The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states can ban males from competing in women’s sports. At issue is whether males, who falsely identify as female—so-called transgender females—can compete against girls and women in athletic events.
The high court cited Title IX, enacted in 1972, to support its decision. It bars discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs. It also ruled that the 14th Amendment “equal protection” clause was not violated when states ban males from competing against females.
The majority opinion said that “forcing women and girls to play against biological males can deter some women and girls who would otherwise participate in sports from doing so—out of understandable concern about suffering serious injury or participating in what they view as an unfair competition.”
Such an observation would no doubt strike most Americans as common sense, but that is not the way the media are already spinning this decision.
CNN opines that this ruling means that it allows the “conservative majority” on the high court to “further cement its power in ways that has benefited Trump and Republicans.” This remarkably inane comment comes the day after the Supreme Court decided against three of the four cases that Trump wanted.
Nina Totenberg of NPR, ever the left-wing zealot, is even more sinister. She begins her commentary by noting that the majority opinion was written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh “who has long coached his daughters’ and other girls’ basketball teams at school.” Got it? In other words, this principled decision was written because Kavanaugh likes his girls to play hoops against girls.
In her dissent Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who cannot define what a woman is, showcases her biological acumen once again by referring to “biological sex” as “sex assigned at birth.” Wrong. Sex is never “assigned” by anyone—it is always determined by the father.
Ten times in her short dissent she talks about “sex assigned at birth.” She is an outlier again—no other Justice uses this imbecilic term.
Justice Clarence Thomas knows better. In his concurring opinion, he writes, “Sex is an immutable ‘biological’ characteristic,” and “sex is binary.” It’s a shame that Biology 101 truisms need to be said. But they must be—so many elites are ideologically drunk these days.
Kudos to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Catholic League has been making the same argument in favor of women’s rights for many years, and now it is the law of the land.
