Rantz: Here’s the fatal flaw to Democrats’ baseless argument on trans athletes
Apr 9, 2025, 4:59 AM

Lee University student athlete Macy Petty speaks during an event celebrating the House of Representatives passing The Protection Of Women And Girls In Sports Act outside the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
(Photo: Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
Washington鈥檚 top education official, Chris Reykdal, and state Attorney General Nick Brown are clutching their progressive pearls over an attempt to ban transgender female athletes鈥攂iological males鈥攆rom competing against biological females. They call it discriminatory. Reykdal even went so far as to say it’s 鈥渋naccurate鈥 to claim there are only two genders. That鈥檚 not just fringe鈥攊t鈥檚 detached from reality. But there鈥檚 a glaring, fatal flaw in the Radical Left’s logic when it comes to transgender athletes in sports.
School districts across the state forwarded two amendments to the Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association (WIAA). The WIAA oversees youth sports competitions. One would separate athletic competitions by gender, and the other would create a third league for any gender. It was the exact reasonable compromise that could allow transgender players to compete against others in a way that’s fair because the young girls would be able to volunteer to go up against a biological boy. But Brown and Reykdal insist it’s discrimination, so the WIAA will not abide by the results if schools agree with the amendments.
If biology doesn鈥檛 matter in athletic competition, why have separate leagues for boys and girls at all? Why not just throw everyone into one pool and see who comes out on top? According to left-wing ideology, gender is just a state of mind鈥攕o boys who identify as boys should be able to compete against girls, no questions asked. To bar them would be gender-based discrimination, right? Isn’t that what progressives rail against?
What would the Left’s argument be against boys competing against girls?
The vast majority of Americans鈥攖hose who passed high school biology鈥攗nderstand that male athletes have a physiological advantage over female athletes. Democrats pretend this doesn’t exist. Instead, they demand we judge athletes based on identity, not anatomy.
But here’s the catch: if gender is just a social construct, assigned at birth and therefore meaningless unless someone later decides to reject it, then even a cisgender boy鈥攐ne who identifies with his birth sex鈥攊s simply making an identity choice like anyone else. And under the left’s own doctrine, that identity deserves equal protection.
So now we’re left asking: why can鈥檛 a boy, who proudly identifies as a boy, compete against girls if he says he feels like that鈥檚 fair? The left’s ideology collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. It can鈥檛 be about safety or fairness鈥攖hose arguments require acknowledging biological reality, which they’ve already thrown out the window.
Pick a lane, gender extremists
Either gender is real and based in biology鈥攚hich justifies sex-separated sports鈥攐r it鈥檚 fluid and irrelevant. But if it鈥檚 irrelevant, then the very existence of girls鈥 and boys鈥 leagues is discriminatory under their logic.
The Radical Left wants it both ways: biology when it suits them, fantasy when it doesn鈥檛. But you can鈥檛 have a coherent policy based on incoherence.
Either we acknowledge the biological differences that justify separate sports divisions, or we admit this entire charade is less about inclusion and more about erasing women鈥檚 sports entirely in the name of virtue-signaling ideology.
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