NPR makes a fool of itself (twice) to defend men competing in women’s sports
Zachary Faria
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In order to defend the anti-science lunacy of the transgender movement, establishment media outlets have decided to deny reality to their audiences. And they haven’t found a way to do it without sounding ridiculous.
World Athletics, the global track and field governing body, correctly decided to prevent men who have undergone male puberty from competing against women, regardless of whether those men claim to be women or not. NPR then decided to cover this by saying that the move came “despite limited scientific evidence of physical advantage” between male and female athletes.
WORLD ATHLETICS BANS TRANSGENDER WOMEN FROM COMPETING IN FEMALE EVENTS
This is expressly untrue. The scientific evidence that men are stronger and faster, on average, than women has been clear for some time now. You do not even need “scientific evidence” — you simply need functioning eyes. Anyone who has watched basketball can notice the regular dunks in men’s professional and college games, an event that is rare in women’s basketball at the top level. In track, the women’s world record in the 100-meter sprint (10.49 seconds) is regularly defeated by the top college sprinters.
NPR was mocked for making such a ridiculous claim, so the outlet changed its wording in a correction to read: “Existing research shows that higher levels of testosterone do impact athletic performance. But there’s limited research involving elite trans athletes in competition.”
What little sample size we have had has been conclusive. We have seen “trans athletes” dominate women’s cycling, and we have seen them dominate girls’ high school track in Connecticut. We have seen one man well past the prime age of female powerlifters quality for the Olympics in women’s weightlifting. We have seen a man with almost no mixed martial arts experience brutalize a veteran female fighter in a sanctioned fight.
But this is all irrelevant. The problem here is not a lack of research into “trans athletes” competing against women. The “trans women” that World Athletics is banning from women’s events are men. We have all the research and evidence we need to know that they have biological advantages over women because they are men. They benefited from testosterone, which NPR acknowledges “impacts athletic performance,” for years. They went through male puberty, and they did it because they are men.
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This attempt to redefine reality is just as absurd as the first attempt the outlet made. We do not need some extensive scientific study to determine that men, even if they claim to be women, have athletic advantages over actual women. Even if you did not have functioning eyes to see it for yourself, the surplus of evidence on the biological differences between men and women is enough.
On the bright side, NPR has outright admitted that fairness is not a factor here. Instead, the outlet has tried, and failed, to claim that men and women are athletically equal, and then that they are athletically equal as long as those men claim they are women. No one believes this, not even the liberal ideologues at NPR. They are making themselves look foolish on purpose, all to defend an ideology that denies reality as much as it does equal opportunities for women.