Monday, March 1, 2021

Biden's War on Women's Sports

Recall the East German Women's Olympic Swim Team scandal.

From Swimming World:
While East Germany’s wrecking ball of a women’s team dominated for more than a decade through the 1970s and into the ’80s, the most devastating single event during which the East Germans defrauded the athletic process proved to be the 1976 Montreal Games. Not only were their cries from critics about the East German’s masculinity, but these cries were also turned into attacks on the victims, calling them sore losers.

...The 1976 USA Women’s Olympic Team was right to cry foul. The USA team set nine American records at those Olympic Games only to see every record eclipsed by an East German swimmer riding high in the water from a systematic state-orchestrated drug program that claimed titles in 10 out of 11 individual races.

The reason this was a scandal is because the competition was tainted. The East Germans cheated. They had an unfair advantage. Women weren't competing against women.

Similarly, someone born male has an advantage over an athlete born female. It isn't a fair competition.

This must be acknowledged. Transgender individuals have rights but so do biological women.

Read: East Germany’s forgotten Olympic doping victims tell of illness, infertility and changing sex

Many of the East German athletes were duped into doping. They were victims as well. They didn't consent. That's dramatically different than an individual choosing to alter one's sexual characteristics.

However, the scandal highlights the importance of fairness in athletic competition. Biological women should not be competing against biological men.

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