Percentages of transgenders in the US population vary from 0.3% to 0.6%. One of the lesser misadventures of the Obama administration was the forcing of schools to accept all kinds of regulations concerning transgenders. The privacy rights of 99+% of the school age population were trampled to “protect” the rights of transgenders. Schools were forced to allow biological males to use single sex facilities devoted to girls such as bathrooms, locker rooms and showers. This was often done secretly without the parents’ knowledge.
A lesser known aspect of these policies was the forcing of girls’ sports to accept males as competitors. Since the advent of Title IX in 1972 — a federal law that expanded athletic and educational opportunities for women — millions of girls and women have benefited from their own teams and chances for growth. As anyone with an ounce of common sense understands, once puberty hits, female athletes cannot compete with male athletes. Allowing biological males into female sports destroys the opportunities for girls to excel.
The entire premise behind sex-specific competition in sports is the simple scientific reality that, in general, males are stronger, faster and more physically powerful than females. As a result, if males and females are required to compete together, women will almost always lose. The benefits that can be achieved from athletic competition will be denied to most girls if males are allowed to compete with them. There will be two kinds of sports, male and coed. Female sports will cease to exist.
The state of Connecticut has offered a dismaying picture of the future of female athletics, with two male-to-female transgender runners routinely outpacing the competition at the state track championships. The two male competitors have taken 15 state championship titles reserved for girls. And they took more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions from female track athletes in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons alone.
Some sanity is beginning to return to this arena. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has issued a letter of “Impending Enforcement Action” against several public schools that have allowed boys who “identify” as girls to compete in girls’ athletic events. The letter stated that girls were denied opportunities to compete and receive public recognition critical to college recruiting and scholarship opportunities.
“The actions of the CIAC, Glastonbury, Bloomfield, Hartford, Cromwell, Canton, and Danbury [schools] resulted in the loss of athletic benefits and opportunities for female student-athletes. One complainant student-athlete explained to OCR that no matter how hard she trained, she felt that she could never be good enough to defeat Students A and B [boys who had been allowed to compete in girls’ events].”
The female students “were denied the opportunities that Connecticut male student-athletes had of being able to compete, on a level playing field, for the benefits that flow from success in competitive athletics.”
The letter gives the state athletic association and the six schools identified as offenders until June 4th to align their policies with Title IX law.
Sanity is beginning to return to some policies emanating from Washington, DC. What every rational person knows is now being reflected in this action taken by the US DOE.
This is a small victory. It is one of many that appear to be beginning to seep out of Washington due to PDJT being elected President in 2016. Let us pray and work for four more years of such actions that benefit America.