The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced an about-face on its 2022 “participation policy” for transgender-identifying athletes this week: No longer are men allowed to self-identify their way into women’s sports. “The new policy limits competition in women’s sports to student-athletes assigned female at birth only,” the NCAA said in a press release , forced to acknowledge the genetic differences between men and women while bitterly clinging to the anti-science trans-speak “assigned at birth,” as if chromosomal makeup is arbitrary. Regardless of the continued language manipulation, however, the policy change stands...
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