“Why was a boy allowed to play on the other team?” my fifth-grade daughter asked me as we walked off the field at a recent club soccer match.
Good question. This wasn’t a situation I thought we would experience at such a young age. But my daughter’s claim was warranted: The boy posing as a girl was bigger and stronger than the biological girls on the field. It was obvious she had a clear advantage in terms of size and speed.
Recall what happened in deep-blue Oregon on April 2: A boy once named Zachary Rose won the high school varsity high jump competition. One issue: Zachary competed in the girls’ competition as Lia Rose. Another problem: As Zachary, two years prior, he finished dead last in the high jump on the Junior Varsity level.
This time around, however, Zachary, as Lia, won easily with a jump of 4 feet, 8 inches. But when Zachary competed against other boys, his jump was 4 feet, 6 inches. The winning jump for the JV on the boys’ side that day? Five feet, 6 inches, a full foot higher than Zach’s.
This is not unlike the most infamous transgender athlete of the decade: Lia Thomas. Lia, when he was a young man named Will, was ranked 538th in college swimming. But when Will became Lia at the University of Pennsylvania, she won a national championship by beating Kentucky’s Riley Gaines, the odds-on favorite — if the race was left only to women.
“It was a bit disheartening,” Gaines said after the race. “It really was. I left the pool with no trophy. Not a big deal, but it was the goal that I had set all year.”
“It’s almost like they’re trying to back [transgender athletes] more than … 90-95% of the rest of the swimmers who are kind of bummed by and affected by the rules that were in place for Lia to swim,” Gaines added.
The examples are endless. The results are not only disheartening for those who trained their whole lives to win a varsity or a national championship but are also becoming increasingly dangerous.
Take Payton McNabb, a female high school volleyball player who was struck so hard in the head by a spiked ball from a male athlete claiming to be female that she suffered a concussion, brain bleed, and two black eyes. McNabb also has experienced partial paralysis and a loss of peripheral vision on her right side. President Donald Trump honored McNabb during his address to the Joint Session of Congress, prompting a standing ovation from the Republican side of the House chamber and silence from the Democratic side.
In Massachusetts, a male high school field hockey player hit a ball so hard that it knocked out several teeth of a female player. Boys can play on girls’ teams under the state’s “equal pay act.”
In another instance, at Somerset Berkley High School outside Boston, Ryan Cook was awarded MVP honors after a majority vote from coaches in the conference.
The examples are seemingly endless, and it’s obviously the stuff of insanity. It’s also happening across the pond in the United Kingdom, where two men identifying as women just competed for the women’s Ultimate Pool championship after eliminating all biological women to get to the finals.
“The evidence that we’ve received from our expert witnesses shows that I have no advantage. They’ve shown that pool isn’t a gender-affected sport … We’re not talking about boxing or golf — we’re talking about pool,” said champion Harriet Haynes in an interview with the Independent.
Yup. We’re supposed to believe that two males played each other for the championship just by coincidence. And if there is no evidence that there is no advantage for biological males, why hasn’t one biological woman ever been crowned champion of a men’s competition in the sport?
Rhetorical question.
Since Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5, the culture shift has been undeniable. Some Ladies Professional Golf Association players on the women’s golf tour have been doing the Trump YMCA dance after years of being denounced for even thinking of showing support for him.
Champion sports teams are appearing at the White House without a hint of controversy, including the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday. And most importantly, female athletes are increasingly taking a stand against males seeking to dominate them, embarrass them, and potentially injure them.
We witnessed this recently at the University of Maryland in College Park during a fencing tournament after biological female Stephanie Turner refused to face a transgender opponent by taking a knee. The video of the forfeiture quickly went viral, generating tens of millions of views.
“There is nothing for me, and there is everything for him because I have no choice as a woman, as a female in where I compete,” Turner told anchor John Roberts in a Fox News interview. “I am a woman, and I have an athletic disadvantage to men, so I compete in the women’s division, which is where I rightfully am, but he has been given this opportunity to fence in the women’s division.”
“He can also compete at mixed events and local tournaments if he wants. There is a place for him,” Turner continued.
Two days later, a biological woman named Abigail Wilson also stormed off a disc golfing championship after seeing that a biological male posing as a female had entered the competition.
“Females must be protected in our division!” Wilson yelled to the crowd in another viral video. “This is unfair. I refuse to play!”
This all comes after Trump signed an executive order to protect women in sports by banning men from competing in them regardless of how they identify. This was an easy decision for Trump, who campaigned on signing such an order while vowing to work with Congress to make it a national law.
But when a bill called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act passed in the House largely along party lines when only a majority vote was needed, it was stopped in the Senate after every Democrat voted against it, falling short of the 60 votes needed to pass it in the chamber.
This will undoubtedly cost the party in 2026, just as it did for former Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats in 2024. A January New York Times/Ipsos poll found that only 18% of American adults said athletes “who were male at birth but who currently identify as female” should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
So congratulations, Blue Team! You’re aligned with 18% of the public on an issue generating tons of attention. The attack ads ahead of the midterm elections will practically write themselves with receipts to back everything up.
Here’s another question: Where is the alleged most popular woman in the world on this issue?
As recently as 2024, according to an expansive YouGov survey of 42,000 people in 41 countries, former first lady Michelle Obama was voted the most admired woman in the world. She also championed the Obama White House’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, which stressed physical fitness and healthy eating.
But when it comes to protecting women in sports, we haven’t heard a peep from her despite her new podcast, which gives her unlimited time and space to do so.
The same goes for former President Barack Obama, who will always find the time to post his March Madness men’s and women’s pools online and attend games but has nothing to say on this 80/20 issue.
Megan Rapinoe, who was somehow awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Joe Biden, has declared that she welcomes men in her sport of soccer. One problem: when Rapinoe’s U.S. women’s national team played an under-15 boys academy team, they were beaten soundly, 5-2.
Again, these boys were barely teenagers and defeated the defending women’s World Cup champions by three goals.
Any questions on the biological advantage?
The hope is that the trend and sentiment continue to see more girls and women refuse to compete against men in situations where they know they can’t win.
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Unlike the Biden years, they know they have a president and public there to support them.
As for Democrats, until the far-left stops dictating policy, winning elections will be a losing proposition.