Disgusting. I hope my piece makes sense because it’s hard to write with so much anger.
Casey Parks at The Washington Post published a piece about Donovan Brown, who goes by Verónica García, highlighting the hardships he’s faced in competing in women’s sports.
Parks attempted to invoke empathy for Garcia by weaving in her family life, which isn’t good. Her family is poor and ended up evicted from their apartment.
Family life has nothing to do with Garcia’s involvement in female sports. But whatever.
This line raised my blood pressure: “For the last 10 months, some of the country’s most powerful people had talked about girls such as Verónica as if they were a threat to all women.”
I seriously want to puke:
She nudged her school-issued laptop awake and searched: “Washington State transgender athlete.” A TV station was reporting that a school district two hours south had filed an “urgent complaint,” asking President Donald Trump to keep Verónica off the track.“This male unfairly competed last year,” the complaint said. “Not only does his current inclusion in the 2025 season directly violate Title IX and President Trump’s Executive Orders, but it is also ‘demeaning, unfair, and dangerous’ to the young women with whom he competes.”Verónica shifted on the thin pad where she slept and considered her frame. Dangerous? She was 5-foot-7 and skinny in a way that concerned her coaches.“I’m a twig,” Verónica told her mother, Traci Brown. “Who could I hurt?”
In 2024, Garcia won the Washington girls’ state track title in the 400m dash.
He won with a time of 55.59 seconds.
The second-place winner? 58.83 seconds.
His heart broke because no one clapped for him. Spectators shouted the truth at him: That’s a male standing on the first place podium.
Parks pointed out the criticism Garcia faced online, especially from Riley Gaines.
Garcia and Lauren Matthew faced each other again in 2025.
Guess what. Garcia beat Matthew again.
We talk about the physical differences between males and females. Well, Garcia still beat females as a short and skinny male.
Before the track season in 2024, Garcia started hormone replacement therapy to suppress testosterone and boost estrogen.
Wait a second. Garcia comes from a poor family that couldn’t pay rent but could shell out money for hormone drugs?
(Another thing…us females who are going through perimenopause need those hormones. We actually need hormone replacement therapy.)
Yeah, proving once again, it’s not about hormones at all. You’re still a male. You’re still physically stronger than females.
It’s more than hormones, people.
So yes, while track is not a physical sport like football, people like Garcia are a threat to females and hurt them.
You’re taking victories and opportunities away from females.
WaPo tried to back Garcia’s case with studies, but it didn’t help, and used the derogatory term “cis” to describe males and females (emphasis mine):
A 2020 study of 46 trans women who began taking testosterone-blockers and estrogen while in the Air Force found that after two years on hormones, the trans women could no longer do as many push-ups or sit-ups as men. They could do only as many as cis women. They also ran slower than they had before they transitioned, but they still ran 12 percent faster than cis women.And last year, the International Olympic Committee released a groundbreaking study that showed trans female athletes who suppress their testosterone and take estrogen retain a few advantages over cisgender women, but their bodies also change in ways that leave them unable to perform as well as their competitors. The study, which tested 75 cis and trans athletes, found that trans women did have better grip strength than cis women. But they also couldn’t jump as high or breathe as easily as cis men or women — key skills for track-and-field athletes.
You still have physical advantages over men.
That last sentence boggled my mind since it includes males and females. Maybe stop taking medicines that suppress your biology!? You can’t even breathe as easily as those who don’t touch their biology!?
“Verónica longed to ask Lauren what she thought a real girl was,” wrote Parks. “Biology suggests it’s far more complicated than chromosomes, Verónica knew, but she suspected she would never change anyone’s mind about that.”
Oh, really? Maybe in those very cases where a person is born with a sex chromosome disorder.
But for the vast majority? XX chromosomes make you a female.
Long hair, makeup, a skirt, higher estrogen, and your feels do not make you a female. I cannot recall the person, but I believe an Olympic female runner has naturally higher testosterone for a female.
I loved this comment a person left:
Sorry, actually I’m not sorry. I’m very liberal on most issues BUT:1- I coached girls travel basketball2-I played multiple sports against my fellow male athletes and have run many races including a MarathonThere is no way that someone with male genetics and musculature should be competing against females.PERIOD TOTALLY NOT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
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