And so is any biological female athlete who voted for the likes of Biden.
Posted on 04/18/2021 5:15:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
A few short months ago, Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota was a rising star in the Republican Party, due largely to her deft handling of the pandemic. Unlike so many elected officials, even on our side, she refused to sanction lockdown orders or mask mandates in her state.
Then she caved to the “transgender” lobby, declining to sign a bill that banned males from participating in women’s sports—legislation she had earlier promised to back. Overnight, she went from being a likely future Vice President of the United States, and possibly even President one day, to being a future former governor of South Dakota.
Memo to the other 26 Republican governors: Don’t be like Kristi Noem.
The reason for Noem’s reversal, she said, was a threat from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to withdraw tournament games and other sporting events from states that do not affirm “transgender rights.” The association has recently made good on that threat, issuing the following statement:
“The NCAA Board of Governors firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports. This commitment is grounded in our values of inclusion and fair competition….When determining where championships are held, NCAA policy directs that only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected.”
Anyone can see what’s going on here. It’s basically a form of extortion. The Left has never cared about sports, per se, except as an instrument of “social change.” Weenies that they are, Leftists aren’t really into the whole sweaty, physical competition thing. Nor do they believe in “the myth of meritocracy”—and no endeavor in life is more meritocratic than sports, where success depends entirely on ability, skill, and hard work.
Now the Left has co-opted the NCAA in its long, Gramscian march through the institutions. (Remember, the NCAA is run by college administrators, who are almost all leftists.) Essentially, they are threatening to deprive red-state conservatives of something we value—but they themselves do not—if we don’t publicly affirm their anti-scientific, unjust, insane insistence that males who claim to be females are no different from actual females. Their approach differs only in degree, not in type, from a terrorist plot to blow up an American city unless we fork over a billion dollars.
This cannot be allowed. First of all, when did we become governed by our leisure-time passions, allowing them to control us rather than controlling them? Speaking as a sports fan, not to mention a former small college basketball coach, we can’t allow our love of athletics to demagnetize our moral compass.
Some conservatives seem to think “transgenderism” is a minor issue, just another political battle. It is neither. It is THE issue of our time, the fight of our lives. The outcome of this battle will determine whether, moving forward, we intend to confront the world as it actually is or only as some wish it to be; whether we will embrace reality or be forced not merely to acknowledge but to knowingly participate in other people’s psychoses. If we go down that road, we are lost. Once we accept the notion that nothing is objectively true, not even the most basic biological fact, there is no going back to a world governed by reason and logic.
Plus, as I’ve written elsewhere, it’s just plain unfair to allow males to compete in women’s sports. The NCAA couches its hateful harangue in the flowery rhetoric of “fairness” and “inclusion,” but their policy promotes the opposite of both. Since teams are of necessity limited in size, there is literally no way to allow males to join female teams without taking away slots that would otherwise go to deserving females, ultimately reducing their numbers. That is both discriminatory and inequitable, not to mention a clear violation of Title IX. Rather than be party to that kind of injustice, it would be better not to have college sports at all.
But it needn’t come to that. The truth is, the NCAA needs red states (defined as those where Republicans hold the governorship and at least one of the legislative houses) far more than those states need the NCAA. Do you realize that every major college football champion in the last 25 years, save one, has come from a red or mostly-red state? Add to that 13 of the last 20 men’s basketball champions, 3 of the last 5 women’s basketball champions, and 7 of the last 10 baseball champions. Do you really think the NCAA wants to lose all those states, with the prestige and revenue they represent?
So here’s a suggestion for Republican governors and state legislatures: Tell the NCAA to pound sand. And if they insist on carrying out their terroristic threat, refuse to be bullied, unlike the hapless Ms. Noem. Announce your intention to withdraw the public institutions in your state from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
That doesn’t mean you have to stop playing college sports at a high level. Far from it. You should be having discussions right now with like-minded leaders in other states about creating your own athletic governing body, one that will genuinely promote inclusion and fairness by protecting women’s sports and the women who play them. I predict many private religious institutions will be happy to join, as well. In two or three years, the NCAA will be irrelevant, which is exactly what it ought to be.
