Trangender Men Competing Against Women

 “There’s no crying in baseball.” Tom Hanks could be head saying “In a League of Their Own.” Does the same go for mendacity, equivocation, cheating? Supposedly not. There is no cheating in sports. This being so, is allowing natural-born men to participate in women’s sports based on gender identification, not in essence, sanctimoniousness or cheating? Here lies the problem: While trans students may identify themselves as women, their genetics replicate otherwise. In the unadulterated form, sports should celebrate physicality: the natural female and male forms as they exist, not as they are altered through steroids or hormonal replacement. Do we allow steroids in professional sports? No! So why should we allow genetic enhancement or alteration drugs in amateur sports?

Any deliberation, that leads to a decision that allows biological men, born and built with testosterone to compete in women’s sports is a hurried and blithe pronouncement to include biological men, born and built with testosterone, with their height, their strength and aerobic capacity of men, is beyond the sphere of reason and tolerance. Allowing biological men to compete in women’s athletic events is lame, wrong, flawed... it inhibits, humiliates, deflates, demeans, discriminates, cheats, and excludes women. What say you?

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