Transgender women are not women, and the people know it.
A recent Washington Post -University of Maryland poll asking how people feel about transgender women participating in women’s sports confirms this is what the public believes.
The poll found strong opposition (55%) to letting males who identify as transgender girls compete against biological girls in high school sports, while just 30% support it. Meanwhile, 58% oppose it at the college and professional levels, and just 28% support it.
The public has common sense on this issue. They understand that we segregate sports for a reason: to give girls a chance to compete against people of a similar skill level. Some talented female athletes exist at the high school level who can compete against the boys, but most cannot.
I can attest to the significant advantage of being male when competing in sports. I was an objectively bad high school track athlete. I was a shot putter but ran the junior varsity boys’ 55-meter dash at the first meet of the season during my senior year as a joke. My time ( 7.73 seconds ) was not good. And yet, I, as someone who was playing on the offensive line in football less than two weeks prior, would have come in first place on the girls’ side for varsity ( 7.88 seconds ).
The point is that a bad athlete on a boys’ team could be a great athlete on a girls’ team.
People not only recognize that we separate sports by gender but also that just because someone says they are a certain gender, that does not make them a member of that gender. Biology determines whether someone is a man or a woman. If a man calls himself a woman, that does not make him a woman. It does not matter if the man wears women’s clothing, goes on hormones, or undergoes cosmetic surgeries to appear more feminine. He’s still a man.
A male who says he is a woman competing against biological women is no different than a man who says he is a man competing against biological women. And while men identifying as women and dominating in sports is an uncommon problem , it’s a problem nonetheless for the women affected by it.
It shouldn’t matter whether or not a male says he is a woman; he shouldn’t receive special treatment from society for something that’s not true. Doing so hurts women and denies science. It’s encouraging that, at least on this issue, most people have common sense.
* Article from: The Washington Examiner
