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I Called It:

July 24, 2026

The End Game Was Never Trans People, It Was All Of Us

Jul 22, 2026

Politics are Personal a continued series by Miss-Information

I called it. Over a year ago, when I wrote about gender-affirming care and why the fight against trans healthcare wasn’t just about trans people, I said it plainly: today they’re targeting trans youth, tomorrow it could be your birth control, your hormone replacement, your right to choose surgery, or even to refuse it. I said trans people were the testing ground, not the finish line.

This week proved it.

The Receipt

Here’s the timeline, and timelines don’t lie even when politicians do.

The Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia v. B.P.J. that states can exclude trans people from school sports without violating Title IX.¹ Days later, on July 8, the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025, published a report from senior research fellow Scott Yenor titled “Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity.”²

That title alone tells you where this is going. Title IX isn’t about trans athletes. It’s the federal law that built women’s sports from nothing. It’s the law that says schools can’t discriminate based on sex, period. And now that the trans sports ban has cleared the Supreme Court, the same movement is using that win as the crowbar to pry open the whole structure underneath it.

This was never a two-front war. It was one front, and trans women were just standing closest to the door.

What Yenor Actually Said

Strip away the academic language and Yenor’s argument is simple. He claims Title IX evolved from an anti-discrimination law into what he calls an engine of feminist social engineering.³ He argues that women are, by nature, less aggressive, less assertive, less dominant, and less interested in competitive sports than men, so giving men more athletic opportunity was never discrimination to begin with.⁴ According to him, the real discrimination is in giving women parity at all.

He says women would rather do yoga.

He wants Title IX rewritten to stop requiring equal opportunity and instead “accommodate” what he calls natural differences between the sexes, code for funneling women toward “non-competitive and lower-intensity” activity while preserving men’s programs.⁵

And this isn’t some rando with a blog. Yenor already has a documented history here. Boise State opened a Title IX investigation and charged him with civil rights violations after he made his own antifeminist comments about career women.⁶ The person now writing federal policy recommendations about what women “naturally” want has already been formally found to have a problem with women who don’t defer.

That’s not a philosopher. That’s a man with a grudge and a think tank behind him.

The Emergency Was Always Fake

I already did this work. Almost a year ago, in “Why I Can’t Stay Silent,” I laid out the “evidence” this entire movement was built on, and none of it held up.

The cyclist Trump kept citing beat men and women in a co-ed race in Arizona. That’s not an unfair advantage, that’s inclusion working as designed.⁷ The swimmer everyone points to tied for 5th place. Nobody podiumed. The only actual controversy was that the NCAA only had one trophy for the photo.⁸ The volleyball player with the “career-ending injury” went on to play softball and basketball that same season.⁹

None of it was true. All of it got repeated anyway, because it was never meant to be checked. It was meant to manufacture a crisis big enough to justify a federal court ruling, and now that ruling is being used to justify going after the law itself.

That’s the pattern. Build the emergency, win the narrow fight, use the win as leverage for the actual target.

T For Me, But Not For Thee

While Heritage was going after women’s sports on paper, Pete Hegseth was living out the hypocrisy in real time.

Hegseth announced troops 30 and older will now get annual testosterone screening, with hormone replacement offered if they want it, framed as restoring their “natural capabilities” and giving them the “biological foundation” to fight.¹⁰ The Pentagon wouldn’t say whether women will get equivalent screening for estrogen as they hit perimenopause. It wouldn’t say what happens to anyone who says no.¹¹

Senator Tammy Duckworth said the quiet part out loud: that announcement sounds like gender-affirming care to her, a pointed shot at a man who has spent his tenure pushing trans troops out of the military entirely.¹²

I already wrote about this exact hypocrisy back when I broke down what gender-affirming care actually is. Estrogen for menopause, testosterone for Low T, these are normal, funded, uncontroversial medicine when cis people need them. The second a trans person wants the same hormones, it becomes ideology, mutilation, a crisis for the state to intervene in.¹³ Hegseth just handed us the cleanest possible proof. Testosterone for men in uniform is patriotism. The same medicine for a trans woman gets you discharged.

And this isn’t isolated to one Defense Secretary having a moment. RFK Jr.’s HHS proposed loosening restrictions on testosterone access around the same time.¹⁴ This is coordinated. Gender-affirming care is fine when it reinforces who’s supposed to be on top.

Layer Hegseth’s own record on top of that. He’s said publicly he doesn’t believe women belong in combat roles, that standards should be set to the “highest male standard,” and he’s blocked or removed women from leadership positions since taking over the Pentagon.¹⁵

Same conveyor belt. Different department.

They Told Us What Scared Them

Yenor’s report doesn’t just say women are less competitive. It says the “deeper feminist settlement” that has governed athletics for decades made women more independent, even dominant, less deferential, and less oriented toward motherhood.

Read that again. He’s not describing a sports policy problem. He’s describing exactly what I wrote about in Strong Women, Fragile Power. The GOP isn’t scared of unfair competition. It’s scared of women who don’t need them. Independent women. Women who don’t defer. Women who choose not to have kids, or choose to have them on their own terms instead of for a $1,000 bribe that doesn’t cover an ER copay.¹⁶

Yenor is describing that woman, the one who is dominant, independent, not oriented toward motherhood, and calling her a policy failure to be corrected. That’s not about who gets to play varsity volleyball. That’s the same panic I already documented: birth rates dropping, women out-earning and out-educating men in growing numbers, and instead of asking why women are opting out, the answer is always to engineer us back in.

The End Game

I called it. Trans people were never the endpoint of this. They were the starting point, the group with the least institutional protection and the most manufactured moral panic already built around them. Once that ban clears the courts, the same infrastructure, the same language about “engineered parity” and “natural differences,” gets pointed at whoever’s next on the list.

This time it’s cis women’s access to competitive sports. It’s hormone therapy sorted by who’s allowed to want it. It’s a defense secretary who thinks women don’t belong in combat handing out testosterone like a reward for service while staying silent on estrogen.

They are not hiding the plan. Yenor wrote it down. Hegseth is living it out loud.

One group’s oppression is always a testing ground for the rest of us. I said that then. I’m saying it again now, because they just proved it themselves.