Is Sanity Returning to Issues Related to Men in Women's Sports?

From the Daily Signal at this link here to this writer for MHProNews and this Patch is the following by Stephanie Lundquist in Part I. Part II will have additional information plus other topics.

Part I

Commentary

‘It Doesn’t Happen Often’ Is Not a Reasonable Defense for Men in Women’s Sports

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | February 14, 2025

Americans are gaining ground in the fight to protect women’s sports.

This week, for example, the Department of Education sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations, urging them to restore female athletes’ records. The demand comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to protect women’s sports and to restore biological truth to the federal government.

Also this week, the Virginia High School League, an athletic organization governing high school athletics in Virginia, changed its policy with regard to males in women’s sports to align with President Donald Trump’s executive order.

Meanwhile, the Minnesota State High School League and the California Interscholastic Federation did not change their policies, which continue to allow males in women’s sports. Consequently, the Department of Education announced on Feb. 12 that it is launching an investigation into these two athletic organizations for Title IX violations.

It’s about time.

As many Americans have noted, it’s absurd that President Trump would need to issue such an obvious executive order stating that men do not belong in women’s sports. Not long ago, though, a tyrannical minority had remarkable success in compelling our speech with mandated pronouns, in allowing males to participate in women’s sports and in allowing males to roam freely in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Those policies remain in place in many liberal public school districts and universities across the nation.

Under the Biden administration, Americans were afraid to speak out against the transgender mob for fear of losing their jobs or being “cancelled.” We found ourselves in an unprecedented and confusing situation in which truthful statements such as “Women don’t have penises” or “Men can’t get pregnant,” were labeled by a miniscule fraction of the population as “unkind” or even “hate speech.”

The tides have turned as people questioning the madness have found their voices through safety in numbers. Americans are collectively asking why we have been forsaking the rights, privacy, and safety of women for transgender-identifying males. It has become increasingly clear to the public, in case it was not before, that the so-called “rights” of a small group have come at the expense of another much larger group. Not surprisingly, the Left is crying foul over America’s return to commonsense regarding biological sex.

So, in response, the Left, likely noticing the public’s fatigue at its antics, has shifted its argument. Leftists say that since male participation in women’s sports doesn’t happen often, it’s not a big deal. Billy Haun, for example, the executive director of VHSL, said that from October 2020 to December 2024, 31 male students in Virginia’s high schools filed appeals to be on women’s teams and 28 were approved.

Transgender activist Shannon McKay, who is the executive director and co-founder of He She Ze and We, then argued, “It’s such a small number who want to play. So, to deny this for an entire community of people, the messaging is clear that the outside world wants them to think they don’t belong.”

The “there’s just a few so let’s allow it” logic reminds me of Vice President JD Vance’s appearance on ABC News in October 2024. During the interview with Martha Raddatz, the news correspondent had a puzzling rebuttal to Vance’s concerns about the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua crime syndicate’s activities in Aurora, Colorado. She said, “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.”

“Martha, do you hear yourself? … A few apartment complexes, no big deal,” retorted Vance sarcastically.

To McKay and all the other transgender activists pursuing the annihilation of women’s rights on similar grounds, I also say, “Do you hear yourself? Just because only a small number do it, that doesn’t make it acceptable.”

It’s time to restore female athletes’ records, protect women’s sports from male participants, keep women’s private spaces female, and fight for free speech. We mustn’t forget this shameful chapter in our nation’s history during which the government violated free speech rights and women’s rights for the sake of an extremely loud and unreasonable tyrannical minority.

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Part II - Additional Information, Observations and more Topics

1) Last year, my wife and I took our teenage son to The Villages to attend an AMAC event that included a line up of speakers including Riley Gaines. While all of the speakers, men and women, were quite interesting, I wanted our son to hear directly from Gaines about her experiences advocating for young women and women's sports. The "Saving the Nation - Bootcamp for Boomers" event was well attended.

While there were more speakers then those shown below, Gaines got top billing.

• Riley Gaines: Former NCAA swimmer and National Advocate for Women’s Sports, whose contributions to sports and advocacy will be honored with the AMAC Patriot Award.
• Col. Allen West: The Executive Director of the American Constitutional Rights Union, Army Veteran, and Former Member of Congress from Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, known for his inspirational leadership and passionate advocacy.
• Byron Donalds: A dynamic voice in Florida’s 19th Congressional District, bringing insights from the heart of political action.

2) Clearly, there are voices on both sides of the issue of 'trans' athletes competing in women's sports. But for a society that often pushes the importance of "science," there is an obvious argument that there are only two genders, supported by the reality of XX (female) and XY (male) chromosomes. As left-leaning Google's AI powered Gemini put it: "The statement "supported by the reality of XX and XY chromosomes" meansthat the concept being discussed aligns with the biological fact that females typically have two X chromosomes (XX) while males typically have one X and one Y chromosome (XY), which are the primary determinants of sex in humans."

3) People are 'free' to opine that the daytime sky is not blue, or that healthy grass is not green. Some are colorblind, and they may have a unique perspective on such matters, but the exception often tends to prove the rule.

4) Left-leaning CNN's commentator Scott Jennings recent said that President Donald J. Trump's "superpower" was to find 80-20 issues and routinely be on the side of the 80 percent. That, said Jennings, puts Democrats in the position of arguing for issues that are favored by twenty percent. While that may be an exaggeration, it is nevertheless an interesting observation.

"This is like Trump's superpower. Finding a bunch of 80-20 issues and getting on the 80 and everybody who is reflexively against him gets on the 20. Now the Democrat Party has a 31% approval rating. This is why!"

Brilliant analysis on how TDS has driven the left to insanity. pic.twitter.com/nAg74HxQPe
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) February" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitt... 6, 2025

Trump at 53% approval in @cbs poll this morning because he’s getting on the right side of virtually every issue, and vast majority think he’s fulfilling his promises. My take on @CNNSOTU today. He’s the 80/20 president. pic.twitter.com/Rl7MIY97o9
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) February" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/ScottJenni... 9, 2025

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