It's a fine pass we've come to when across a great deal of Western civilization, the obvious statement that "boys and girls are different" is controversial in some circles. It's even more bothersome that some of the people who object to this statement of obvious biological fact are teachers, coaches, athletic directors, and school board members.
Boys and girls, men and women, are different. Those differences are present from conception. Boys - even before puberty - have significant, measurable advantages in speed, strength, and endurance. These are facts.
And yet girls in school sports still find their teams being infiltrated by boys claiming to be "transgender girls," and these girls find themselves on the receiving end of some hateful remarks if they dare to object. In Riverside, California, 16-year-old, girls' track star, Kylie Morrow is one such student-athlete:
A girls' cross country runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, delivered an impassioned plea to her school board on Thursday amid an ongoing controversy over a trans athlete on her team.
The 16-year-old high school student, Kylie Morrow, addressed a recent lawsuit by her teammates alleging that their "Save Girls Sports" T-shirts were likened to a swastika by school officials. The plaintiffs had worn the shirts after a transgender athlete, who hadn’t consistently attended practices or met key varsity eligibility requirements, was placed on the varsity team, displacing one of the girls from her spot, the complaint alleged.
Athletic department school officials allegedly then forced the students to remove or conceal the shirts, claiming they created a "hostile" environment and comparing wearing these shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students.
This young lady took her complaints to the source to protest this latest iteration of Godwin's Law. It's not yet known whether her protest fell on deaf ears at the school board meeting, but one would think that having something as simple and heartfelt - not to mention fact-based - as "Save Girls Sports" on a t-shirt shouldn't evoke comparisons to Nazi Germany, and yet, that's what happened.
Kylie Morrow and her teammates are being forced to accommodate a boy on their team, a boy with all the advantages that male biology has given him, a boy who displaced a girl who should by rights be on this team--and a boy who is presumably sharing their private spaces.
A 16 year old female athlete who has a MALE on her team spoke out at the RUSD board meeting.
— Sophia Lorey (@SophiaSLorey) November 22, 2024
“And it is not OK that I have to be in a position where I'm going to practice and having to see a male in booty shorts and having to see that around me. As a 16-year-old girl, I don't… pic.twitter.com/QSHJotvTBJ
There is the issue of fairness here - but there is also the question of safety. There have been several girls injured by faster, stronger male athletes, and that, in this insane practice, is inevitable. There will be more such injuries as long as this practice is allowed.
Even the mainstream "LGB" portion of the community is beginning to object to the excesses of the "TQXYZ" portion, as one commenter put it:
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These are fundamental issues of fairness and safety. The Journal of Physiology spells out the biological differences between male and female athletes:
Sex as a biological variable is an underappreciated aspect of biomedical research, with its importance emerging in more recent years. This review assesses the current understanding of sex differences in human physical performance. Males outperform females in many physical capacities because they are faster, stronger and more powerful, particularly after male puberty.
Males - men and boys - have larger hearts per body size, more stroke volume, and higher cardiac output. Men and boys have larger lungs and larger airways. Men and boys have less body fat, more Type II (fast twitch) muscle fibers, higher hemoglobin concentration, larger skeletal muscles, and longer, denser and stronger bones. All of this leads to men being faster, stronger, and with more endurance than women - and these differences are in place even before puberty.
These are facts.
There is also the matter of allowing intact boys - young men, really - into girls' locker rooms and showers. It doesn't take a behavioral scientist to understand the concerns girls and their parents have with this practice, and yet there are those in the education establishment still pushing for allowing just that.
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This is a notion, allowing boys onto girls' sports teams - and in their locker rooms and showers - that must be dug out of our educational establishment, root and branch, and it will take not only parents but also brave students like Kylie Morrow to drive this transformation.
