It's a fine pass we've come to as a people when the lines between the sexes (no, not the genders; gender is language, sex is biology) have become so unaccountably blurred in some circles. Now, a man with a five-o'clock shadow and an Adam's apple the size of a softball parading around in a dress is one thing; we may think it's weird, but he's not interfering with anyone, or at least, he better not be. But there has to be a line drawn between exhibitionism and interference.
One of those lines involves allowing boys and men to compete in girls' and women's sports.
I've written extensively on this topic over the last few years, and it seems that some sanity is returning to women's sports; but we are not quite there yet. But the Left, which is overwhelmingly who supports this hideously unfair practice, claims to love science. Well, science begins with the examination of facts.
So, fine. Let's look at some facts. Let's look at men's and women's performance in three athletic events, not team events but measures of individual performance: The 100-meter sprint, a measure of running speed and explosive performance; the pole vault, which combines explosive performance with upper body strength; and power lifting, a measure of total-body strength. Specifically, we'll look at the world records set by women - and compare them to top-scoring high school boys, only for the last two years.
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First, the 100-meter sprint. In this event, the current women's world record was set in 1988, at the United States Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Florence Griffith-Joyner holds that record of 10.49 seconds, a record that has stood for almost four decades.
According to Track and Field News, for 2026, the top 10 high school boys outdid the women's all-time world record, and it's not even close. The top - and remember, this is for one year alone - was set by Jake Odey-Jordan, at 10.01 seconds. Number 10 in the 2026 listing, Davion Crumitie, came in at 10.22 seconds.
So, the number 10 competitor among high school boys for one year alone beats the all-time world record women's sprinter by over .02 seconds.
Second, the pole vault. In this event, the current women's world record was set in 2009, in Zurich, Switzerland, by Russian competitor Yelena Isinbayeva, 5.06 meters, or 16 feet, seven inches. Yelena Isinbayeva also held the previous women's pole vault record of 5.05 meters, set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
According to Track and Field News, for 2025, the top high school boy in the pole vault was Isaiah Whitaker of Bloomington, Illinois's Central Catholic High School. Isaiah's record was 5.51 meters, or 18 feet, one inch. This mark, set by a high school boy, tops the all-time world record for women by right around a foot and a half. The second-place finisher in that year was Victor Oleson of St. Christopher's High in Richmond, Virginia, at 18 feet, three inches, again beating the all-time women's world record by a wide margin.
Third and finally, the deadlift. In this event, the current women's world record was set at the 2024 Women’s World Deadlift Championships by the United Kingdom's Lucy Underdown, who was the first woman to break the 700-pound mark, lifting 717 pounds.
Good records for high school boys in this event for the 2025-2026 school year are a little harder to pin down, but the ones we can find are illustrative. The high mark in that school year was set by Matthew Lim of Jewett Leon High School, who lifted 765-770 pounds. Second place is held by Chester Gooden Jr. of Bryan High School, at 745 pounds. So, in one school year alone, the women's all-time world record was beaten by (at least) two high school boys, one by over 50 pounds.
How much more evidence do we need? Three events, three measures of individual performance, three cases in which the all-time women's world record was beaten, handily, by the most recent school year's top high school boys. And in all three cases, it wasn't particularly close.
This, once again, points up the unfairness of allowing males to compete against females.
I've said, and written, it before, and I will do so again: Boys and men have significant physical advantages over girls and women. Boys and men have more fast-twitch muscle fibers, which provide the kind of explosive, short-term performance one sees in the kind of events described here. Boys and men have more overall muscle mass as a percentage of body weight. They have greater upper body strength, more cardiovascular capacity that gives them more endurance, and they can perform better when beset by minor injuries. Furthermore, these differences exist from conception; puberty enhances the differences, but they are already present.
Look at pretty much any athletic event, and you'll find similar results: World records set by women, beaten by high school boys. This is not meant to disparage these wondrous women athletes; they are the tops in their class, with years of dedicated work and training behind them. But biology is a harsh mistress, and that's why we separate women's and men's sports.
Facts matter. Truth matters. And the truth is, the lunatic practice of allowing men and boys who claim to be transgender to compete in women's and girls' sports is unfair. It always has been, it always will be; the differences, as we see here, are so significant as to make it something wrong, not in individual cases, but wrong in essence.
