SCOTUS delivers a win for common sense with ruling on womens sports but activists say the war isnt over

The Supreme Court just handed down a huge win for biological truth and common sense.In a 6-3 opinion Tuesday, the court upheld state bans on biological males playing in female sports, ruling against challenges in West Virginia and in Idaho.And for many athletes turned activists, including former college swimmers Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan and retired pro soccer player Elizabeth Eddy, it feels like a sweet victory.“I’m so thankful,” Eddy told me.They all used the same word: “vindicated.” But, they acknowledge, there’s still more to be done.

The game is still being played.“This ruling just means that having a sports category solely for women isn’t unconstitutional.It doesn’t mean that states have to make the women’s category exclusive to real women.

It just means it’s not illegal if they do so,” Gaines said.There are currently 27 states that have banned biological males from women’s sports.Tuesday’s decision is another bulwark against the regressive argument that men can simply chose to be female, take some hormones and be granted a key to women’s spaces and competition.It’s also a rebuke of the far left progressives’ notion that this presents no safety issue or physical disadvantage for girls.But let’s remember how far we’ve come since this illiberal and oppressive fog settled down on our society.“Go back to 2020 … when institutions, corporations, universities and governing bodies, and even courts began to pretend that reality was somehow up for debate,” said Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer.She recounted how, at her 2022 confirmation hearing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of today’s dissenters, “couldn’t answer the question of what is a woman because she’s ‘not a biologist.'”Indeed, this has been a hard fought battle in which advocates risked everything to stand up and say what we’ve known since the dawn of time: Men and women are biologically different, and men have a physical adv...