Penna Dexter

The sad stories of female athletes being forced to compete against biological males and losing positions, titles, and opportunities are getting more numerous. Reporter Laurel Duggan writes: “There is a common misconception that born-male athletes participating in women’s sports is a non-issue because it’s not happening often, but that’s a false narrative.” In an article in The Daily Caller, Ms. Duggan identifies some high-profile transgender athletes who are, she writes, “changing the landscape for ordinary female athletes” across the country.

Connecticut has been ground zero for the unfairness.

In 2020, four female high school runners sued Connecticut’s athletic organization after two biological males who identify as female swept fifteen state titles in girls’ track. In just three years, these males broke 17 girls’ track records. The four female runners are challenging the state’s policy that permits this.

The girls are represented by Alliance Defending Freedom who is asking the court to “enjoin future enforcement of the Policy” and remove the records the two male athletes have set in girls’ track. The case recently reached the Court of Appeals for the 2^nd Circuit where a 3-judge panel dismissed it. The court found that the female athletes failed to show an “injury in fact.”

The opinion contained language the Left has introduced in its quest to control the argument. As Family Research Council’s Joseph Backholm explains, “The court, in its opinion, essentially created a different category of women.” The opinion describes “four female athletes who are cisgender” competing against “female athletes who are transgender.”

“It’s a lie,” says Joseph Backholm. And he’s right. To be clear, transgender females are biological males. They are not a different kind of female.

Using the word cisgender to describe females is extraneous. A girl is a girl. But it enables the speaker to imply two types of females: Cisgender and transgender.

By this logic, the female athlete, no matter how hard she tries, will not be able to succeed.