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Cisgender (not trans) basketball player Margo Dydek (7\u20192.\u201d). There was never an attempt to ban her from playing nor other very tall cisgender women like basketball player Zhang Ziyu (7\u20193\u201d) and volleyball player Dana Rettke (6\u20198\u201d) because they had an unfair advantage.<\/p><\/div>\n

10 Jun 2026\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0For almost a decade, right-wing groups<\/a> and the Republican Party<\/a> have engineered<\/a> a moral panic<\/a> over the existence of transgender people, which, as explained here<\/a> and here,<\/a> has also spread to other countries via social media and funding by religious organizations<\/a> and billionaires.<\/a> An avalanche<\/a> of bills has been introduced and passed in numerous states throughout the US, along with executive orders<\/a> signed by President Donald Trump since retaking office in 2025 that are designed to invalidate the existence of transgender people and erase<\/a> them from public life. Prominent among these oppressive measures are bans on trans females competing in women\u2019s sports, which includes trans children participating in sports at their schools.<\/p>\n

More: <\/a>Top 10 Tallest Athletes in the World of All Time 2025 Update<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a 2022 Time Magazine article,<\/a> Republican strategist Sarah Longwell<\/a> explained that outlandish claims about trans female athletes being a threat to women\u2019s sports are \u201cPR campaigns.\u201d Their purpose is to play on people\u2019s fears, prejudices, and sexual inhibitions so that they will vote Republican and support far-right causes. The passage of such draconian laws will also set legal precedents that will lead to further discrimination against trans people, such as denying them gender-affirming care. The fact that right-wing groups and Republican politicians keep disrespectfully referring to trans females as biological males shows the underlying bigotry that\u2019s behind the attacks on them.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, a comprehensive February 2026 survey<\/a> conducted by SSRS<\/a> (Social Science Research Solutions) found that \u201c85% of Americans believe \u2018Transgender people should have the same rights and protection as everyone else.\u2019 That includes 92% of Democrats, 76% of Republicans, and 87% of Independents.\u201d However, according to an April 2025 NBC News poll,<\/a> 75% of American adults now support bans on trans women competing in women\u2019s sports. The Pew Research Center reported<\/a> that since 2022, a growing number of \u201cAmericans have become more supportive of laws that limit protections for trans people.\u201d A big reason for this backlash is repetition propaganda.<\/p>\n

As explained here<\/a> and here, <\/a>right-wing TV shows like Fox News, podcasters like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and social media groups constantly bombard the public with anti-trans rhetoric, which feeds into a cognitive bias<\/a> known as the illusory truth effect. Meaning that the more people hear something, the more they tend to believe it\u2019s true. This applies even when they know what they\u2019re being told isn\u2019t true. It\u2019s just the way our flawed human brains work. The Nazis used this tactic very effectively. As reported<\/a> in the Jewish Virtual Library, Hitler\u2019s use of the \u201cbig lie\u201d was that \u201cpeople will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This 2019 Psychology Today <\/em>article<\/a> further pointed out that by constantly bombarding viewers with lies, news shows can manipulate people into thinking that trivial matters are of major importance, that people who are different from the majority are a danger to children and even civilization itself, and that things that rarely happen are happening all the time. The BBC <\/em>in this 2020 article<\/a> reported that viewing the news \u201cjust a few hours each day can have an impact far beyond what you might expect\u201d and that it \u201ccan even affect our physical health\u2014increasing our chances of having a heart attack or developing health problems years later.\u201d And as reported in this 2024 Psychology Today <\/em>article,<\/em><\/a> \u201crepeated exposure to negative news can dull emotions and moral judgments,\u201d which reduces one\u2019s capacity to feel empathy.<\/p>\n

