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1,900+ Female Athletes Lost Podium Spots to Men Who Claim to be Women: Concerned Women for America

Jul 23, 2025Jerry CoxTransgenderFairness in Women's Sports, LGBT, Transgender

Concerned Women for America (CWA) reports 1,941 male athletes who claim to be female have taken first place medals away from women and girls.

CWA is urging athletic associations to adopt policies that protect women’s sports. The group issued a press release on Tuesday, saying:

“For too long, trans-identifying males have displaced, disrupted, and injured women and girls in female sports categories. Our research reveals the shocking truth of the matter – over 1,900 women have come in second place to men who claim to be women. This is outrageously unjust. Women and girls must have sex-protected athletics under Title IX,” said Penny Nance, CEO and President, Concerned Women for America.

“We urge the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the NCAA, and all independent National Governing Bodies in the United States to reverse any discriminatory policies disadvantaging women. CWA also urges these governing bodies to restore lost gold medals to the 1,941 women and girls found in this study, redistribute cash prizes, and correct leaderboards for all who lost their rightful titles and prizes to biological men,” Nance said.

Compiling data from recorded incidents of natal males’ disruption in female events since the mid-1980s, CWA also found that:

Trans-identifying male athletes have stolen over $493,173 in prize money from women in professional sports.

In California alone, over 521 women and girls have taken silver below a male allowed to compete in the women’s category.

Trans-identifying males have competed in more than 10,067 female sport events, amateur and professional. Tens of thousands of women and girls have been displaced and disrupted on their own teams, tracks, fields, and leaderboards.

The National Governing Bodies (NGBs) presiding over the competitions where men defeated women include but are not limited to:

USA Cycling*

USA Ultimate Frisbee*

US Rowing*

US Tennis Association*

US Archery Team (USAT)*

Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA)

USA Track and Field (USATF)*

Road Runners Club of America Running USA*

National Federation of State High School Associations*

USA Fencing*

USA Swimming*

USA Volleyball*

US Bowling Conference (USBC)*

National Collegiate Athlete Association (NCAA)*

California Interscholastic Federation (CIF)

National Intercollegiate Running Club Association (NIRCA)

Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Athlete Association (PIAA)

California Collegiate Athlete Association (CCAA)

Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conferences (CIAC)

Central Connecticut Conference (CCC)

Massachusetts Interscholastic Athlete Association (MIAA)

Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA)

Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA)

Lady’s Professional Golf Association (LPGA)

In 2021 Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) preventing male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school. This good law protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas.

It’s worth point out that public opinion polling shows Americans agree that athletes ought to compete according to their biological sex rather than their gender identity.

Letting men compete in women’s sports reverses 50 years of advancements for women.

It is essential for educators, coaches, athletes, policymakers, athletic associations, and others to stand up for fairness in women’s sports. That is something Family Council is committed to doing.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

Major Children’s Hospital to Halt Gender Procedures Amid Legal Scrutiny

Jul 22, 2025Jerry CoxLGBT, TransgenderLGBT, SAFE Act, Transgender

Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., is set to stop performing sex-change procedures on children.

A statement on the hospital’s website says it will stop prescribing “gender-affirming medications” — that is, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones — effective August 30. The statement indicates the decision was prompted by “escalating legal and regulatory risks” to the hospital, its providers, and its patients.

Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had issued subpoenas to doctors and medical facilities involved in performing sex-change procedures on minors.

The Federal Trade Commission also hosted a workshop highlighting the dangers of so-called “gender-affirming care” for children. Both federal agencies appear to be concerned about the deception that often surrounds sex-change procedures — especially when these procedures are performed on children.

In recent years, men and women have come forward with chilling testimony about how they were rushed through gender-transition as children, and experts have revealed how the medical “consensus” in support of performing transgender procedures on children was largely manufactured by pro-LGBT organizations.

Medical experts in the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and elsewhere have found that science simply does not support giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids.

In 2021, Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act prohibiting doctors from performing sex-change surgeries on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Unfortunately, a federal judge blocked the SAFE Act, but in June the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a similar law in Tennessee.

Last week, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin’s office argued in federal court that the decision confirms what he and others have said all along: The SAFE Act is a good law that protects children “from dangerous, experimental gender-transition procedures.”

