The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Jan. 13 in two cases that will shape the future of women’s sports nationwide.
As a detransitioner, I cannot sit on the sidelines and stay silent while the court considers decisions that reach far beyond athletics and into the core of women’s sex-based legal protections.
At issue in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox is whether states will be allowed to maintain sex-based protections for women and girls. At their core, the cases concern whether biological males can be permitted to compete in girls’ sports and gain access to women’s private spaces – despite the very real safety and fairness concerns at stake.
When I was first introduced to transgenderism, it felt like a reprieve from the constant battle in my head. I hated myself, and I hated the body that I was born into. When you truly dislike who you are, it’s easy to be coerced into believing that something so drastic like a sex-change is needed to heal the self-hatred.
So, I believed that I was a boy, and that my doctors could truly change my sex. I was injected, poked, and prodded with hormonal treatments and testosterone, and had my breasts removed, all under the guise of changing my sex.
Yet deep down, although my doctors pumped me full of male hormones and I no longer had breasts, I knew I remained female.
The same is true of boys and men who transition. No matter what a doctor does, they remain male physiologically. Our DNA and sex chromosomes never change sexes regardless of how much intervention one chooses to have. These sex chromosomes are the very basis of how males get testosterone, and how females develop organs like ovaries.
This means that, although there can be superficial and even hormonal changes to one’s body, we have to recognize the truth: boys can never truly become girls, and girls can never truly become boys.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito understands how critical this basic, biological reality is and during oral arguments posed this question: “How can a court determine whether there’s discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?”
Doctors and activists are blatantly lying to the American people when they say they can make you into the opposite sex, and girls and women are ultimately paying the price.
Because of this physiological difference, it is neither safe nor fair to promote males coming into a female sports team, prison system, bathroom, or locker room. Endorsing this behavior promotes delusion, breeds injustice, and ultimately jeopardizes the safety of women and girls.
Locker rooms are already an awkward space for any preteen, teenager, or even adult to be in – so why are we allowing boys to go into these spaces to further humiliate girls? Sports teams are already competitive, and plenty of females already get injured by playing each other – so why are we allowing males physiologically faster, taller, and stronger to create an unfair and even more dangerous environment for females?
Although we have been fighting for quite some time, I am encouraged by the measures that both the Trump administration and states across the country have taken to protect vulnerable children.
Spending my day surrounded by strong women and advocates who support common-sense protections only fueled my passion further. Detransitioners are standing with women to end the male upheaval of female-only spaces – because we know first hand that humans cannot change their sex, no matter how hard they try. And with truth on your side, we’ll always win.
