Transgender athletes pose a safety threat to girls

When males play sports against women and girls, not only do they have an athletic advantage, but they also pose a safety threat in many cases.

Recently, a girls high school basketball game in Massachusetts between two charter schools ended in a forfeit after one team quit at halftime. The Collegiate Charter School of Lowell decided against playing the second half of its Feb. 8 game against KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate after suffering three injuries in the first half.

Collegiate Charter School of Lowell faced a team that had a male player who had facial hair and was over 6 feet tall. That contributed to the unusually physical game that the team endured. A video posted online by Inside Lowell shows one of the injuries involved the male player sending a girl on the other team to the ground; she was in pain and needed help getting up.

The injuries suffered by Collegiate Charter School students are sad but not surprising. 

Males are, on average, taller and more muscular and have thicker bone densities and significantly higher testosterone levels than females. Safety concerns and athletic advantages are two of the reasons that separate boys sports teams and girls sports teams exist. 

As more states and sports organizations embrace transgender ideology, however, women and girls are getting hurt.

For example, Payton McNabb suffered a concussion and neck injury in September 2022 while playing high school girls volleyball in North Carolina because a male transgender competitor spiked the ball in her face. 

Earlier that same year, a male transgender high school rugby player in Guam injured three opposing female athletes in one game. 

Similarly, one of the first prominent transgender athlete stories in the United States involved a male beating up women in the early 2010s. Mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox, a male, beat up a woman so badly that the opponent suffered a concussion and an orbital bone fracture. The losing fighter also needed seven staples in her head after a first-round defeat.

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Plus, Rose Johnson, a male who plays high school girls basketball for Long Trail School, hurt another player in a collision earlier this season. As a result, the opposing team was without its top player in the second half of the game, and Long Trail won a close one. Johnson, who is over 6 feet tall, is contributing to a team that is 18-1 this season. 

Injuries happen in sports, but forcing women and girls to compete against bigger, stronger male athletes heightens that risk. If states and athletic bodies required athletes to compete based on their biological sex rather than their so-called gender identity, they could prevent many unnecessary injuries. 

Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.