I’m not watching Olympics, for sure, in this very busy season of living. In fact, I’m not watching any television at all. But just let me say I’m thankful that, when I played basketball in middle school on that little sixth grade team, I was not guarded by the boys in middle school, one of which was six-and-a-half feet tall in the sixth grade. I know that I am simple-minded in this analogy, but the very idea that the International Olympics Committee has bowed, in 2020 and, again, in 2024, to the absurdity that it’s okay to allow a biological man to participate in the athletic arena with women, is insanity on several levels. I am aware that there are chromosomal health issues that affect gender in the case that’s in the news currently. (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/boxing/who-is-imane-khelif-algerian-boxer-facing-gender-outcry-had-modest-success-before-olympics/ar-BB1r5Nkl?ocid=BingNewsSerp) But Khelif’s case is not the only one. This article is not about Khelif and Carina. While Khelif has reportedly never professed transgenderism (It is illegal in Khelif’s country and the birth certificate, in Khelif’s case, assigned the gender as female.) there are, of course, many cases of open transgenderism in Olympic history and in sporting competitions at various levels all over the USA and internationally, today. In those cases, the admission of men into athletic competitions with women is simply immoral.
Of course, anyone can go and read the official mission statement of the International Olympic Committee. Number ONE on the official mission statement of the International Olympic Committee states:
The IOC’s role is:
- to encourage and support the promotion of ethics and good governance in sport as well as education of youth through sport and to dedicate its efforts to ensuring that, in sport, the spirit of fair play prevails and violence is banned;
When men are allowed to enter women’s sports arenas, that admission does not promote ethics. It discourages good governance in sport. It educates negatively. It violates the spirit of fair play. It encourages violence. In fact, what happens egregiously negates, in front of the world, every single tenet of the number one purpose of the Olympic committee. We will not successfully overcome the huge problem our schools and society face with bullying when this egregious brand of insanity is celebrated. Bullying has been endorsed and honored in such competitions, on the Olympic level and in events in our communities. In short, evil is celebrated as good.
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight! (Is. 5:20,21)
We will eventually lose our ability to litigate battery and assault against women when biology is a non-issue in courtroom cases; when whatever one proclaims and/or synthetically promotes, trumps truth. We are rapidly headed there. Criminal minds can work that system to criminal advantage.
In an arena where “pride” is the word assigned to what is actually often bullying, and can include violence, the ability of women to participate in sports will quickly be eradicated.
It’s the Emperor and his new clothes again. How long will we celebrate what we actually know is not there? How long will we applaud when a woman can take, whether it be in swimming, cycling or any strength-trained sport, a proverbial beating from a man on an international stage or on a community ball field, and then we give the bully the medal because he gains the edge with God-given male strength?
My grandchildren are singing truth in their Genesis memorization this summer:
God made man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. Male and female, female and male—He created them.”
One day, every person celebrating the victories in sporting events and everyone on the committees of such will be on their knees before the Almighty (Romans 14:11), who knows what is biologically behind the blows in every arena. He formed the secret parts:
I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Wonderful are thy works;
And that my soul knoweth right well.
My frame was not hidden from thee,
When I was made in secret (Psalm 139:14,15)
And just one more thing. How in the round world can it be that the same people are loudly advocating for women’s rights while effectively eradicating the ability of biological women to participate in sports? It is inconsistent insanity.