The people who argue that men can be women have unsurprisingly ludicrous takes about men playing in women’s sports, including that not letting men play against women hurts all women.

That is the argument that was put forward by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) over the weekend. “Categorial bans on trans women harm all women,” Jayapal said. On X, she posted that “these insulting rules only promote fear” and “dangerous stereotypes.” Jayapal even went as far as to claim that keeping men out of women’s sports was “sex discrimination,” and she said it like it was a bad thing.

Jayapal’s position is ludicrous from top to bottom. Of course women’s sports are guilty of “sex discrimination” against men. Women’s sports exist in order to give women their own leagues and events to compete in without being outclassed by naturally stronger, faster, and more athletic male athletes.

You only need your eyes to see the difference between, say, a WNBA player and any 6-foot-5-inch high school boys basketball player, but if you need statistical proof (of which there is plenty), take this example: The women’s world record time in the 100-meter dash of 10.49 seconds, the fastest a woman has ever run the race in recorded history, is regularly beaten by high school boys in a given year. This year, the top recorded boys middle school time of 10.84 seconds, run by a seventh grader, would be good for a fourth-place finish in the women’s 100-meter dash at the 2020 Olympics.

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Taking Jayapal’s concerns based on her own words, she still doesn’t understand the reality we are dealing in. Jayapal warns about banning male athletes from women’s sports leading to “fear,” ignoring the very real fear from female athletes who are being forced to change alongside male athletes in their locker rooms. She warns that “categorial bans on trans women harm all women” while men and boys playing women’s and girls sports actually physically harm real women and girls. We have seen this in contact sports such as basketball and rugby, but we have even seen it in noncontact sports such as volleyball.

Jayapal’s position is harming the integrity of women’s and girls athletic competitions and is actually leading to the real, physical harm of female athletes who are forced to compete against men and boys in their sports, all because Jayapal does not think basic biology exists. The harm is coming from her and other delusional activists, not the people trying to protect female athletes from the activists’ ideology.