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 NPR said that there is ‘little evidence’ that men dressed as women have a physical advantage over XX chromosome women when the news hit about not allowing men to participate in women’s elite track and field competitions.  Here’s what they actually said:

The international governing body for track and field will ban trans women athletes from elite women’s competitions, citing a priority for fairness over inclusion despite limited scientific evidence of physical advantage.https://t.co/X6wySybGlY

Of course they hold up as an example of what they consider to be an injustice the one true intersex runner probably in the world–Caster Semenya from South Africa.  Caster has the physical characteristics of a female, vagina and all, but has XY chromosomes (born that way).  Because of this, she (and I will use she in this case) has high testosterone levels and most likely the physical musculature that is associated with male puberty.  She lost her case to continue competing without taking testosterone lowering medications.

NPR was properly lambasted on Twitter for their stance and the article on Twitchy has this:

Women’s golf tees are closer to the pin than men’s tees because men have a physical advantage over women.

WNBA basketballs are 1 inch smaller and the 3-point line is 1 foot closer because men have a physical advantage over women.

Feminism exists because men have a physical advantage over women.

We’ve got your limited scientific evidence right here, clowns.

Title IX was originally created to ensure that women’s sports received the same percentage of funding as men’s sports.  From the History Channel’s explanation:

 Before Title IX, few opportunities existed for female athletes. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which was created in 1906 to format and enforce rules in men’s football but had become the ruling body of college athletics, offered no athletic scholarships for women and held no championships for women’s teams. Furthermore, facilities, supplies and funding were lacking. As a result, in 1972 there were just 30,000 women participating in NCAA sports, as opposed to 170,000 men.

Title IX was designed to correct those imbalances. Although it did not require that women’s athletics receive the same amount of money as men’s athletics, it was designed to enforce equal access and quality. Women’s and men’s programs were required to devote the same resources to locker rooms, medical treatment, training, coaching, practice times, travel and per diem allowances, equipment, practice facilities, tutoring and recruitment. Scholarship money was to be budgeted on a commensurate basis, so that if 40 percent of a school’s athletic scholarships were awarded to men, 40 percent of the scholarship budget was also earmarked for women.

 From Twitter:

Why is this so hard for the progressive left to admit that male bodies are stronger than female bodies? If being trans is the result of being born in the wrong body then how can you say that there’s no difference between the two bodies. Why even transition at all then? https://t.co/gPlY4Z8Agu

— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) March 25, 2023

NPR is definitely on my list of tax dollar waste–this is only one reason.   And they are also epitomizing the Get Woke, Go Broke meme–

NPR Lays Off 100 Employees, Cancels Shows as Advertiser Revenue Declines 

With what they are calling ‘reporting’, no wonder.