2+2 = 5
“Lies Are Informing Public Policy”
The Gilford School Board, as a result of one family’s complaints about their child suffering from gender dysphoria (I’m not going to use the Left’s language anymore if at all possible – you loose the debate right off the bat) and of the passage of NH SB263, is about to let biological males cross-over and play on girls’ teams. At the elementary school level, the physical attribute bell curve is mostly likely singular. Once puberty starts to take hold, that monomodal hump becomes bimodel and at the top levels of athletic events, usually seems to be 10% difference with males holding the advantage. Boys will be stronger, more coordinated, faster, and because male minds are wired differently, more aware of the spatial environments in which match play is held. Sure, a highly gifted and trained girl at the right side of the female may well outdo most boys but certainly it will be rare for that girl to continue to beat similarly gifted boys. Like the Connecticut boys running and beating gifted girls in their State’s championship track meet.
Transjacking, as it were. New word to me but it aptly what is starting to happen in female sport – it will erase girls from the top end of their sports. It will / is making a mockery of the protections girls have under Title IX. Yet, both the Gilford and Franklin (NH) School Boards are all on board on with this. Must hate biological girls, eh? And there are other Districts in NH that already have started this or have implemented the NH School Board Association’s Policy JBAB (which started back in 2008).
As always, I was surfing around and came across that word, transjacking, at a post at The Federalist and immediately thought: “Perfect. It is the taking of something that really shouldn’t be theirs”. Instead of relying strictly on the idea of actual biology, the Left’s claim of transgenderism (gender dysphoria). I’m going to take a long part of it as there are a number of points that, well, it would make better than I on this especially on the examples that are listed (reformatted, emphasis mine):
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…If chemicals from a necessary, medicated lip balm can be construed as such an unjust physical advantage, how on Earth can athletic authorities continue to turn a blind eye to the litany of physical advantages the transgender men increasingly competing in women’s sports so obviously possess in their male bodies?
The ‘Standards’ for Trans Athletes Are Ludicrous
This question remains unanswered, as the International Olympic Committee continues to waffle over the rules for participation in Olympic women’s events. Their rules presently allow men to participate as women, provided their testosterone levels are below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 consecutive months. These standards completely fail to consider the host of other advantages inherent in the male body: increased 02 capacity, overall musculature, bone size and density, increased joint stability, and lower body fat, to name a few. These advantages don’t magically disappear with the wave of a synthetic estrogen wand.For those tempted to believe the male takeover of women’s sports is such a fringe issue that it’s not likely to be an important or frequent enough problem to merit any concern, think again. Here are just a few of the many ways women and girls are losing to their impersonators.
Men Easily Dominate in Women’s Sports
- Fallon Fox is a male, American mixed martial arts fighter who competes in the women’s division. Fox ended the career of his opponent, Tamikka Brents, within the first three minutes of their fight when he shattered her eye socket, an injury requiring seven staples in her head, prompting her to declare, “I’ve never felt so overpowered in all my life.”
- Hannah Mouncey is going to injure someone if allowed to continue dominating on the Australian women’s national handball team. He played on the men’s national team before deciding to grow out his hair and declare himself a woman.
- Rachel McKinnon is a man and two-time women’s world cycling champion, who also uses his status as a professor of philosophy at College of Charleston in South Carolina to bully those who disagree with him, responding to dissenting opinions on Twitter with threats such as, “Abigail Shrier got wrecked on FOX Nation. I’ll do it to you, too.”
- Gabrielle Ludwig is a 6-foot-6-inch man who took a starting spot on the women’s basketball team at Mission College in California. He was named first team all conference and mysteriously led the league in rebounds.
- Fewer than 5,000 spots are available on NCAA Division III women’s volleyball teams. That didn’t prevent Chloe Anderson, a male, from taking one of them at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Some of Alaska’s finest female track athletes watched the state final race from the sidelines after Nattaphon Wangyot, a male, edged them out of their places in it.
- Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood are a dynamic duo from Connecticut, where the unmedicated, post-pubescent boys took first- and second-place state championship titles in girls’ track events. When asked about his obvious physical advantage, Miller flippantly said the girls “should work harder.”
- Similarly unmoved by the inequity of his male advantage is Cece Telfer, a man who ran on the Franklin Pierce University men’s 2016-17 track and field team before deciding he would rather race against women. He became the women’s 2019 Division II national champion in the 400-meter race, beating his closest opponent by a second and a half.
- Amelia Galpin is a man who competes against women in the Boston Marathon. He, ironically, was featured on “the body edition” of Women’s Running Magazine, sending the message loud and clear that the ideal woman’s body includes a penis. How very progressive.
