Sarah, you do not sound like a broken record. This is an original observation and challenge. I think we should take you up on it and use this terminology of mixed sex sports instead of girls’ sports when talking about those states and other circumstances such as locker rooms, which you also note.
Excellent call out Sarah---yes these are now "mixed sex" teams, and as Stosh mentions below---mix sexed bathrooms! Girl's and women's spaces erased---SO WRONG
Unbelievable how this whole this is about words. If you expect to support the truth, you must use truthful language. Boys are not girls. If boys are allowed to join a girls' team, it becomes a mixed sex team. Lying about this has got us where we are
Well, feminist organizations spent decades eliminating male-only spaces and celebrating it while prisons filled, suicides pilled up and drugs ravaged generation after generation. Now the feminists have come home to roost. It is your turn. If you do not like it, then stand up and say that single-sex spaces matter, and both sexes should have them. The tiny minority of unfortunates inbetween should be given private spaces too out of decency, but if we are to restore spaces for women, we need to restore them for men as well, with the foolishness of such actions publicly recognized.
Garry, the word "feminist" can mean different things to different people. I don't call myself a feminist --- whether I am or not would depend on the definition! I believe in the reality of sex--as do you. This means there are separate categories in sports for boys and girls/men and women. I believe that boys and men need privacy just as much as girls/women do.
Title IX was passed over the hysterics of those who fought to prevent any $ from going to sports for girls and women, and they lay in wait all this time and found a way to bulldoze Title IX. Just redefine the language. I remember the rage, and the argument that if a female can't compete on a team with males, then she should stay off the court/field/pool, etc. In their pea brains, it was all a zero-sum game.
That's funny. I was in Greece, at Olympus this past summer and saw the figures you posted. It's been pretty clear for many centuries that men are not women. And by that same theorem, if men are allowed in women's sports, they become mixed sex sports
Sarah, you entitled your article "23 states abolished girls’ sports years ago. Why are they still calling it girls’ sports?" The answer to your question is because they have redefined sex. The radical transgender strategy has always been to redefine sex because then you can change society without having to change its laws. (The latter is hard because it requires majorities in the legislature). This was always politics by stealth aiming to change the facts on the ground by reinterpreting the laws that contain the word sex in light of an allegedly new, improved, and more scientific understanding of sex. (This is exactly what the Biden administration tried to do with title IX, reinterpreting it by administrative rule-making. But it was challenged in court, got taken up by the Supreme Court and then was thrown out by SCOTUS as illegal. And the Biden admin was just continuing what was started by the Obama admin.)
Relevant here:
Leor Sapir: Where Did Gender Identity Come From? Aug 7, 2026 [open access]
A new book offers a concise and compelling history.
Review of Gender Identity: The Career of a Category, by Rogers Brubaker (Polity, June 2026, 224 pp.)
Excerpt of the review:
But how did this understanding of gender identity come to be institutionalized across American society? Brubaker believes, as do I, that the answer lies in what University of California–San Diego sociologist John Skrentny has called the “minority rights revolution.” Unlike the black civil rights and women’s rights movements, transgender movement advocates did not have to build popular support for their cause and create external sources of pressure on government to enact their favored policies. Instead, through complicated court-agency maneuverings, sophisticated policy entrepreneurs inside government and in interest groups worked collaboratively to reinterpret existing statutes and administrative guidelines, file strategic lawsuits, and subtly infuse old words with new meanings.
An open-access article by the author of the reviewed book:
Rogers Brubaker: Gender Identity: The Career of a Category. Theory and Social Inquiry, 1(1), 2025: 1-50
Interesting. Yes, I know they've redefined sex. I was being obtuse in my headline because I want to spotlight the lie. I want state high school athletic organizations to own their crime. By using the real meaning of words--girls were always included in girls' sports, so necessarily, boys are being included--athletic associations must either admit that they've eliminated girls' sports (which they have) or they've redefined sex to include anyone's subjective belief about themselves. Either one is shameful, heinous, and stupid, and they know it
That will never happen. The pro-trans lobby has an insane amount of money. The power behind them is larger than anything the traditional civil rights community could muster. Furthermore, they are run by old school thugs who are comfortable beating, raping and humiliating any who stand before them. They are politically correct Nazis. I think the best way to understand their progress is to recognize that they, and all who support them, are in essence fascists, and they not only enjoy being bullies; they value and honor that behavior. The coalescence of Trans and anti-Jewish hate is another example of how purely that lobby emulates National Socialism.
