‘Feminist’ Elizabeth Warren backs transgender lobby over female athletes

After a new bill was introduced in Arizona that would bar biologically male transgender students from competing in women’s sports, Warren came out strongly opposed. She slammed the bill as backward and bigoted:

Warren’s framing completely misses the mark. She woefully fails to understand why so many parents and competitors support bills similar to the one in Arizona. It’s about fairness, not bigotry and discrimination.

To be clear: This is not a blanket ban on transgender students competing in sports. That would be wrong.

Rather, this bill would allow all students to compete. They simply have to do so against those of the same biological sex. This isn’t discrimination — it’s basic biology. (Plus, if you need more proof that it’s not motivated by anti-transgender animus, the Arizona bill would actually still allow transgender males, aka biological females, to compete alongside male students because there’s no biological disadvantage.) The bill applies to all Arizona-based educational institutions, public and private, and athletics both through the high school and college levels.

No matter how people may feel, we have classified sports into biological male and female categories since the advent of sport — for good reason. Biological males have a distinct advantage over biological females, and they have the upper hand when it comes to larger muscle mass, heart and lung size, and bone structure. On average, males are faster, stronger, and have more endurance as a result.

Women also have the added disadvantage of sometimes having to compete while on their period, while pregnant or recovering from childbirth, and having to run and jump with breasts. The latter isn’t an easy issue to discuss, but any woman who has had to run track with a D cup or on her period can tell you that even outside of the biological advantage that men have on the best day, women are at an even more distinct advantage on the worst.

Deciding to portray an opposition to biological males competing against females as pure bigotry is sadly on brand for Warren and her fellow liberals.

There is a middle ground to be forged here that requires compromise on both sides of the debate. One can acknowledge that a male student who feels that they were born the wrong gender is facing real psychological turmoil and even accommodate them in other social settings — all while appreciating that having them compete in women’s sports against women is fundamentally unfair.

This seems to be a trend for Warren: She’s okay with abject unfairness for the masses for the sake of the supposed “greater good” and “fairness” for the few.

It’s much the same story on student loans. While many millions of Americans have borrowed responsibly and worked their way through school, Warren has made student loan forgiveness for those who did not a bedrock of her campaign — at the expense of taxpayers. It’s impossible for Warren or her supporters to appreciate why someone who went to a state school and worked 40 hours a week in order to graduate with minimal debt might be opposed to such a policy. Instead, these hard-working graduates who would be on the hook for such a bailout are scoffed at and ignored.

It’s no wonder Warren has struggled in early primary contests and appears destined to drop out of the Democratic primary. It’s not just because of her misguided policy positions. It’s also because she seems incapable of attributing anything but the worst of motives to anyone who dares disagree with her. Warren’s strategy may play well with woke left-wingers on Twitter, but it’s certainly not how one wins an election.

Bethany Mandel (@bethanyshondark) is a stay-at-home and homeschooling mother of four and a freelance writer. She is an editor at Ricochet.com, a columnist at the Forward, and a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog.