Pictured is the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. (Photo credit: Sergio Anelli / Electa / Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

No men will be allowed in a weight room at the publicly-funded University of Virginia (UVA) for an hour-and-a-half Thursday night.

UVA's Aquatic & Fitness Center will host a "Ladies Night" event from 6:30-8:00pm on Thursday, according to a Facebook event page.

"All women & non-binary individuals are invited to join us Thursday, January 30th, for a fun night of instruction and private use of the AFC weight room," reads the event description, which continues by stating that personal trainers, snacks, and a prize drawing will also be featured.

At press time, 20 people have indicated they are attending the event and 194 individuals have signaled that they are "interested."

"Attention fellas...adjust your workout accordingly," reads a whiteboard in the Aquatic & Fitness Center, a photo of which was obtained by CNSNews.com.

"Ladies + non-binary individuals only."







"When the primary marketing point of an event is who will be excluded, it makes me question why my absence at a public event is so important to my peers," a male UVA student who preferred not to be named told CNSNews.com. "I feel like we’re being made to sit in the back of the bus."

In the back of the bus, or not allowed on the bus at all, for the "Ladies Night" event description does not say that any part of the weight room will be available to male students during this time.

Listen, I know my alma mater's mascot is the Cavalier, but can we direct that brazenness a bit more towards academic and athletic rivalries and a little less at flouting the law? The sex-exclusive event, an apparent violation of the anti-discrimination Title IX law, provides yet another compelling reason for why President Donald Trump definitely shouldn't seize the school's nearly $10 billion endowment.

Remember that in January 2018, the University of Virginia instructed students to call 911 if they saw "offensive flyers" on campus. On Thomas Jefferson's birthday in April of that same year, a statue dedicated to the Founding Father and school founder was discovered vandalized with the words "racist" and "rapist." The school closed the year out by suspending a medical graduate student after he criticized the leftist concept of "microaggressions" and, in May 2019, rejected an offer extended by Trump for its NCAA champion basketball team to visit the White House.

Neither UVA Intramural-Recreational Sports, the event host, nor UVA's general press office responded to a request for comment by CNSNews.com in time for press.

Rob Shimshock is the Commentary Editor at CNSNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @ShimshockAndAwe.