Never forget that if you decide to fight them. They will NEVER flight fair, and they have no shame, no honor.
Another excellent observation by Sarah because language counts and this tells the truth about the travesty of males in females' sports. I often comment in the NY Times when there is an opportunity about this and I am shocked (and shouldn't be) that so many supposedly educated NYT's readers use the ridiculous excuse that because there are so "few" males trying to compete against females that it is cruel to have rules banning males from female sports and spaces at all. This whining submission to a ridiculous attack against females, yet another backlash being perpetrated to keep females in their place is rampant on the political left and should not be a political issue in the first place. Denial of science is dangerous in many ways, including over this issue.
Let's try this one on: In early civilizations there existed matriarchies, societies that respected and elevated women to positions of power, leadership and respect. In the Levant and the Mediterranean cultures along came patriarchical zealots who wrote the bible and claimed that Eve was made from Adam's rib and that this less-than-fully-human female was the cause of humanity being thrown out of Paradise because Eve was so stupid as to believe the snake and dare to seek knowledge. In ancient cultures the snake represented wisdom and Eve's seeking knowledge became the downfall of humanity and females had to be repressed forever after. Now we have the real scientific evidence that there are only two sexes/genders, XX for female and XY for male with any individual with a Y chromosome being male. Think about a new metaphor for the Adam's Rib myth and suggest that the Y chromosome was really EVE'S rib that created the male sex and and that men were so jealous and threatened by the power of females to perpetuate the human race through our singular ability to give birth that this narrative out of the ancient desert took hold, has never gone away and continues to harm females. So here we are, over and over and over again in nearly all cultures and religions denying girls and women the truth of our very existence and rights.
The "its a tiny minority" argument can always be turned around. If its such a tiny minority why change a sports category for so many? Why can't the tiny minority just learn to deal and not be coddled?
Exactly! Especially since "including" even one boy doesn't just change the female category, it instantly eliminates it! Also, if the "so few" gambit was valid, why haven't age and weight categories been made inclusive? Maybe only one 35-year-old in the whole state, in the entire country, demands to play in the U14 category--why not accommodate him?
That's what I've been saying for years. We should just have "sports" and "restrooms." The minute a man can identify as a woman to access women's spaces, there's no point in having them.
Ignoring or redefining sex only ever benefits men and harms women. Because of the imbalance of social power, physical strength and criminality, women depend on the reality of sex for fairness, safety, dignity, privacy. We do effectively have "sports" and "restrooms" in 23 states. Women and girls are inordinately harmed. The answer is to recognize the reality of sex
I get that, but something needs to give in order to drive that home with the lunatics who are too ideological to see how harmful, unsafe and deeply unfair to women. If we're going to let men in women's spaces and competitions, I'd rather it not just be the ones who are willing to violate our boundaries to satisfy whatever it is that makes them feel entitled to do so.
I agree. I want the crime against women to be obvious. That's the whole ball of wax--trans activists, lawmakers, cowardly administrators have been able to cover their crime by calling it "girls' sports" and "girls' restroom" Those people would never in a million years just be honest and call it "sports" or "restrooms" because they know it's wrong and harms women and girls.
It is the same situation with the "ladies room" and "women's spas" which are now mixed.
Sarah, you do not sound like a broken record. This is an original observation and challenge. I think we should take you up on it and use this terminology of mixed sex sports instead of girls’ sports when talking about those states and other circumstances such as locker rooms, which you also note.
