The Surrender to Transgender – Not!
While nobody knows, there’s estimates that about 0.5% of people believe they’re living in the wrong body.
The word ‘transgender’ is relatively new, coined in the 1990’s.
But the major problem this whole, woke situation has created is that now in sports, women must compete against men who decide they are women.
It’s not only sad, not only frustrating, but it’s also maddening.
Women fought for such a long time to get equal status with men when it comes to scholarships. It finally happened over 50 years ago with the passage of the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title IX of those amendments, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government.
But, in the current administration’s ‘woke’ bent, 2022 saw the Dept of Education issue and expand Title IX ‘protections’ with a revised interpretation of gender.
It now reads: “…schools’ obligations not to discriminate based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity; and schools’ obligations to provide an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex.”
So, by adding sexual orientation and gender identity the feds have expanded the regulations to include transgender women (men). They stop short of requiring transgender students access to single sex dorms or sports teams.
But, in the spirit of the ‘woke’ culture surrounding the new regs and the virtue signaling by those who consider themselves elite, many schools have allowed restroom and women’s sport teams, and their locker rooms, access to supposed transgender women. Some states are even placing men who say they feel like a woman in women’s prisons.
In April last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 734 that mirrored legislation that has already been adopted by 23 of the U.S. states. The bill declared that it was a “violation of Title IX” to “allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls.” It further stated that “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” HR 734 passed the House on a party-line vote but has not been taken up by the Senate and is unlikely to become law anytime soon. President Joe Biden has said that he would veto the bill.
The NCAA has adopted a rule that transgender women can compete against biological women if the person has been under testosterone treatment for a year. The level of testosterone is not defined.
Some 23 college transgender women have won titles and awards the past several years, primarily in swimming, volleyball, track and field, weightlifting and cycling.
So, out of the seeming blue, those of us who know biological men generally are stronger and faster than biological women, are placed in a position where we’re supposed to prove why we think this way.
Here’s what everyone knows almost instinctively.
It’s an excerpt abstract from the American College of Sports Medicine:
“Biological sex is a primary determinant of athletic performance because of fundamental sex differences in anatomy and physiology dictated by sex chromosomes and sex hormones. Adult men are typically stronger, more powerful, and faster than women of similar age and training status.
These sex differences in performance emerge with the onset of puberty and coincide with the increase in endogenous sex steroid hormones, in particular testosterone in males, which increases 30-fold by adulthood, but remains low in females.”
This is why its only transgender women are in the conversation and the rules. We don’t see transgender men (women) competing against men in sports.
Unlike the latest addition to the U.S. Supreme Court, we do know the difference between male and female –and can define a woman physiologically.
It starts with the announcement in the delivery room, it’s either a boy or a girl. The newborn is not a “yet to be determined.”
Transgender athletes face increased restrictions ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics compared to previous rules, as it was recently decided that they must have completed their transition before the age of 12 to avoid unfair advantages. The Olympics Committee now states that doing so after that age could give an advantage over cisgender (another needed new word now) female competitors.
Of course, the problem with that definition is that a person must decide to change their sex as a child. Most doubt children are ready to make life changing, surgical and chemical decisions.
But, for example, Lia Thomas, who swam for the men’s team at U. of Penn. his first three years before joining the women’s team and now holding NCAA swimming records, does not qualify to swim in the Olympics against the women.
All events at this year’s Olympics would seem to be ‘fair’ for the women. Great!
I don’t know what goes on in somebody else’s brain, but even I can tell the difference between a male and a female. This is ludicrous.
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Have a great and prosperous week.
Hug somebody.
References:
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-final-rule-factsheet.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/biden-title-ix-transgender-students-schools.html
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/38209262/transgender-athlete-laws-state-legislation-science
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