Last week, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki discussed the overreaction of parents and policymakers regarding males (trans-females) who play in female sports, suggesting it is not as widespread as imagined—that it is a political boogeyman by the right that may even be frightening those on the left to “amplify bad faith attacks.”
Although Psaki suggests “this idea that America is faced with a crisis of boys playing in girls’ sports” is ridiculous, there is much to suggest she cannot possibly know (as many states are not even keeping track) but also enough to suggest male participation in female sports is happening more frequently than Psaki acknowledges. Psaki only references conservative states like Utah and South Dakota and ignores liberal states where it is more prevalent and likely to occur.
In 2022, Cyd Zeigler wrote about “40 transgender athletes” who have competed openly in college sports, and as of 2024 there are at least 63 colleges that have trans-inclusive athletic policies. There are 24 U.S. states that allow males (trans-females) to compete in high school sports. I’ve spoken with a number of athletic directors in California who have told me males identifying as females are participating in women’s sports in their districts.
And the issue is not unique to the United States.
A United Nations General Assembly report: “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males. According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports.”
Although girls and women are facing unsettling and instances of unsafe situations1 regarding males participating in female sports, Psaki is missing a much broader conversation—the blurring of sex with gender as if there is no difference.
There is a more serious consequence in—not only women’s sports—but its downstream effect in schools, private spaces, mental health, places of employment, and what it means when we deny or mitigate chromosomal sex (XX and XY) differences.
The issue is much bigger than sports
Schools in California have seen an increase of the non-binary population by 1,642% from 2019 to 2023, according to data provided by the California Department of Education.
The CASS Review has revealed the dangers of puberty-blockers and surgeries on children.
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy withheld the results of “a long-awaited [tax-funded] study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment,” according to a New York Times article.
States have enacted sanctuary city policies that will separate children from parents if they do not “affirm” their child’s identity.
Existing Washington law generally requires licensed shelters and host homes to notify parents within 72 hours when a minor comes into their care. Under the new law, facilities can instead contact the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, which could then attempt to reunify the family if feasible. Youths will also be allowed to stay at host homes — private, volunteer homes that temporarily house young people without parental permission (PBS).
At a time when a child needs his/her parents the most, schools and state agencies are removing the most important person in a child’s life. This may be especially true of autistic children, some of our most vulnerable, who are more prone to experience gender dysphoria for reasons that are developmental and for feeling socially out of place, not because they are in the wrong body.
Mainstream Media Doubling Down
Despite what we know, the mainstream media is doubling down and labeling those who oppose males participating in female sports and those who question the efficacy of puberty blockers and surgery for minors as transphobic. This approach did not play well this election season and the discontent seems to be growing:
As Riley Gaines (The Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute and former University of Kentucky swimmer), Jennifer Sey (Olympic gymnast and founder of XX-XY athletics), and others are moving to enforce Title IX protections for women in sports by ensuring sex-difference and not gender-identity is the guiding principles of women’s sports and other areas involving women’s spaces.
As parents try to prevent schools from hiding gender-identity issues regarding their children from them
As congress questions funded studies regarding the efficacy of puberty blockers (McClain Probes $9.7 Million Taxpayer-Funded Study Buried by Activist Researcher on Puberty Blockers)
And as organizations worldwide move more aggressively to prevent and dramatically slow down the use of puberty blockers and transition surgeries for children.
The mainstream message that people are transphobic will not sit well with the majority of Americans who are—to be honest—tired of being lectured and who do care about these issues. These are not transphobic zealots as the mainstream press would like to suggest, but they are caring and compassionate people who know sexual dimorphism is a reality and also understand that there are those who are struggling with their gender identity who deserve compassion and help. But that compassion and desire to help does not mean compromising what they know to be true: recognizing sex-differences in sports and life is critical and they have a right to voice their opinion, a factor that certainly contributed to the large red-wave two weeks ago.
Americans have a genuine concern for the well-being of the females who are forced to compete against males. People worry about the short-term and longterm consequences of those who are gender questioning and move too quickly into surgeries and drug treatments when the issue may be as simple as a normal process of recognizing one’s sexuality or the mask of deeper forms of depression, mental illness, social contagions, and a desire to seek attachments in ways that are far more complicated than the sweeping mainstream media lecturing that seems uncomfortable to even acknowledge sex differences—in body and mind.
Psaki warns people “not to yield to manufactured panic and to align with the actual facts before making sweeping claims. Echoing and adopting the panic from the other side is not leading. It’s not meeting people where they are; it’s simply falling prey to right wing propaganda without checking the facts first.”
Her comments are an indictment of Democratic Representative Seth Moulton from Massachusetts and those who dare to voice an opinion that deviates from the progressive rhetoric that partly led to Trump’s victory, deviates from what many women see as a women’s rights issue, and deviates from the opinions of millions of Americans who see this issue as a serious health concern that has been captured by progressive politics.
But it is Psaki who does not see that using the wrong pronouns can lead to suspensions in school, that being hit by male athletes can lead to serious injuries, that women’s bathrooms and locker-rooms are open to males, that children are receiving unnecessary drugs and surgeries, that children are being taught that they may have been wrongly assigned an identity at birth, that parents are being separated from their children, and that people are losing their jobs for pronoun usage—just to name a few things other than sports that are part of a much larger progressive agenda.
Academia, media, and government are placing ideas into the minds of children and adolescents when children cannot possibly understand the complexities of the conversations, are too young to even consider these decisions, and are very vulnerable to a cultural push more interested in social, financial, and political advantages than a conversation that first asks, do you believe there are only two sexes?
This is so much bigger than males playing female sports and that is what Psaki doesn’t understand.
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See the following instances of females injured by males participating in women’s sports and comments from the ARP.
Injured volleyball player speaks out after alleged transgender opponent spiked ball at her
Massachusetts high school field hockey team forfeits game to avoid male opponent
Transgender player injures 3 girls in high school basketball game
24 Women Leave Aussie Soccer due to Injuries from, Concerns over Trans-Identifying Players
“The Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP) is committed to the concept of fair competition. It advocates for two equally skilled and matched athletes to keep bouts fair, competitive, entertaining, and, most importantly, safe for all combatants. Numerous studies have proven that transgender women may have a competitive athletic advantage against otherwise matched cis-gender women. Likewise, transgender men may suffer a competitive disadvantage against cis-gender men. These differences – both anatomic and physiologic – persist despite normalization of sex hormone levels and create disparities in competitive abilities that are not compatible with the spirit of fair competition. More importantly, allowing transgender athletes to compete against cisgender athletes in combat sports, which already involve significant risk of serious injury, unnecessarily raises the risk of injury due to these differences. Hence the ARP does not support transgender athlete competition against cisgender athletes in combat sports.”
Even groups like the ARP are using the term cis-gender instead of the words male and female—and by doing so—confuse people in regard to sexual dimorphism (a biological reality) and gender (a social construct). Groups like ARP—in all fairness—are trying to be sensitive regarding the trans issue while acknowledging the real health risks female players face.
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