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The International Olympic Committee is reportedly set to announce a ban on transgender women – by which I mean biological men – competing against females.

That’s right… after years of ideological contortions worthy of a gymnastics gold medal, the IOC has finally reached a conclusion that the rest of us have known for… well… ever.

Men and women are different! Really different. Who would have thought?

Honestly, it beggars belief that the International Olympic Committee needed a multi-year, multi-disciplinary scientific study to work out that men shouldn’t compete against females even after taking treatment to reduce testosterone levels.

The Times reported that initial findings of the review had concluded:

“… scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels.”

To which, 100 per cent of teenagers would reply: “Duh.”

That’s a scientific term meaning… “well, of course.”

An Olympic official who sat in on the presentation breathlessly told The Times:

“It was a very scientific, factual, and unemotional presentation which quite clearly laid out the evidence.”

My great-grandmother could have given the same presentation while doing the ironing with a baby on her hip.

Stating the Obvious

While the IOC’s decision is not expected to be formally made until next year, it will be of course, a welcome one.

It is expected to cover not only trans athletes, but also those with differences in sex development or DSD, and therefore means we’ll no longer see male athletes beating up on women in the boxing ring, or outrunning women on the track.

Good.

But what does it say about Western culture that we ever reached a point where we required people in white lab coats to explain the difference between a man and a woman?

Think about it:

The Olympic movement can determine the winner of a 100m sprint to within two hundredths of a second.

Yet they required a full scientific review to decide whether biological men who had undergone hormone therapy might have an advantage when running against women.

The same Olympic bureaucrats… who maintain laboratories dedicated to measuring — within parts per trillion — whether an athlete has used the wrong nasal spray… somehow needed years of research to confirm what any PE teacher could have told them.

The IOC’s expected decision to ban trans women from women’s events would be the correct decision.

But they shouldn’t expect us to start fawning over them as if they’ve just split the atom.

All they will have done is to announce what humans have known for thousands of years, as if it’s breaking news.

Reality Wins

But there’s a bigger lesson here that goes beyond just sport.

It’s really important to remember that this sudden expected shift back to normalcy hasn’t happened by accident.

During Joe Biden’s presidency, schools, sports bodies, and media outlets were all being nudged — sometimes more like shoved — into treating obvious biological differences as socially constructed.

It wasn’t “inclusion”. It was a carefully choreographed woke performance, backed by bureaucratic muscle and elite signalling.

The result?

Women were systematically edged out of competitions designed to ensure they could compete fairly.

Young women who had trained for a decade expected to quietly accept defeat at the hands of men.

And of course, they were expected to clap politely while the ideology justified the injustice.

The IOC’s decision to ban trans women — and men with disordered sexual development — from women’s events was not a sudden conversion. It’s a forced correction.

It’s a correction that had to happen because the results could no longer be ignored.

Now, the very committees that for years had insisted “there is no advantage” will now effectively admit the advantage is overwhelming.

The IOC hasn’t discovered anything new — they’ve just rediscovered reality. And reality always wins.

The only question is how long you have to wait and how much damage is done in the meantime.

It’s important here to acknowledge the difference leadership makes.

Strong leaders confront inconvenient truths, even when they disrupt their preferred narrative.

Weak leaders twist reality to protect ideology.

And that’s exactly what the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly did — pushing institutions to pretend that biological differences didn’t exist.

Donald Trump, by contrast, has consistently emphasised that policy should reflect reality — not the latest fashionable trend.

A civilisation can’t function if truth is treated as negotiable.

The unreality we’ve had to put up with in sport is not dissimilar to the unrealities we’re putting up with in law, in education and in civic norms because of an obsession with identity politics that demands truth is set aside.

But just maybe, a return to truth in sports signals a return to truth in other areas as well.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Adobe.