"I propose a New Deal for women’s sports — with a women-first approach."

Writes Lindsay Crouse in "We Can Do Better Than Title IX" (NYT). 

This must go beyond creating entitlements and enforcing parity, as Title IX does. We must dismantle the grandfathered-in systemic advantages that male athletes and male-dominated sports infrastructures continue to enjoy. We must cultivate tastes for other sports, the ones that women excel in and even dominate. And we must broaden our definition of what athletic prowess looks like.... 

Men’s bodies are different from women’s; men are generally bigger, faster and stronger. And currently, the sports that make the most money and see the largest audiences in the United States are suited to a male body’s physical strengths: football tackles, basketball dunks. Sports built for women’s bodies would be different. Compared with men, women have superior flexibility and resilience. Women excel at enduring.... 

That reminds me of the letter I wrote to the NYT in 1989 (published here):

By the way, the NYT gives us no comments section for that Lindsay Crouse piece. If it did, surely someone would puzzle over the failure to consider transgender athletes. Crouse forefronts the reality that "Men’s bodies are different from women’s." In sports, bodies matter, not inward feelings. Or is that just another matter of taste — cultivated and amenable to reculturation?

UPDATE: The NYT has now added a comments section. Here's one that addresses transgenderism:

"I’m unfamiliar with this football story, but as an academic I can assure you cancel culture exists."

"I lean left, and yet I withhold anything that might be a mildly divergent opinion. A renowned climate scientist was recently disinvited from speaking at MIT on the topic of climate change for the sin of saying academic admissions should be based on metrics (as reported in the Atlantic). Cancel culture exists, and it’s most noticeable not in the renowned scientists whose speaking engagements are canceled but in the lives of academics like me who are carefully silent."

That's the top-rated comment at the NYT on a column by Lindsay Crouse, "‘Cancel Culture’ Isn’t the Problem. ‘OK Culture’ Is." 

Crouse — "a producer and athlete who focuses on gender and power" — is writing about Jon Gruden, who was forced out of his job as a National Football League head coach after the revelation of racist/sexist/homophobic language in his email.

Crouse is attempting to popularize the term "OK Culture":