Gender Benders Wage War on Sports
Columnists who prize equality of the sexes in college athletics
often scowl at how men's athletic programs get more money and media
attention. But a new frontier on the battleground of men's and women's
athletics is upon us: When is a female jock really female, and a male
really a guy?
Kye Allums, a shooting guard on the George
Washington University women's basketball team, has decided that she is
a he. Changing her name from "Kay-Kay," Allums is believed to be the
first Division I college basketball player to go public about being a
"transgender" person.
The obvious question is whether Allums
would still be able to compete. You can't have men playing in a women's
basketball program, and it's more than awkward to have a man showering
with the women in the locker room. Spurred by a track-and-field
controversy four years ago, NCAA rules prohibit sexual reassignment
surgery or hormone treatments for athletes to retain their eligibility.
Allums, a junior, has pledged to forego those steps while she retains
her eligibility for college basketball.
But
in the meantime, in the midst of a culture doesn't dare utter a
discouraging word about gender denial and genital self-mutilation,
Allums is listed on the GWU website as a male member of the women's
basketball team. All the press reports swoon about how "he" - who
remains a woman in every biological way - is handling this so bravely
as a role model: "I'm trying to be an example for other people to not
be afraid of who they are."
(The Good Lord must be so grateful for the creative editing of Creation.)
Allums
says a friend told her that "that a person's sex is between their legs,
but that their gender is between their ears." She boasts "My teammates
have embraced me as the big brother of the team." Transgender activists
insist that everyone accept their favored pronouns, despite their
obvious inaccuracy. That's the kind of Allums-in-Wonderland logic that
is forced upon our sports media, which can't seem to locate anyone in
their good-for-you coverage that would even whisper that this
is...weird. That's apparently hate speech.
So "he" plays in
a girls' league, and we should all accept that. What the transgender
revolutionaries want is a culture that allows children to choose an
opposing gender while they're still in school sports. In a report for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Stephanie Brill of a group called "Gender Spectrum" was blunt:
"There are more and more transgender children today who, even at young
ages, are allowed to live their lives in alignment with who they are.
As it becomes common medical procedure to allow these children to
transition in childhood, athletic policies need to reflect this change
in the landscape of student athletes."
Mengele, call your
office. These activists also insist that it's not "ethical" to require
sex-reassignment surgery before a student can compete in his/her
"affirmed gender." UCLA medical professor Eric Vilain insisted that
requiring surgery is "medically unnecessary and not linked to
competitive equity."
Anyone can look at a "transgendered female" and see that there's a glaring competition issue.
This isn't just a school issue. The Ladies Professional Golf
Association is being sued by a golfer named Lana Lawless who says her
civil rights are being violated. She says she had a 1 handicap as a
man, but now as a woman she wants to join the LPGA tour even though
their bylaws state that you have to be "born a female." But California
being California, the state now prohibits discrimination against
transgender athletes.
Lawless went on KGO-TV in San Francisco with "her" deep, froggy voice
insisting "I don't have an advantage any more. All the testosterone has
basically been removed from my body." "She" is a 57-year-old former
police officer who looks like a middle linebacker and underwent gender
reassignment surgery in 2005. She is also suing the Long Drivers
Association, which changed their rules after Lawless drove a golf ball
254 yards - as a "woman."
Despite the physical evidence, LPGA
commissioner Mike Whan was already backtracking under KGO's pressure.
"I think to be honest with you, I think through this, I'm going to have
to educate myself as well in terms of what qualifies as being female.
So you know, maybe this lawsuit will make us look at it as well."
What a coward.
The gender-bending activists on this issue want their preferred
standards of "non-discrimination" imposed nationally, all at once, in
high schools and colleges, and in professional sports, to teach
allegedly ignorant Americans to respect "gender identity and
expression." If it takes such "courage" for Kye Allums to become
honored as a public example, why does it seem that no one has the
courage (or fairness in the media) to oppose or even question this war
on reality?
