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Ask any woman who has played team sports whether men have a huge advantage out on the field, the court, the swimming pool, or the track. She will say yes. Men are taller, larger, stronger, and faster. Men have larger hearts, muscles, and lung capacity.
Every woman knows that feeling when standing in a room full of men, especially if you are the only woman or one of a few. They are different. They don’t have to demonstrate their strength. We can sense it. So imagine that you’re on a volleyball court about to play a team with a tall, strong man on it. Even women who support this nonsense understand the risk of a volleyball to the head served by a man as opposed to a woman.
That we’re even having these discussions is evidence that our society has fallen down a deep crevice of absurdity. But we have to deal with the times.
Various states have banned men in women’s sports, but we need a national ban — not executive action only, but legislation as well. That’s why the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to ban men on women’s sports teams (and vice versa). The bill passed by a vote of 218 to 206.
Two Democrats joined Republicans — Congressmen Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, both of Texas. Every other Democrat was uninterested in physically protecting women or protecting fair competition in women’s sports. The bill has moved to the U.S. Senate for a vote.
The bill amends Title IX — which bars sex-based discrimination in schools and educational programs that receive federal tax dollars — to bar its application to men pretending to be women.
Banning men in women’s sports is about more than what happens while playing. Men on women’s sports teams have access to women’s restrooms, locker rooms, and showers.
Outspoken women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, who competed against a man in the 2022 NCAA swimming competition, testified in a Senate hearing that some of her teammates changed in a janitor’s closet to avoid changing in front of a man.
It’s not transphobic to say that men and women are biologically different!
“My problem is the NCAA. My problem is the Biden administration pushing a rewrite of #TitleIX. That is my problem. That’s why I’m here.” @Riley_Gaines_ @PeteLeeColoradohttps://t.co/yrbJw31Qqf pic.twitter.com/MwMh1KanSj
— Independent Women’s Voice (@IWV) June 21, 2023
Blake Allen, a teenage girl from Vermont, talked about how she felt changing clothes in front of a boy. She told him to leave because he watched the girls as they undressed. The school suspended Blake after she complained. Her parents filed a lawsuit on her behalf. The school district settled the lawsuit and paid $125,000 for damages and attorneys’ fees.
One of President-elect Donald Trump’s most effective campaign ads was telling the truth about “transgenderism” and Democrats’ priorities: Kamala Harris is for they/them. Trump is for you.
“There is a national mandate from the American people to stand up for objective truth and to stand with women — preserving our privacy, safety, and equal opportunities,” Gaines said. “Today’s House passage of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act means we’re one step closer to ensuring no more women lose trophies, roster spots, playing time, scholarships, or fair competition to men in their own sport.”
Photo credit: Alliance Defending Freedom
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