potts and Balkcom to stop this threat to the health and safety of women.

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PR: NC Values Responds: Trump Administration Directs NC to Remove Gender Ideology from Sex Education

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August 28th, 2025
Contact: Ashley Vaughan
ashley@ncvalues.org

NC VALUES RESPONDS: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DIRECTS NC TO REMOVE GENDER IDEOLOGY FROM SEX EDUCATION

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has directed the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) to remove all references to gender ideology in their federally-funded Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) educational materials within 60 days or face enforcement actions.

“We applaud the Trump administration for its steadfast commitment to protecting children from the harms of gender ideology in our public schools. Children go to school to learn – not to be indoctrinated with harmful ideas that many parents object to,” said NC Values Coalition Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald.

Last week, ACF terminated California’s PREP grant after the state failed to comply with its request to remove gender ideology from its educational materials. These actions reflect the Trump administration’s commitment to protect children from the harms of gender ideology, and are in keeping with President Trump’s Executive Orders on gender ideology.

The PREP program is a federal sex education program which began in 2009 designed to educate adolescents on ways to reduce the risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Federal law does not authorize the inclusion of gender identity instruction within PREP-funded programs. Examples of unauthorized gender ideology content being taught to North Carolina children include:

  • Defining male/female as “what the doctor said they were when they were born,” while presenting “gender queer” as equally valid.

  • Claims “people often know their gender identity when they are very little, before they start kindergarten.”

  • Directs teachers to use terms like “someone with a vulva” instead of “girl” or “woman” to be inclusive of “all gender identities.”

  • Tells students it is “polite” and necessary to ask everyone how they identify and which pronouns to use.

  • Asks why “someone with a penis might not identify as a boy/man,” and instructs that gender is self-defined, not tied to sex.

The latest available data in 2023-2024 shows that PREP monies were awarded to the North Carolina School Health Training Center (NCSHTC) at East Carolina University to implement sex education in schools and other community settings.  The following counties were targeted:  Cumberland, Montgomery, Brunswick, Lenoir, Scotland and Pamlico. With the exception of Scotland County (which uses “Reducing the Risk”) every county uses sex education curricula which promotes gender ideology. Additionally, these PREP monies are also being used to implement sex education programs in violation of N.C. law which requires abstinence-based sex education, a law which, to date, has been ignored by most counties in the State.

North Carolina has been asked to remove all content related to gender identity and gender ideology from PREP curricula, materials, and delivery, and to submit modified program materials for ACF approval within 60 days, no later than October 27, 2025.

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Laura Macklem
Laura MacklemPress & Political Director, NC Values

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