In this episode of "The Irrational Rationalization of the Left"...
With respect to my headline, while saying "Democrats talk crazy talk" is generally redundant, a Maine Democrat state representative's rationale about why males pretending to be females beating the daylights out of actual female athletes in female sporting events is actually good for female athletes is straight out of the loony bin. I know: "Democrats are loony" is also redundant.
Incidentally, before we continue, the "woman" in the feature image is New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who was selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was the first openly "transgender" athlete to compete at the Olympics in a different gender category from that to which "they" were born.
So our story begins with Maine Democrat state Rep. Rafael Macias and his appearance on a recent episode of the "Muddy Waters Podcast," during which he claimed that a fellow state representative — a Republican — "doxxed a young man" who simply "wanted to play sports" when she posted a picture of the so-called "transgender" athlete competing against boys first, then girls, in an effort to show how the pretend female didn't fare well against other males, but dominated females in female sporting event. (#duh)
The fun began when Macias waxed idiotic about how "trans female" athletes competing against actual females was a good thing for everyone in the field. In other words, irrational rationalization — the Democrat Party's stock and trade.
Here's Macias:
It's an individual sport, so if you're worried about who you're competing [against], particularly if they're stronger and they can jump higher, I think that makes everybody in the field better, you know, jumping higher, running faster.
Where to begin?
Even if we expand the limits of pragmatism for argument's sake and pretend that Macias was partially right in his ridiculous assumption, here's the thing: A 6'2" 225-pound dude in reasonably good shape is going to beat the bejesus out of a 5'2" 130 pound female in most, if not all, head-to-head competitions, even if said female gets a tad better after she's humiliated.
Macias then tried to offer up what he apparently considered a proof source to make his case: the four-minute mile, and how some female runners have achieved it — which was incorrect.
They can run faster than me. They can run faster than you and probably most men that I know who can't run the four-minute mile. There are women that are doing that. So, you know, you can compare men and female and say men are stronger, men can jump higher, run faster, longer, all that good stuff, and that women shouldn't play in men's sports.
Yeah, no.
First point: According to ESPN, in late June, three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon failed in her bid to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes. Kipyegon, the Olympic 1,500-meter gold medalist from Kenya, ran in 4 minutes, 06.42 seconds — the fastest mile in history by a woman — at Stade Charléty in Paris.
Second point: I'm unaware of anyone calling for women to compete in men's sports, or female athletes wanting to compete against men in men's sporting events.
Host Chuck Ellis, who had patiently remained silent — though he appeared frustrated — as Macias continued to spew nonsense, finally jumped in to stop it:
Let's be clear about a couple things. Nobody on our side in any way is saying that we have any problem with women trying to compete in men's sports. That's not — nobody's saying that at all. The reason for Title IX wasn't that people didn't want to allow women to compete in male sports but that they couldn't.
Precisely.
While Title IX, enacted in 1972, prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs and activities receiving federal funding — including athletics — the participation of "transgender females" in female sporting events has become a political flashpoint in recent years.
Moreover, President Trump has signed several executive orders in his second term, asserting that Title IX requires women’s and girls’ sports to be limited to "those assigned female at birth," including:
January 20, 2025: Trump signed an executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government,” which instructed all federal agencies, including the Department of Education, to officially recognize only two sexes — male and female — based strictly on biological sex at birth.
February 4, 2025: In response to Trump's January 20th EO, the Department of Education released a "Dear Colleague" letter explaining that Title IX would be enforced under the 2020 regulations originally established during Trump’s first term, instead of the Biden administration’s 2024 guidelines. Under the 2020 rules, the definition of sex for Title IX purposes is restricted to one’s sex assigned at birth.
February 5, 2025: Trump issued another executive order — "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" — which was intended to protect single-sex sports by limiting participation based on biological sex at birth.
In addition, according to an Ipsos Poll conducted for The New York Times in early 2025 — which surveyed roughly an equal number of Republicans and Democrats — 79 percent of respondents said men “should not” compete in women’s sports, when asked the following question:
“Thinking about transgender female athletes – meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female – do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women's sports?”
Clearly, the left is on the wrong side of this issue, just as the left is on the wrong side of many, if not most, issues affecting Americans.
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Finally, Macias and Ellis debated the notion of "male privilege." Macias spewed:
It takes a lot of guts for someone to say, 'I'm not going to accept male privilege.' And I'm using that term 'male privilege.'
Nonsense. My colleague Brandon Morse put it perfectly, in a Wednesday VIP piece:
The Democrat Party can't get past the idea of "male privilege," which does not exist outside of isolating advantages men have been given by nature. The idea that somehow men have it better because they're men ignores the amount of disadvantages that come with it, or the advantages given to women that men provide at cost to their own safety, time, and resources. It also ignores all the advantages women are given, and only focuses on their particular disadvantages — often given by nature — which are also somehow blamed on men.
Meanwhile, Democrats like Maine's Rafael Macias will continue to blather on about the "fairness" of males pretending to be females competing in — and dominating — female sporting events; even to the point of absurdity, as Macias has clearly proven.
