Rob's Soapbox - Trans-America and the Hypocrisy Over Women's Sports

<p>I’m so confused.</p><p>It was just a decade ago that we were being told that society needed to evolve and understand that women can compete with men physically in sports. It was time to drop female leagues and just have leagues in which boys and girls, men and women, would all play together and against one another. From golf to football this has been the cry for years.</p><p>Michelle Wie and Annika Sorenstam both played in PGA men’s tournaments (and did terribly) and we were told that they could absolutely go toe-to-toe against men driving the ball more than a hundred yards further than them. We needed to grow up as a society.</p><p>As of 2018, there were over 2400 girls in America playing tackle football with and against boys, and of the more than 4 million kids aged 6 to 12 playing baseball this year 100,000 of them are girls. And this, we’re told is how it should be. How dare we exclude girls from “male,” sports and thereby insinuate or, worse, say out loud that females are built differently than males and simply don’t have the same biological makeup and structure and therefore simply cannot compete physically against them. <a href="https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/analytics/stats-articles/more-girls-are-playing-tackle-football/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/analytics/stats-articles/more-girls-are-playing-tackle-football/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ajc.com/sports/girls-play-baseball-boys-world/mtB1sMA8ruRQXS5dEviq0I/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ajc.com/sports/girls-play-baseball-boys-world/mtB1sMA8ruRQXS5dEviq0I/</a></p><p>Just last year, Haley Van Voorhis became the first woman to play college football at a position other than kicker when she played Defensive Back At Shenandoah University <a href="https://www.su.edu/blog/2021/09/29/shes-got-game-haley-van-voorhis-making-history-as-defensive-back-at-shenandoah-university/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.su.edu/blog/2021/09/29/shes-got-game-haley-