The push to reject biology as truth and ruin the integrity of women’s sports is continuing apace, as activist athletes continue to deprive female athletes of opportunities.
More than 150 athletes signed an amicus brief to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to spare the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s policy that allows men to compete in women’s sports. Along with the WNBA, athletes such as soccer star Megan Rapinoe and tennis legend Billie Jean King signed the brief.
Many of the same names, including Rapinoe and King, were involved in previous efforts to punish the state of Idaho for saying that men may only compete in men’s sports. Athletes such as Rapinoe have tried to slam the door on female athletes behind them, claiming that men depriving women of scholarships or roster spots is a “problem that doesn’t even exist.” This is, of course, a detestable lie — we just saw a woman denied a chance to go to the Olympics by a man this past year in women’s weightlifting, of all sports.
The distortion and rejection of biology lead to distorted arguments. For example, the American Civil Liberties Union claims that Texas’s new bill to prevent men playing women’s sports is “denying transgender youth to play sports.” But it isn’t. Men, whatever gender they identify as, can still play men’s sports, as they should, given their natural biological advantages over women in strength and speed.
No, by preventing men from playing women’s sports, you are not preventing them from playing sports at all.
What the ACLU and Rapinoe and the others are doing is not inclusion. It is exclusion, forcing women to compete against men in a field in which biological differences are too much to overcome. Female athletes can be banned from their sport for taking performance-enhancing drugs; male athletes, competing against women after years of testosterone, are applauded for it.
This is going to continue on every level of sport, including for the 3.5 million girls who play high school sports every year. Worse still, it will continue to be used to justify the “transitioning” of children, the thornier subject that is masked by the ACLU and others who are trying desperately to push this ball forward before people realize the implications.
