June 11, 2025
In this second installment on the transgender crisis that marks Pride Month, we turn our attention to transgender activists and their sympathizers who are trying to destroy women’s rights.
Segregation is seen by many as a dirty word, but in reality it depends on the circumstance.
For example, most Americans support the Olympic games, notwithstanding the fact that it is a showcase of segregation. Having separate games for men and women is just common sense, but common sense is no longer commonplace, at least among self-identified liberals.
Their allegiance to transgenderism is so strong that it allows them to pursue this bizarre ideology even at the cost of destroying sports for women and girls. They want the men to win, relegating women to a second class status. That is why those who support transgenderism are today’s misogynists, taking their place alongside the ultra-macho rednecks who sought to keep women in their place for decades.
In December, Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, testified before a senatorial committee defending the NCAA policy of allowing men to compete against women; he cited a lack of clarity from the courts on this issue. Sen. Josh Hawley ripped into him, saying, “Let’s dispense with that canard. No federal court has ordered the NCAA to include biological men in women’s sports.”
In February, President Trump bailed Baker out. The NCAA head honcho congratulated Trump for providing student-athletes with “a clear, national standard.” Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” bars men who falsely claim to be a woman (so-called transgender women) from competing against women. Baker never took a principled stand; instead he allowed Trump to get him off the hook.
The resistance to Trump’s defense of women’s sports is still strong in some parts of the country. Just recently, men were allowed to compete against women in high school events in Oregon and California.
Fortunately, two female athletes in Oregon who competed in the high jump refused to stand next to a male on the medal platform at the state championship Saturday night.
In California, a male athlete who competed against females won the high jump and triple jump. President Trump blasted California Gavin Newsom for allowing this travesty of justice, and his Assistant Attorney Gen. Harmeet Dhillon put the offending school districts on notice: they must “certify in writing” that they will no longer allow men to compete against women in women’s sport, or risk legal liability.
While the struggle for justice in women’s sports continues in the United States, it is making progress internationally.
Last fall, the United Nations issued a report that found that more than 600 female athletes have been unfairly beaten by men in women’s sports. This amounts to a loss of more than 890 medals in 29 different sports.
Moreover, the report detailed cases of severe injuries that women athletes have had to endure by competing against men. They have had their teeth knocked out and legs broken. Worse, they have experienced skull fractures and neurological damage from concussions. The report also cited the lack of privacy for women in the locker rooms, a subject that transgender activists refuse to even acknowledge.
These policies would not exist absent support from academicians.
Every honest person knows that sex is binary: there are but two sexes. This means there are but two genders, because gender is a sociological term—constantly misinterpreted as a biological one—that refers to the social roles that are considered appropriate for males and females. Yet there are those in scientific circles, no less, who insist that science is wrong. They falsely claim that there is a continuum of genders. This fiction is entertained by once reliable publications such as Nature, Scientific American and National Geographic.
Transgender activism is evident at the highest levels in the scientific community. We learned last year that after the National Institutes of Health awarded millions of dollars to researchers examining the health benefits for children who were prescribed transgender puberty-blocking drugs, the lead researcher of the study concealed findings because the results supported critics of this exploitative practice. In short, she screwed the taxpayers for political reasons.
The elites are obviously important, but they may not have the last word on this matter. It’s hard to prevail against overwhelming public opinion.
A poll released after the presidential election revealed that nearly three-in-four voters said it should be illegal to subject children to sex-altering procedures; it was a 10 percent increase in just three months. Several recent polls indicate that approximately two-in-three adults oppose allowing males who identify as transgender to compete in girls’ sports and share locker rooms and bathrooms with them. And 77 percent of Americans do not want teachers to discuss gender identity and the possibility of being born in the wrong body in the early grades.
The Catholic League believes that encouraging minors to transition to the other sex—which is biologically impossible anyway—is a child abuse, pure and simple. The good news is that the elites are on the defensive.
