Editorial by Jessica Marie Baumgartner |
My daughter is a volleyball player. It took two leagues and 13 games before she finally earned the victory of winning a single game last year because her right to fair play was compromised by harmful team policies.
My happy, hardworking daughter has now completed two leagues and lost to dozens of boys at this point.
I sympathize with all children who do not feel comfortable in their own bodies. I was a tomboy myself growing up, but their gender confusion does not overrule my daughter’s right to a fair competition.
I know firsthand that the awkwardness of puberty resolves itself when children accept themselves for who they are over time. Everyone feels uncomfortable in their bodies when they’re young.
It’s a phase, not a crisis.
I was a swimmer and I ran track in my youth, and every day I am grateful that I never had to live through the trials my daughter is suffering. She doesn’t deserve to be pitted against boys, no matter how they feel about their bodies.
No matter how anyone feels, boys are born with more muscle mass strength, according to the National Library of Medicine, more bone density, and larger skeletal frames, per Very Well Health.
These are scientific facts. And protecting my daughter’s right to fair play is the hill I will die on.
Why female-only sports matter
Helping my vibrant and optimistic 12-year-old train and get to the top of her game has been an ongoing process. My wrists are bruised as I write this because of all the balls I’ve hit back to her.
Playing on her volleyball team has taught her about friendship, teamwork, and how to be a good sport. While we know that boys and men are naturally stronger and faster, these female-only competitions aren’t about trying to be the best player in the entire world, they’re about working through difficulties and achieving goals.
Sports teams give girls confidence and the experiences they need to know when to trust their gut and just go for something. These teams also work to combat the incredibly frustrating child obesity epidemic that has continued to create endless health problems for children. While processed foods and additives have increased on grocery store shelves, American health has only decreased.
Add in the issue of screen time addiction, and raising healthy children is a new playing field, rife with fouls that no parent could have foreseen. The importance of exercise is paramount to combating these new struggles.
The devastation of unfair competition
Multiple times now, my daughter has had to choose between walking away from all her hard work or competing against boys. She and I both know it’s absurd to allow biological males to compete against females, but I let her make the decisions in her sports career, and so I have watched her try her best and lose against teams that have one, two, or even three boys on leagues filled with girls.
Each defeat is devastating for her. It tells her that no matter what she does, she won’t win, because it’s not a fair fight. There have been tears and rants. She even walked away from one sport because of it.
My daughter practiced karate before switching to volleyball. She loved learning the moves. She enjoyed her kai, she practiced everyday. But boys and girls are expected to compete against each other in that martial art and she quickly realized that her ability to win at sparring was nearly impossible when her dojo regularly played a game where all the students entered the mat and sparred until the last person standing won.
Each time I watched this game the weak boys always went after the girls first. They knew those were the only opponents they could beat. Thankfully, the strong boys went after the weak boys who beat on the girls, but it was a telling picture of the battles to come.
In the 90s, the idea of putting a boy on a girl’s sport team to win was a joke. It is exactly the premise of the movie, Ladybugs. Back then, people were smart enough to know the differences between boys and girls.
Now, “progressive” elected officials mock us with their antics. Most recently, Democrat women wore pink to President Donald Trump’s Address of the Joint Session of Congress, to display some sort of solidarity to… something?
They say it was for women, but they voted against protecting girls’ and women’s sports just before the historic speech. They also promote child sex changes and herald boys (who believe they can magically be girls) competing against natural-born females.
So obviously, they don’t care about women or solidarity to us and our rights. They just like running their mouths to sell more lies.
Why boys want to be girls
I’ve been told that opposing boys entering competitions with girls is “dehumanizing” to trans people, which is absurd. No one believes these boys aren’t human or deserving of basic rights, we merely hold that their illusions should not overrule the rights of women and girls who are born physically smaller and weaker.
Teaching boys that they can be girls is demasculinizing. It also sets them up for failure and suffering in a modern society that already treats boys and men as if there is something wrong with them for being male. Terms like “toxic masculinity” are flung faster than balls in a court any time a man has an opinion about anything.
Males, especially white males, are talked down to and discriminated against for being “privileged” to exist. So it’s no wonder that so many young men wish they were girls.
While the corporate media focuses on empowering women and giving girls confidence, they continue to berate boys if they are independent, strong, or seek to lead others. All it took was one generation of this to make boys wish to be girls.
What’s worse, it’s embarrassing for the boys. They celebrate as if they’ve earned something by physically attacking individuals who were born at a disadvantage. It’s the only way that boys who are raised to be weak can win.
I do not blame them. I blame their parents and the political officials who herald the destruction of girls’ and women’s sports in the name of “inclusion” and “diversity.”
Violence against women and girls
When boys compete against girls, girls are the ones who get injured. Meanwhile, boys are the ones who continue their spiral into further gender delusion.
My daughter asked me: Why aren’t “trans boys” an issue in male sports?
I went over our physical differences again and noted that it’s not an issue because women who pretend to be men can’t keep up. Nor are they taken seriously by men.
By contrast, women are the nurturers. We want others to be happy. So we are more likely to sympathize with others — even males who are more likely to hurt us than help us.
It’s sad how our kindness has been turned against us.
But once again, natural-born females are the ones getting taken advantage of and even severely injured. It’s incredibly dangerous.
The more that people normalize males competing with females, the more they brush off the injuries this causes the girls and women involved. They ignore the obvious: When males physically compete with females it devolves into violence against us.
Boys playing in girls’ sports normalizes violence against women. We are watching it in real-time. And I fear that the longer this goes on, the more violence we will face.
My daughter and the natural-born daughters of every parent deserve better. We must fight for them.
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