WTF??? "“It’s a really important case, because it’s going to set a precedent for other states as well. I think the next generation of these bathroom bills are these sports bills,” said Susan K. Cahn, a history professor at the University of Buffalo who specializes in gender and sexuality in sports. “It’s sort of the latest wave in [the] traditionalist defense of sports as they are in the male imagination, the idea … that men are fundamentally, biologically superior to women, and therefore someone that was assigned male at birth should never compete in women’s competition.”

How can a specialist in gender and sports portray male physical superiority in sports as a figment of men's imagination rather than a physical reality? The stats are unambiguous! I would love to believe that the sexes are physically equal. That would be a glorious world. Unfortunately, it's simply not real. It really feels like a lot of academics are living in a theory-driven la la land.

If it were true that men weren't physically superior, then the real solution would be to get rid of single sex categories. Binary sex-segregated categories don't even work with gender ideology. Does no one think of the poor non-binary folk forced to misgender themselves to access athletics? (NOT sarcasm, by the way. This drives me up a wall every time I read one of these articles. It's such an obvious inconsistency). The only reason to have sex-segregated categories is because we actually do need them.

And once again, it's all about the personal validation: "If I win the case, it legitimizes the ultimate fact that I’m no different than a cisgender girl,” she said. “I should still be able to compete on the team. It would make me feel that society is valuing me as a member.”

Hecox doesn't care about what's true or fair. She IS different from a cisgender girl, and she knows this. But rather than running for fun or participating in a research study to get more data or trying to be an actual trailblazer and advocate for trans competitive categories, she just wants her non-existent femaleness validated.

But yet, people will still tell JK Rowling that she's just a bigot for saying biological sex is being erased.