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Pro-transgender organizations like the National Collegiate Athletics Association, or NCAA, ardently claim that testosterone testing is the only measure that should be taken to ensure that men claiming to be women do not dominate and thereby ruin women’s sports. Yet, testosterone tests are inadequate because even if the male hormone is artificially reduced, men still inherently have immense physical advantages over female athletes. For example, the average male is five inches taller than the average female, which gives men a decisive margin in many sports including swimming and track and field events.
The average height of players in women’s professional basketball is only 6 feet, while the corresponding average for a man in the NBA is 6 feet 6 inches. Leveling testosterone will not even out that disparity, or other sex differences such as how males are much less vulnerable to sports injuries than women and girls.
Just recently, a transgender athlete won a women’s cycling event recognized by the world cycling authority. While some international sports authorities are belatedly beginning to change their rules, the top American sports leagues beholden to television contracts with the liberal media are not budging. Democrat Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sides with girls, women, and Trump against allowing males to compete in female sports. But Biden recently issued Title IX regulations that will be used by liberal courts to invalidate state laws protecting girls’ sports against the transgender invasion. Biden supports extremism in the transgender movement, which is where the media wants him to be. With rock-bottom approval ratings, Biden cannot win renomination without continued backing by the pro-transgender media.
No matter what the left may claim, there is no hormone therapy or surgery that can make athletic competitions between men and women fair. When you are competing at the highest levels, fractions of a second can make all the difference. How could a six-inch height difference not destroy any chance for our women and girls to reap the rewards of their hard work on the field? It’s time for America’s leaders to wake up to this horrible threat coming for our daughters. Let’s take boys out of girls’ sports.