So, if you have become convinced that trans women have an athletic advantage, ask yourself the following: \u201cWhat if what I believe isn\u2019t true? Would it matter? Or does it have to be true?\u201d If it has to be true, ask yourself why it has to be true. You just might discover that if something has to be true, it just about always isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The real scientific facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sex reassignment <\/a>is defined in this medical dictionary as \u201ca process whereby the sex of a patient is changed by a combination of psychiatric, psychological, pharmacologic, and surgical procedures.\u201d Also defined<\/a> in Medical News Today:<\/em> \u201cThe process of changing from one sex to the other.\u201d Can it be any plainer? Transsexual females are not biological males, as ignorant bigots claim\u2014they are women. I\u2019m aware that the word \u201ctranssexual\u201d is now considered offensive to many, but not all, trans people. But when it comes to college and professional athletes, we\u2019re talking about transsexuals, so I\u2019m using it for clarification. However, there may be some trans female athletes who had partial or no medical sex reassignment. Some trans women, whether they\u2019re athletes or not, are naturally highly passable. I\u2019ve lived most of my life in the New York City area and met more than a few of them.<\/p>\n

But regardless of whether they are highly passable or not, trans females don\u2019t have an athletic advantage over non-trans (cisgender<\/a>) females. It\u2019s a myth spun by the well-funded right-wing noise machine. There is no debate. Any newscaster or writer stating that there is a debate is either lying or didn\u2019t properly research the topic. This is not my opinion. The scientific data is crystal clear.<\/p>\n

Sports Illustrated<\/em> reported<\/a> that transsexual females have been in women\u2019s sports at least since the 1970s. Numerous scientific studies have been conducted. A huge, comprehensive study<\/a> was published in the peer-reviewed journal Sports Medicine<\/em> in 2016. But it wasn\u2019t just a study. It was a systematic review,<\/a> which is the highest level<\/a> of evidence in science. It\u2019s a painstaking, thorough analysis of all the literature, which selects the best quality studies and synthesizes the results. Thus, it looks at the big picture, which eliminates bias. Under \u201cConclusion,\u201d it states:<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, there is no direct or consistent research suggesting transgender female individuals (or male individuals) have an athletic advantage at any stage of their transition.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 2025 study<\/a>, also a systematic review combined with meta-analysis,<\/a> published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, got<\/em> the same results. Under \u201cConclusion,\u201d it states:<\/p>\n

\u201cphysical fitness was comparable\u201d between \u201ctransgender women\u201d and \u201ccisgender women\u201d and that \u201ccurrent evidence\u201d to date \u201cdoes not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are the highest level studies ever done. An obvious way to tell they\u2019re correct is to look at who holds the world\u2019s records in various women\u2019s sports. Who is the best of the best? In every case, including weightlifting, it\u2019s cisgender women. Trans female athletes have broken some state, regional, and institutional records, but not world records. In other words, any time a trans female athlete won a particular sports competition, it was always well within the norms of female athletics.<\/p>\n

Example: University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas<\/a> of the NCAA<\/a> (NationalCollegiate Athletic Association). Thomas originally competed as a man. In 2021, after her transition, she was allowed to compete on the women\u2019s team. Her biggest achievement was winning the 500-yard freestyle in 2022. She was the only transgender woman in that race. She beat Emma Weyant,<\/a> who won a bronze and a silver medal in the Olympics, by 1.75 seconds. But cisgender swimmer Katie Ledecky,<\/a> widely regarded as the greatest female swimmer of all time, holds the world record for the 500-yard freestyle\u20149 seconds faster<\/a> than Lia Thomas, who doesn\u2019t even make the top ten<\/a> fastest swimmers in that race.<\/p>\n

But since Lia Thomas is 6\u20191\u201d and, in my opinion, not very passable, showing pictures of her towering over other female swimmers, featuring a minority of sore losers who whine about losing to her and sharing a locker room with her, as well as depicting her as an object of ridicule all over social media, created the illusion that allowing her to compete was a travesty of justice.<\/p>\n

