Claims about Women and Sports

Opponents claim:  "If a Civil Rights Initiative passes, Women's college sports will be endangered."
California and Washington State passed the same measures:  Did women's sports disappear at State-funded colleges? 

Let's check the college websites:

UCLA:  Women's Varsity basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball and water polo
Sonoma State University: Women's basketball, soccer, tennis, track, water polo

University of California Santa Barbara:  Women's basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo
Humboldt State University: Women's cross country, basketball, rowing, soccer, softball, track and field, volleyball

San Diego State University:  Women's golf

San Jose State University: Women's soccer, basketball, gymnastics, swimming, softball, water polo, tennis

Cal Poly:  Women's soccer, tennis, basketball, track and field, volleyball
University of California:  Women's lacrosse, basketball, golf, cross country, rowing, track, tennis, swimming and diving, volleyball, basketball

In Washington State

Washington State University:  Women's basketball, soccer, rowing and volleyball
Everygreen State College, Olympia:  Women's basketball, soccer

Central Washington University: Women's soccer and volleyball

Western Washington University:  Women's basketball, rowing, golf, soccer, lacrosse and rugby

So it seems that women's sports did not disappear because of the end of discrimination between the sexes by California or Washington State governments. 

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