Newsom Defiant: CA Will Still Allow Men in Women's Sports

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark win for states with laws that prevent men and boys from (unfairly) competing in women's and girls' sports events or on their teams. This should have been the last word on this fundamentally unfair practice, but the decision instead allowed states to ban it by law; it doesn't affect states that already allow dudes on women's sports teams or in their events. In other words, the Supreme Court didn't ban the practice; its ruling upheld laws from the states that do ban the practice.

Now, California's impeccably coiffed Governor Gavin Newsom is taking a defiant tone on the issue, vowing that California will continue to let men and boys compete against women and girls. California, it seems, is determined to erase actual girls and women from their own sporting events.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office has responded after the U.S. Supreme Court made a historic ruling on trans athletes in women's sports on Tuesday.
The court ruled 6-3 to uphold state laws that protect women's sports from biological male trans athletes. California is one of 23 states in the country that don't have laws to protect women's sports, and since 2014, has had a law in place to protect the rights of males to compete against females.
A spokesperson for Newsom's office said the Supreme Court ruling will not impact California's current setup.

Newsom's spokesdroid is correct, actually, on that last part; the SCOTUS decision won't affect California's setup. But that doesn't make what California is doing any less wrong.

A source within Newsom's office provided Fox News Digital a bulleted list titled "As a Governor, Governor Newsom has the strongest record in the country on protecting and expanding transgender rights."
The list included several bragging points, including "making it easier to update gender markers on official documents," and "appointed multiple trans judges."
The list concludes by pointing out, "California is one of 22 states that have laws requiring transgender students to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity. California passed this law in 2013 (AB 1266) and it was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown."

That's an odd brag: "We actually passed a law to erase women from women's sports."

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Now, one of the founding principles of our country is, of course, federalism. Each state is its own laboratory in liberty. But some issues are so egregiously unfair as to warrant national attention, and this is one of them; all the denial in the world won't change the fact that boys and men have significant physical advantages over girls and women, that those differences exist from conception, and that allowing boys and men to compete against girls and women is hideously unfair.

The Supreme Court decision didn't ban this practice. But it did confirm that states may do so. And from that, we might infer that Congress can do so, as well.

A prediction: California, and the other states that still defiantly defend this lunacy, will be seeing an influx of dudes claiming to be girls and women so that they may cheat their way to honors and awards that would be otherwise unattainable to them. California, and the other states that still think this is anything but horrendously unfair, will also start to hemorrhage even more residents who are tired of seeing their daughters outcompeted by dudes.

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