A prominent example of this anti-trans group of athletes is Riley Gaines,<\/a> who raced against Lia Thomas only once in the 200-yard freestyle in 2022. Both women tied for fifth place. They only had one fifth place trophy on hand, so they gave it to Lia Thomas and mailed Gaines her trophy, which she has been whining about ever since. And since Lia Thomas was the only trans woman in that race, if she had such an athletic advantage, why didn\u2019t she win?<\/p>\n

Riley Gaines had planned to go to dental school and become<\/a> an endodontist. But as Fox News had her on numerous times,<\/a> along with other right-wing media, she likely discovered that becoming a prominent media personality for the anti-trans mob was a much quicker and easier way to make lots of money. MSN reported<\/a> that in 2025, she and her husband had a \u201ccombined net worth at around $2 to 3 million,\u201d most of it from Gaines. This 2026 article<\/a> in Mother Jones<\/em><\/a> explained that in her initial interview Gaines was very respectful of Lia Thomas, saying, \u201cI am in full support of her.\u201d But as Gaines\u2019 power and influence grew, her anti-trans rhetoric became increasingly vicious.<\/p>\n

What especially irritates me about extremists like Riley Gaines is that they try to pass themselves off as defenders of women\u2019s rights. Fox News reported<\/a> that Gaines considers herself \u201ca modern-day feminist.\u201d What a joke. In addition to being against the rights of transgender people, Gaines is also anti-choice<\/a> regarding abortion. All major feminist organizations, which include NOW<\/a> (National Organization for Women, the largest feminist organization in the US), the National Women\u2019s Law Center,<\/a> and the League of Women Voters,<\/a> are pro-choice on abortion and fully support the rights of all LGBTQ people. They recognize that \u201cTrans Women Are Women,\u201d<\/a> that any attacks on them are an attack on all women, and fully support their participation in women\u2019s sports. NOW brilliantly called out \u201canti-trans bigots disguised as feminists\u201d in this 2025 article:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are to find true equality for people of all genders, it will not be on the terms of bad-faith actors like Gaines and the people who platform, endorse, and repeat such rhetoric. There will never be this equality so long as we indulge petty attempts to divide our movement, misinform people, and provoke bigotry.\u201d<\/p>\n

What about bone density, size, hemoglobin, muscle mass, and testosterone levels, cackles the Gender Gestapo? As explained in this 2023 paper<\/a> published in the peer-reviewed journal Science,<\/em> this 2019 article<\/a> in Popular Science<\/em>, and this 2019 report<\/a> in Science Daily,<\/em> none of the aforementioned factors prove that trans female athletes can run faster, jump higher, throw farther, or lift heavier weights than cis female athletes. In fact, this 2024 study<\/a> published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine <\/em>found that cis female athletes had physical advantages<\/a> over trans female athletes, such as greater lower body strength, superior lung capacity, and better cardiovascular fitness. But when it came to bone density, hemoglobin, and testosterone levels, trans and cis women were about the same.<\/p>\n

Of course, high-level champion athletes, regardless of sex or gender, have natural physical gifts that give them an athletic advantage. Some athletes were literally built for the sport they participate in. This, combined with hard work and determination, makes them champions. Two immediate examples come to mind: champion swimmer Michael Phelps,<\/a> the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, and former three-time Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, Muhammad Ali<\/a> (1942-2016).<\/p>\n

In Phelps\u2019 case,<\/a> \u201ca wingspan longer than his standing height, a longer torso, and shorter legs\u201d gives him \u201cmore propelling power,\u201d allowing him to swim faster. He also has \u201cunusually large palms and feet,\u201d which also increases his swimming speed. And since his body \u201cproduces only half the amount of lactic acid than an average human body,\u201d he has \u201cmore endurance while swimming longer distances.\u201d In Ali\u2019s case, his tremendous speed, reflexes, and ability to take heavy punches allowed him to make even good fighters look bad. But in spite of what I just wrote, Ali wasn\u2019t undefeated\u2014he lost a few fights. And Phelps, gifted as he was, lost a few swimming contests.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: Athletic advantages are to be celebrated. Without them, sports would be boring. So, as long as fictitious super beings like Wonder Woman and Spider-Man aren\u2019t competing, why worry about it? And any athlete who wins is going to deprive other athletes who didn\u2019t win. That\u2019s how competition in sports works. But in the case of trans women, there are no athletic advantages to just being trans.<\/p>\n

