Articles
When Women Compete with Men
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Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. (1 Pet. 3:7)
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From the news over the last several weeks and years:
- Kataluna Enriquez, a transgender woman, won the latest Miss Nevada competition. She/he will compete for the Miss USA crown in November.
- Laurel Hubbard, a transgender woman, beat out several competitors to win a spot on the New Zealand weightlifting Olympic team. Other transgender women are hoping to compete in the Olympics as well.
- Since 2017, when the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference mandated that transgender girls can compete in state track meets, the boy/girls have won fifteen state track championship titles and robbed their biological female counterparts of as many as eight-five opportunities to advance to higher levels of competition. A number of biological girls have been deprived of scholarship opportunities as a result.
- In 2014, Fallon Fox, a transgender woman, won a MMA bout, sending her opponent to the hospital with a concussion and broken eye socket.
Are we detecting a pattern here? The facts are in, and there can be no dispute: Men make better women than women.
That sounds harsh, but it is a fair assessment of what is happening in our degraded culture. The push to erase all boundaries between men and women is having the unintended effect of endangering women, whose inherent physical properties put them at a distinct disadvantage when forced to compete with biological males. As Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling put it, "If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased."
Historically, the innate biological differences between males and females has been managed by assigning different roles between the sexes. Women, who are uniquely gifted with the ability to bear and nurture children, have taken on the role of homemakers. Men, with their superior strength and stamina, have taken on the role of providers and protectors. The details may vary from culture to culture, but the basic model is universal because the distinctions are built in by nature.
Men are men, and women are women, and when we start to monkey with that formula, it is the women--whom the Bible calls "the weaker vessel"--who end up the losers. A steady stream of Wonder Woman movies may convince a generation of girls that women can compete with and even beat men, but the idea, like the movies, is pure fantasy.
Nature and nature's God will not be mocked. Someday our society will learn that lesson. But how many women will be harmed in the process?
--David
