There is a national debate regarding males who now identify as a female, who wish to participate in women’s sporting events under the guise of inclusiveness. Let us take a look at the normal policies of all sport governing bodies to see if this position holds water, or if it’s the equivalence of condoning Performance Enhancing Drug (PED) use.

PED use by athletes is well-established to be from all athletic competitions because they provide an unfair advantage for those who use them. The significant changes in muscle size, strength, speed, oxygen-carrying capacity, etc. provide a significant performance advantage in any given sporting event, and those who have been determined to have used PED are immediately disqualified. There is no governing body that internationally allows their use. However, there is one PED that appears to be well accepted, regardless of the insanity of it, and that is the transgender “woman” competing in woman’s sports. Here is the irony of this issue, illustrating the hypocrisy of the sports governing bodies.

Let’s take any female athlete, and in the spirit of inclusiveness allow her to use a PED. This would:

Now, anyone with any reasonable level of common sense would agree that this type of artificial advantage should be from competition. If not, then in order to level the playing field, all other athletes competing in the same competition would be forced to use PEDs in order to be competitive. So, any sports governing body policy that allow for male athlete’s, under the guise of inclusiveness, to compete with women has just any female athlete, which would be the majority of them, from competing on the same level, unless they decide to use PEDs, which would violate the PED rules of performance.

Insanity is a total loss of reality and results in unreasonable behavior and folly, which is exactly describes the tolerance of males who believe they are a female competing in female athletics. To call this inclusiveness, while simultaneously excluding PED use, is idiocy.

ICONS is the newly formed Independent Council on Women’s Sports. It has drafted a position statement on this issue, which can be found here. Some of the points it makes are as follows:

Stop the idiocy. Transgendered athletes need mental health counseling, not a green light to compete in women’s sports.

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