Biological Male Wins Women’s Athlete of the Week Award – Daily Signal

For some college students, its a parody that hits way to close to home. When The Babylon Bee ran asatirical news storyabout a motorcyclist identifying as a bicyclist to set a new record, a group of runners at the Big Sky Conference understood all too well. In their conference, boys dont just compete as girlsthey get honored for it!

Two years ago, Jonathan Eastwood dominated the mens competition. In 2019, hes dominating something else: the womens field. Eastwood, who now goes by June, finished second in a field of 204 runners at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational and helped the University of Montana finish seventh as a team.

For that, school officials decided, hes been named the Womens Cross-Country Athlete of the Week, edging out eight otheractualfemales for the title.

Not surprisingly, Bill Zwerger noticed, the 6-foot, 5-inch male fared quite wellagainst his weaker and slower female competitors this season, finishing first at the University of Montanas Invitational and second (by one second!) at the most recent Bronco Invitational. But thats only to be expected, seeing that he was a top runner for the U of M Grizzlies men X-C and track and field teams as recently as 2017.

I have the sneaking suspicion that his latest second-place finish was due to him letting off the gas toward the end of the race, seeking to minimize the negative publicity his winning yet again would have garnered, along with the outrage his female opponents must feel in having a male win every race against them.

When The College Fix contacted the university, it asked why the school didnt disclose the fact that Eastwood identifies as a transgender. Spokesman Joel Carlson insisted there was no subtext.

Good luck convincing the rest of the sport, which is struggling to survive this fatal infusion of political correctness.

Even now, the NCAA has no answers for girls track, admitting, The NCAA does not have a maximum testosterone level for its current policy. The current policy is being reviewed by our membership.

In the meantime, womens high school and college programs are desperately trying to cope as girls lose more races, team eligibility, and scholarships to biological men.

Girlslike Selina Soulehave been adamant that they just want a fair shot. But thats virtually impossible now, she says, on an unlevel playing field. In her complaint to the Department of Education, she argues that womens sports cant compete in an age when biological men can line up and take her trophies.

In Connecticut, where Selina competes, the reality is particularly harsh. The competition board allows boys to race against girls, even without undergoing any sort of hormone therapy.

Olympians like Sharron Davies are furious that the standards are so low now that men can compete against women no surgery required no hormones no medical diagnosis just self-ID and reduced testosterone to a level [still] x5 the highest average (98%) of [real] females.

Its madness, she argues. The whole reason we have mens and womens sports, she points out, is because we are biologically different. Performance 100% confirms that. The reason steroids (including testosterone) are on the banned list is because using them give[s] you an advantage.

And yet, the extinction of womens sportsand the uniqueness of women in generalis exactly what the Democratic Party is championing.

Under the radical Equality Act passed by the House, every school would beforcedto accept men like Eastwood into girls athletics. Its a policy so near and dear to the 2020 candidates that Joe Biden promised that if he was elected, [the Equality Act] will be the first thing I ask to be done.

If there is a silver lining to this politically correct lunacy, its that more people are starting to see the quandary thats created by policies and decisions that arent based in anatomical realities but emotional whims.

If biological sex doesnt matter in sports, where does it matter? Good question. One that most liberals cant seem to answer.

Members from both sides of the aisleespecially those who claim to be pro-woman and pro-childrenneed to stop this devastating legislation. The future of womens rights, privacy, protection, and athletic potential depends on it.

Originally published in Tony PerkinsWashington Update, which is written with the aid of Family Research Council senior writers.

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