In what may be the biggest corporate miscalculation since a Bud Light executive looked at Dylan Mulvaney and said, "Hey, now that looks like a good brand representative for our BroDude beer," Nike - yes, that Nike - is contributing funding to a study to determine just how many hormones you would have to soak a boy in to make him the equivalant of a girl in sports.
This is one case where Nike should not "just do it."
Oh, and it's not just hormones. The study will encompass surgery as well.
It recently came to light that the biggest sports apparel company in the world, Nike, is apparently helping to fund a study on the use of puberty-blockers in children and how it affects their athletic performance.
The short version of the study's purpose is simple: how much medication, hormones and surgery needs to be given to young boys to allow them to "fairly" compete in girls' and women's sports? To this point, Nike has not confirmed its financial investment in the study, but they have not denied it, either.
Of course, most rational-thinking people already know the answer that this study seeks to find: there is no amount of pharmaceutical or medical intervention that should allow boys to compete in girls' and women's sports. In addition, giving these life-altering "gender-affirming treatments" to children should be considered child abuse.
And why is Nike allegedly funding such a study? They are a sports apparel company that primarily produces sneakers. What are they looking to gain from this "research?" Do they want more children receiving these treatments? Unfortunately, the company has, thus far, refused to answer these questions.
Now, there's a little wiggle room in the comments there; Nike has not confirmed nor denied any investment in the study. But then, there's this:
The one area that's conspicuously absent is the study mentioned in the New York Times article, the one that Nike is reportedly helping to fund. The study, led by Kathryn Ackerman of Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, also includes Joanna Harper and several other researchers.
Sarah Barker, author of the Substack The Female Category, did a deep-dive into the study itself and the other alleged financial contributors back in October.
While Nike has not confirmed their financial contribution to the study, Ackerman has said on several occasions that the company is, indeed, providing them with money.
During a seminar in 2023, Ackerman stated, "Recently, we got some money from Nike, who wanted to study this more… they wanted to look at transgender folks who are going through the transition younger. So, if we are talking about athletes who are pausing puberty and then doing gender-affirming care and cross-hormonal treatment, what happens to them over time."
There's an awful lot of smoke there - too much smoke for there not to be a fire somewhere.
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This is one of the more egregious pieces of stupidity I've ever seen attached to this issue, and as you no doubt understand, that's setting the bar pretty low. This study Nike is supporting isn't about "transitioning" consenting adults. They are talking about finding out what Island of Dr. Moreau-type procedures and treatments you would have to carry out on a pre-pubescent boy to make it a fair match for him to compete, athletically, with girls.
That would involve negating biology. Somehow, that treatment would have to erase the boy's advantages in speed, stamina, strength; to erase their greater cardiovascular capacity, their longer, thicker bones, their greater blood supply, their increased fast-twitch muscle fibers. This would involve treatments to pre-pubescent boys - children, mind you - that would render them sterile, impotent, unable ever to have children or even to achieve orgasm. Surgical treatments would render them maimed for life.
And all this, just to see if there's any way to make it fair for boys to play on girls' sports teams?
One more thing: What are the parents of these kids playing at? I've long maintained that when you see someone with a "transgender child," you can make the same assumption as when someone brags of having a "vegan cat" - whatever else is going on, you know it wasn't that cat's decision. And, in some circles, like Hollywood celebrities and the terminally woke, having a "transgender kid" is a sort of sick status symbol.
Summer's coming. And this fall, folks' kids will be needing new shoes, for whatever sportsball events that they want to partake in. If you have kids, remember what Nike is up to. If you have friends with kids, tell them what Nike is up to. Let's Bud Light this thing until Nike gets the message to stop funding studies to mutilate kids.
