Male women?

Male women?

There are many victims of gender ideology, the ideology being promoted by LGBT radicals and liberals. It endorses the political philosophy that human sex is determined not by biology but rather by “gender identity” established by self-determined emotions and feelings. The biggest broad category of victims of this ideology are women, who are forced to accept biological males into the most intimate areas of society reserved for women – including restrooms, showers, changing areas, locker room, domestic violence shelters, even women’s prisons.

But among women, perhaps those most directly and negatively impacted are female athletes, who suddenly find themselves having to compete against biological males who are crushing them in athletic competitions, stealing their scholarships and denying them the opportunity for achievement and recognition in the process. Take the case of “Lia” Thomas as an example.

Thomas is an accomplished collegiate swimmer. Unfortunately for female swimmers, Thomas built his career as a male swimmer named Will. For three years, he excelled on the men’s swim team at the University of Pennsylvania and then announced that he was transgender and intended to transition to a female gender “identity”. NCAA rules required that he receive a year of testosterone suppression treatment in order to compete as a female athlete, which he apparently did thanks in part to the cancellation of the 2020-21 season due to COVID. Despite hormone suppression, Thomas has a man’s physique – his skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary and other physical systems are fully male. Every cell in his body is male. He towers over female competitors, and now as a college senior he is crushing them in races.

To understand Thomas’ advantage as a male competing against females, consider this:

In a recent 1,650-yard freestyle competition, Thomas finished an astounding 38 seconds ahead of the fastest woman in the race. He blew away the competition in the 500-yard race. And he dominated the 200-yard race, finishing 7 seconds ahead of the closest female. Thomas is setting records galore, clocking some of the fastest times in the country in several races.

But no fair-minded person can accept that Lia should be allowed to join a women's swim team and compete against female teammates and against other women's swim teams.

That Lia wishes to be considered a woman is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether it is at all fair for this individual to compete against women. As far as sports are concerned, one's biology, not one's gender identity, is all that matters.

If Lia or any other biological male is allowed to compete against biological women, women's sports are rendered pointless and therefore unnecessary. The entire reason women's sports exist is to enable women to compete only against other women — because males have innate physical advantages in virtually every sport.

It is revolting that LGBTQ activists, virtually all sports writers and just about the entire liberal lobby claim this is fair. Judge for yourself with these headlines:

In The Independent:

"Lia Thomas: LGBT-plus rights campaigners defend swimming champion amid transphobic abuse."

The ‘activists’ who run the Human Rights Campaign defended Thomas:

"Living your truth is an incredible and powerful feeling ... We're in solidarity with Lia and all athletes who compete in the sports they love and on teams consistent with their gender identity."

Headline of an article by The Hill staff-writer, Brooke Migdon:

"College swimming champion Lia Thomas targeted by transphobic rhetoric."

"The assumption that being born with a male body automatically gives transgender women a leg up when competing against cisgender women is not well founded," Migdon writes, quoting the NCAA.

The ability of people to lie to themselves is a depressing fact of life.

The fact is this issue has nothing to do with trans acceptance or "transphobia." It is purely a moral question: Is it fair?

Female swimmers, like their male counterparts, spend countless hours in the pool, often at the crack of dawn, working themselves into exhaustion. They practice and train to excel in their sport. Imagine their shock and disappointment to see their hard work be wasted by having to compete against a man.

It’s unfortunate that the US National Athletic Associations are allowing female athletes to be dominated by biological males. Even worse, one of the first acts that Joe Biden took as president was to issue an Executive Order interpreting Title IX, the landmark civil rights law that guaranteed equal access to women in sports, to define “sex” to mean “gender identity.” This executive action would become permanent and enjoy the full force of federal law if the grossly misnamed “Equality Act” now pending on the floor of the US Senate were to become law.

We must speak out against this insanity. Even in the ultra-woke Ivy League where Lia Thomas competes, some female athletes have expressed their opposition to what is happening, and several pro-women athletic organizations are speaking out as well.

Africa and Christian principles are top of the list on the areas being targetted now, since transgender ideologies are not accepted here. We need to resist and speak out against the ‘Equality Acts’ being tabled in several countries of the world. More must be done if we are to succeed in stopping gender ideology from advancing. Of course we must advocate respect for every single person, and promote perfect equality between women and men, but that does not mean those who think they are female in a male body need to be granted the right to female bathrooms or sports!