Imagine if the U.S. Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether the law of gravity still applies, even in these early years of the 21st century.
After all, some people are uncomfortable with their size. They feel sluggish and weighed down by that pull from the earth. Why shouldn’t they just be able to ignore gravity and float along as easily as they please? Why should any law of nature be allowed to constrain how light and thin someone feels inside?
If that sounds ridiculous to you, imagine how female athletes have felt in recent years, having to compete against males just because they’ve been told that feeling like a woman can make them so.
Their make-believe is our hard reality. And some of us have empty spaces on our trophy shelves to prove it.
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Each of us spent a lot of our growing-up years training our minds, straining our bodies and gaining the skills to compete against other girls and women on the athletic field. We worked hard — forfeited a lot of fun and family time — and steadily disciplined ourselves to become better, faster and stronger to win those trophies, stand on winners’ platforms and earn scholarships that could pay for our higher education.
Then something happened that we had no way to predict or prepare for. American sports culture went off the deep end.
Seemingly overnight, our country’s athletic leaders decided that men could be women, that men had every right to compete in women’s sports, and that physical differences were irrelevant, DNA was unimportant and anyone could be anything they wanted to be. Throw natural law to the wind.
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Here’s a little glimpse of what that’s looked like:
In West Virginia, a single male athlete competing on a state girls’ track team beat out over 400 girls in high school and middle school athletic competitions. While doing that, he was given free access to women’s locker rooms, where he made vulgar sexual comments to his female teammates to the point that one opted to wear her uniform all day rather than change clothes in front of him. When the school was told, nothing changed.
During his first three years at the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas competed on the men’s swim team, where he ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle, and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. During his final year, competing as a woman, he suddenly ranked fifth, first and eighth in those respective events, broke six records at the Ivy League Women’s Championships, took home four women’s Ivy League championships and won a women’s NCAA championship in the 500-yard freestyle, beating two former Olympic champions.
A recent United Nations study found that
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