Guest Opinion by Don Bendell

GUYS & DOLLS & WHATEVER

I have the background and credentials to opine on a current phenomenon in sports right now, as I am a former professional athlete retiring in 2014  I have well over a half century of experience in the martial arts, specifically boxing, wrestling, kickboxing, Song Moo Kwan Tae Kwon Do, one of the five main styles of Korean Karate, Freestyle Karate, Shita Jujitsu (“the Fulfilling Gentle Art”), Shita Judo, and I am also a black sash instructor In Muay Thai kickboxing.

I also have a solution for the current issue that I am writing about, and that is transgender athletes, who started out as biological males, competing against female athletes in female sporting events because you identify as a female. My solution is quite simple. It does not matter if you are straight, gay, bisexual, asexual, confused, or transexual. Sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with such qualifications.

If you think sex should be totally equal, then drive to the nearest farm and ask if you can milk the farmer’s bull. If you do manage to get any milk out of him, if you survive the ordeal, please do not attempt drinking it or pouring it in your morning coffee. Then walk around behind the rooster all day waiting for him to lay eggs for you.

My solution is simple, but exceedingly important.

Here is my solution: Pull out the waistband of your tights, shorts, swimsuit, sweatpants, jeans, or undies and look down. If you see a penis, you must be required to compete only in male sports. If there is no penis, then you may compete in women’s or girls’ sports. There is no other fair way to do it, because men have a completely different body structure than females, and men have a decided unfair physiological advantage over women in athletic events.

Why do we NEVER see biological female transexuals competing in men’s events? Because men have different musculature, are larger usually, and more natural muscle mass than females generally.

Now, should females and males compete against each other in mental competitions? Absolutely. That would be fair, but physically competing against the opposite gender is totally unfair.

Now, here is the most important negative side-effect of the current practice. It goes against all the tenets of liberal philosophy in regard to women’s rights. Women, especially many who are very vocal in demanding LGBTQ rights have been claiming sexism by males in many areas of our society. They demand women have higher pay, equal employment opportunity, a fair shot in the workplace, in relationships, in politics, in the military. However, now they are demanding that transexual (biological males) should be allowed to compete against biological females in physical athletic events. How is that treating women fairly? Will some liberal gender guru please explain to me how this practice is not unfair to women and girls. You geniuses, with good intentions I am sure, all just became the very best recruiters for “the good old boys club” with your lopsided thinking.

By the way, any of you biological males who are transexual and competing against females, what do you have if you win a first-place trophy anyway? If you pull out your waistline and look down, you will see that you do have something in common with biological females. In my opinion, you have no testicles.

God made us different for several reasons, and He started it all with Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Don Bendell is a best-selling author whose style has been likened to Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey, and Robin Moore, a former US Army Special Forces Captain and 100% disabled Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame. Don owns the Strongheart Ranch in southern Colorado, with his social psychologist and fellow author, wife, Dr. Janet Bendell. Don is the author of 30 books, mainly westerns and military thrillers, with over 3,000,000 copies in print worldwide, a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2011, and a successful motion picture which he also produced, directed, and co-starred in. He has 6 grown children and 13 grand-children and has a master’s degree in leadership from Grand Canyon University.