Pictured: Political Activist Riley Gaines
According to a report from the U.N., women have lost about 900 medals to Transgender rivals. The study done this year also revealed that over 600 female athletes have been beaten by opponents who are biologically male. Male athletes have advantages over female athletes, such as higher testosterone levels, which results in a loss of opportunity for female athletes. Here is a recent story in the news as an example: Rylee Morrow, a cross country runner at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, has recently brought attention to an ongoing controversy of trans athletes. After speaking up and having the school district ignore their concerns over a transgender teammate known as ML, Morrow and several other teammates wore "Save Girls Sports" shirts to practice in protest of the transgender athlete ML, who displaced the co-captain of the varsity team known as Taylor. The trans athlete had also not met specific eligibility requirements or consistently attended cross-country practice. The athletic director forced the girls to remove their shirts and told them it was because it would create a hostile environment. School officials, including the athletic director, then went on to compare their shirts to a Swastika.
On November 21, 2024, Morrow spoke at the local school board district meeting and stated: "I'm constantly affected by the actions taken place this season, and I have been around the females, and just my team in general, who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it, because the whole LGBTQ is shoved down our throats! We live in a society where it's almost impossible to speak out on it without facing repercussions." Morrow concluded her speech by expressing how unsafe she and her teammates felt by having to share a locker room with a biological male.
Two girls on the team known as Kaitlyn and Taylor, the teammate who was displaced by the trans athlete, have since then filed a lawsuit against the California school district. ML displaced Taylor as co-captain after he clocked in fifty-two seconds faster than Taylor. Kaitlyn and Taylor appeared on Fox News Digital, and Taylor claimed that ML was allowed to wear trans pride apparel while the girls were forced to remove their "Save Girls Sports" shirts. She then confronted the athletic director about the issue, and the athletic director clapped back by comparing the shirts to Swastikas. According to the girl's attorney, Julianne Fleischer, the lawsuit claims that the girls' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and their Title IX Protections were violated.
Pictured: Taylor and Kaitlyn
The Biden administration amended Title IX to include discrimination against gender identity as well as sexual orientation. In August of 2024, the Supreme Court ruled against Biden's request that would have allowed biological men in women's restrooms, dorm rooms, and locker rooms in ten states where there are specific rules to prevent it from happening. President-Elect Donald Trump has since then promised that he would revoke the policies that the Biden Administration set in place regarding gender treatment for minors and to protect women and girls.
Just recently, Republican Representative Nancy Mace introduced a resolution that requires that all individuals must use the restrooms matching the gender to which they are assigned at birth. The resolution caused an immediate backlash from Democratic Representative Sarah McBride. McBride is the first member of Congress to be openly transgender. If Representative Mace's resolution is unsuccessful, she plans to seek a privilege motion, which will allow her to avoid the standard requirements. Since Mace introduced this ban, she has received numerous death threats.
Pictured: Representative Nancy Mace
The safety of biological girls and women and how they feel should be paramount. This tells us another story of why only females belong in their spaces. Last year, a female high schooler in Virginia sued the Loudoun County School District for thirty million dollars in damages. She was sexually assaulted in the restroom by a male student in May of 2021. The male student who assaulted her preferred to go by male pronouns even though he was in the women's restroom wearing a skirt. This made gender identity not a huge part of the lawsuit. The male student then went on to commit a second sexual assault in October of 2021 in an empty classroom. After the male student committed the first sexual assault, he was charged and ordered by the court not to return to Stone Bridge High School. He was transferred to nearby Broad Run High School, where the second occurred. The male assaulter was fifteen at the time he committed both sexual assaults, so he was convicted as a juvenile. The parents of the girl who is suing claim that the school district lied and covered up the attacks because the public school system in Loudoun County was adopting a new restroom policy at the time for students who claimed to be transgender.
According to a complaint that was filed with the United States District Court, the victim "struggles academically, emotionally, and physically for the remainder of the school year," and she continues to struggle significantly." The grand jury on this case accused Scott Ziegler, the school superintendent, of lying to the public to cover up the assaults that had occurred and authorities of ignoring warning signs that could have prevented another sexual assault by the male student. The prosecution claims that Ziegler lied at a school board meeting in June of 2021, shortly after the first incident. A fellow school board member asked Ziegler if the schools had issues with assaults in the restrooms since the new policies had taken place. Ziegler stated, "To my knowledge, we don't have any record of assaults in our restrooms." According to Ziegler's emails, he lied. After the first sexual assault occurred, he sent out an email alerting board members about it. This then led him to gain a misdemeanor charge linked to the school district's handling of the two sexual assaults that were committed. The identities of both victims, as well as the male attacker, remain anonymous since they were underage at the time.
