Update (October 28, 2023): the North American Grappling Association (NAGA) has announced that trans identifying males are banned from from competing against women. This came as multiple female competitors boycotted a competition in protest to men competing. NAGA has announced that transgender competitors must now compete in the men’s category, and only women can compete in the female category. Referring to women as “cisgender” (cisgender is a propaganda term used by queer activists to normalize the construct “transgender”) and fallacious referring to men as females, NAGA announced: “We will have divisions for only cisgender females. Transgender females will not be entered into these divisions.”
The feminist magazine Reduxx published an article today, “Women Abandon Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tournament After Being Forced To Fight Males Men,” in which it was reported that female martial artists have come forward to reveal that male athletes have taken over the women’s categories of a major grappling association, the North American Grappling Association (NAGA), leaving the women fearing for their safety. According to the article, “One of the men, Corissa Griffith, took home four gold medals in the women’s category during a tournament in Georgia on October 21.”
I have written about the unfair practice of allow boys and men to compere against girls and women in sports (see The Rapidly Approaching Death of Sex-based Rights; No, The International Powerlifting Federation Did Not Strike a Blow for Women’s Rights; Why Are There Sex-Segregated Spaces Anyway? and The Casual Use of Propagandistic Language Surrounding Sex and Gender). What’s so bizarre about including men in women’s sports is that sex-segregated sports is, among other things, about gender equity. The goal is to give girls and women a chance to compete in organized sports in such a way as to give them a reasonable chance of succeeding. Do woke types even understand what equity actually means and entails?
Equity is a form of equality the considers fairness and justice. It’s distinguished from strict equality where everybody is treated the same without regard to significant group differences. Equity means recognizing that there are significant group differences, that these must be acknowledged, and that institutions must make adjustments in light of those differences. There is no normal and natural group difference more profound in our species than that between male and female bodies. The human, as with all mammalian species, is sexually dimorphic. In our species, as it is with the other great apes, sexual dimorphism is especially pronounced.
Compared to females, on average, males have a larger build than females; males typically have broader shoulders, narrower hips, and a more muscular physique, inducing more muscle mass and different mixes of muscle types. Females typically have a higher percentage of body fat compared to males, which can make it more difficult to perform physical activities that require endurance. Females generally have wider hips and a narrower ribcage compared to males, and a different center of gravity, which affects balance and stability. Men are on average taller than women, which gives them advantage in sports where height is an asset. These differences give males advantages in activities that require physical strength, e.g., combat sports.
Because of these facts—facts that cannot be altered—boys and men possess substantial physical advantages over girls and women such that, if boys and men are allowed into women’s sports, males will dominate, taking opportunities from women and endangering their physical safety. This means that queer advocates who push the inclusion of males in women’s sports cannot also lay claim to a commitment to equity. Indeed, they’re demanding that men who pretend to be women be granted an extraordinary privilege—to physically dominate and humiliate girls and women in public. To justify the injustice they seek, queer advocates have regressed to advocating for strict equality, something they condemn in every other walk of life.
Queer politics are a total mess intellectually—and a distinct danger in practice. The attitude is authoritarian and the arguments are irrational. At its core, it’s a misogynistic movement. The hatred the movement harbors at its heart finds its expression in the abusive behavior of trans rights activists (see Self-Castration and TERF-Punching: Trans Rights are What Sort of Rights? Antifa is Trans Activism; From Delusion to Illusion: Transitioning Disordered Personalities into Valid Identities; Simulated Sexual Identities: Trans as Bad Copy; Embedding Misogyny and the Progressive Mind). The movement strives to deny men and women their sexuality, loathing lesbians in particular, and it demands the state and society emplace trammels on the sex-based rights of women.
freedom and reason 