Former NCAA All-American swimmer Riley Gaines sounded the alarm in a new opinion piece about the threat transgender players pose to women's and girls' sports if the Harris-Walz ticket is elected to the White House on Nov. 5.
In the piece, which was published Thursday by The Washington Times, Gaines pointed to several examples of transgender players competing on girls' teams in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and North Carolina as a result of the Biden-Harris administration's policies and said if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidential race, voters can expect more of the same.
"Transgender athletes are crushing female sports," Gaines wrote. "This is literally the case in volleyball, field hockey and mixed martial arts, where biological males are breaking their female opponents' skulls and faces. It is also figuratively the case in other instances where male athletes are seizing competitive roster spots and setting records in events once reserved for women.
"None of this is surprising, of course," she continued. "The purpose of segregating sports by sex is to ensure that female athletes have the full opportunity to develop and display athletic excellence within the boundaries imposed by nature and physics."
Gaines contends that sex segregation in the world of sports is "necessary because the physical differences between males and females" are considerable.
"Boys and men generally have larger hearts, greater lung capacity, greater blood volume and blood oxygen carrying capacity, higher bone density, greater muscle mass and superior neuromuscular efficiency," she said. "Taken together, these differences convey immense advantages to males in athletic events."
Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments sought to address "these biological realities" by mandating equal access to athletic opportunities for women and girls in schools receiving federal funding.
"Unfortunately, the Biden-Harris administration has perverted the plain meaning of Title IX by reassigning sex-based protections meant for women and girls to men and boys claiming a female identity," the outspoken advocate for women's and girls' sports wrote.
"The administration's crusade reflects a fanatical adherence to radical gender ideology, which has also inspired efforts to use the federal government to:
- Indoctrinate school children in radical gender ideology concepts (e.g., "cisheteropatriarchy") and terminology (e.g., preferred pronouns).
- Promote social and even medical transitioning (hormones and surgery) for children.
- Compel school boards to retain sexually explicit material in school libraries.
- Force health insurers and providers to cover child gender transition procedures and to lower age limits for such procedures."
Gaines noted that "fortunately" implementation of the administration's Title IX revisions has been paused in 26 states due to recent interventions by the courts, but said that a new administration or the Supreme Court must ultimately resolve the "divided legal landscape."
In the meantime, women and girls "will continue to risk serious injury if they play team sports" and their opportunities for athletic scholarship "will continue to be stolen by second-rate male athletes," she said. These female athletes will also "be forced by transgender activists to endure sexual harassment and objectification in formerly sex-segregated intimate spaces."
"A progressive journalist once defended Stalin, quipping, 'You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.' For radicals such as Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the 'omelet is a vision of a society where the 'gender binary' has been obliterated," Gaines wrote. "To this end, safety, dignity and fairness for young women and girls are just 'eggs' to scramble."
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