A Refreshing Moment of Sanity in Women's College Sports
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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Xillman liked to spend his off days sharing nonpareils of questionable origin with Walmart greeters.
The Culture Wars can be a bit of a slog for those of us fighting them from the conservative side of things. So much of the world is a cesspool, and the work of un-cesspooling it is never ending. Or so it seems.
The transgender agenda has proven to be particularly overwhelming at times. Not long ago, transgender issues were on the fringe. Because the Left is always in "You will be made to care" mode, they've not only been brought into the mainstream but into our schools as well. The fact that they pretend that there is still the need for a "Transgender Day of Visibility" is laughable; there isn't a segment of the population that is more impossible to ignore.
My colleagues and I have written a lot about biological males who "identify" (I should probably use eyeroll emojis there rather than quotation marks) as female competing in women's sports. It's been a real problem in high school and collegiate athletics, threatening to permanently disenfranchise female athletes. It's the ultimate unfairness and it's being visited upon female athletes by the people who typically spend their time shrieking about fairness when it comes to any other issue.
There has been a spot of good news when it comes to real fairness in women's college athletics. Catherine wrote about it yesterday:
A national college athletics association has banned biological males who claim to be females from competing in women’s sports, a win for women’s rights.
As the number of injuries inflicted and titles stolen by men competing in female sports and events continues to climb, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) made the right decision, becoming the first national college governing body to make it mandatory for athletes to compete based on their biological sex, according to CBS Sports.
NAIA president Jim Carr admitted to CBS Sports that there are “different opinions” about transgenders competing in women’s sports, but fortunately, his organization came down on the side of reality. "For us, we believed our first responsibility was to create fairness and competition in the NAIA,” Carr said, adding, “We also think it aligns with the reasons Title IX was created. You're allowed to have separate but equal opportunities for women to compete.”
Hallelujah.
The NAIA is comprised of 241 smaller colleges. Woke insanity doesn't always affect (Infect?) them like it does larger universities. It's not likely that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will follow the NAIA's example anytime soon, but this is an important step.
The indulgence of male athletes who "identify" as female has, in recent years, seen the hard work and accomplishments of female athletes canceled in the blink of an eye. The feminists who didn't shut up for 50 years have gone radio silent on the subject.
The pushback has begun, however. Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines has emerged as a powerful voice and advocate for the restoration of sanity to women's sports. Some states have enacted laws to protect girls' sports in high schools. This move by the NAIA adds some momentum to the cause.
Like so many of the recent elements of the leftist agenda that have been foisted upon society, this one sprang up seemingly out of nowhere. My daughter ran cross country and track in high school and college. Her collegiate career just ended in 2020. This kind of stuff wasn't even on our radar then. She spent her high school years competing in Southern California, where one might expect to have encountered an early transgender infiltration into sports. It never came up.
It's all spiraled out of control in the last four years. I think we can all guess why.
Still, this news is a victory, and we've got to enjoy them when we can.
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