Males competing as women is unfair to women

Title IX was enacted to provide females the same opportunity to participate in athletics as men. Yet, the U.S. Senate, without a single vote from a Democrat senator, male or female, just voted down a bill that would prevent biological males from competing against biological females in women’s sports.

Competing against biological males does not provide a level playing field for female athletes. As a result of competing with and against transgender women, female athletes have lost medals and records; scholarships and the opportunity to compete. They have been physically injured. It is not the level playing field promised by Title IX.

Female athletes at the highest level, including Serena Williams, have acknowledged that they cannot compete equally with a male in the same sport. A prime example of the impact of biological men in female sports is Lia Thomas, University of Pennsylvania swimmer. Thomas went from being ranked 554th men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition after becoming a transgender woman.

President Trump has issued an executive order barring biological males from participating in female sports, subject to the loss of federal funding per Title IX. The bill that did not make it through the Senate would have made that permanent, not subject to the whim of a future president.

I am writing this to spotlight the unfairness of allowing biological males to compete against biological females in sports. Almost 80% of the nation agree with me according to recent polls.

Frank Garfield

Hiawatha