Chess? Really?????<\/strong><\/p>\n

In spite of all the data that clearly shows transgender females have no athletic advantages, 27 states <\/a>have enacted various sports bans on them from kindergarten through college. Many<\/a> national and international sports organizations have also banned, or just about totally banned, trans female athletes from competing in numerous women-only sporting events, such as track and field, swimming, cycling, weightlifting, boxing, and golf, just to name some. Yet, as reported in this 2025 article in Teen Vogue, <\/em>here in the US, out of \u201cmore than 8 million student athletes,\u201d<\/a> there are probably 160 or fewer teen trans athletes nationwide.<\/p>\n

Example: AP News reported<\/a> that in the more than 20 states that introduced anti-trans sports bills on school kids in 2021, state legislators in \u201calmost every case\u201d couldn\u2019t \u201ccite a single instance\u201d where the participation of trans girls caused any problems. Some supporters of these bills didn\u2019t even know if there were any transgender student athletes in their state.<\/p>\n

Example: In December 2024, NCAA president Charlie Baker,<\/a> a Republican and former governor of Massachusetts, appeared before a US Senate committee. He testified<\/a> that out of over 530,000 NCAA college athletes nationwide, \u201cless than 10\u201d were transgender. Nevertheless, in February 2025, the NCAA banned trans women from competing against other women. Only \u201cstudent athletes assigned female at birth\u201d are permitted to compete against each other. This was the day after Donald Trump signed <\/a>a Draconian executive order entitled \u201cKeeping Men Out of Women\u2019s Sports.\u201d It decrees that \u201cevery school receiving taxpayer dollars\u201d will \u201cjeopardize any federal funding they receive\u201d if they allow transgender women and girls to compete in female-only sporting events. As explained here, <\/a>here, <\/a>and here, <\/a>it is blatantly illegal to freeze\/withhold federal funds approved by Congress.<\/p>\n

Example: Last March, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) banned<\/a> transsexual females from competing in the Olympics. The ban will go into effect in the 2028 Summer Games that will be held in Los Angeles. The ban will not apply to transgender males (female-to-male transsexuals). Cisgender female athletes will also be forced to take a genetic test to make sure they don\u2019t have any male traits that might give them an athletic advantage. Only the pure of gender will be allowed to vie for the gold. Did a massive influx of trans women beating all the cis women warrant this ban? Nah! Transsexual females have been allowed to compete in the Olympics since 2004. <\/a>Guess how many qualified to compete in that 22-year span of time? One! Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard.<\/a> She competed in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and lost without achieving a single lift.<\/p>\n

But wait, the goofiest is yet to come. International sports organizations have also banned trans women from competing against other women in billiards<\/a> (pool), table tennis (ping pong), darts, and, now get this, chess. Why do we need to have men\u2019s and women\u2019s divisions for any of these activities? As reported here,<\/a> here,<\/a> and here,<\/a> the rationalizations for these utterly numskull policies are lame and pathetic.<\/p>\n

In the case of billiards and table tennis, men are supposed to have greater power, reach, and twitch muscles; in the case of darts, it\u2019s superior concentration; in the case of chess, men can just sit longer than women. Yet, as reported here,<\/a> here,<\/a> and here,<\/a> elite cisgender female billiards, table tennis, and dart players routinely beat elite male players. In mixed chess tournaments, cisgender female Grandmasters defeated<\/a> male Grandmasters, including a 10-year-old<\/a> girl, the youngest female Grandmaster, who defeated a 60-year-old male Grandmaster in 2025 (the International Chess Federation, FIDE, still allows transsexual women in mixed competitions).<\/p>\n

