My head is spinning with the weirdness of the last month, which has to be the weirdest in U.S. political history. I can’t believe we live here. I also can’t believe it is controversial to say women and men are different. And women deserve safety, privacy, and fairness. But here we are.
The Republican Party is certain to capitalize on the Democrats’ unwillingness to admit they actually do know what a woman is for fear of angering the LGBT coalition of bullies.
This I do know: Republicans leaning into the protection of women’s sports and spaces is a surefire winner. The latest Gallup poll shows that close to 70% of people agree on this one. Still, it seems most are afraid to say so out loud.
But last week at the Republican National Convention, Eric Trump said, “Male athletes, guys my height, 6’5”, are swimming in women’s sports destroying the dreams of young girls who have trained every minute of their lives.”
And the crowd went wild.
Former President Donald Trump followed it up with, “We won’t have men playing in women’s sports.”
Again, the crowd went wild.
Rest assured, with chaos in the Democratic Party, and a female candidate on the docket, Democrats will lean hard into women’s rights. They will focus that energy on abortion as if women only care about one issue.
I’m a pro-choice (with restrictions) former Democrat. I care about a woman’s right to choose. But I don’t know how you can claim to be the protector of women’s rights if you think woman is a fungible term.
As a feminist, and someone who never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Eric Trump, I find it insulting that the Democratic Party seems to think the only right I care about is abortion. We are fully formed human beings. We are more than our ability to get pregnant. And we demand more than the right to terminate a pregnancy. Besides, how can Democrats protect our rights if they can’t define us as a class worthy of legal protections?
The April rewrite of Title IX, the landmark civil rights legislation passed in 1972 to protect women’s equal opportunity within the education system, erases its original meaning entirely, expanding “sex” based rights to “gender identity” rights. But saying you are a woman doesn’t make it so. And if males are permitted to enter women’s locker rooms, shelters, and sororities and compete in women’s sports, our privacy, safety, and opportunity to compete on an evening field is obliterated.
The lies the Democrats have told in the past five years are egregious. They told us everyone was at equal risk of COVID-19, justifying keeping public schools closed in some states for 18 months. They told us President Joe Biden was “the best Biden ever” and videos of him looking lost and frail were “cheap fakes.” And they persist in demanding that we parrot the talking point “trans women are women.” And that no one but a biologist can define what a woman is.
The reason people cheer when Donald Trump says, “We won’t have men playing in women’s sports,” is that sensible people are tired of the lies. And they are really tired of being demonized for noticing things that are patently true.
The Democratic loyalists claim those who stand up for women’s sports are making a mountain out of a molehill. The ACLU writes, “Transgender people comprise 1.6% of the human population. Of that fraction, even less play sports. Only 34 trans athletes have openly competed in U.S. college sports to date and fewer make it to the professional level.”
But there are more than 700 examples of males taking medals, trophies, team berths, and scholarships from women in the past five years. And the number is only accelerating. Insisting trans-identified males be allowed to compete in women’s sports affects 50% of competitive athletes. Yes, all female athletes are affected.
Competitive sports is a zero-sum game. If a male competes against women and wins or even places third, he displaces a worthy, hard-working female athlete.
People believe in an even playing field. We can accept losing so long as the deck isn’t stacked against us. We also believe in objective truth. And the truth is men and women are different. Title IX exists for a reason. And we’re tired of being told we must further lies to be “nice.”
Many on the Left will argue this is a fringe issue and crazy people like me harping on it all the time are, well, crazy. But we aren’t crazy. We are the sane ones. And this issue is the most egregious example of being forced to parrot lies. We’re done with lies.
Protecting women’s sports is a winning issue come November because acknowledging the differences between men and women is the most fundamental truth imaginable. If a candidate boldly asserts that men can be women if they want it badly enough, what lie won’t he or she tell?
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While those on the Left fret about the loss of trust in institutions, they might consider examining whether or not they are trustworthy. When you insist that yes, some women have penises, I’d argue you are most definitely not and the loss of trust is earned.
I, for one, will vote for the most basic, fundamental truth come November.
Jennifer Sey is a USA champion gymnast, the producer of the 2020 Emmy-winning documentary Athlete A on Netflix, and the founder and CEO of XX-XY Athletics.