It was bound to happen sooner or later. A transgender woman is suing CrossFit for refusing to allow “her” to compete in one of their annual CrossFit games in the women’s division.

The Blaze reports:

“The lawsuit brought Thursday by Chloie Jonsson, 34, accuses CrossFit Inc. of violating her rights under a California law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Jonsson’s complaint says she was born male but has been living as a woman since she was a teenager and underwent sex reassignment surgery eight years ago. The surgery, coupled with the female hormones she takes, satisfied the state’s requirements for her to be recognized as female on her birth certificate and other official documents.”

The case itself is not so shocking as transgender people are making a major push for their “rights” in light of legal gains by homosexuals. But when CrossFit told this person that they could not allow her to compete because of the unfair advantage she would have over other women due to her birth as a biological male, the response by her lawyer is beyond the pale:

“They said she has an advantage over other women because of the sex she was born with, and that is completely untrue, scientifically.”

Quite often conservatives, for various reasons, get accused of being anti-science. You know, crazy things like we believe life starts at conception, we believe (many of us) that God created the world. All of a sudden we are “anti-science.” If those positions make us anti-science then what do we call a lawyer that believes there is no unfair advantage for a person born a man competing against persons born female in a strength competition?

The good folks over at CrossFit are not backing down. Their response is spot on and worth noting:

“The fundamental, ineluctable fact is that a male competitor who has a sex reassignment procedure still has a genetic makeup that confers a physical and physiological advantage over women…That Chloie may have felt herself emotionally, and very conscientiously, to be a woman in her heart, and that she ultimately underwent the legal and other surgical procedures to carry that out, cannot change that reality…Our decision has nothing to do with ‘ignorance’ or being bigots – it has to do with a very real understanding of the human genome, of fundamental biology, that you are either intentionally ignoring or missed in high school.”

All of a sudden I want to go join a CrossFit gym.

The reality is that the folks at CrossFit have a better understanding of biology and sexuality than this lawyer and his client. You can have all the surgeries you want, you can add and delete body parts as you wish, but you cannot change the inherent qualities that come with being born male or female.

Since the lawyer in this case doesn’t seem to have a solid grasp of biology, anatomy and physiology, let’s consider some of the inherent differences between men and women^[1] that cannot be changed:

Women convert more energy into stored fat during metabolism. Men convert more energy into muscle and expendable reserves during metabolism.
Men have larger hearts and can pump larger amounts of blood.
Women have larger kidneys, liver, and appendix, but smaller lungs than men.
Due to more water in their blood, women tired and faint more easily.
Men are at least 50% stronger than women, naturally.

Those are just a few of the inherent biological differences between men and women that give men an obvious advantage over women in anything dealing with athletics, muscle, fitness, and endurance. If you don’t believe this to be true, as yourself who would win in a game between the NBA’s all-stars and the WNBA all-stars?

Ask yourself why men and women don’t ever compete against one another in organized, professional athletics. The answer should be fairly obvious.

Well, fairly obvious to anyone but this lawyer and his client that want everyone around them to suspend reality and give them a pass that would create an unfair competition.

But suspending reality seems to be a trademark of liberals seeking to redefine everything under the sun from marriage to sexuality. Apparently the long held societal norms that have built our country and been a source of blessing for our nation are now evil and need to be amended. What better way to do that than by claiming a biological man has no unfair physical advantage over biological women. Only a truly anti-science, oblivious person could make that statement with a straight face

The deeper thought that needs communicated here is far more important than who wins a fitness competition. Transgender people are increasingly seeking rights that will not only infringe on the privacy, parental, and safety rights of others; they will bolster the confusion behind transgenderism.

California has decided transgender students can now use whatever public school bathroom and locker room they feel like. They can also play on either the boys or girls sports teams. The new law, which has been heavily opposed by both parents and family organizations, has created safety concerns and inequality in athletic competitions.

Such laws do a great injustice to society as we encourage and foster the confusion behind transgenderism. We could discuss sexuality all day and the effort to make sexuality fluid so that ideas of heterosexual and homosexual are a thing of the past. The brave new future is envisioned as one where flexi-sexuality is the norm and people simply choose yearly, monthly, or even daily what their sexuality will be.

At this point it is important to note that the argument contending that sexual orientation is analogous to race is both a smoke and screen distraction and completely devoid of any factual reality. This argument is often offered to stir up emotions and further the emotionally driven narrative of the gay community. It has no basis in reality or fact.

This is an easy conclusion simply because if sexual orientation was analogous to race both would be fixed and without ability to alter or change. And yet, as we’ve seen countless times, sexual orientation has indeed been changed. I’m unaware of any person that has successfully changed their race.

Any legal gains for transgender people will result in privacy, safety, and equality concerns for others. The “rights” of transgender people cannot coexist with the rights of others. That’s an honest statement that won’t be popular. As a society we should not be encouraging confusion in people that cause them emotional and mental anguish. The difficult reality is that this transgender “woman” is in limbo, caught between being disqualified from competing as a woman due to her biological gender and looking and feeling different than the men “she” should compete against. I don’t envy her at all.

If she still wishes to sue someone perhaps she should consider suing the people that encouraged him to give in to the confusion that resulted in this altered state of reality. Start with “her” lawyer.