Remember the scandal of the East German doping (male hormones) of their female swimmers that ran from the 1970’s into the 1980’s and included the 1976 Montreal Olympics (read about it here)? Our girls (XX chromosomes) had to unknowingly compete against masculinized girls (still XX chromosomes) and few knew it, not even some of the East German girls. Later, these same German girls would suffer mental and physical damage, and later to give birth to babies with serious defects.
As for the Americans, some in the press at the time referred to them as “Ugly Americans” for their justifiable complaints. American Shirley Babashoff, slated to be the next Mark Spitz, wound up with one gold and a bunch of second place finishes in the ’76 Games. She refused to remain silent and sounded the alarm but was dismissed as “Surly Shirley”. She was right, she had courage, she was vilified, and it took 31 years (2007) for the scandal’s cover to be blown for all to see.
Check out these understandable reactions by other members of the ’76 team:
“To be frank, I don’t think we should look like men.”
“I wouldn’t want to walk around the neighborhood looking like a guy.”
“That’s not the way God created us to be like that (looking like DDR Swimmers).”
That was then; this is now. Circa 2022 we have gone full circle, and then some. Today, those East Germans would be heralded as trans pioneers. We have men wanting to women and women wanting to be men, jumbled with the many whose psyche match their chromosomes, competing in women’s sports . . . with the full connivance of the so-called adults in the room. Chic ideologies have redefined scandal as liberation, and created a massive class of new victims whose sole characteristic is their satisfaction with God’s endowment. What chaos, what a mess.
Transgender Lia Thomas (MTF) recently hit the airwaves and pool at the U. of Penn. as a sensation setting pool, program, and meet records 38 seconds ahead of a real deal teammate. Then in a Saturday meet, lo and behold, Lia ran into transgender Iszac Henig (FTM) – who underwent a double mastectomy – who bested Lia twice. There you have it: female sports are to be dominated by people disenchanted with mother nature. It’s a competition among the disgruntled, leaving behind the long hours of training and coaching for the well-adjusted and contented girl (XX chromosome), the kind of girl that you as a boy (XY chromosome) wouldn’t mind taking home to mother (also XX chromosome). The other two would be difficult to explain.
The “adults” who sanctioned this biological miasma are – you may have guessed it – the NCAA. In a policy that might have been written by a paid lobbyist or Ivy League lawyer, trans female athletes mustn’t compete on the women’s team until after one year of “testosterone suppression treatment”. Not a word about bone density, muscle mass, or anything else is mentioned. Much of the rest of their physical accoutrement in the men’s league follows them into the women’s pool.
Here’s the kicker. The policy is justified by the quality of reasoning that you’d expect from a brainwashed sophomore Anthropology major writing on systemic phobias of western civilization. Here it goes, brace yourself:
“. . . many people may have a stereotype that all transgender women are unusually tall and have large bones and muscles. But that is not true. . . . The assumption that all male-bodied people are taller, stronger, and more highly skilled in a sport than all female-bodied people is not accurate.”
Has anyone informed the geniuses at NCAA headquarters that the subject in question is not whether tall women or small men exist. That’s wholly irrelevant. At the level of elite competition in the vast majority of sports, men are taller, bulkier, faster, and stronger than women. The statement has no credible place in any policy defense, let alone one that seeks to condone the competition of taller, bulkier, faster, and stronger women-with-a-Y-chromosome with women limited to the fetal arrangement. It’s one of the goofiest things ever put to paper.
How can women’s sports survive this mounting chaos over who’s a woman? Don’t look to bureaucrats of the NCAA for enlightenment. They spread the chaos by transmitting the confusion. The answer lies with us, the fans of girls’ sports. We must demand an end to the nonsense. Chromosomes are the ultimate determinant, not surgeries, injections, or counseling. Our pools, meets, and locker rooms must be made as safe for our girls and women (XX chromosome) as anywhere else.
RogerG