So do the right thing, red-state governors, et al. Decline to kowtow to the “woke” left attempting to hold hostage your beloved sports teams—not to mention your state’s athletes, male and female. Stand up for truth, fairness, and equality under the law. Be an ally of the girls and young women in your state. And above all, for gosh sakes—don’t be Kristi Noem.
Wow! I liked this!
this is exactly my thoughts on the issue of banning men from playing women’s sports....
If all the redstates banned together the NCAA would back down....
For example, the SEC is a dominate force in college sports, especially football...
I think every state in the SEC is a redstate....removing the SEC from college sports would be catastrophic for the NCAA and the NCAA knows this.....
On a similar note In would hope that women and girls would start filing police reports...false ones if necessary...about guys doing disgusting things in ladies' rooms and women's locker rooms in order to stop them from entering.
The Attorney General of Massachusetts (yah,I know...but bear with me)...a filthy,ugly dyke whore herself...once,when asked what advice she had for women who didn't want "transgenders" in ladies' rooms, said "my advice is..."hold it""
Alabama just recently, I think, passed a bill banning transgenders from competing in the wrong category. Biological males will only compete with biological males, and biological females will only compete with biological females.
That includes Auburn University, Troy University, and there is one other in this state whose name precludes me now.
I don’t think they would. There’s TD Garden in Boston...Madison Square Garden in New York...plenty of areans in Chicago,LA,San Francisco,Seattle...
UAB?
That’s true but remove the SEC, Big 12, major parts of the ACC and Big 10, parts of the PAC 12 you don’t have major college sports.....under the NCAA....
For years there has been talk about the power 5 conferences of removing themselves from the NCAA and forming their own governing body...
the way the NCAA is trying to bully states and conferences over the transgender issue could very well end up causing the NCAA to cease to exist....
Combined that with college athletes likely being able to start making $, yeah, if the NCAA is not careful, it may not exist.
NCAA is just the NAACP without the pee.
Agreed. Drop the ncaa and start a new association.
Just another RINO.
The GOP belongs to the VOTERS, not the establishment. Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with conservative patriots. It is the ONLY way forward.
If the RINO-controlled state legislatures of GA, PA, AZ, MI, and WI had been dominated by conservatives, the cheat-by-mail-in ballots would never have been allowed to be foisted on the electorate and voter ID would have been enforced, and Trump would still be president.
Don't blame the Democrats for cheating. Democrats do what Democrats do. Blame the RINO state legislatures for allowing it. Make the RINOs pay in both state and the federal level, starting with Kemp, Raffensburger, Liz Cheney, Murkowski, Kinzinger, and every other anti-Trumper who got elected on Trump's coat-tails while happily stabbing him in the back.
Yes!
+1
Good article. Noem will go the way of Nikki Haley.
And the real underlying problem is that there is too much money in college sports. From what I understand, the love of money is the root of all evil.
SO if there is a new competing NCAA, it needs to go back to the basics; end the football season on Thanksgiving weekend, limit basketball to 25 games, no more redshirts, no football or basketball championship tournaments, no acceptance of betting pools and connections with Las Vegas, and no more deals with Nike. A place for amateurs to play for fun. Let the NFL and NBA start their own minor leagues.
But if you are talking about another clone of the current NCAA, what's the point?
And so is any biological female athlete who voted for the likes of Biden.
Men competing in women’s sports will continue to be an issue, until...
The women say, “That is enough. No more.”
Then all this nonsense will stop.
Common sense will prevail, but only if women demand it.
Yeh, Kristi Noem really screwed up on this. Back to the family farm for her.
I thought the whole point of this discussion was that some think that they can add or subtract the P at any time and still count as the other.
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