Girls' and Women's Sports

People in the Biden administration and various mainly Democrat governors and state legislatures have decided that boys pretending to be girls and men pretending to be women should be allowed to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. While this is neither the strangest nor the most important thing going on with the transexual craze in the country, it is interesting.

Girls and women are at a disadvantage to boys and men in strength, speed, and quickness. That is why schools and colleges have separate programs for girls and women in sports including soccer, softball or baseball, basketball, volleyball, swimming, track and field, tennis, and even golf when they do not have them in chess, debate, law review, engineering design or other competitions where physical differences between the sexes do not matter.  The separate programs are necessary to give large numbers of girls and women a chance  to participate   in organized sports that they would not have if competing for places on teams against boys and men.  This is well known and until recently was well accepted.

Now many people and often the same people who for years have lobbied for more money and attention for women’s sports have decided that allowing the guys into girls and women’s sports is fine and fair to all, providing the males declare they want to be viewed as female. Holding that position requires rejecting and declaring invalid the reason for having separate teams for girls and women and leads fairly naturally to the conclusion that schools and colleges should just have teams, one for each sport, that anyone of any actual or declared sex can try out for.  There is irony there.