A video from last month’s Team Trans Ice Hockey draft resurfaced this week and revealed that a transgender woman (a man) gave a transgender man (a woman) a concussion-inducing hit during one of the games. The transgender man (woman) was carried off the ice on a stretcher and transported to a local hospital.
Interestingly, the NHL, which supported the tournament, did not mention this happening.
MALE-TO-FEMALE TRANSGENDER HOCKEY PLAYER CONCUSSES RIVAL AT TEAM TRANS EVENT
“The NHL is proud to support this past weekend’s Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin,” the NHL tweeted last month. “This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating!”
The media outlets that covered the tournament at the time, including NHL.com, Hockey News magazine, and Vice, also ignored this incident.
That’s most likely because it doesn’t fit the liberal, pro-transgender narrative. The game proved what rational people already knew: Men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
The hockey games at this event were mixed-sex because part of the criteria to compete at Team Trans events is that participants be transgender. So if those identifying as a gender they are not can compete in Team Trans events regardless of their biological sex.
But men are, on average, bigger and stronger than women. That means that they not only have an advantage in terms of athletic ability but also in their ability to hurt smaller, weaker players. The heightened injury risk is one of the many reasons why men should not compete in women’s sports, although it’s not the only one.
While there are many great female athletes who could compete on the men’s side of their sport at the high school or college level, the best athletes in the world in sports such as football, baseball, basketball, hockey, track, and soccer are men.
More importantly, however, the law and society should not allow men to compete in women’s sports because men cannot be women and women cannot be men. And the government should not pass laws affirming this delusional idea that people can change their gender.
However, that’s not to say the government and society should completely ignore those suffering from gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. The government and society should take mental health concerns seriously, especially after the government exacerbated many of those problems with draconian restrictions on daily life in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Yet taking mental health seriously is not the same as letting people live out a delusion, promoting the delusion, making the taxpayers fund the delusion, and forcing the rest of society to conform to the delusion.
Hopefully, society goes back to having common sense on the transgender issue. If it does, perhaps it will prevent more concussions from happening.
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Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.
