Scott Ostler joins the transmaidens at the San Francisco Chronicle with his dunderheaded opinion piece: “Why Trump’s panic over one trans athlete among 1,500 CIF track and field athletes is fake news.”
Transgender ideology harms children and vulnerable adults and is inherently misogynistic. One area of concern to sane people is female sports and spaces into which trans-identifying males are allowed access under the patent lie that “Transwomen are females.” A male merely has to say the magic words “I identify as female,” then such access is not just readily granted in many jurisdictions but enforced by law and ruthless transactivists.
Mr. Ostler pooh-poohs legitimate concerns and gaslights like hell about AB Hernandez (a boy) who is competing as a girl in the 2025 California State Track and Field Championships. AB is a top competitor in the girls’ division in the high jump, long jump, and triple jump. He is expected to win several medals later today.
Let me break it down for Mr. Ostler and his ilk:
- Transwomen (and transgirls) are male. If Mr. Ostler disputes this, we aren’t at a starting point for a meaningful discussion on how to ethically deal with the gender-confused.
- This is not AB’s fault. The blame rests with adults who are either virtue-signaling fools (e.g., Mr. Ostler) or cowards who’ve bent the knee to transactivists.
- AB is not being denied the opportunity to compete in school sports. He can and should compete in the boys’ division. If he’s uncomfortable doing that, society is not obligated to indulge him by making the girls’ division coed.
- It is unethical (and creepy) to allow males access to women’s showers, restrooms, and locker rooms. I don’t know if AB is using the girls’ facilities, but there are many instances elsewhere where males are allowed into these spaces under the phony-baloney guise of “inclusivity” and “compassion.”
- Female athletes are told to shut up about trans-identifying male competitors, due to fear of the trans-mob and their enablers. Those women who dare speak up against this madness are in for withering personal attacks and often subject to discipline, if not worse. Mr. Ostler’s colleagues at the Chronicle smeared those who spoke up against the trans-identifying male who competed as a member of San Jose State’s women’s volleyball team.
- Females should have the right to their own sports and spaces, whether it’s a safety issue or one of basic fairness. It doesn’t matter if medals are won by these males, but in most sports men have significant physical advantages over females. People disputing these advantages are either abject liars or delusional. These males are often taking awards from girls and women.
- It’s only one athlete? People are only taking notice because of President Trump? It’s fake news? Really, Mr. Ostler. Do some journalistic research and apply basic critical thinking skills—also apply basic morality. This insanity occurs far more than once, not just with one athlete, and not just in California.
- If it’s the numbers game that Mr. Ostler wants to play, here’s some questions for him: How many of these sports incidents must occur where girls are deprived of medals or advancement to the next level track meet before the rest of us should take notice and dare express our outrage? If President Trump had not brought this particular track meet to wider attention, should the girls deprived of medals have kept their mouths shut, or would you, Mr. Ostler deign allow them to publicly object?
- C’mon, Mr. Ostler, let’s not shy away from the broader issue, of which sports is an integral part: How many male prisoners, including sex offenders, must be placed in women’s prisons before we act, before it’s not just a President Trump issue? How many female arrestees must be strip-searched by trans-identifying male police officers before we act? How many children and vulnerable adults must be castrated, chemically sterilized, given harmful wrong-sex hormones, and otherwise harmed before we act?
Mr. Ostler’s attitude is misogynistic in the extreme. This track meet affords him smug sanctimony at no personal cost to himself. In his world, the girls competing against AB Hernandez are to keep quiet whether it be on a sports field or in a locker room. “Know your place, girlies,” he might as well say. The President is to keep quiet, also. Any adults who complain are to be disparaged as right-wingers and bigots, which is particularly ludicrous because those opposing transgender ideology encompass a broad spectrum of society, including all races and political persuasions. A little research would show him opposing transgender ideology is most certainly not a partisan issue.
Not only do we have the right to speak up against transgender ideology and its impact on sports, we have an obligation to do so as concerned citizens who value fairness and defending the rights of women and girls. Mr. Trump has this right and obligation, as well.
Here’s a link to Mr. Ostler’s moronic op-ed piece (may be behind a paywall):
Here’s a link to a website, hecheated.org, which keeps track of males in women’s sports:
You might ask, is there a comparable website keeping track of trans-identifying females (transmen) competing in male sports, including those taking medals and awards from men and boys? I think you know the answer…and why.
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