Many of these idiotic sports bans are largely due to Trump\u2019s return to the White House and a 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling<\/a> \u201cthat trans women are not legally female under the Equality Act.\u201d The BBC reported<\/a> that the court\u2019s ruling \u201ccould have far-reaching implications for who can access single-sex services and spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Yannis Pitsiladis, <\/a>PhD, is one of the scientists who conducted the study that I cited previously, which the IOC partially funded, that showed cisgender female athletes have some advantages over transgender female athletes. He\u2019s also a member of the IOC Medical and Scientific Commission. Yet, he, along with the other scientists who conducted the study, weren\u2019t invited<\/a> to be part of the so-called panel of experts created by the IOC whose recommendations were used to justify banning trans women.<\/p>\n

Not surprising since Kristy Coventry,<\/a> the IOC\u2019s new president as of March 2025, is an anti-trans bigot who calls trans women biological men. She openly stated while campaigning that she supported banning trans women from competing in women\u2019s events while at the same time claiming that she wants to \u201crestore the Olympics as a beacon of inclusivity and unity, ensuring that the Games are truly for everyone\u201d and that she \u201cplans to empower athletes and promote social equity to focus on feminism and gender equality.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reality, under Coventry, the IOC Executive Board reversed the progressive policies that made the Olympics a real beacon of inclusivity and unity by bringing back genetic testing that was abandoned<\/a> in 1999 because it was \u201cdeemed arbitrary, inaccurate, expensive and discriminatory.\u201d And by reversing the 2003 recommendations<\/a> of the \u201cStockholm consensus on sex reassignment in sports\u201d that the IOC adopted, allowing transgender people to compete in the Olympics since 2004. If we weren\u2019t in this era of collective insanity, someone like Kristy Coventry, in my opinion, never would have been elected IOC president. As for the panel that made the recommendations to justify unnecessarily discriminating against trans female athletes, the IOC refuses to reveal the names of these so-called experts nor the scientific evidence that they claim proves trans women have an athletic advantage over non-trans women.<\/p>\n

In this Outsports article,<\/a><\/em>Professor Pitsiladis made it clear that large sports federations are banning trans female athletes \u201cin the absence of scientific data to support such a position\u201d and that \u201cit\u2019s unlikely that those large federations will change their position as they are now too invested and they don\u2019t really look at the science or evidence. Their wish is mainly to appease their membership and the decisions being taken are mainly justified by politics and dictates, rather than science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still not convinced? Consider this: Fallon Fox<\/a> became the first transsexual female to compete in the featherweight division of MMA (mixed martial arts) from 2012-2014. You don\u2019t get more up close and physical than in MMA. Fox stands 5\u20197 and weighed between 135-145 lbs. She never competed as a man and was forced to retire due to a knee injury. The only other trans woman ever to compete in MMA was Alana McLaughlin,<\/a> who had only one pro fight in 2021, which she won. But she was never able to obtain another fight due to the current wave of anti-trans hysteria, which Fox didn\u2019t have to deal with. But once the trans hate campaign started, Fox was still brutally maligned. Anti-trans bigots referred to her as a biological man beating up on women and told lies about her that were refuted by Reuters,<\/a> Outsports, <\/a>and Politifact.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fox\u2019s professional record is 5 wins, 1 loss, which was to cisgender female Ashlee Evans-Smith,<\/a> who beat the snot out of her. Smith has an unimpressive record of 6 wins, 6 losses and only had one pro fight before defeating Fox, who had three pro fights. Watch the fight here<\/a> and see if you still think trans women have an athletic advantage. Incidentally, Smith is the taller of the two.<\/p>\n

