Most Americans recognize that it is unfair for boys to compete in girls' sports, and Title IX is necessary for the fairness and safety of women in athletics. It is one of the simplest issues of our time, but Tuesday's SCOTUS hearings on this subject were the most confusing 3.5 hours I've experienced.
I sat down excited to listen to the hearings in two high-profile cases involving boys in girls' sports: West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox. These cases represent an issue on which two-thirds of the American population agrees.
Boys cannot become girls and girls cannot become boys. This is a fact that all of modern society believed until about five minutes ago. Yet, the highest court in the land, the United States Supreme Court, still could not clearly state this.
After years of lies, manipulative language, and fear, I hoped to hear clarity and truth from the Supreme Court. However, what I heard was legal gymnastics and manipulation of language to justify that boys should still be allowed to compete with girls in sports.
In the West Virginia v. BPJ case, the main argument was that certain "transgender girls" should be allowed a special accommodation to compete on their chosen gender's sports team if they had taken puberty blockers and cross sex hormones before puberty. The ACLU lawyers described girls as "cis girls" and boys as "trans girls" who are "boys assigned at birth."
They claimed that their clients and other transgender people endure discrimination and exclusion when they cannot participate in the sports team of their choice. They asserted that there is overwhelming scientific evidence that hormones and surgeries level the playing field in athletics. These are lies, so many lies. These lies were piled on each other so high that it was hard to sift through them all.
The crux of the BPJ case rests on the idea that BPJ does not have a competitive advantage because he started puberty blockers before puberty. This calls into question how we define competitive advantage and ignores the extreme harm puberty blockers cause. The science on puberty blockers is far from settled, and how could the advantage ever be appropriately measured? Additionally, it attempts to say that only in cases where the male would necessarily win should the male be excluded, ignoring the fact that girls lose opportunities to compete at all when a male takes their place.
In Hecox, the ACLU lawyer even went as far as to say that we should take out the definition of sex completely from Title IX, and change it to "sex-based characteristics." This was very concerning, and I was pleased to hear Justice Alito push back on this notion, but I wanted to hear more.
I was sitting at the edge of my seat, waiting for a lawyer or justice to state clearly that "trans girls" are boys, that there is no such thing as "cis," and no one is "assigned sex at birth." I wanted them to stop referring to the boys and men as "she." I wanted to hear someone explain that people who identify as trans are not excluded from sports because they can choose to play on the team of their natal sex. I wanted a clear definition of "women" and "girls" to clarify the arguments. I also wanted to hear how barbaric puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries are.
None of this happened. The defense lawyers made some related statements, some justices asked clarifying questions, but the lies and conflation of truth took up most of the airtime and made little sense. Even worse, many of the justices, including conservative justices, were using this bastardized language too.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as written, was designed to provide women with equal opportunities in athletic and educational pursuits. The work of the trans mafia has been to tear down the accepted definition of woman and create confusion. The turmoil of yesterday's SCOTUS hearings demonstrated that it is still successful at keeping us hostage to their lies.
If there is still room for the idea that people can self-identify as anything, that "circulating testosterone" is what measures sex differences and the definition of a woman is boiled down to feelings and extreme body modifications; chaos will ensue. If we continue on this path, society as we know it is doomed. I hope the Supreme Court makes the easiest decision of their careers and rules that boys do not belong in girls' sports.
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger is a licensed therapist and the author of "A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families" and a pro-reality children's book, "Froggy Girl."
