The Runback: The Integrity of the Game
Women's sports are at risk because organizations are too afraid to buck political correctness
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The Monday Thought
March is Women’s History Month, and for reasons that boggle the mind, we have been assaulted this month by men interjecting themselves into the way of women.
Some of these interjections are benign. For example:
It’s absurd, of course, that the Anne Arundel County Health Department is recognizing a biological man for their contribution as a woman in medicine who broke boundaries. Did Nilesh Kalyanaraman and company (#FollowTheScience, remember?) run out of other women in medicine to recognize and instead settle on somebody born as a man?
Yet at the end of the day, a tweet by a government agency engaging in the most woke of political correctness is but a drop in the bucket compared to what is happening in collegiate athletics:
Lia Thomas is a national champion.
Thomas, who is a transgender woman, touched the wall in 4 minutes, 33.24 seconds in the 500-yard freestyle on Thursday night to become the first known transgender athlete to win a Division I national championship in any sport.
Thomas finished 1.75 seconds ahead of second-place Emma Weyant, who attends Virginia. Thomas' time was a season best and a little more than 9 seconds off of Katie Ledecky's 4:24.06 record.
Just to be clear, a swimmer born a man won the women’s NCAA championship at swimming, swimming faster than an Olympic silver medalist. And this is supposed to be a good thing.
The NCAA may be turning a blind eye here. But the athletes know. This photo says it all.
All of this comes at a very awkward time in the sports and media landscape. During the NCAA Tournament, Buick has been advertising for their “See Her Greatness” campaign in an effort to bring more media attention to women’s athletics. I could not think of a more awkward time for Buick to be running this campaign at a time where men are being glorified for being better at women’s sports than women.
We must be careful here. Men who are identifying as women are still human beings. They are still people created in God’s image, who have human dignity and human worth. We must treat them as people.
But at the same time, we have to have some level of reason here. And it comes down to basic fairness; why are biological women being forced to compete against “women” who are biologically men and have physiological advantages that biological women don’t? This isn’t even a question of “gender identify” here; this is a question of basic biology? Why should biological men who want to compete as women get afforded special treatment at the expense of biological women?
The NCAA is one of a plethora of organization who want to treat this as a good thing, who want to pretend that all of this is fine. But, as the photo above shows, people know what they see. They know that a man competing as a woman is still a woman? No politicized glorification of it is going to make that change.
Want to know where some of the blame for people not believing in science during COVID came from? Well here you go, when the state and other institutions tell you that what you see with your eyes isn’t real.
Women's sports are at risk because organizations are too afraid to buck political correctness. And that’s hardly a way to create opportunities for women.
As the father of a daughter, I want to make sure that we protect opportunities across the board for biological women. I don’t know if she will excel in sports. But if she does, I do not want to see us continue down this path where he skills may be diminished because the guy who finished 469th in his sport as a man became a woman and finished first. That is a disordered society hellbent on madness.