Riling Gains

Why did the swimming teacher jump into the water?

She wanted to test it.

That is a sort of refreshing old joke from back in the day when women had two X chromosomes, making them mysterious, and did not ask Y, making them docile. Then the Women’s Liberation Movement came along and made women strong and unafraid to challenge the men who run things. Shortly thereafter, Title IX came into law and every university which accepted government funds had to support an equal amount of male and female athletics.

There may have been some resentment at first, but the collegiate sporting environment turned quite collegial. The men actually learned to respect the women. True, men can score better times in track and swimming and time better scores in basketball, but that is merely a function of biology.

The main part of the human body tested in sporting events is the heart, and the female heart turned out to be just as big and powerful as its masculine counterpart. The Latin word for heart is cor, and our nation’s cor values were exercised equally in men’s and women’s sports.

This matter was settled in 1973 by “the King and the Court.” Margaret Court, a professional tennis player aged 30, agreed to play former male pro Bobby Riggs, who was 55, despite her being somewhat weakened by a recent childbirth. She lost to Riggs, but then Billie Jean King, 29, stepped in, accepting Riggs’ challenge and defeating him pretty handily.

The larger point may have gotten lost in some of this silliness, but it remained a strong and accurate one: Each gender deserved its own lane on the sports highway. The most important thing was to do the best you can within the constraints of nature. King was not a champion because she could defeat an old man but because she could do the same to a young woman.

But now, males are stealing female sports by calling themselves females. After all the work creating equal opportunity for females, a group of opportunistic males is stealing this away. Now men have both men’s and women’s tennis, both men’s and women’s swimming.

Arguably all this was started by Doctor Richard Raskind, who underwent surgery in 1976 and successfully sued to compete as a female tennis player named Renee Richards in the U.S. Open of 1977. He won in court but lost on the court, never winning a major title. Now nearly 90 years old, he still considers himself a pioneer of some kind. Most of us just consider him a thief, what military folks call a case of “stolen valor.”

Riley Gaines, a championship-level female swimmer, has courageously stood up against this new predatory male usurpation of female athletic titles and is so far being treated by “progressive” women as a pariah. Yet there is clearly nothing more regressive than surrendering back all the territory hard won by the women’s movement. Chicks did rule for a minute, but now their movement is laying an egg.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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