Protect Girls’ Sports – Sign the Petition Today!

By submitting this petition, I hereby join with the undersigned former student-athletes in their call to the Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL) to comply with federal Title IX laws and related 2025 Presidential Executive Orders and to preserve the safety and rights of girls in athletics.

We call on you to repeal RIIL’s current policy that allows biological boys to compete in girls’ high school sports.

I support this repeal because (your comments here … )

I believe that the Constitutional and God-given rights of every American should be vigorously defended. However, no organization that receives public funding should sanction the infringement of the rights of some in order to serve the unconstitutional demands of others.

RIIL should recognize the inalienable and biological truth that there are only two God-determined human genders – male and female. All other “non” or “trans” designations have no scientific or biblical basis.

Further, when it comes to fairness, it is also a biological reality that males have larger and stronger physiologies than females … providing them with an inherently superior and “unfair” advantage when it comes to athletic competition; so much so, that female athletes are often put at risk of serious injury when competing against males in many sports.

I call on RIIL to comply with federal guidelines, to honor centuries of common-sense societal norms, to recognize biological and biblical truths … and to immediately repeal Article 3, Section 3B, items 1) and 2) from its operational policies that deal with “Gender Identity”.

Given the overwhelming public attitudes towards preserving the sanctity of girls’ sports and considering the many federal and court actions that have recently been – and will continue to be – handed down, failure to affect this repeal could put RIIL and non-complying school districts at risk of legal action and/or loss of federal funding.

I call on RIIL to publicly respond to this petition.

RI athletes who signed the original open-letter-petition: Bill Bennett; from the famous Bennett hockey family, Cranston East hockey star, who also skated professionally in the NHL, and an inductee in the RI Hockey Hall of Fame. Joe Hassett; PC Friar radio color commentator, basketball star at LaSalle Academy and Providence College, and long-time NBA player, also a member of the PC, New England Basketball and RI Interscholastic League Halls of Fame. Malcolm Najarian; All-State football star at Cranston East, set rushing records as an All-American at Boston University, and is a member of the BU Terrier Athletic Hall of Fame. Kevin Stacom; Providence College basketball All-American and NBA player and champion, and a former NBA scout, and now is a journalist covering PC Friar hoops. Dave Stenhouse; Cranston East baseball catcher and state champion, an All-American at Holy Cross, and is an inductee in the Cranston and Holy Cross Athletic Halls of Fame. Mike Stenhouse; Cranston East baseball and basketball star, Harvard All-American, MLB player, and inductee in the Cranston Athletic, Harvard Sports, and RI Interscholastic League Halls of Fame