Roy Exum
I have always been a huge proponent of women’s athletics. The reason is I like girls and cite literally hundreds, if not thousands of incidents where the wholesome goodness that every boy experiences from teamwork, sportsmanship, and that heady allure of winning may be even greater reflected in girls athletics. Now, just as coaches, athletic directors, and any parent who has a daughter has feared, the Biden Administration is the wolf at the gate.
It is the stance of the Democratic President and his liberal advisors that males who identify as transexuals must be allowed to infiltrate women’s athletics and compete as females.
It is believed by Miguel Cardona, Biden’s nominee to lead our nation’s Department of Education, that America has “a legal responsibility” to allow biological males who identify as females to compete in girls’ sports.
As we all know, that is physically impossible. There is not a doctor, a sports psychologist, nor – better yet – the father and mother of both a son and a daughter, who will tell you there is no difference in a male and a female. In this I present myself as an expert that a son and a daughter are each wonderfully and gloriously made but to “legally” project their bodies are the same is an abomination to science, as well as every physical law of nature.
The liberals would have us believe that in the spirit of “equity” and “discrimination” we must accept the transgenders and discriminate against the 99.4 percent of Americans who are not. According to the Centers for Disease Control, about one million people in the U.S. identify as transgender. That’s about 0.6 percent of the adult population.
On Wednesday during Cardona’s Senate confirmation hearings, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) - who is a M.D. via the Duke University School of Medicine - asked nominee Cardona if it was fair for transgender-identifying males to compete in girls’ sports:
“I think that it’s critically important that the education system and educators respect the rights of all students, including students who are transgender, and that they are afforded the opportunities that every other student has to participate in extracurricular activities,” Cardona replied. “I think it’s the legal responsibility of schools to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities, and this includes students who are transgender,” he said.
Senator Paul countered: “Frankly, some boy that’s 6-foot-2 competing against my 5-foot-4 niece doesn’t sound very fair … I think most people in the country think that is bizarre.”
So does the Women’s Liberation Front, a radial feminist group that has been quite vocal about the transgender ideology, citing a poll that almost 70 percent of all voters are against males competing against females, including more than two-thirds of Democrats.
“Athletics can play a powerful role in equity. The U.N. recognized women’s sports as an important tool for the empowerment of women and girls,” the liberation group said in a statement. “We stand “with the women and girls across the country who are fighting to protect their sports in the face of unprecedented attacks on Title IX under the new (Biden) administration.”
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CONGRESSMAN GREEN: “A MASSIVE OVER-REACH BY GOVERNMENT”
NOTE: Tennessee Congressman Mark Green is one of my favorite people. I had a good visit with him before he was elected to Congress, representing Tennessee’s 7th District (includes Williamson County, Brentwood and about 17-18 counties west of Nashville.) He was an Army Ranger after graduating from West Point, and was a member of the elite team that captured Saddam Hussein. He was the chief interviewer of Hussein after he was captured. While in the Army, Mark obtained his medical degree and last week wrote an essay on transgender athletes’ threat to girls’ sports in America.)
By Mark Green, United States Congressman
Months after we celebrated the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, one of President Biden’s first actions marks a drastic setback for women across this country. The President’s Executive Order instructs the Department of Education to allow transgender women – biological men who identify as women – to compete in women’s sports.
Federally funded institutions are now being forced to allow biological men access to women’s sports and scholarships meant for women in sports. This move erodes the foundations of Title IX, is unfair to women, and is a massive overreach by the Federal government.
Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to help break the glass ceiling for women, but President Biden’s Executive Order reinstates that very glass ceiling. Title IX was predicated on the fact that the biological makeup of males and females differ dramatically. That’s the reason Congress passed this important legislation – to grant women fair access to federal funding for sports and academics. Prior to Title IX, only 1 in 27 women played varsity sports, but today nearly half of girls participate in varsity sports.
Before Title IX only 32,000 women competed in college sports, now 150,000 women do. Prior to Title IX athletic scholarships were virtually non-existent, now there are nearly 10,000 athletic scholarships for women.
Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports erodes protections for women and is fundamentally unfair. The science is clear – men have about ten times the level of testosterone as women. Even after taking testosterone-suppressing hormones, a man’s bone and muscle structure remains intact. According to a new study, transgender athletes maintain a competitive edge even after a year of hormone therapy. According to that study, even after two years of taking estrogen, transgender women were still 12 percent faster than biological women.
These differences cannot be overstated when it comes to sports. Is it fair for young women relying on sports scholarships to be forced to compete against biological males? High school athletes from Connecticut have been fighting against a policy that allows biological males who identify as female to compete against them in track. In this case, two biological males have broken state records in women’s track and won several state titles.
These young women’s lawsuit claims that allowing biological males to compete against them in track is a violation of Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and denies them equal opportunity at their own sporting events.
This isn’t an isolated incident. In Alaska, a transgender girl took home all-state honors after competing in the girls’ track and field championship. President Biden’s new Executive Order will make these types of unfair advantages ubiquitous across the country.
Safety is another major consideration. Take for instance the case of Boyd Burton, a 31-year-old mixed martial arts fighter and former Navy veteran who began competing as a female. One famous 2014 fight with Boyd Burton left biological female Tamikka Brents with a fractured skull, a concussion, and a smashed eye socket. She was then criticized for claiming that the fight, which only lasted three minutes, was unfair.
World Rugby, the governing body that organizes the Rugby World Cup, banned transgender women from playing with biological women after studies showed significant safety concerns. The truth is, the Biden Administration is prioritizing the considerations of a small minority of men over those of women – and is ignoring science to do it.
As one of these young athletes put it after competing with a transgender girl for the first time, “I knew then and there that some girls would be missing out on great opportunities to succeed and that women could be completely eradicated from their own sports.”
Lastly, this new Executive Order is a complete and utter overreach by the Federal government and the Department of Education. Under our Constitution, States must be allowed to create its own laws, but the Federal government should not mandate it. It’s time for both our State and our Congress to reclaim its powers under the Constitution from the Presidency.
Tennessee will stand against Federal government overreach. We do not need the Department of Education to tell us how to run our schools and colleges. We don’t need Washington bureaucrats looking over our shoulder. Any state that wishes to maintain even the slightest control of their institutions will agree: it’s high time we abolish the Department of Education and return control of education to the states.
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“It was reported last night on Fox News that there are over 300 boys in high school Track & Field that run a faster time than the top female athlete of the world in track and field. The Liberals want to have their cake and eat it too and it's starting to bite them in the rear. The Devil is a liar, who seeks to steal awards from those girls who rightly deserve them, kill ambition for young girls who want to compete in athletics and destroy women's athletics altogether.” – One of many comments on the Internet.
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