The Olympics comes to its senses on transgender athletes

Published November 16, 2025 7:37pm ET



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The study of science has fallen on hard times over the past decade, as activists from all causes have twisted data and studies to advance their particular agendas. No offender has been worse than the transgender movement, though, which has outright ignored science and even the simple eye test to argue that there are no differences between men and women. The fragile faux science of transgenderism is now beginning to crumble, with skepticism reaching the Olympic stage.

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