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   What’s the difference between boys and girls, particularly on the athletic   
   field?   
      
   Quite a lot, of course.   
      
   On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard the case of two transgender students,   
   Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, biological boys fighting to   
   compete on girls’ sports teams.   
      
   Pepper-Jackson is from West Virginia and Hecox is from Idaho, two of the   
   27 states that ban biological boys from competing in girls’ sports.   
      
   Only a small number of people are personally affected by transgender   
   athletes in sports — in fact, Pepper-Jackson’s lawyers say their client is   
   the only person affected by the law in the entire state of West Virginia.   
      
   For now.   
      
   But if the Supreme Court strikes down these state laws, it stands to   
   reason that more biological boys will want to reap the rewards that come   
   from being at the top of a competitive sport.   
      
   They might not even need to undergo medical procedures, Tuesday’s argument   
   indicated — just declare a handy new “identity.”   
      
   A middling male basketball player could suddenly become the best player on   
   the girls’ high school hoops team — and be recruited by colleges for his   
   success.   
      
   It would destroy girls’ sports and effectively end Title IX, the civil-   
   rights law enacted specifically to bring a level of fairness to girls’   
   sports from kindergarten through college.   
      
   The whole point was to give girls an equal chance to play.   
      
   Rights groups like Lambda Legal argue that keeping biological boys out of   
   girls’ sports would be a terrible setback for gay rights in general.   
      
   “Politicians are deciding who belongs and who gets left out,” the group   
   declares; “it’s yet another step toward more discrimination and harm.”   
      
   That’s disingenuous, and they should admit it.   
      
   The fight for gay rights, including marriage, was about equality — gaining   
   the same rights that straight people already enjoyed.   
      
   Allowing biological boys in girls’ sports does the opposite, introducing   
   inequality where it never was before.   
      
   And the whole point of the movement in favor of gay acceptance is that   
   gender matters quite a lot.   
      
   No, this debate simply comes down to accepting reality.   
      
   Boys and girls — and women and men — are different, and have different   
   strengths and weaknesses.   
      
   That doesn’t change just because a boy starts wearing skirts or going by a   
   different name.   
      
   Thousands of years from now, an archaeologist excavating the body of a   
   person born a boy in 2026 would conclude that individual had the DNA and   
   bone structure of a biological male.   
      
   That, as they say, is following the science.   
      
   Pepper-Jackson’s attorneys argue their client started puberty blockers at   
   an early age, so doesn’t have the benefit and advantages of having gone   
   through male puberty.   
      
   Puberty certainly increases the height, weight and strength difference   
   between the sexes — but any parent knows that difference is present long   
   before a boy grows some whiskers on his top lip.   
      
   Years before puberty, boys’ bodies are built differently — in terms of   
   lung capacity, fat distribution, muscle build and more  — and their minds   
   and attitudes are not the same.   
      
   There’s a reason none of the trans-sports cases winding through the courts   
   involve a biological girl who identifies as a boy desperately trying to   
   join a boys’ sports team: Such a girl would be at a massive competitive   
   disadvantage, and everyone knows it.   
      
   No boys would lose wins and opportunities if the roles were reversed.   
      
   The fight over allowing boys in girls’ sports reverberates throughout our   
   society.   
      
   If we accept the lie that boys can become girls — and then let them   
   challenge girls on the field as if there’s no difference between them —   
   what other falsehoods will we accept?   
      
   To allow this to continue, we must all pretend not to know things we very   
   clearly know.   
      
   “I’m not a biologist,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson responded in her   
   Senate confirmation hearing, when asked if she could define the word   
   “woman.”   
      
   But most Americans know exactly what a woman is, no biology degree   
   necessary — and they know that a woman is not a man.   
      
   Our female athletes shouldn’t have to bear the burden of playing against   
   boys.   
      
   And they shouldn’t have to individually stand up against this injustice   
   and remove themselves from the sports they love, as we’ve been forcing   
   them to do for years now.   
      
   They shouldn’t have to take the brunt of the rage and hate that comes with   
   refusing to be pummeled for the sake of this deception.   
      
   States are writing laws to protect these girls so that they don’t stand   
   alone.   
      
   The Supreme Court has an easy call here: Reality must reign.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/01/13/opinion/reality-must-reign-in-supreme-   
   courts-trans-sports-fight/   
      
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