Kerby Anderson

The leaders of many of the national sports organizations have been promoting social justice especially when it comes to the homosexual agenda and transgender issues. The primary target this last year has been North Carolina. The NBA pulled its All-Star game from Charlotte. The NFL said that it will continue to fight North Carolina’s bathroom privacy bill.

The latest action by the NCAA shouldn’t come as any surprise. They decided to pull seven championship events from the Tar Heel State merely because the North Carolina legislature believes boys and girls should use the bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex.

David French laments that the Left is “weaponizing sports.” He also points to the blatant hypocrisy of the NCAA. “This is an organization, mind you, that reaps billions of dollars of rewards off the labor of disproportionately poor and minority students while imposing on them — as a condition for even participating in college sports — economic restrictions not imposed on any other college student. So-called student-athletes don’t own their time, or even the rights to their own names. The vast majority of them don’t go on to play pro sports, so they’re effectively prevented from making money during the time when their earning potential is at its highest. But the NCAA is now suddenly discovering social justice? Please.”

Not so long ago, sports were neutral. It was a place where liberal and conservative, heterosexual and homosexual, rich and poor could come together and root for their home team and put aside many of the differences that often divide us. We could all gather together to watch the Super Bowl or the World Series without having to deal with the controversial social issues of our day.

The NBA, the NFL, and now the NCAA have changed all of that. The social justice warriors in these organizations cannot leave it alone. In trying to defend the indefensible (putting transgender boys in girl’s bathrooms) they harm their sport and will probably lose audience. Apparently, they don’t care.