For Ivy, the only reason anyone would differentiate between sex and gender is “in order to exclude trans women from so-called ‘female only’ spaces, including sport.” Ivy says “they are wrong to do so,” because it is “inconsistent and hypocritical to grant that trans women are ‘women’ but not ‘female’ and that trans women should not compete against ‘female’ athletes.” Ivy says that since sports organizations don’t make the distinction, and governments don’t make the distinction on her identification papers, other people should have no problem with it as well.

But other people do have a problem with it, and Ivy’s argument, as well as Hubbard’s Olympic participation in women’s weightlifting, shows clearly that this movement to force women, and the public at large, to believe fully that biological males who identify as transgender are in fact and in person actual women is a top down push. This is trickle-down social indoctrination.

At issue here is more than a few gold medals, or even more than a few women who are beaten in their chosen sports by biological males with suppressed testosterone levels who identify as transgender. What’s at stake, fully and in a very real way, is the definition of the word woman and the female body. Are biological women something different from biological males or are they not? Can paperwork and desire make a male body into a female one? Is the mind so removed from the body that it can belief itself to embody a biological sex that its body does not reflect?