Published October 29, 2024
The news that numerous schools are beginning to take a stand against men being allowed to pretend to be women and play in intercollegiate sports is welcome but also indicative of a deeper problem in American culture. Recently the focus has been on San José State University and its women’s volleyball team, which includes a 6-foot-1-inch man. Five schools have so far refused to play SJSU this year.
This news is welcome for several reasons. First, these are mainline schools, not bastions of the political and cultural right. It shows that the transgender issue cuts across normal ideological and political divides. The whole trans question is aimed at erasing women and will have the effect of erasing women’s private spaces. By granting men unhindered access to restrooms, changing rooms, and prisons, it endangers women, as has been pointed out many, many times. The kind of men who will take advantage of this will fall into two basic categories that scarcely inspire confidence: the deeply confused who think they are women and the cynical predators who want to take advantage of the vulnerable.
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Carl R. Trueman is a fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, where his work focuses on helping civic leaders and policy makers better understand the deep roots of our current cultural malaise. In addition to his scholarship on the intellectual foundations of expressive individualism and the sexual revolution, Trueman is also interested in the origins, rise, and current use of critical theory by progressives. He serves as a professor at Grove City College.
