Women’s sports

Why are the Democrats so eager to lose the trans sports debate?

The Democrats are hellbent on handing President Trump win after win when it comes to the issue of biological men competing against women in sports.  Their desire to die on this hill is baffling especially considering Trump’s November mandate. Generous souls that they are, now progressives are ensuring their arch nemesis can make the most of his winning message during his presidency.  During his joint address to Congress last night, Trump introduced Payton McNabb, a former volleyball player who, in 2022, suffered a traumatic brain injury after a man was allowed to compete against her in a match. She received a standing ovation from Republicans as Trump vowed to protect female athletes. He didn’t stop there.

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Megan Rapinoe wants to be the last female sports star

Megan Rapinoe, the sometimes blue, sometimes pink-haired star forward on the US Women’s National Soccer Team, announced earlier this month that she will retire after the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Rapinoe is a talented soccer player and an American success story. She grew up relatively modestly and her older brother, her inspiration to start playing soccer, suffered from a heroin addiction and spent time in prison. Rapinoe managed to avoid the all too common injury-to-opioid addiction pipeline that crippled her equally athletic fraternal twin sister’s soccer career.

Megan Rapinoe #15 of Team United States speaks to members of the media (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

How the NCAA twisted women’s sports

This has been a banner, or perhaps baneful, year for women’s intercollegiate sports, what with trash-talking basketballers, record TV ratings and biological men swimming in the distaff pool. But the focus on celebrity female athletes only emphasizes the degree to which the NCAA has twisted women’s sports into a depressing duplicate of the Y-chromosome side of the street. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The pioneers of women’s collegiate — not necessarily intercollegiate — athletics conceived and promoted a healthy and democratic ideal that was antithetical to what they saw as the elitist, corrupted and sloth-inducing male version.

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What it’s really like to play sports against men

The left is now arguing that the people most upset about biological men like Lia Thomas and Laurel Hubbard competing in women's sports are the ones who otherwise don't care about or watch women's sports. It's nonsense, just like the argument that men can't have an opinion on abortion, but allow me to present my credentials nonetheless. I was a three-sport varsity athlete in high school, and was most accomplished as a goalie for the field hockey team. I broke my school's record for saves in a season and was named Defensive Player of the Year in my region. Alas, I wasn't quite good enough to be recruited to a Division I team, so I opted to play on the club team at Georgetown.

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