Yet Another Man Steals Women’s Trophies

A biological man won the 400- and 200-meter dash at the USA Track and Field Open Masters Championships on Saturday, beating out women as young as 14 years old.

Sadie, formerly Camden, Schreiner, is no stranger to taking trophies from female athletes. The 21-year-old has broken numerous school and competition records since he began competing as a woman in 2023.

President Trump’s executive order prohibiting men in federally funded education programs from competing in women’s sports will prevent Schreiner from competing on the Rochester Institute of Technology’s track team.

But the order doesn’t apply to private organizations like USA Track and Field (USATF).

USATF abides by the International Olympic Committee’s rules, which allows men to compete in some women’s sports if they meet low testosterone thresholds. Schreiner claims estrogen injections have rendered his testosterone levels “undetectable.”

It hasn’t impacted his success. In the 200-meter, Schreiner beat 14-year-old Zwange Edwards, 16-year-old Zariah Hargrove, 15-year-old Leah Walker and 18-year-old Ainsley Rausch. At least four other athletes scheduled to race in this category did not participate. Schreiner’s only two competitors in the 400-meter, 17-year-old Anna Vidolova and 16-year-old Amaris Hiatt, were similarly absent.

It’s unclear whether the missing athletes declined to compete against a man or missed the races for other reasons.

On his Instagram page, Schreiner defended his participation in women’s track and field by arguing estrogen injections had worsened his performance enough to be “equitable.”

As an 18-year-old man, Schreiner’s fastest time in the 400-meter put him in the 87th percentile of all male runners his age. As a 21-year-old “woman,” his fastest time puts him in the 87th percentile of all female runners his age. This similarity in relative performance, he argues, should qualify him to compete against women.

Estrogen may have slowed Schreiner down, but it hasn’t changed his biological makeup. Men’s bodies are better suited to running fast, with more ergonomic bone structure, higher bone density, larger lung capacity and a more efficient vascular system.  

These biological advantages can’t be changed or negated. That means, if Schreiner were truly a woman, he would be performing much worse.

No matter how you slice it, the fact remains — a man handicapped by estrogen injections does not a women make.

It’s not an intellectually difficult argument, but, somehow, this author has a hard time believing the USATF will jump to protect female athletes anytime soon.

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