Here in the United States, at least, we seem to have turned the corner on the whole "dudes competing on women's sports teams" issue. There are still holdouts; California's impeccably coiffed Governor Gavin Newsom is still insisting that this hideously unfair practice be allowed in the once-Golden state, despite having admitted to it being unfair. But the Trump administration has taken some steps, not the least of which is issuing a new interpretation of Title IX to deal with this madness.
It's not over yet, though. A "transgender" runner - you can and should read that as "a man" - is suing Princeton University for denying him a place in a women-only track event.
Because, you know, he's not a woman.
Transgender runner Sadie Schreiner is suing Princeton University after the school allegedly excluded the athlete from a May 3 women’s race.
Schreiner’s lawsuit claimed the athlete attempted to participate in the women’s 200-meter sprint at the Larry Ellis Invitational as one of the 141 participants unattached to a university or club. The suit alleges officials told Schreiner the athlete could not participate 15 minutes before the race began.
“I do not want to assume, but you are transgender,” a Princeton official allegedly told Schreiner, per the complaint.
“The actions of the two Princeton officials were in blatant and willful disregard of Sadie’s rights based on Sadie’s rights as a transgender woman under controlling New Jersey law, thereby causing Sadie Shreiner to foreseeable emotional and physical harm,” the lawsuit argued.
The Princeton official was partially right - right to assume that Schreiner is "transgender," although Princeton seems to be reluctant to state the obvious, namely that Schreiner is a man.
Facts are stubborn things. And this "Sadie" Schreiner is almost certainly gaming the system. Or, at least, he was.
Schreiner previously competed for Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) women’s track and field team and gained national notoriety for dominating female opponents and frequent social media videos boasting about it as an openly transgender competitor.
However, Schreiner was ruled ineligible to compete for RIT after the NCAA revised its gender eligibility policy Feb. 6, one day after President Donald Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order on Feb. 5.
And Schreiner should be ineligible to compete on a women's team. Because he's a man.
I have been and remain skeptical in the extreme that any of these "transgender athletes" genuinely suffer from gender dysphoria. I suspect that "Sadie" Schreiner is, like many of them, taking advantage of a social contagion to compete, unfairly, against women, and in so doing, taking from those women awards, trophies, and accolades to which, in a sane world, Schreiner is not entitled. His boasting about being an "openly transgender competitor" speaks eloquently to that; he is, in a sense, acknowledging the unfairness of his competing here and defying anyone to object.
Well, the Trump administration objects.
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Social contagions aside, there are facts involved here. Men are men and women are women; humans, being mammals, are sexually bipolar, male and female. Like most mammals, there are significant differences between males and females. Men are, on balance, larger, stronger, faster; they have greater cardiovascular capacity, more fast-twitch muscle fibers, longer, stronger, and heavier skeletal structures, and a greater resistance to pain and injury. These differences are great enough to be a difference not in degree but in kind.
These are facts. That's why we have women's sports. And that's why men shouldn't be competing on women's teams.
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