Excellent call out Sarah---yes these are now "mixed sex" teams, and as Stosh mentions below---mix sexed bathrooms! Girl's and women's spaces erased---SO WRONG
Unbelievable how this whole this is about words. If you expect to support the truth, you must use truthful language. Boys are not girls. If boys are allowed to join a girls' team, it becomes a mixed sex team. Lying about this has got us where we are
yes there has been a lot of lying. Men cannot become women. Boys cannot become girls. Sane people know this.
Well, feminist organizations spent decades eliminating male-only spaces and celebrating it while prisons filled, suicides pilled up and drugs ravaged generation after generation. Now the feminists have come home to roost. It is your turn. If you do not like it, then stand up and say that single-sex spaces matter, and both sexes should have them. The tiny minority of unfortunates inbetween should be given private spaces too out of decency, but if we are to restore spaces for women, we need to restore them for men as well, with the foolishness of such actions publicly recognized.
Garry, the word "feminist" can mean different things to different people. I don't call myself a feminist --- whether I am or not would depend on the definition! I believe in the reality of sex--as do you. This means there are separate categories in sports for boys and girls/men and women. I believe that boys and men need privacy just as much as girls/women do.
Title IX was passed over the hysterics of those who fought to prevent any $ from going to sports for girls and women, and they lay in wait all this time and found a way to bulldoze Title IX. Just redefine the language. I remember the rage, and the argument that if a female can't compete on a team with males, then she should stay off the court/field/pool, etc. In their pea brains, it was all a zero-sum game.
Ran across this today.
I did not know that female figurines are many times more common than male ones.
https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=17040237&et_cid=6062368
That's funny. I was in Greece, at Olympus this past summer and saw the figures you posted. It's been pretty clear for many centuries that men are not women. And by that same theorem, if men are allowed in women's sports, they become mixed sex sports
Sarah, you entitled your article "23 states abolished girls’ sports years ago. Why are they still calling it girls’ sports?" The answer to your question is because they have redefined sex. The radical transgender strategy has always been to redefine sex because then you can change society without having to change its laws. (The latter is hard because it requires majorities in the legislature). This was always politics by stealth aiming to change the facts on the ground by reinterpreting the laws that contain the word sex in light of an allegedly new, improved, and more scientific understanding of sex. (This is exactly what the Biden administration tried to do with title IX, reinterpreting it by administrative rule-making. But it was challenged in court, got taken up by the Supreme Court and then was thrown out by SCOTUS as illegal. And the Biden admin was just continuing what was started by the Obama admin.)
Relevant here:
Leor Sapir: Where Did Gender Identity Come From? Aug 7, 2026 [open access]
A new book offers a concise and compelling history.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/gender-identity-the-career-of-a-category-rogers-brubaker
Review of Gender Identity: The Career of a Category, by Rogers Brubaker (Polity, June 2026, 224 pp.)
Excerpt of the review:
But how did this understanding of gender identity come to be institutionalized across American society? Brubaker believes, as do I, that the answer lies in what University of California–San Diego sociologist John Skrentny has called the “minority rights revolution.” Unlike the black civil rights and women’s rights movements, transgender movement advocates did not have to build popular support for their cause and create external sources of pressure on government to enact their favored policies. Instead, through complicated court-agency maneuverings, sophisticated policy entrepreneurs inside government and in interest groups worked collaboratively to reinterpret existing statutes and administrative guidelines, file strategic lawsuits, and subtly infuse old words with new meanings.
An open-access article by the author of the reviewed book:
Rogers Brubaker: Gender Identity: The Career of a Category. Theory and Social Inquiry, 1(1), 2025: 1-50
https://www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/article/id/18211/
Interesting. Yes, I know they've redefined sex. I was being obtuse in my headline because I want to spotlight the lie. I want state high school athletic organizations to own their crime. By using the real meaning of words--girls were always included in girls' sports, so necessarily, boys are being included--athletic associations must either admit that they've eliminated girls' sports (which they have) or they've redefined sex to include anyone's subjective belief about themselves. Either one is shameful, heinous, and stupid, and they know it
That will never happen. The pro-trans lobby has an insane amount of money. The power behind them is larger than anything the traditional civil rights community could muster. Furthermore, they are run by old school thugs who are comfortable beating, raping and humiliating any who stand before them. They are politically correct Nazis. I think the best way to understand their progress is to recognize that they, and all who support them, are in essence fascists, and they not only enjoy being bullies; they value and honor that behavior. The coalescence of Trans and anti-Jewish hate is another example of how purely that lobby emulates National Socialism.
