(LifeSiteNews) – Biological males have taken almost 2,000 medals from actual female Americans in female athletic programs since the 1980s, according to a report from Concerned Women for America (CWA).
The fact sheet is based on a review of data compiled by He Cheated, a website dedicated to compiling examples of “male athletes (who) are dominating female sports, setting records, stealing podium spots, medals, award money, positions on national teams, and causing women and girls to be excluded from our own sporting category.”
It finds that more than 1,941 gold medals in female events that would have gone to female athletes have instead been claimed by men identifying as “trans women,” and along with them more than $493,173 in prize money across more than 10,067 amateur and professional events.
The states in which the problem is most prevalent are California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.
“For too long, trans-identifying males have displaced, disrupted, and injured women and girls in female sports categories,” CWA president Penny Nance told The Christian Post. “Our research reveals the shocking truth of the matter — over 1,900 women have come in second place to men who claim to be women. This is outrageously unjust. Women and girls must have sex-protected athletics under Title IX.”
While Nance celebrated the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s recent decision to exclude men from female events, she said other national athletic governing bodies still need to follow suit and urged Congress to pass a federal law, the Protection of Women in Olympic & Amateur Sports Act, forcing them to if they want to keep receiving federal Title IX funds.
Mandatory inclusion of gender-confused individuals in opposite-sex sports is promoted as a matter of “inclusivity,” but critics note that indulging “transgender” athletes undermines the original rational basis for having sex-specific athletics in the first place, thereby depriving female athletes of recognition and professional or academic opportunities.
There have been numerous high-profile examples in recent years of men winning women’s competitions, and research affirms that physiology gives males distinct athletic advantages that cannot be fully negated by hormone suppression.
In a 2019 paper published by the Journal of Medical Ethics, New Zealand researchers found that “healthy young men (do) not lose significant muscle mass (or power) when their circulating testosterone levels were reduced to (below International Olympic Committee guidelines) for 20 weeks,” and “indirect effects of testosterone” on factors such as bone structure, lung volume, and heart size “will not be altered by hormone therapy;” therefore, “the advantage to transwomen (biological men) afforded by the (International Olympic Committee) guidelines is an intolerable unfairness.”
Critics also argue that forcing girls to share intimate facilities such as bathrooms, showers, or changing areas with members of the opposite sex violates their privacy rights, subjects them to needless emotional stress, and gives potential male predators a viable pretext to enter female bathrooms or lockers by simply claiming transgender status.
Even the left-wing United Nations has acknowledged as much via an October 2024 report by Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem, which found that more than 600 female athletes around the world have lost more than 890 medals to men in 29 sports as of March 2024. “To avoid the loss of a fair opportunity, males must not compete in the female categories of sport,” the report concluded.
