Trans athletes

There's a bit of a brouhaha brewing in Toronto  over the appearance of an allegedly trans-phobic writer, Meghan Murphy, making a speech at a city-owned public library. Even Toronto's blue-blood mayor John Tory has come out against letting a city-run facility facilitate "hate speech."

The nub of the hate speech allegations is Murphy's opinion that just because a man claims to be a woman, that doesn't make him one.

I'm inclined to concur.

Just take a look at what's happening in the world of women's sport.

Before we do, let's take a moment to consider there is generally no concern evinced anywhere about trans men participating in men's sport. There's a reason for that. Whether you blame God or Mother Nature or Darwin makes no difference; fact of the matter is that men are generally bigger and stronger than women.

That's why a mediocre male athlete can become an elite trans woman athlete, whereas an elite female athlete will never become more than a mediocre trans man athlete. That's also why, when the Canadian women's Olympic hockey team plays exhibition games, they like to play Jr. B boys teams. That's their level of competition.

When the people in charge declare that trans women are entitled to a level playing field in women's sport, they are ensuring that trans women will in short order dominate women's sport.


Doesn't look like a great leap forward for feminism from where I'm watching.