Since 2021, scientific research has continued to show Arkansas made the right call by passing a law protecting children from sex-change procedures. Public opinion polling shows Arkansans support laws like the SAFE Act.

Sex-change procedures, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones can leave children permanently scarred, sterilized, and at risk of serious health conditions. Doctors do not know the long-term effects that these procedures might have on people. The SAFE Act is a good law that protects children in Arkansas, and we believe our federal courts will ultimately uphold it as constitutional.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

Lessons from the Rise and Faltering of Transgenderism: Guest Column

Jul 9, 2025John StonestreetTransgenderLGBT, Transgender

Many “inevitable” social movements turned out not to be so inevitable. The most notable recent example is transgenderism. In the latest development of this fast-moving story, earlier this month the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that prohibited so-called “transgender care” for minors, including hormone therapy and sex-reassignment procedures.

Predictably, the American Psychological Association threw a fit about the ruling, scolding the court for disregarding “decades of psychological research and clinical consensus,” and jeopardizing “the health and wellbeing of transgender youth.” Aside from further eroding their public credibility, the APA statement ignores the obvious fact that any consensus around transgender “care” and identity is collapsing. It’s not 2016 anymore. First, there was the Cass Report, which questioned key claims of transgender medicalization. Then there was the closing of Britain’s only gender clinic. Also in recent days, L.A. Children’s Hospital announced it would close its center for transgender youth, one of the largest and oldest clinics of its kind and a hub for “gender reassignment” surgeries on children for years.

Public opinion has shifted as well. Earlier this year, Pew Research reported that about two-thirds of adults now support policies requiring trans athletes to compete on teams that match their biology. Most adults also support outlawing gender identity curriculum in elementary schools. Compared to just three years ago, more Americans now support laws that require people to use the bathroom corresponding to their sex and favor banning transgender surgery on minors. And just last week, the University of Pennsylvania signed an agreement with the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education about men competing in women’s sports. Penn will now strip Lia (born William) Thomas of his swimming wins against women, reinstate the integrity of women’s athletic teams and spaces, and apologize to the women whose rightful athletic “records, titles, or similar recognitions” were stolen by a male athlete.

Now somewhat on the other side of this cultural confusion, there are two crucial lessons to be learned about how culture changes, and how to fight future battles. First is how unpredictable and fragile supposedly “inevitable” cultural progress is. A few short years ago, corporations, government, higher education, entertainment, science, and medical establishments were being aligned in support of the idea that boys can become girls, and vice versa. But then a few courageous athletes, artists, filmmakers, de-transitioners, and a handful of public figures like J.K Rowling and Jordan Peterson spoke out. Unfortunately, many Christians and high-profile pastors were unwilling to do the same.

And yet, remarkably, it was enough to start the resistance. The momentum of the trans movement has now slowed and faltered. Though Irreversible Damage was inflicted on too many individuals, especially children, the mutilation of bodies and poisoning of minds turned out to be not inevitable, culturally. This should embolden us all to be willing to break the “spiral of silence” sooner and to stand courageously against false ideas in the future. After all, the worst ideas flourish when people are convinced that resistance is futile.

The second lesson to learn is how quickly social contagions spread. How an observably absurd and unscientific idea like transgenderism took over the West should humble us all and highlight the danger of losing a high and shared view of the human person. Until we can agree broadly on what it means to be human, what sex is for, what male and female mean, what marriage is, and why there are givens to our embodied nature, we remain susceptible to other absurd and dangerous notions.

And so, we should ask, even as this particularly bad idea is in retreat, what “inevitable” bad idea might take its place? How can we as Christians be better prepared and willing to respond?

As neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, a likely (but tentative) guess is that we will encounter new and dangerous forms of transhumanism. Just as transgenderism began with the belief that the body is merely a vehicle for the “authentic self,” so will visions of biological enhancement, AI relationships, new forms of “designer baby” eugenics, and attempts at immortality. And anyone who believes that there are created givens to the human person and moral boundaries that limit the expression of our “true selves” will be castigated and accused of hate, bigotry, and anti-science. Christians who understand that humans are made in the image of God must speak early and often, and especially clearly, no matter the cost.

Thank God that trans ideology, though far from defeated, is faltering. However, short of a cultural revolution in which our createdness is embraced and the myth of self-creation rejected, the West will continue to be vulnerable to the next bad idea that claims to be inevitable.