By Andrew Powell
A postseason track meet in California began Saturday with a “Save Girls’ Sports” rally, taking place outside of the gates. Unfortunately, the event concluded in the same fashion that we’ve seen before, with a transgender athlete absolutely dominating the competition in multiple jumping events. The situation only adds fuel to the fire of the concern regarding protection for girls and women in female sports.
A lot of attention was drawn to the Yorba Linda-based CIF Southern Section Division 3 preliminaries prior to competition beginning as a result of protestors going against the California policy of permitting trans athletes to participate in female sports.
When the track meet got started, everybody inside shifted their focus to the jumping events, which is where AB Hernandez was competing. Hernandez is a biological male and a senior at Jurupa Valley High School, who hosted the preliminaries. In the competitions, Hernandez rolled against the girls, winning all three and doing it commandingly.
A transgender athlete who plays multiple sports, including girls’ volleyball, Hernandez was the victor of the Long Jump Division 3 Prelim, as well as the Triple Jump Division 3 Prelim. In the High Jump Division 3 Prelim, Hernandez finished in a first-place tie with Reese Hogan, who has previously been connected to Hernandez. The winning competitions for Hernandez came in blowout fashion.
To put the numbers into perspective, Hernandez recorded 20 feet and 4 1/4 inches in the long jump. The second and third-place finishers tallied 19 feet and 1 1/2 inches, and 18 feet and 7 inches. Over 1 foot was the margin between first and second.
Hernandez put up 42 feet and 4 inches in the triple jump, with the second-place competitor finishing at 39 feet and 7 1/2 inches. The individual who placed third had a score of 37 feet and 8 inches.
On average, transgender people who identify as women are taller than other women, because they often undergo male puberty, which generally results in greater adult height. Males are on average 5 inches taller than females. This can give a transgender athlete an advantage over non-transgender women.
Transgender medical treatments known as “gender affirming care” can reduce this advantage, because of the physical harms associated with them.
Transgender medical treatments can also harm women transitioning to being men. 95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
Transgender treatments can lead to a lifetime of pain, discomfort, and medications. As Britain’s National Health Service explains, hormones “need to be taken for the rest of your life, even if you have gender surgery.” An FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News.
Even the transgender lawyer who challenged Tennessee’s restrictions on transgender treatments for kids admitted to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given gender-affirming treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this [transgender-affirming] treatment reduces completed suicide.” The ACLU’s Chase Strangio admitted that to the Supreme Court.
Yet doctors who did sex changes often falsely told parents that they needed to give their kids a sex change to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?”'”