- Laurel Hubbard and JayCee Cooper are two men doing their darndest to dominate women’s powerlifting. Hubbard took gold in two women’s heavyweight categories at the Pacific Games. Cooper filed a discrimination claim against USA Powerlifting, demanding a right to lift against women.
- Caroline Layt is a man who was once voted “Women’s Rugby Player of the Year.”
- Britney Stinson, also a man, has broken into the Women’s Football Alliance and USA Baseball.
- Maxine Blythin is a man who just recently won the title “Women’s Cricketer of the Week.” Cate McGregor — you guessed it, another man — is on the Canberra women’s cricket team.
- Does anyone else remember what happened when Serena Williams challenged the 203rd-ranked player from the men’s league? I’ll give you a hint: She lost. Badly.
- The dominant U.S. women’s soccer team routinely loses to high school boys teams.
Lies Are Informing Public Policy
The list goes on and on, and so does the utterly nonsensical rhetoric relentlessly shoved down the public’s collective throat as fact. In the Human Rights Campaign’s “Guide for Schools in Transition,” the section related to trans-identified people in sports reads:“Concerns about competitive advantage are unfounded and often grounded in stereotypes about the differences and abilities of males vs. females.”
That’s pure ideology. All one has to do is to watch male vs female sports and look at the stats and the record books. The HRC’s statement is blatantly untrue. But it is used nonetheless.
This is the kind of rhetoric informing public policy — the notion that men’s advantage in sports is nothing more than a sex stereotype that can be overcome with a little more elbow grease and courage from the females. It’s fascinating, is it not, that given this newfound clarity, we don’t somehow see females identifying their way onto the starting lineups of NFL or NBA teams.
And given that “identity” has morphed from sexes to age to skin color, why shouldn’t morph into absolutely every area of life. I identify as a 26 year old, 7’2″ black guy that plays the center position in basketball – should I sue the Boston Celtics for not signing me? Why are they discriminating against me simply because I present as a old, overweight, white, 63 year old?
RACISM, AGISM, ABLEISM! Who are you to judge me!
Yet, 2+2=5 the HRC is saying. Who are you going to believe – us or your lyin’ eyes? Which is actually fair: over the top ideology or science?
Reality or fantasy when it comes to athletic ability?
If the HRC is right – why do we still have girls and boys teams even now?
Sex-Based Protections Exist for a Reason
I take no pleasure in acknowledging this reality. As a former small-college basketball player, I’ll never forget the day a group of meathead-looking men showed up for our open gym and asked to play against us. I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder and something to prove, so I played as hard and aggressively as I possibly could.At one point, I decided to try to stop one of the men from completing a fast-break layup. I sprinted in front of him, planted my body on the block outside the key, and braced myself for impact.
I was still seeing stars 10 minutes later. I had never been hit by so much brute force in my entire life. I later discovered I had, in fact, taken a charge from then-Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander, so my bravado was actually sheer stupidity, but the point has stayed with me, stamped into my memory for more than a decade now: No amount of 5 a.m. practices or extra drills or mental toughness or “working harder” would ever be sufficient for me to overcome the physical gap between our abilities.
That’s why sex-based protections exist in the first place. Without them, women like me would never be able to afford our college educations, as men would have swept up the scholarships we received. And that’s exactly what’s starting to happen.
Fight Back to Protect Women’s Sports
I hesitated to write this article for quite some time because it’s so profoundly discouraging to know that every time I talk about this, plenty of men are sitting around saying, “Women’s sports are a joke anyway,” or, “Feminists made their bed; now they need to lie in it.”The fact that I feel compelled even to consider writing an extra paragraph unpacking the merits of women’s sports is evidence of the volume of work we have left to do. Ambivalent men will always find a way to blame women for our mistreatment, and it’s why feminism will always continue to exist: Someone has to care about this stuff. It’s not right, and it needs to stop.
Men’s and women’s bodies are different. It’s not rocket science, it’s biology, and it turns out biology is one bigoted son of a gun. Anatomy discriminates. Women have known this for centuries. Biology is science, however, and as the left is constantly reminding us, science denial is pretty dangerous.
It’s time to step up and speak up and stop this nonsense once and for all. It’s going to take all hands on deck. Women, girls, and the people who love them need to complain loudly and often whenever they’re faced with the prospect of having to compete against the men who would cheat them out of what is rightfully theirs. Film the lunacy of it all. Share it broadly on social media.
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Question: If I am told that I must accept this new protected class because I am unable to read their innermost thoughts and emotions, then why am I also told that “hate crimes” exist even as no one can read the innermost thoughts and emotions of the alleged perp?