What is a woman?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever noticed that the anti-trans brigade never asks what a man is? It\u2019s really a stupid question, but since it keeps being used as a rhetorical gotcha, I\u2019m going to answer it. Now, I could get cute and say a woman is an adult human female. I\u2019ve encountered lots of reactionaries who are happy with that superficial answer. I could also say that a woman is exactly and precisely what each individual thinks it means and what anyone else thinks doesn\u2019t matter at all. They aren\u2019t too happy with that answer. Instead, I\u2019m going to give the real and obvious answer:<\/p>\n

A collection of physical characteristics and social behaviors to which we attach the word woman, including female, lady, girl, gal, chick, fox, hottie, along with a whole lot of other slang terms, some nice, some not so nice, and some that are downright terrible, such as the four letter c word. The same applies to what a man is.<\/p>\n

However, while there are only two reproductive cells, egg (ova) and sperm, biological sex, like gender and sexual orientation, don\u2019t fit into the same tidy little boxes. Instead, they are a spectrum<\/a> with lots of variations, which are called intersex.<\/a> In fact, there is no biological characteristic that is unique to a man or a woman, which is why using terms like \u201cbiological male,\u201d \u201cbiological female,\u201d or asking what a woman is are pointless and downright dumb.<\/p>\n

For example, a man\u2019s sex chromosomes are supposed to be XY and a woman\u2019s XX. But there are plenty of men who have XX chromosomes, which is called de la Chapelle syndrome<\/a>; there are plenty of women who have XY chromosomes, which is called Swyer syndrome<\/a>. Some women have only one X chromosome or a partial or altered other chromosome, which is called Turner syndrome<\/a>; some men have XXY chromosomes, which is called Klinefelter syndrome<\/a>. Other chromosomal combinations can occur as well. We have no way of knowing what percentage of the human race have these various chromosomal arrangements because we don\u2019t test everyone for them, which is why estimates that have been made vary\u2014we don\u2019t really know\u2014we can only guess. The same applies to other intersex variations. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n

Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome:<\/a> Cisgender men with this condition can have a uterus and fallopian tubes, but externally and genetically are male in every way. This peer-reviewed journal reported<\/a> the case of a 70-year-old man who, while being operated on to remove a hernia, found that he had a uterus and fallopian tubes. He was also the father of four children even though we are told that guys with this condition usually can\u2019t father children. However, in many cases, men find out they have this condition accidentally, like the guy who got operated on\u2014we really don\u2019t know for sure what percentage of guys are walking around with a uterus.<\/p>\n

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia: <\/a>A common bigoted talking point is telling trans women to make sure to get their prostate gland checked for cancer. In other words, only men have a prostate gland, so if you have one, you\u2019re a man. Thus, trans women are men. Wrong! This peer-reviewed journal reported<\/a> (see \u201cBackground\u201d) that in cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, \u201cThere have been several reports of prostate tissue or even whole prostate glands in the female genital tract.\u201d<\/p>\n

5-alpha reductase deficiency:<\/a> Another common anti-trans talking point is that you can\u2019t change your sex. If you were born male you will always be male; if you were born female you will always be female. This rare genetic condition, also referred to as \u201cGuevedoces,\u201d refutes that assertion. People with this intersex variation are born female and at puberty grow a penis and testicles, along with other male characteristics. No medical intervention\u2014it just happens naturally. Guevedoces means \u201cpenis at 12.\u201d Cases of Guevedoces have been found in New Guinea, Turkey, Egypt, and the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

