Celebs Lobby Against Keeping Boys Out of Women’s Sports in ACLU Ad
Several celebrities and sports stars supported transgender-identified boys invasing girls sports last week in an ad for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The thirty second video aired last Tuesday, when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in State of West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox — two cases which will determine whether states can enforce laws keeping boys out of girls sports.
None of the ad’s nine named stars ever played a sport against a member of the opposite sex. Retired professional athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, who played basketball and soccer, respectively, made their fortunes playing in single-sex leagues.
Rapinoe and the U.S. women’s soccer team even lost a scrimmage to an under-15 boys team in 2017.
Only one of the video’s celebs — professional basketball player Briana Turner — might ever face a male on the court.
The ad’s remaining menagerie of cultural elites stand to lose nothing if the Supreme Court strips women of sex-specific sports protections. They include:
- Lawyer and ACLU employee Chris Strangio, who argued against laws preventing minors from receiving irreversible, sex-rejecting procedures at the Supreme Court last year.
- Actress Naomi Watts, whose son, Kai, is transgender-identified.
- Transgender-identified actress Ellen, now Elliot, Page
- Two-time Tony award winner Kara Young
- Comedian Benito Skinner
- Fashion designer Willy Chavarria
The ACLU’s casting choices underscore its dogged determination to ignore the plight of women forced to compete against men — an obfuscation critical to the ad’s narrative.
The video frames State of West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox as a fight against “powerful politicians … fixated on keeping [transgender-identified] student athletes out sports.”
These malicious operatives, the video claims, enforce “limits” preventing transgender-identified students from “being themselves.”
“When you’re young, you believe that you can do anything,” the stars intone one after the other. “And then the world tries to set limits for you — tell you what’s allowed, what’s ‘normal,’ who you’re supposed to be.”
The ACLU’s argument collapses when viewers consider all the facts.
Sex is not an arbitrary limit imposed by a discriminatory political elite — it’s reality. Each person’s cellular makeup dictates the limits of their athletic ability.
Men possess several biological advantages making them better suited to most sports than women, including higher testosterone production, stronger muscles, tendons and ligaments, longer and heavier bones, larger hearts and more efficient vascular systems.
Limiting a man’s testosterone production with puberty blockers, or flooding his system with estrogen, does not eliminate all these advantages.
People who support single-sex sports and spaces aren’t malicious politicians, either. Female athletes harmed by men invading their sports lead the movement.
Eight of these athletes spoke at the Alliance Defending Freedom’s (ADF) rally outside the Supreme Court last week. They and other rally spokespeople articulated several reasons for supporting single-sex sports, including:
- Ensuring women have a fair chance to win sports accolades, scholarships and opportunities.
- Protecting female athletes who risk injury playing biologically faster, stronger men.
- Protecting the dignity of all athletes by ensuring no one must change in front of a member of the opposite sex.
None of the speakers advocated to keep children with sexual identity confusion out of sports entirely, only to require they compete in leagues consistent with their biological sex.
The ACLU ostensibly agrees, “We all have the same right to equality and dignity,” per the ad’s description. But a single male in a female category compromises the equality and dignity of every woman he competes against.
Brooke Slusser played alongside Blair Fleming — a man — on San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team. The school hid Fleming’s sex from Slusser, whose peers informed her she was living and practicing with a man.
Slusser and Kaylie Ray, a Utah State volleyball player whose team chose to forfeit a game rather than play against Fleming, shared their perspective at ADF’s rally.
“I will never be the same [after] what happened because an institution chose to protect one man on a women’s volleyball team instead of protecting the 18 other women on the team, the hundreds of other women in that conference,” Slusser confided.
“And not just me,” she continued. “I’m speaking for all of the women that had to play against one man that changed so many lives in that one singular season.”
The ACLU doubles down on its mischaracterization of people who support single-sex sports and spaces in the ad’s description, claiming laws delineating sports by sex “subject children to invasive, demeaning and abusive sex testing.”
This is blatantly false. A physician can determine the sex of most athletes in the physicals all students must receive to play a school sport. Doctors can determine the sex of students with disorders of sexual development using a one-time, non-invasive cheek swab or blood test.
Two international sports governing bodies, World Athletics and World Boxing, require athletes undergo chromosomal testing through one of these two methods. The International Olympic Committee will reportedly release a similar policy early this year.
The ACLU’s advertisement uses falsehoods and disingenuous claims to lobby against sex-based protections for women. Small wonder, considering the video’s argument excludes the arguments and experiences of women altogether.
Shame on the anti-woman ACLU and the celebrities who cosigned its lies.
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