Back in the day, females were not allowed to participate. But for decades now, they have enjoyed the benefits of competitive sport. Today we are on the verge of regressing.
The NCAA, Ivy League, and the University of Pennsylvania pressured female athletes indirectly and/or behind the scenes to stay quiet about the injustice of allowing a male to compete in the women’s category. You can read about that in a previous post.
Well, I hear these three ladies, loud and clear. Can you?
Biological Male, Lia Thomas, NCAA Champion, Women’s 500 Freestyle
These three gals are sending a courageous message to the rest of us.
In the photo below the real women’s national champion, Emma Weyant, receives encouragement from her coach. Weyant was the Silver Medalist in the 400 meter Individual Medley at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. She is a world class female athlete. And she just finished 2nd to a guy that ranked #462 as a male swimmer.
In February over a dozen of Lia’s teammates sent a protest letter to the University and the Ivy League. Here’s a portion:
Lia has every right to live her life authentically. However, we also recognize that when it comes to sports competition, that the biology of sex is a separate issue from someone’s gender identity. Biologically, Lia holds an unfair advantage over competition in the women’s category as evidenced by her rankings that have bounced from #462 as a male to #1 as a female. If she were to be eligible to compete against us, she could now break, Penn, Ivy, and NCAA Women’s Swimming records; feats she could never have done as a male athlete.
Letter Sent to U. Penn and Ivy League (2-3-2022)
Up till now, few well-known female Olympians have spoken out about this “unfair advantage.” Corporate endorsement pressures no doubt contribute to their silence. Or a fear of being called a bigot. But we need to hear them roar as well.
Katie Ledecky, and others, time to get in this game. Women’s Sport is bigger than one person.
Okay. I watched the following public service announcement (PSA) several times this weekend while enjoying Men’s College Basketball via Hulu.
Love March Madness!
Adidas featured a commercial which highlighted a transgender athlete. It also ran repeatedly. We got a Gender-Ideology full-press this weekend.
In the PSA below the sports of soccer, basketball, field hockey, and gymnastics were highlighted. Now, if the team camaraderie encouraged in this PSA is just for the purpose of organizing local pickup games, like at the YMCA, I don’t see any problem with boys and girls playing together, within reason (is there much left these days?).
But once it gets really serious, and the stakes are higher, say, with organized High School athletics and beyond, like it is with men’s March Madness, you are smokin’ weed or something worse if you think post-pubescent biological men and women can and should compete together.
Full contact sport, with men and women competing together?
That’s insane.
Here’s the 30 sec PSA….
Another thing about this PSA. It highlights team sport.
What about those sports that are mostly about individual achievement? Say swimming? Or Boxing? Mix Martial Arts? Wrestling? Figure Skating? Or like some of the ones you’ll find later in this post?
Yet even in team sport we would have an “inclusion” problem. Maybe Team A has included 3 biological males and they start for Team A’s basketball squad. Their opponent has the more traditional, less inclusive, 5 out of 5 biological female starters. Are you gonna tell me that the difference in those bodies doesn’t matter?
Are you smoking peyote?
Have you seen how physical and fast, and yes, more athletic, men’s basketball is compared to women’s basketball? There is a good reason for that.
Stop denying the madness. A Transwoman is not a real woman.
Real World Examples
Why do you think the Ukrainian government refused to allow able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 59 to leave Ukraine? Was that just another example of deep seated old-world patriarchy? Something the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) human relation’s folk would find deeply offensive and legally actionable? Do you think the women and children of Ukraine would want to minimize, for the sake of inclusion, those male-bodied capabilities right now?
Not on their life, they wouldn’t.
The PSA above propagandizes a radical “gender neutral” agenda. No-doubt facilitated by young people who have watched too many Saturday morning cartoons where the female superheroes “kick ass” just like the males. This fiction is also made easier because our young people have been groomed from Kindergarten to think male/female body differences don’t matter or are irrelevant.
See the following posts for more information about how our schools have developed this agenda and have also co-opted parental prerogatives.
And these posts for more information on how Gender Ideology impacts women's sport.
Here in the real world of sport, post-pubescent male length of bone, muscle mass, and natural testosterone infused aggressiveness, etc., will leave females in the dust. Or injure them. Anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. And probably agenda driven.
If male bodied athletes are allowed to compete with female bodied athletes, this will mean the end of women’s sport.
Is that the world we want to live in?
This is not about discouraging anyone genuinely confused about their sex or gender identity from playing pickup games during school gym class.
This is about refusing to recognize that when it comes to competitive sport, where potential scholarships are on the line, and perhaps the slight chance of a professional contract awaits, the body deniers among us are living in a dangerous fantasy world, a world that doesn’t care about female athletes.
In 2017 at the Connecticut State High School Track and Field Championship Andraya Yearwood won the women’s 100 meter and 200 meter races. Bully for her. Right? But here’s the problem. Andraya is a biological male. In Connecticut, students are allowed to play sports in accordance with their gender identity regardless of medical transition status. Andraya underwent no medical interventions prior to winning. No puberty blockers. No cross-sex hormones, in this case estrogen. “She” simply identified as “female” and proceeded to crush the competition.
Yearwood Crushing the Competition in “Her” First HS Race Against Females
This was allowed because the Connecticut Athletic Association along with several other state athletic associations has been captured by Gender Ideology. If you think the increased length of bone, muscle mass, heart and lung size of post pubescent males doesn’t confer a male advantage in a sport where speed and strength matter then you need to
You can read about 4 biological female athletes who filed suit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) here.
3 of the 4, Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smith
Hannah Mouncey, who transitioned at age 26, is 6ft 2 in and weighs 220lb. Mouncey is a biological male but participates in a female Australian Rules Football league and pulverizes female players on the field. A picture is worth more than words.
Hannah Mouncey, playing at VFLW level, says she is planning legal action against the AFL in order to play local footy in Canberra. (AAP Image/James Ross)Source: News Corp Australia
Is this fair? Or is there an intrinsic injustice of pitting one sort of sexed body against another very different sort?
I’m with the real girls on this one.And against the body deniers among us.
The “Gender Identity and Expression” movement has a multitude of legal and cultural ramifications that most people have yet to think about in their rush to “affirm” confused individual choice for the sake of being, or being seen as, inclusive and/or non-bigoted.
Here is a noteworthy tweet from a concerned father.
One of the worst parts of this is how we’ve forced some of the most disciplined and dedicated girls in the country to accept this indignity with a smile. What type of country prioritizes confused sons over confident daughters? https://t.co/hEJFp4SEep