Many Intersex variations are called syndromes, which are derived<\/a> from the Greek words \u201csyn\u201d and \u201cdromos,\u201d which means \u201crunning together.\u201d As explained<\/a> in VeryWell Health<\/em>, a syndrome \u201cis a group of symptoms that often appear together without a clear cause,\u201d which \u201chas no bearing on whether they\u2019re real illnesses or how serious they are.\u201d But a syndrome is not a disease, which, in contrast, \u201cusually has a known cause and clear symptoms with established treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intersex variations are often referred to as DSD, which is an acronym for either \u201cdisorders in sexual development\u201d or \u201cdifferences in sexual development.\u201d As explained <\/a>in this clinical handbook, since intersex \u201cconditions result from a broad spectrum of naturally occurring developmental variations and do not always need medical actions, many prefer to use the umbrella term \u2018Differences\u2019 rather than \u2018Disorders\u2019 of Sex Development, indeed, many of the terms previously used are now considered potentially derogative and imprecise.\u201d In other words, \u201cDifferences\u201d implies acceptance, \u201cDisorders,\u201d when there is no illness or impairment, imply a moral judgment.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what the anti-trans mob are doing, making moral judgments. They don\u2019t care about what is true. Facts bounce off of them like bullets bounce off of Superman. They will cruelly label intersex people as an insignificant minority or as freaks of nature when confronted with their existence in order to invalidate that they prove biological sex isn\u2019t binary. But this is exactly what intersex people prove even if they were a tiny minority, which, as explained<\/a> on this Australian Government website,<\/a> we can\u2019t be sure of, because \u201cpeople may not know that they have intersex variation\u201d and because \u201cmany types of intersex variation do not need any medical care\u2026Most people with intersex variations are healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Labeling someone trans based on how they look is another example of making a moral judgment because, as explained here,<\/a> not all women who look like men are intersex or trans. And many trans women and trans men are so passable that no bigot would ever question their sex.<\/p>\n

Another example of making ignorant moral judgments is the genetic test mentioned previously that the IOC will require only female athletes to take. The IOC\u2019s website decrees<\/a> that any women-only events \u201cat the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females, determined on the basis of a one-time SRY gene screening.\u201d In other words, any woman, no matter how soft and feminine she appears will be considered a biological male based on this test and in single sex events must compete with men, while any female no matter how masculine she looks will be considered a biological female and can compete in women only events. This test is based on the false belief that the presence of the SRY gene imparts higher levels of testosterone, which creates an unfair athletic advantage.<\/p>\n

Professor Andrew Sinclair<\/a> is the scientist who discovered the SRY gene, which \u201cis a critical factor<\/a> in male sex determination.\u201d As reported here<\/a> and here, <\/a>Professor Sinclair explained why the test \u201cshould not be used to exclude women athletes from competition.\u201d He pointed out that even if women have high testosterone levels for whatever reason, SRY tests can\u2019t determine \u201cwhether it can be used by the body;\u201d in 1996, at the Olympics in Atlanta, Professor Sinclair discovered that out of 3,387 female athletes, eight \u201ctested positive\u201d for SRY, but \u201cseven were resistant to testosterone;\u201d IOC \u201cpolicy is based on the overly simplistic idea that the presence of the SRY gene alone is equivalent to being male;\u201d Another problem with SRY tests is that false positives can easily happen.<\/p>\n

And as explained<\/a> in this 2024 peer-reviewed journal, testing positive for the SRY gene doesn\u2019t mean a cisgender woman has XY chromosomes. And as explained here,<\/a> even if higher testosterone levels can be used by the body, the idea that it translates into an athletic advantage \u201cflies in the face of scientific evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

As explained here<\/a> and here,<\/a> sex and gender are not the same. Gender, unlike biological sex, is a social construct. Various cultures set down norms as to how men and women are supposed to be and behave. But those norms now, and in the past, change over time. But like biological sex, gender is also a spectrum with many variations that don\u2019t fit artificial cultural standards. Many cultures now and throughout history recognize the existence of multiple genders and trans people as documented here, <\/a>here,<\/a> and here.<\/a> Even the Jewish Talmud recognizes seven different genders.<\/a><\/p>\n

