But the highest sporting authorities in the world are now attempting to walk a tightrope between competitive fairness and sexual liberation. Simply put, men pretending to be women are at an unfair advantage against actual women. Yet, instead of putting down a blanket ban against transgendered athletes, we can find byzantine rules that attempt to carve out some competitive fairness while placating contemporary ideology. In 2015, it was recommended that men compete in women’s events if their testosterone levels were low enough 12 months before the event and throughout the time they compete. After the 2020 Games in Tokyo (held in 2021 because of the pandemic), a non-binding framework lets the governing bodies of various sports set their own standards. Thankfully, some Olympic sports have tightened their standards to ensure fair play. But it’s not hard to see what this decision really was: a cop-out.
Why? Because, despite biological realities that even small children can perceive, and despite a desire for fair sportsmanship, there is immense pressure to conform to the ideology of sexual confusion and licentiousness, and all from the highest echelons of power around the globe, particularly amongst the cosmopolitan elite of the liberal world. The International Olympic Committee feels the need to placate them, and, indeed, such liberals are in the IOC.
This gets back to my earlier observation: The Olympics are often the stage for important, high-profile cultural and moral conflicts. Many wish to use the Games as an opportunity to showcase moral degeneracy—to further legitimize and normalize what we Christians know is sin. And let the record note that Christians are not alone in this conviction.
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