Girls Stand Up And Fight Back

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why it is so hard for some people to figure out who is a boy and who is a girl.
Now I understand that there are some men who are attracted to other men, and conversely there are some women who are attracted to other women. I also know that some people with same-sex attractions would like to be rid of that attraction, yet in many locales there are laws prohibiting counselors and therapists from helping them escape from the purgatory in which they reside.
The reason, of course, is politics. There are too many politicians — and one political party — who have made it policy to cater to this lifestyle rather than to provide help. I understand that, too; I don’t agree but I understand the motives.
But what I don’t understand is how anyone can believe that one’s sex is merely an opinion and not rooted in anything other than a self-claim of sexual identity. And my lack of understanding swells when apparently normal, self-adjusted adults try to encourage this confusion among young people. Perhaps, in the final analysis, they are neither as normal nor as self-adjusted as they appear.
Maybe the real question in this debacle is: How do these so-called enlightened ones obtain positions that allow them to participate in this deliberate car wreck?
Let’s start with boys — euphemistically referred to as “trans girls” — being allowed to compete with high school girls — the real ones — in female athletic programs.
These faux girls are, with the blessings of their schools and athletic associations, joining girls’ teams, dominating the competition, and winning championships at the expense of real girls. And all of this is allowed by adults seemingly oblivious to the biological fact that after puberty men and boys are bigger, stronger, and faster than women and girls. Sorry if that offends, but it’s just a physiological fact.
Well, it looks like some of the girls — the real ones — are starting to fight back. In Connecticut the state Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy allowing boys — real boys — who think they are girls to complete on girls’ athletic teams.
Of course, that was the politically correct thing to do; trans people need the right to be and to compete as who they really are. Unfortunately, who they really are, are boys; a fact conveniently overlooked by the progressive intelligentsia running the athletic conference and masquerading as knowledgeable adults.
The real adults in Connecticut are three high school girls — the real kind — who got fed up with losing honors, scholarships, and opportunities to compete at higher levels, to boys claiming to be girls.
They are Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell. They decided to take the state’s athletic intelligentsia to court and just before Valentine’s Day put the issue squarely before a federal judge. With the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom, the three sued the athletic conference, the state association of schools, and several local school boards.
Here is what they say: “The Plaintiffs are three high school girls who compete in interscholastic girls’ track and field in Connecticut. Like large numbers of female athletes around the nation, each Plaintiff has trained much of her life — striving to shave mere fractions of seconds off her race times — in order to experience the personal satisfaction of victory, gain opportunities to participate in state and regional meets, gain access to opportunities to be recruited and offered athletic scholarships by colleges, and more. . . .
“Unfortunately for Plaintiffs and other girls in Connecticut, those dreams and goals — those opportunities for participation, recruitment, and scholarships — are now being directly and negatively impacted by a new policy that is permitting boys who are male in every biological respect to compete in girls’ athletic competitions if they claim a female gender identity….
“This discriminatory policy is now regularly resulting in boys displacing girls in competitive track events in Connecticut — excluding specific and identifiable girls including Plaintiffs from honors, opportunities to compete at higher levels, and public recognition critical to college recruiting and scholarship opportunities that should go to those outstanding female athletes.”
They argue that in Connecticut, more boys than girls are “experiencing victory and gaining the advantages that follow,” and that “this reality is discrimination against girls that directly violates the requirements of Title IX: Treating girls differently regarding a matter so fundamental to the experience of sports — the chance to be champions — is inconsistent with Title IX’s mandate of equal opportunity for both sexes.”
In their complaint, they quote Dr. Bernice Sandler, director of the Project on the Status & Education of Women of the Association of American Colleges, who testified in 1975 before the House Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education in support of regulations implementing Title IX:
“[T]o operate an entirely coed athletic program, ignoring differences in male and female physiology, would for many sports effectively eliminate opportunities for women to participate in organized competitive athletics. For these reasons, such an arrangement would not appear to be in line with the principle of equal opportunity.”
The girls’ — the real ones — complaint lists pages of competition results showing how the faux girls — the fake ones — were placing higher and with better times and scores than the real girls and denying them championships and at times even the ability to compete. Then, after citing the physiological difference between boys — the real ones, and girls — the real ones — they noted something very interesting. This is how the athletic gods have recognized the difference between the sexes:
“The basic physiological differences between males and females after puberty have long been recognized and respected by the different standards set for boys and girls in a number of athletic events. For example:
“a. The net height used for women’s volleyball is more than 7 inches lower than that used for men’s volleyball.
“b. The standard weight used in high school shot put is 4 kilograms for girls, and 5.44 kilograms (36 percent heavier) for boys.
“c. The hurdle height used for the high school girls’ 100 meter hurdle event is 33 inches, whereas the standard height used for boys’ high school 110 meter hurdle is 39 inches.
“d. The standard women’s basketball has a circumference of 28 and one-half to 29 inches and a weight of 20 oz., while a standard basketball used in a men’s game has a circumference between 29 1/2 to 30 inches and a weight of 22 oz.”
In the end, the girls — the real ones — want the record set straight. They are asking the court to require that the all records be corrected to remove male athletes from any record or recognition, disqualifying all male athletes from all victories. In addition they are asking for injunctive relief prohibiting the defendants from permitting males to compete in events designed for females, and for a declaration that the defendants have violated Title IX for failing to “provide equal treatment” for female athletes. And, of course, attorney fees and costs.
“Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,” said ADF legal counsel Christiana Holcomb. “Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair, shatters their dreams, and destroys their athletic opportunities. Having separate boys’ and girls’ sports has always been based on biological differences, not what people believe about their gender, because those differences matter for fair competition.”
We’ll watch the case and see if three high school girls can put the state’s intelligentsia in its place.
Go girls — the real ones, that is!
(You can reach Mike at: Deacon
Mike@q.com.)