In the rules of citation, there is a category of knowledge that never needs citations for evidential support, called common knowledge. MIT’s Academic Integrity handbook defines “common knowledge” as “information that the average educated reader would accept as reliable without having to look it up.” If you write that the sun rises in the east, that the weather in the northern hemisphere is colder in the winter, or that water’s freezing temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, there is no need to provide citations for these statements.
The Differences Between Men and Women
Common knowledge used to include the fact that women are adult human females. In particular, women are those adult humans who possess XX chromosomes and are designed to create larger gametes called eggs, bear young, and produce milk to feed their young. Males, on the other hand, possess XY chromosomes, and are designed to create smaller gametes called sperm, and are not able to bear young or produce milk. Males, because they have larger skeletons and musculature, larger hearts, larger lung capacity, and more extensive circulation, are designed to be physically stronger and faster than women.
This difference between males and females begins in utero, where it’s been shown that mothers have different breast milk depending on whether she is carrying a boy or a girl. From conception, the sex of the baby is determined. (Intersex babies are those who have both sets of genitalia in some form but are either male or female in terms of chromosomal makeup. Less than 0.020 % of all babies are born intersex.)
The Male Physical Advantage
Common knowledge tells us—and has told us for millennia—that women are female and men are male from the point of conception, and that these attributes are immutable and permanent. Furthermore, because of their genetic makeup, men will always be physically stronger and faster than women. Even if testosterone is artificially suppressed, males will always have a physical advantage over women.
The transgender communications campaign has sought to convince the public that taking hormones or surgically removing male testicles eliminates male sport performance advantage and effectively converts males to females. This is simply not true. Even after taking hormones or having surgery, male legacy advantage persists. In fact, most transgender athletes in women’s sports have made zero modifications to their male bodies and still possess vast sport performance advantages over female bodies. (Donna Lopiano, “Listen to the Voices of Female Athletes,” Forbes)
This seems quite straightforward. The truth of the above is magnified by the fact that anyone attempting to disagree does not do so by citing science, because there is no science in support of the opposing argument, but rather by resorting to ad hominem attacks.
The NCAA’s Complicity
An organization that avidly supports the fallacy that men can somehow be women is the National Collegiate Athletic Association. For several years, the NCAA, under its Transgender Policy, has posted rules by which men can be treated as women for purposes of participation in over 20 sports. If a young man suppresses his testosterone to a level between 5-10 n/L, depending upon the specific requirement, he can play as a woman. The young man does not need to undergo surgery of any kind; he only needs to suppress his testosterone. That’s it. Meanwhile, women, whose average testosterone levels are between .5-2.5 n/L, cannot “dope up” or they will be banned from competition.
Thus, a mediocre male swimmer who suppresses his testosterone can compete on the women’s team—and break all women’s records. A male competing against women often causes physical harm to those women. Males not only take away women’s medals and championship rankings, but scholarship opportunities as well. Finally, men who play on women’s teams invade the privacy of the women’s locker room and deny women a safe place to change and gather. All the while, women are supposed to behave in a supportive way and be quiet.
As Catholics, we know that God created us female and male, and, as pointed out above, science (which God also created) backs this up. We have a duty to protect the dignity of women from this physical, psychological, and emotional abuse forced upon them by the virtue-signaling NCAA and its corporate sponsors. As much as we love college sports, this year it would be good if we all decided to boycott the NCAA and its corporate sponsors (the largest are Coca-Cola, Capital One, and ATT, but here’s a list of all of them.)
Conclusion
The only way in which the NCAA will be moved to change its insidious, misogynistic policy is if its deep pockets are affected. Even though one of its board members recently resigned in protest, and many storied athletes have protested its policies, and are now suing, the NCAA, in its pride and ignorance, continues to behave badly.
But perhaps if enough of us refuse to watch, refuse to buy tickets, boycott their corporate sponsors, support the lawsuit against the NCAA, and share #takontheNCAA on our social media to encourage others to do the same, then perhaps the NCAA will decide to reexamine its policy which so clearly discriminates against women. For however long it takes, let’s dump the NCAA, and take a stand for women. It’s time to take a stand.
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Author: Cynthia Millen
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