Rantz: Transgender girls, Democrats again stole championships from young athletes in WA, CA

Girls’ sports and young female athletes took another gut punch over the weekend.

In high school track and field championships in both California and Washington, transgender female athletes took home gold—running off with titles that should have gone to young women who played by the rules nature handed them. Yet again, if you dare speak up, you’re branded a bigot, a “rightwing extremist” by left-wingers who used to claim they belonged to a party that fought for women. Now? They fight to erase the very women they pretended to support.

This isn’t just a headline or another round in the culture war for clicks. It’s personal for every single girl who trains, sacrifices, and dreams of championships and opportunities, only to be told, “Sorry, your hard work isn’t enough when a biological male wants to compete against you.” This is not progress. This is erasure. And it’s happening because the so-called “feminists” have abandoned real women in favor of virtue-signaling social justice theater.

Female athletes lost opportunities over the weekend to trans girls

In Washington, 17-year-old Verónica Garcia took the Class 2A 400-meter dash—for a second straight year—leaving every girl in her wake, including runner-up Lauren Matthew, who once again missed out on the title she trained for. At the awards ceremony, Garcia faced boos from the crowd. Her female opponents were cheered.

“I’m going to put this in the most PG-13 way, I’m just going to say it’s a damn shame they don’t have anything else better to do. I hope they get a life. But oh well. It just shows who they are as people,” Garcia said afterward.

Similarly, in California, 16-year-old AB Hernandez dominated the girls’ state track and field finals, winning both the high jump and triple jump, and snagging second in the long jump.

But, but, but…there aren’t that many trans athletes

The defenders of this madness always trot out the same tired line: “There aren’t that many trans athletes, so this isn’t really a big deal.” Indeed, Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal downplayed the fact that it’s happening at all.

If biological boys competing against girls is so rare, why are they willing to set fire to fairness, destroy the integrity of girls’ sports, and demonize parents and athletes who protest? Why do they go scorched earth to stop laws protecting girls? When it comes to gun violence, they say “one death is one death too many” in order to justify gutting our Second Amendment protections. Here? They simply pretend it’s not a big deal that every single instance of a girl denied a fair competition, a podium spot, a college scholarship, or a record time is one too many. And we don’t have to violate constitutional protections to say so.

None of this is theoretical.

A young, female athlete lost her shot at a title in Washington state—sometimes a once-in-a-lifetime chance—because adults want to feel good about themselves on social media. Other girls lost out on being on the podium or placing higher than where they ended up. Another girl missed out on the competition entirely because a spot was taken by a biological boy.

Progressives are not interested in science or fairness; they want applause for pretending to be “on the right side of history,” even if it means trampling the dreams of young women they claim to champion.

Where are the trans boys in competitions?

Inherent in this canard that this issue isn’t real or not effectively cheating, is the proof that there’s a biological advantage for transgender female athletes.

If being transgender didn’t offer an advantage, why don’t we see trans boys (biological females) dominating in boys’ sports? Why aren’t they taking home state titles in football, wrestling, or basketball? Why don’t we see them playing at all? We all know the answer.

Nature, puberty, and physiology matter, and no amount of identity politics can erase the athletic gap between male and female bodies at this level. Changing pronouns doesn’t change biology.

Compassion? Yes. Cheating? No.

To the trans athletes who genuinely love their sport and want to compete: I get it. Your passion is real and you shouldn’t be subject to bullying from some. This cannot be easy. But there’s a difference between inclusion and outright cheating—even if it’s sanctioned by a woke athletic commission.

Wanting something badly doesn’t make it fair. We all want things we can’t have and we certainly don’t deserve things we didn’t earn simply by using a biological advantage over the competition in gender-separate leagues.

No one is saying transgender girls shouldn’t compete. But the answer cannot be to let them dominate girls’ events. We should find solutions that protect the integrity of women’s sports and allow all athletes to participate without erasing the boundaries that make girls’ sports meaningful in the first place. But Progressives, and transgender girls, need to be willing to do what’s right.

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