Commentary
For gender-identity activists, allowing males to compete on female sports teams is not fundamentally about “inclusivity”; it’s about redefining reality. Now, however, even they are starting to admit this.
Laws that protect fairness in women’s sports are often ridiculed as “solutions in search of a problem.” Those of us who advocate such legislation are told that the specter of female athletes being forced to compete against males is just that, a specter—a product of our imaginations, a made-up nonissue.
Major media outlets mock these laws. A Huffington Post headline last month read, “These States Had Few, If Any, Trans Student Athletes. They Passed Sports Bans Anyway.” Teen Vogue agreed: “In reality, there are relatively few trans students playing high school sports, and one state even banned trans students from sports when there were no known trans athletes in the state.”…