Women and children are the principal victims, but it is also bringing transgender rights — my rights — into disrepute
May 3, 2023 | 4:30 pm – Written By: Debbie Hayton – for Spectator World
Austin Killips (Getty)
When will sporting governing bodies see the reality that we all know to be true — that male bodies have an advantage over female bodies? Granted, many organizations have seen the light and taken action, but others remain in some sort of cloud cuckoo land where trans women — biological males — are allowed to compete against biological females.
The latest outrage has happened in the United States. Austin Killips, a twenty-seven-year-old transgender cyclist won first prize for women at the Tour of the Gila, the premier road race in New Mexico. Killips is now being tipped to challenge for a place at the Tour de France Femmes and at the Paris Olympics next summer.
This is wrong. Sports are divided into female and male categories for a reason, and it is not to affirm anyone’s identity. I’ve said this before: women’s sports are not for males who cannot cut it against their own sex. Killips may well have lost some competitive advantage after undergoing hormone therapy, but that does not mitigate the differences between the sexes.
Clear rules — based on biological sex — should apply throughout sport from the grassroots to the Olympics. My time for a 5k park run will never set any records, even in the 50+ age group, but I still won’t participate against women — it would be wrong for me to push just one woman down the rankings in her category.
But it’s even worse when it comes to competitive sports that have prize money. Reports suggest that Killips earned tens of thousands of dollars for finishing top of the women’s general classification in the Tour of the Gila, plus a bonus as “Queen of the Mountains.” Money earmarked for women has been taken by the other sex. This year, for the first time, the Tour of the Gila offered equal prize money for the men and women’s races. The fact that biological males have won both pots makes a mockery of this worthy move.
The impact all this is having on girls cannot be underestimated. Why bother training hard — possibly for years on end — when biological males will just come along and take the medals? Killips only took up cycling in 2019. Sport will struggle to remain attractive to girls if they know they will be forced to give way to competitors who are stronger and faster and post better times in most disciplines simply because they are male.
No doubt arguments will continue over hormone levels and the effect this has on performance, but this misses the point. Sports are for all but they are divided into sex-based categories for the same reason that they are divided into age-based categories: to ensure fair competition between people with different bodies.
We would not allow a grown adult to compete with under-elevens because they chose to identify as a pre-pubescent child. Neither should we allow males to compete against women when they take on a transgender identity. It’s not fair, and it may well be dangerous. This madness has now gone on for far too long. Women and children are the principal victims, but it is also bringing transgender rights — my rights — into disrepute. It needs to stop, and the world needs to return to reality.
This article was originally published on The Spectator’s UK website.
Readers’ comments:
These mentally ill men should be bared from all athletic competition, until they have received proper psychiatric care.
Thank you, Debby for exposing these fraudulent ‘athletes’.
Either mentally ill or shameful, opportunistic, narcissists. While they feel their glory for winning the day over the field of women, many are ridiculing them for taking something that clearly doesn’t belong to them. I hope history judges them harshly.
They can receive care until the cows come home and it doesn’t change a thing.
Sleepwalkers do not like to wake up
Note that the leftist feminists nags are silent on this issue. They’ll march, screech, bully, and lose their ever-loving minds if they can’t abort the unborn and get the rest of us to pay for it. Their “The Future is Female” schtick has always been complete BS. The fems’ visceral hatred toward men and bearing children evolved into a platform for angry masculine lesbians championing gender identity politics and who have had zero interest in championing for actual women. And now, hilariously, they are being pushed out by, wait for it, men. Feminism has defined itself by ‘waves’. Well, the waves have dried up. Feminism, if it exists at all, is now men aping women in the most juvenile way. The jokes write themselves.
The only way to get these beta-males out of women’s sports is for women who actually give a rip to rise up and get as aggressive as the rabid, spittle-ridden fems of yesteryear. There are women on both sides of the aisle who are angry about this. But will we rally together, be a bigger nuisance than the nut jobs, and force an end to this madness like they forced an end to sanity? Hard to say.
Well put – and no one knows…!
If anyone has watched Lia Thomas in an interview, they would be outraged that this MAN was even able to get in the pool with women swimmers. His case is particularly galling because he swam at the collegiate level for 3years as a MAN and ranked in the 500’s. In his senior year after only one year on hormone blockers, he jumps in as a woman and places in the top 10!!! He is well over 6 ft. tall, has hands the size of catcher’s mitt, and could sing baritone in the choir. The women who were forced to compete against him didn’t stand a chance. As a further slap in the face, they couldn’t even speak out for fear of revenge the woke mob. Riley Gaines is a hero for standing up for fairness for all women, but we will all have to fight or risk returning to the days before Title IX.
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