With the recent backlash by Americans across the country protesting against allowing transgender females to participate in female sports, why do the organizations that govern the rules of women's sports continue to allow transgender females to compete on female teams? That doesn't sound like democracy and it isn't fair to the biological females who are being pushed to the sidelines. Transgender women identify as being female, but they still have their male physique which clearly gives them an advantage over their biological female opponents.
Hormone therapy, which reduces testosterone levels, still doesn't change the bodies they developed through puberty. Transgender women are winning championships and smashing state, national and world records. Gee, who would've guessed?
The transgender woman standing in the center of the picture above is Veronica Ivy, formerly known as Rachel McKinnon and before that his name was Rhys McKinnon. Rhys changed his name to Rachel after becoming transgender at the age of 29 and then changed his name to Veronica Ivy to avoid the public ridicule he was receiving after achieving athletic infamy.
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He grew up playing badminton, but after moving to South Carolina when he was 32, he realized badminton wasn't very popular there, so he decided to start riding bicycles. A few years later, Veronica became the gold medal winning world champion in 2018 and then again in 2019, and he holds the world record for the 200m TT in women's track cycling. He is virtually undefeatable and he will remain that way until he either quits or grows too old to continue decimating his opponents.
Veronica's situation is not unique. The number of transgender females on women's teams is increasing and they are dominating the sports in which they participate. Some of them were mediocre while competing against other men, but they are now champions among biological women.
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Recalling my days playing youth hockey, there were two times my team played against a girls' team. Both times, our coach gave us the same prep speech. "Okay boys, we're playing against girls today. Be nice and don't score more than 10 goals." Both games ended with the same results... 10 to 0. Retrospectively remembering my days of youth hockey, my skills were not miraculous; however, if I had been allowed to play on a female team, I could have led my team to a championship in a girls' youth hockey league. How can anyone consider that to be fair?
Apparently, this subject violates contemporary American proper social etiquette because of its high level of controversy. Any topics which are considered contentious are exactly the topics we should be discussing. Otherwise, we will fail to improve our society.
If we don't change the rules which allow transgender women to play in women's sports, those men will continue to unfairly break the records, and we will also see fewer biological women on future teams. Let's do what needs to be done to maintain a level playing field for all biological girls and women.
Every sport is about physiology, not ideology. How much longer will we allow this farce to continue?
