But some Title IX advocates are concerned about what could happen to women’s sports if the department were to do away with the policy interpretation. It has been critical for showing schools how to effectively accommodate women and girls playing sports, said Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice for the National Women’s Law Center. “Despite the clarification from the 1979 interpretation and the decades since Title IX was passed, so many schools are still violating the Title IX rights of women and girl student athletes,” Patel said. “If the administration considers this at all, then that would reveal how much they don’t really care to ‘protect women’s sports,’ contrary to what they claim when they attack the rights of trans students to play, which we always knew.”