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Why is that males identifying as females are dominating women’s sports and destroying records, but females identifying as male can’t even make it on the board in men’s competition?
A key justification for letting biological males who identify as female compete in women’s athletics is the claim that there is no athletic advantage for transgender competitors after they take cross-sex hormones.
In other words, the mere act of lowering (or raising) hormone levels has the effect of creating a level competitive playing field.
There is more than enough scientific and medical evidence to contradict this notion. Testosterone is far from the only biological advantage that male athletes have over females. Men have greater muscle strength, longer limbs, bigger hearts and lung capacity, and bigger and stronger bones than women do, among many other differences.
Despite this, some athletic governing bodies such as the NCAA measure “equality” and “fairness” on the day of competition solely by hormone levels. In the case of male athletes, if their testosterone levels are a low enough measure, they can compete against women.
And yet, those hormone levels can’t negate the obvious advantages men have.
While medical science proves this, sometimes it takes real-life experiences to drive that point home.
Take, for example, the “all-trans” soccer team in Spain, known as Fenix FC. According to the team, every player on the team is biologically female but identifies as male.
Captain Luke Ibanez, a woman who identifies as a man, said she didn’t want to play on a team with “cisgender men” (also known as “men”), because she feared she would not fit in or she would even experience violence. So when fellow Fenix FC player Hugo Martinez, also born a woman, called about wanting to create an all-transgender team, Ibanez jumped at the chance.
“Fenix is a team of trans boys created entirely by trans boys, but I think it’s more than that — a family, a safe space where you can be free and express yourself however you want and how you really feel” Ibanez says.
While Fenix FC may provide a “safe space” for expression, it’s not a safe space from biological reality.
In Fenix FC’s first game against men, they were defeated 19-0. These are all women taking testosterone, and yet they lost by a score that looks more like American football than fútbol.
Compare that to the Flying Bats Soccer Club in Australia. The team, which plays in a “women’s” league, yet has five players who are biologically male but identify as female. You might remember news stories about the Bats after they dominated a four-week-long tournament, winning every single game, including one by a score of 10 to 0.
They continued dominating the competition throughout the season, finishing undefeated and winning the championship with a 5-4 victory
The Bats scored 65 goals during the season and only allowed 4. Its closest rival, West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook, the losing team in the championship game, scored 43 goals during the season and allowed 17.
Rachel Wong, CEO of the Women’s Forum Australia, summed it up when she wrote on X: “The Flying Bats –a Sydney-based *women’s* football team with FIVE MALE PLAYERS identifying as women– won its grand final on the weekend. Women’s sport is being obliterated and people are too scared (or too ideologically captured) to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. What an absolute disgrace.”
She also shared a photo demonstrating the size difference between the West Pennant Hills players and a Flying Bats player, who towered over his opponents.
There are other factors involved in any example than just the biological differences in a transgender athlete and their opponents. Yet many times the simplest answer is the right one. As we’ve witnessed numerous times, male athletes who are significantly suppressing their testosterone levels still dominate women’s athletics. By contrast, females who suppress their estrogen levels by taking testosterone do not fair nearly as well in men’s sports. In fact, they don’t fare well at all.
Take “Iszac” Henzig. Henzig was an All-American women’s collegiate swimmer until she decided to transition and compete on the Yale men’s team. After eight months of taking testosterone, Henzig wrote that, despite developing some male physical traits, “my times are about the same as they were at the end of last season.”
And the result? Henzig went from competing for national championships against female swimmers to the back of the pack against males.
Henzig admitted as much when she noted that during a meet against Ohio State, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech and others, “I wasn’t the slowest guy in any of my events, but I’m not as successful in the sport as I was on the women’s team.”
During that competition, Henzig finished 79th out of 83 in the 50-meter freestyle, her specialty event. One of the swimmers she defeated was born without a left forearm and had competed in the Paralympic Games, while the other three were swimmers who specialized in the breaststroke.
Henzig could have been an Olympian had she remained in women’s competition; instead, she celebrates living in line with how she feels.
Either way, whether it be men poaching championships from women, or women losing 19-0 against male competitors, those on the left call their performances “historic.”
Check out this headline from The Olive Press: “SPAIN’S FIRST ALL-TRANS FOOTBALL TEAM MAKE DEBUT IN MEN’S REGIONAL LEAGUE IN HISTORIC MOMENT”
The writer opines, “It’s the first all-trans squad to be awarded federated status in Europe and though they lost their first match 19-0 last month, the symbolism is more important than the result.”
Is it though?
The result is a drubbing unlike anything you’ve seen since Dad decided to stop going easy on his four-year-old.
And I don’t mean disrespect. These women very well may be skilled and talented soccer players competing in a talented league. My point is the result does matter, facts matter, reality matters.
The left can tout symbolism all they want; they can even push hormones and “changing your gender.” But that’s all it really is: symbolism. You cannot change your gender by supplanting your natural hormones. As Ben Shapiro’s famous phrase states, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
Because the fact is, men and women are more than their hormone levels. Low testosterone levels do not negate the physical advantages males have in athletics, and the more biological males identifying as female enter competitions against real women, the more they make the case for that reality.
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