Life in these United States circa 2024 means being asked on an almost daily basis to believe incredible claims, such as Fani and Nathan were chaste, Hunter and James never talked to Joe about family business, and there is absolutely nothing wrong or harmful with having individuals or an entire nation living far beyond their means.
In keeping with truth and reality having become fluid concepts in the eyes of too many, we also are asked to accept there is no difference between male and female athletes, which flies in the face of biology as well as athletic history.
But, reality be damned! As long as someone with male sexual equipment identifies as a female, he/she/it is free to compete against female athletes.
Not surprisingly, these gender-confused gents are grabbing headlines for success and, in a recent example, the carnage they are able to inflict on athletes of what used to be called the fair sex.
Earlier this month there was a girls’ high school basketball game between a couple of Massachusetts teams in which a transgender player on one team injured three opponents in a half’s work, leading to that affected team forfeiting the game.
Discussion in the wake of this lined up in predictable fashion, with the trans enablers speaking of vague concepts of equal opportunity and those decrying trans participants in women’s sports relying on the basic physical facts of life.
At this point, I am moved to ask a pertinent question, that being how come it’s always guys who identify as girls wanting to compete against girls, and never girls identifying as men wanting to play against guys?
There have been an abundance of alpha lesbian women athletes throughout the years, always seemingly content to play vs. women.
Think of Brittney Griner, most famous to some, perhaps, for being a prisoner in Russia for a time. Griner is a basketball player, a big one at that, standing a reported 6-foot-9.
Did Griner, a self-described lesbian, insist on playing with the big boys in the NBA. Well, while there was talk for some time of an NBA tryout (perhaps more hype than reality) as far as I can tell, Griner was content to play the women’s game.
There is at least one story of another heralded women’s basketball player from the past trying out with an NBA team (that also widely regarded as a publicity stunt) and she was overwhelmed physically.
That’s the point. The video I saw of the Massachusetts trans player injuring one of three opponents did not seem to be malicious, but rather an example of an athletically superior person throwing around a smaller opponent like a rag doll.
Should this sort of thing be allowed? No.
Why is it allowed? See my cultural war installment from yesterday.
Anybody in their right mind knows boys shouldn’t be competing regularly with girls past a certain age, say 12 years at most.
It has been widely reported that our formerly all-conquering women’s national soccer team managed to lose a scrimmage, by a 5-2 score which in soccer is decidedly one-sided, to an under-15 Dallas boys team. Repeat, a team of mid-teens-and-under boys took down our best adult women’s soccer players – easily.
While it’s fair for my 6-year-old granddaughter to play on a mixed sex kiddie basketball team, it is noteworthy that her struggling team had an apparently male player magically show up a few games back and contribute significantly to some wins.
You look at world records in easily measurable sports as such as swimming or track and field, and you will find the men’s records always surpass women’s marks.
This is not bias, it’s athletic reality.
And, while the social justice warriors are pressing so hard the trans case for equal opportunity, how about the opportunity they are taking away from females who are happy to remain females and would rather not be competing with someone on the verge of needing a daily shave to deter beard growth?
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