SCOTUS brings home gold on women’s sports

OPINION:

In a week of tragically bad decisions on birthright citizenship and mail-in ballots, the Supreme Court got one right on biological males competing in women’s sports.

In West Virginia v. B.P.J., the court issued a 6-3 ruling that states may limit women’s sports to women, as 27 states do. Interestingly, three of the court’s gestating persons — the court’s ultra-liberal wing — sided with non-gestating persons who pretend to be gestating persons.

The court did not say that states are required to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports, only that they may. States such as California may continue to ignore reality.

Clearly, the authors of Title IX — enacted in 1972 and prohibiting sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance — never imagined the day would come when men who took hormone blockers would demand a constitutional right to compete with women.

As a sex, men are faster and stronger than women. These physical advantages have allowed biological men participating as women to dominate women’s sports, winning title after title.

Women who have spent a large part of their lives training to excel at their chosen sport have found themselves forced to compete against athletes who are bigger, faster and stronger by nature.

Ironically, plaintiffs in this case tried to use a law requiring equality in sports to destroy women’s sports.

Female athletes have suffered serious injuries because they are being compelled to compete against biological males. Women also object to being forced to share changing rooms and showers with biological males. Besides the matter of modesty, some have reported being harassed and even assaulted.

The ruling on this matter is good as far as it goes, but more needs to be done to affirm nature in this regard — to level the playing field in states that do not ban transgender athletes from competing as the opposite sex.

In school districts across the country, girls are forced to share bathrooms with boys who claim to be girls. In Loudoun County, Virginia, school administrators mishandled and actively covered up sexual assaults in school bathrooms, a failure documented in a subsequent grand jury report.

Even though they won on birthright citizenship and mail-in ballots, Democrats are throwing a hissy fit over the transgender ruling and are once again threatening to pack the court when they come to power.

Since the public overwhelmingly supports common sense on the issue, in the upcoming midterms, Republicans should stress Democrats’ adherence to ideology over reality.