The political left has declared war on women in sports. They are supposed to share their locker rooms and their private spaces with men, and they are expected to compete with men in various sports. In some cases, competing with men has caused serious injuries to the women involved, but those pushing the transgender movement do not seem to be concerned about that. Seeing an Olympic competition where a man was actually hitting a women was totally offensive to me. The political left has chosen to ignore the basic differences between men and women. However, the statistics on athletic awards tell the story.
On Tuesday, BizPacReview reported:
Arguments about the rarity of men and boys stealing opportunities from women and girls crumbled as a United Nations report quantified the growing number of medals lost.
Too often, leftist claims of troubling matters being rare and of little consequence have proven to be neither. Now, according to the findings of U.N. special rapporteur Reem Alsalem, such was the case for gender ideology’s impact on sports as nearly 900 medals that would have been awarded to females had gone to males as of March 2024.
In the report initially published in August, Alsalem indicated, “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals when competing against males.”
“According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports,” she continued marking the minimum number of incidents.
The article concludes:
As far as concerns regarding how to police the matter, Alsalem recognized the sensitivity of the issue for some and proposed, “In cases where the sex of an athlete is unknown or uncertain, a dignified, swift, non-invasive and accurate sex screening method (such as a cheek swab) or, where necessary for exceptional reasons, genetic testing should be applied to confirm the athlete’s sex. In non-professional sports spaces, the original birth certificate for verification may be appropriate. In some exceptional circumstances, such tests may need to be followed up by more complex tests.”
Most recently, bureaucratic decisions to allow men to compete with women found the University of Nevada-Reno volleyball team at odds with their own school as they became the fifth team to choose forfeiture over competing against San Jose State University with a male athlete as their star player.
While the rapporteur argued “the failure to protect the female category is one of the most egregious forms of violence against women and girls” Waggoner (Alliance Defending Freedom International CEO Kristen Waggoner) contended, “Our plea to the world is to learn from the mistakes that have been made — and that are now being corrected — so that your daughters can walk into a future of fair and safe sports.”
A man competing in women’s sports is not a whole lot different than a teenager playing on a kid’s t-ball team. They simply do not belong there.
