The NCAA finally decided to support women in women’s sports again

After months of promoting a man as a heroine in women’s sports, common sense, at least for the moment, appears to be back at the NCAA. The organization chose a woman to represent the Ivy League for its annual Woman of the Year honors. While this statement would have been unthinkable just a year ago, the nomination of the male Lia Thomas by the University of Pennsylvania as its representative for Female Athlete of the Year shows how wacky and ridiculous things have become.

Sylvie Binder, a senior fencer from Columbia University, was selected by the NCAA as the Ivy League conference representative to compete for Woman of the Year honors. Binder was chosen over Lia Thomas, the transgender woman who dominated women’s swimming in the Ivy League earlier this year.

Binder will advance to the next round, where she will be one of 151 women competing for the distinction. This list will be narrowed to 30 in October, and the NCAA will declare the winner in January.

Binder has had a distinguished career in fencing at Columbia. She was the 2019 NCAA Women’s Foil Champion and two-time Ivy League Women’s Foil Champion. Additionally, she was a three-time First Team All-American, including this past year. But, perhaps most importantly, after the chaos of this past year, Sylvie Binder is actually a woman. This means she did not enjoy any biological advantages from being a man for nearly two decades during her athletic competitions with other women.

It may sound ridiculous, but it’s a positive sign that the NCAA chose a woman for this honor. Too often this past year, men identified as women and usurped actual women in competitions meant for females. This was done under the guise of pursuing transgender rights, along with the recent radical indoctrination stemming from gender ideology. Maybe, just maybe, the NCAA realized that this agenda-driven ideology to promote biological men as women is detrimental and unfair to women.

Despite the NCAA getting it right this time, the battle is far from over. The radical Left will continue the push to enable men who suffer from gender dysphoria to identify as women and, ultimately, take opportunities away from females. It is important to acknowledge that the biological differences between the two genders are too great to ignore. Men are men, and women are women.