Over 300 current and former female athletes have signed a letter calling on the NCAA to protect women’s sports and reject the calls to boycott Idaho over a law barring biological men from competing against women.
The letter is signed by a litany of current female athletes, several of whom have lost in their respective sports to biological men. Signers also included women’s sports pioneer Sandra Bucha-Kerscher and world champion track athlete Cynthia Monteleone. The letter serves as a response to the one sent by the American Civil Liberties Union calling on the NCAA to pull events from Idaho.
The response to the two letters puts the left-wing views of science and women’s sports on full display. The ACLU’s letter, signed by activist athletes Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, was covered by both ESPN and CBS Sports with little scrutiny. Meanwhile, Outsports, a Vox Media subsidiary, completely dismissed the counterletter as “embarrassing.”
“Their names are in the Federalist. Why not put their names on the letter? Because of fear of being called haters?” Karleigh Webb writes, “I’d like to think even amid transphobia and standing against inclusion, there may be a twinge of embarrassment.”
Of course, the transgender lobby would certainly never harass female athletes for speaking out against the unfairness of competing against biological men. Surely, they would never, say, harass a female athlete over social media and intimidate her track coach into denying her a good recommendation to college recruiters.
It’s no indictment of women’s sports or female athletes to acknowledge that biological differences exist. According to an analysis by World Rugby’s transgender working group, biological males are, on average, “stronger by 25%-50%, are 30% more powerful, 40% heavier, and about 15% faster” than their female counterparts. Anyone can see the difference in track times or in the athleticism gap between the NBA and the WNBA. It’s no mark of shame for the world champion U.S. Women’s Soccer Team that it could be trounced by an average team of teenage boys.
The obscurity of the athletes in this letter only shows that they need all of the support they can get. The unceasing drive to destroy women’s sports cares nothing for female athletes and will gladly drag them through the mud to reach their ends. Idaho cannot and should not be alone in this endeavor. The NCAA should reject this backward logic that is undeniably sexist and anti-science at its core.
