Imagine if the US Supreme Court had to decide whether the law of gravity still applies, even in these early years of the 21st century.
After all, some people are not comfortable with their size. They feel sluggish and weighed down by the pull of the earth. Why couldn’t they just ignore gravity and drift along as easily as they wanted? Why should a law of nature limit how light and thin someone feels inside?
If that sounds ridiculous to you, imagine how female athletes have felt in recent years, when they had to compete against men just because they were told that feeling like they were a woman could make them that way.
Their make-believe is our harsh reality. And some of us have empty spots on our trophy shelves to prove it.
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Former Idaho State University female athletes Mary Kate Marshall and Madison Kenyon have signed on as volunteer defendants to help protect women’s sports in an Idaho lawsuit that will be heard by the Supreme Court. (Courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom)
We all spent much of our youth training our minds, taxing our bodies and acquiring the skills to compete with other girls and women on the athletic field. We worked hard – wasted a lot of fun and family time – and steadily disciplined ourselves to become better, faster, and stronger to win those trophies, stand on winners’ platforms, and earn scholarships that helped us pay for our higher education.
Then something happened that we couldn’t predict or prepare for. American sports culture disappeared into the deep.
Seemingly overnight, our nation’s athletic directors decided that men could be women, that men had every right to compete in women’s sports, and that physical differences were irrelevant, DNA was unimportant and anyone could be whatever they wanted. Throw the laws of nature to the wind.
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Here’s a little taste of what that looked like:
- In West Virginia, a single male athlete competing on a state girls track team defeated more than 400 girls in middle and high school track and field meets. While doing so, he was given free access to women’s locker rooms, where he made vulgar sexual comments to his female teammates to the point that one chose to wear her uniform all day rather than change in front of him. When the school was informed of this, nothing changed.
- During his first three years at the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas competed on the men’s swimming team, where he finished 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. During his senior year, competing as a woman, he suddenly finished fifth, first and eighth in those respective events, broke six records at the Ivy League Women’s Championships, took home four Ivy League women’s championships and won an NCAA women’s 500-meter freestyle championship, defeating two former Olympic champions.
- A recent United Nations investigation found that “more than 600 female athletes were defeated by transgender-identifying men in more than 400 women’s division events in 29 different sports. Male athletes have taken more than 890 medals from female athletes.”
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As two former track and field athletes at Idaho State University, we have seen the injustices faced by women forced to compete against physically stronger men. That’s why, with the help of our attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom, we have joined the lawsuit Little v. Hecox, led by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, which is being argued today in the U.S. Supreme Court alongside another case, State of West Virginia v. BPJ, led by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey. The Supreme Court will hear both cases on January 13.
Seemingly overnight, our nation’s athletic directors decided that men could be women, that men had every right to compete in women’s sports, and that physical differences were irrelevant, DNA was unimportant and anyone could be whatever they wanted. Throw the laws of nature to the wind.
These combined cases involve more than 50 friend-of-the-court petitions — by women’s rights groups, female athletes, scientists, dozens of other advocacy groups, 27 states and the U.S. government — all asking the justices to allow enforcement of state laws that protect women’s sports.
That support comes from the recognition that the damage this madness has done to the minds of female athletes, to the bodies of women competing against men, and even to the historic legal protections of Title IX, is multiplied many times over by the brutal domino effect this denial of reality has on families from coast to coast.
Parents were intimidated into pushing their children into dangerous drugs and life-changing surgeries. Women are trapped in prisons with violent male criminals. Women’s shelters are forced to admit men, who sleep next to women and continue to suffer the consequences of abuse and human trafficking.
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Students stayed with the opposite sex during school trips. Teachers losing their jobs because they don’t promote the idea that gender is self-determined. Counselors are forced to help their clients ignore the reality of their sexual identity. Schools leave parents in the dark while educators secretly ‘socially transfer’ their children.
Those in power and with a social agenda justify all these nightmares by denying the essential reality that boys are boys and girls are girls – a fact that no amount of pretense or politics can change. Yet in recent years, government officials have moved aggressively to silence anyone who speaks out about this reality.
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Now the Supreme Court may finally clarify what the law already recognizes – protecting the rights not just of female athletes, but of all Americans who embrace biological reality and the simple truths of nature.
There are only two genders. And no one should be punished for believing that.
Mary Kate Marshall is a former athlete at Idaho State University and a party to the women’s sports cases that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on January 13.
