The debate over whether it is fair to allow transgender women to compete in sports against athletes of the same gender they identify with continues to spark outrage. Whether it's high school, college or the professional level, the discourse has been fervent.
In April, the Biden administration implemented new Title IX regulations to expand the meaning of sex discrimination to include gender identity that would prevent schools and universities from banning transgender athletes. Under the department's proposed rule, no school or university that receives federal funds could impose a single policy that categorically prohibits transgender students from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Such policies would be considered a violation of Title IX.
This week, Dave Brown, a high school girls' tennis coach in Oregon, cited the Title IX policy in a social media video announcing his decision to resign from his position.
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A tennis ball on the grass. David Brown previously coached the girls' tennis program at Canby High School in Oregon. (Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“This week, I resigned from my position as head girls tennis coach at Canby High School,” Brown wrote in the post.
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Brown added that he struggled with the decision to abruptly end his coaching tenure, arguing that the Title IX policy put “women at risk.”
Dave Brown says he will leave his position as tennis coach at Canby High School
“[I]It was not an easy decision to make. I love training and have enjoyed every moment of working with these girls. But I can no longer stand by and watch their dreams shattered and their opportunities snatched away. “I can no longer stand by while all the work that was put into Title 9 is ignored. I can no longer support policies that put women's physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health at risk.”
Shortly after the aforementioned Title IX proposal was made public, the Freedom Defense Policy Studies Institute, which is a coalition of lawyers, subject matter experts, parents, civil rights groups, and former education officials, wrote a letter to the United States Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona. The letter argued that additional regulations anticipated by the Biden administration would “unfairly” penalize female athletes.
According to Canby's former weekly, the Canby Herald, Brown ran for the Newberg School Board in 2018.
Brown had coached the Newberg men's tennis team for 20 years, but felt challenged to become more involved in his community. The publication reported that Brown has also coached basketball and football. He was a tennis player during his sophomore year in high school and began teaching lessons when he was a student at Portland State University.
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“I've always really liked Canby,” Brown told the Canby Herald in 202 when she talked about landing the varsity girls tennis coach job. “My kids played against Canby in soccer, basketball, tennis, everything. The Canby thing was hot and on my bucket list I always wanted to coach girls at the college level, and I never had the opportunity. I coached girls in the summer . . , but never as a team. I wasn't looking for this and it came out of nowhere.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Brown for more details about his resignation but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
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