For example, this article<\/a> on the history of women in sports explained that, in the late 1800s, women were considered too feeble and delicate to compete in sports and that doing so could prevent them from getting pregnant. When the Olympic Games were reinstated in 1896,<\/a> women weren\u2019t allowed to compete (The Games were banned<\/a> by Roman Emperor Theodosius I<\/a> (347-395) in 393 because they honored the God Zeus. It was Theodosius who made Christianity the official religion of the Empire in 380). But women soon demanded a place in the Olympics and in 1900 began competing alongside men in some sports. In 1922, the first Women\u2019s Olympic Games were held in Paris.<\/p>\n

But as explained by the National Women\u2019s Law Center <\/em>here<\/a> and here,<\/a> female athletes are paid less, get less media coverage, and get fewer opportunities than male athletes. Their equipment and facilities are second-class, and they have been sexually harassed and abused by coaches, doctors, etc. And women who were deemed too good were sometimes accused of being men and were subjected to invasive examinations and later genetic tests\u2014especially women of color. Anti-trans sports bans only make this worse and will subject more women to harassment and exclusion if they don\u2019t seem feminine enough.<\/p>\n

Understand this People: Anti-trans talking points that there are only two sexes or two genders aren\u2019t scientific statements\u2014they\u2019re religious decrees.<\/a> Marjorie Taylor Greene made that very clear in a speech<\/a> when she was still in Congress and declared: \u201cGod made all of us, male and female. In His image He made us.\u201d She made that statement while, now get this, standing next to a sign that said: \u201cThere are TWO Genders: MALE & FEMALE \u2018Trust The Science.\u201d<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the cherry on the sundae: Newsweek reported<\/a> on how Riley Gaines views opposition to trans women in sports and in women\u2019s spaces during a 2023 Turning Point USA speech: \u201cMyself, being a Christian, I entirely see this as spiritual warfare. It\u2019s no longer good versus bad, or right versus wrong, this is moral versus evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Get the picture? It\u2019s not about sports. It was never about sports.<\/p>\n

The real agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of this anti-trans charade is to distract people from how billionaires and mega corporations are throwing them under the bus by depriving them of affordable healthcare, a clean environment, and a decent standard of living by getting them to obsess over, get angry at, and blame minority groups for their social ills. But all of this anti-trans hysteria has a much darker side.<\/p>\n

On May 6 of this year, the White House released its new<\/a> \u201cUnited States Counterterrorism Strategy,\u201d that will target \u201cviolent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist\u201d (see page 7). Two problems here: there are no violent extremist transgender political groups and most acts of violence are committed by far-right\/right-wing political groups and individuals, as reported in Mother Jones<\/a> and GLAAD.<\/a><\/p>\n

On March 11, 2026, the Lemkin Institute,<\/em><\/a> in a comprehensive analysis,<\/a> issued this warning:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The institute, named after Raphael Lemkin <\/a>(1900-1959), who coined the word genocide, also cited Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation,<\/a> <\/em>the right-wing organization that created Project 2025,<\/em><\/a>that the \u201cplan for the transgender community was to \u2018outlaw it\u2019 through a strategy of \u201cradical incrementalism.\u201d This is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany. In the 1930s, over 400 decrees<\/a> regulating every aspect of the lives of Jewish people were enacted. It wasn\u2019t until the early 1940s that the mass killings<\/a> in gas chambers began. Genocide is also listed as a federal crime under Title 18 U.S. Code 1091.<\/a> Violators of this law can be fined a million dollars and get 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Freedom, democracy, and the protection of human rights are fragile things, which is why history teaches us that mass murder and genocide perpetrated by governments can happen anywhere. We cannot, we must not, let it happen here.<\/p>\n

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Michael J. Talmo<\/i><\/span><\/span> <\/b><\/i>has been a professional writer for over 40 years and is strongly committed to the protection of civil liberties. He also did three music videos on COVID-19: <\/i><\/span><\/span>The Masker Mash<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>COVID Vaccine Man<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>and<\/i><\/span><\/span> The Corona Globalists. <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>He can be reached at <\/i><\/span><\/span>michaeltalmo@aol.com<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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