Women's Sports Are Under Attack

Some things in life should be obvious. But for some reason, very few actually are. One thing you would think we could all agree on is fairness when it comes to equality for both men and women. Well, apparently, even that has taken a strange and bizarre twist.

In this case, I am referring to women’s (or girls for the school-age crowd) sports. Way back in 1972, the United States enacted Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government. But today, it seems many schools and school-districts and even the National Collegiate Athletic Association are openly doing just that.

The fact of the matter is, women’s sports are under attack. And the attack, oddly enough, is coming from the political left somehow claiming they are supporting people’s rights. It’s sheer lunacy.

What I am referring to is the rise of transgender activism in sports. We are now at a place in which some schools, districts and organizations like the NCAA are allowing biological males to play in female sports. And as any reasonable person might expect, the results have been disastrous.

In the name of “wokeness” we have seen the stories of transgender swimmer Lea Thomas comes from being an average at best swimmer in the NCAA men’s rakings to a dominate force in the women’s division. A female volleyball player in a North Carolina high school was badly intruded when a biological male competitor spiked a ball off of her face. There are many, many more cases just like these and they seem to be increasing on a disturbing basis.

When there is the issue of locker room privacy. There have been several incidents in which female students have been made to share locker rooms with biological male teammates, making for an uncomfortable and inappropriate situation. In a recent case, an 18-year-old biological male in a Wisconsin high school exposed himself to several 14-year-old girls in the locker room showers after exclaiming identifying as transgender.

If that had happened under any other circumstances that did not include claiming transgenderism, the person would be in serious legal trouble and likely have to register as a sex offender.

One of the most vocal proponents of fairness for biological women is sports over the last year has been Riley Gaines. She was a swimming standout at the University of Kentucky. Her accomplishments speak for themselves having been a 12-time All-American with 5 South Eastern Conference Titles. She took a stand after being forced to share locker room with Thomas in the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming Championship.

Sadly, Gaines has been reviled by the political left and even attacked in person at a speaking engagement at San Francisco State University.

Female activist groups and legislative bodies are slowly gaining ground in this area but it can’t come fast enough. Some states are enacting legislation while the House of Representatives is proposing a bill that will sadly certainly die in either the Senate or at the veto pen of President Biden. And the organization World Athletics has banned anyone who has transitioned from international events.

The bottom line is that in both fairness and the notion of honest competition, biological women should compete against biological women and biological men should compete against biological men. The only exception should be co-ed intramural sports and completions in like mixed doubles in tennis.

While everyone should have the right to express themselves or feel they identify with either gender, this does not mean that everyone else must affirm their views about such things.

The fact is, to deny there are unchangeable biological differences between males and females is to deny pure scientific fact.