There is an ongoing fight across the country about protecting the rights of women and girls to participate in sports without having to contend with men competing against them. PDJT signed an Executive Order on February 5th entitled “No Men in Women’s Sports.” Failure to follow Title IX of the civil rights law will result in the loss of federal funding for schools in that state.
Why is there even a fight? Because no Democrat will stand up for women and girls. Recently all Senate Democrats voted against safeguarding girls’ sports. Apparently Democrats are only interested in women during election years.
Three recent cases highlight this ongoing controversy which most common sense people believe should be a no brainer.
In late February, a teenager at a Washington State high school was investigated for refusing to play against a biological male who was competing on a girls’ basketball team. Notice that I said the girl was investigated. Because of her opposition, she was accused of “bullying” and “harassment” for allegedly “misgendering” the male-born student.
This is a typical reaction from “woke” school administrators. They will try to silence students who point out the obvious issues with a male competing against girls. The message here to all girls at this high school is that the school will come after them if they speak out about the obvious injustice of allowing a male to compete against girls.
The officials in the district refused to remove the boy from the girls’ team. And they were quick to accuse the teenager who complained as being guilty of “gender-identity-based discrimination.”
Cases continue to pile up in California. It couldn’t be happening because California has vowed to ignore the law of the land, could it?
The Post Millennial reported, “Jurupa Valley High School junior AB Hernandez, a trans identifying boy, secured first place at the Ontario Relays invitational meet on Feb. 22 with a jump exceeding 40 feet. The second-place competitor recorded a jump of just over 32 feet. Hernandez also won the high jump and long jump events at the same meet.”
In Pennsylvania, this fiery controversy has gone from the track to the courtroom. After a Quakertown Community High School female athlete was beaten on multiple occasions by male-born athlete Luce Allen, her mom decided to file a complaint on the grounds that her daughter had been stripped of her constitutional and 14th amendment rights. The lawsuit requested a temporary restraining order (TRO) “to halt biological males from participating in women’s sports.” As expected, the Colonial School District opposed the suit.
Why the Democrats have decided to die on the hill of transgenderism is unknowable. Transgender students are not being denied the right to participate in sports as some brain-dead Democrats would opine. They just need to compete against those of the same sex.
Girls’ sports should not become a landing place for male athletes who are unwilling to put the time in to compete against their own sex.