Never forget that if you decide to fight them. They will NEVER flight fair, and they have no shame, no honor.
You sound well informed. How do you know this?
P.S. I don't doubt it. I just wonder how you achieved this knowledge?
Exactly so.
Another excellent observation by Sarah because language counts and this tells the truth about the travesty of males in females' sports. I often comment in the NY Times when there is an opportunity about this and I am shocked (and shouldn't be) that so many supposedly educated NYT's readers use the ridiculous excuse that because there are so "few" males trying to compete against females that it is cruel to have rules banning males from female sports and spaces at all. This whining submission to a ridiculous attack against females, yet another backlash being perpetrated to keep females in their place is rampant on the political left and should not be a political issue in the first place. Denial of science is dangerous in many ways, including over this issue.
Let's try this one on: In early civilizations there existed matriarchies, societies that respected and elevated women to positions of power, leadership and respect. In the Levant and the Mediterranean cultures along came patriarchical zealots who wrote the bible and claimed that Eve was made from Adam's rib and that this less-than-fully-human female was the cause of humanity being thrown out of Paradise because Eve was so stupid as to believe the snake and dare to seek knowledge. In ancient cultures the snake represented wisdom and Eve's seeking knowledge became the downfall of humanity and females had to be repressed forever after. Now we have the real scientific evidence that there are only two sexes/genders, XX for female and XY for male with any individual with a Y chromosome being male. Think about a new metaphor for the Adam's Rib myth and suggest that the Y chromosome was really EVE'S rib that created the male sex and and that men were so jealous and threatened by the power of females to perpetuate the human race through our singular ability to give birth that this narrative out of the ancient desert took hold, has never gone away and continues to harm females. So here we are, over and over and over again in nearly all cultures and religions denying girls and women the truth of our very existence and rights.
The "its a tiny minority" argument can always be turned around. If its such a tiny minority why change a sports category for so many? Why can't the tiny minority just learn to deal and not be coddled?
Exactly! Especially since "including" even one boy doesn't just change the female category, it instantly eliminates it! Also, if the "so few" gambit was valid, why haven't age and weight categories been made inclusive? Maybe only one 35-year-old in the whole state, in the entire country, demands to play in the U14 category--why not accommodate him?
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I didn't need to see a face to Identify the boy cheating. The way they stand is enough.
That's what I've been saying for years. We should just have "sports" and "restrooms." The minute a man can identify as a woman to access women's spaces, there's no point in having them.
Ignoring or redefining sex only ever benefits men and harms women. Because of the imbalance of social power, physical strength and criminality, women depend on the reality of sex for fairness, safety, dignity, privacy. We do effectively have "sports" and "restrooms" in 23 states. Women and girls are inordinately harmed. The answer is to recognize the reality of sex
This is what the IOC have done, an World Athletics, World Rugby, World Swimming, World Tennis.
I get that, but something needs to give in order to drive that home with the lunatics who are too ideological to see how harmful, unsafe and deeply unfair to women. If we're going to let men in women's spaces and competitions, I'd rather it not just be the ones who are willing to violate our boundaries to satisfy whatever it is that makes them feel entitled to do so.
I agree. I want the crime against women to be obvious. That's the whole ball of wax--trans activists, lawmakers, cowardly administrators have been able to cover their crime by calling it "girls' sports" and "girls' restroom" Those people would never in a million years just be honest and call it "sports" or "restrooms" because they know it's wrong and harms women and girls.