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How ‘inclusion’ is destroying the integrity of female sports.

It’s funny how the universe works.

The first round of the women’s NBL1 competition is set for April 1st. That’s when the Kilsyth Cobras, whose team will likely include a biological man, take on the Geelong Supercats.

Except it’s not April fools. It now appears to be the policy of Basketball Victoria to allow a biological man to compete in the female league because he identifies as a woman.

Basketball Victoria chief executive Nick Honey said the policy would “improve inclusivity”.

It’s almost as if “inclusivity” is now a religious dogma that cannot be questioned.

Honey forgot to mention that the inclusion of a biological man in the women’s team means the exclusion of a woman from the woman’s team. See how it works? Inclusivity is not so inclusive after all.

Honey went on to say that Basketball Victoria recognises there is no “one size fits all” answer as to whether or not players are eligible to compete.

He’s right of course. You can have small female players, usually known as guards, and you can have really tall female players, usually known as forwards.

Size is not the issue.

The issue is biology!

Basketball Victoria’s Diversity and Inclusion Manager Sheena Atkin said:

“Basketball has long prided itself as “Everyone’s Game” and this remains the case.”

Au contraire. Basketball is no longer everyone’s game. It is now a man’s game, where biological men can choose to play against their peers, or against women. And women must suck it up in the name of “inclusivity”, or be accused of bigotry.

The decision has sparked outrage from current and former basketballers who are less enamoured with the cult of inclusion than they are concerned about the safety of women and the integrity of sports.

Former NBA star Andrew Bogut tweeted:

 

Two-time championship winning NBL guard Matt Shanahan, who coaches the Victorian Metro Under 18s side and whose 16-year-old daughter is on the squad of an NBL1 team, said:

“Opening a massive can of worms if this is allowed.”

NBL player Anthony Drmic described the decision to include a transgender athlete in the NBL1 competition as …

“Wild”

Not as wild as Frankston Blues forward Chloe Bibby’s response. The NBL1 player tweeted:

“As someone who plays in the NBL1, I don’t care what they identify as or their pronouns, she/her, they/them, he/him because regardless I’m still gone try beat their ass on court.”

I’m gone try beat their ass? Bibby seems to be identifying as a black American gangster.

Da ghetto be so confusin’.

Bibby continued ta tweet n’ said:

“They want to play ball & I have nothing but the upmost respect for this person. Go kill it queen.”

‘Queen’ being the biological man now identifying as a woman in the women’s league where a biological woman is not playing on account of her spot being taken by the, er, Queen.

Sigh.

I wonder if Bibby will care when her spot on the roster is taken by a woman with a penis.

She, and other female players such as Michelle Timms who welcome trans players, are turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.

Meanwhile, in the USA, President Joe Biden has said Florida’s anti-trans laws are “close to sinful”.

Florida has banned biological men from participating in women’s sport.

“It’s not like a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘You know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change’.”

All of which raises the question, what do Christian schools do when their Catholic president says it is “close to sinful” not to throw Genesis 1 v27 in the bin.

A Christian school in Vermont has been banned from all inter school sporting matches after their girl’s basketball team forfeited a game because an opposition player was a biological male.

“We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardises the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,” Mid Vermont Christian School head Vicky Fogg said in a statement.

She continued:

“Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general.”

Vicky Fogg by name, but wonderful clarity by nature.

The Vermont Principal’s Association (which evidently has no principles) responded by banning the Christian school from all future tournaments, in all sports.

You will conform in the name of diversity and inclusion or you will be excluded forever.

Well of course. If you don’t know how tolerance and inclusion works by now, you’ve not been paying attention.

And then, in justifying their decision to exclude Christians for believing, not in God but in biology, the VPA played the ‘inclusion’ card.

“The VPA again reiterates its ongoing support of transgender student-athletes as part of building an inclusive community for each student to grow and thrive” the association said.

These wokey statements of allegiance to the inclusion cult are so tiresome.

Repeat after me in a trance like state …

Trans women are women.

We support inclusion.

Trans women are women.

We support inclusion.

Trans women are women.

We support inclusion.

Trans women are women.

We support inclusion.

Continue until it makes sense, or until you become so worn out that you couldn’t be bothered fighting unreality any longer. Just give in and let the current take you.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report. Photo by Mike.