WoLF Endorses Federal Legislation to Save Women’s Sports
WoLF has endorsed the Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act to prohibit men from competing in women's sports
On National Girls & Women in Sports Day, WoLF proudly endorses the U.S. House of Representatives’ Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act (HR 7187). The bill aims to prohibit men from competing in the USA Women's Olympic and Amateur Sports in response to growing “gender identity” policies in organizations such as USA Boxing.
In a press release by Rep. Steube’s office, WoLF Executive Director Sharon Byrne said:
“Governing bodies of sports have been admitting male athletes who are pretending to be female into women’s sports, to the detriment of women and girls. They’ve capitulated to gender ideologues who demand ‘inclusivity’. USA Boxing is now taking this ideology to its most dangerous extreme in allowing men into women’s boxing. No one believes that female competitors will not be seriously injured, or even killed. USA Boxing will then hand her trophy to a man. This is heinous, and insane, and exactly why we work to defend the rights of women and girls.”
Background
USA Boxing updated its National Rule Book to add a Transgender definition and link to a new Transgender Policy, effective January 1, 2024. The policy states that “a boxer who transitions from male to female is eligible to compete in the female category” with certain conditions.
Allowing men to compete in women’s sports based on their claimed “gender identity” steals opportunity from female athletes and presents a major danger to them — especially in sports like boxing.
“Testosterone suppression does not eliminate male sports advantage. Even men with lower testosterone have larger hearts, more heavily muscled bodies, longer arms and legs, thicker skulls, and more advantageous hip/knee angles… What does it do to a young woman, psychologically, to train hard and race hard, only to be utterly humiliated by a male-bodied person on the racetrack or in the swimming pool? A male-bodied person who is taller, stronger, and more heavily muscled than she will ever be no matter how hard she trains?”
- P.S. (Letters from the Front)
Data shows that even high school male athletes outperform female Olympians, demonstrating the physiological differences between the sexes in sports. Even men who undergo cosmetic procedures to look like women still retain the physical advantages of male puberty. World Rugby report found males have significant biological differences from females, including higher muscle mass, larger hearts and lungs, 30%-60% greater strength, and 10-15% greater running speed, increasing the risk of injury for female athletes. MMA fighter Fallon Fox, a man who identifies as a woman, fractured a woman’s skull in 2013 when he knocked out his opponent, Ericka Newsome, in the first 39 seconds of the match.
About the Bill
The Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act would prohibit any governing body recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee (including USA Boxing) from allowing men to participate in any athletic event intended for females. The bill modifies eligibility requirements for amateur sports governing organizations.
The bill, sponsored in the House by Rep. Steube and in the Senate by Sen. Tuberville, is supported by multiple women’s organizations, including WoLF, Independent Council on Women’s Sport (ICONS), Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), Women’s Declaration International USA, and International Consortium on Female Sport (ICFS).
Take Action!
Write your lawmakers to support the bill!
Use our easy form to write your Representatives and Senators to support the Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act! For an even greater impact, please customize the email subject and text.
