When I was in elementary school we had “school olympics” during which students participated in various olympic style games. Not the 1stcentury lion-eating, bare knuckles boxing style games, it was the run, jump, throw kind of olympics. I was a runner.

I ran the sprint and won. I beat every little boy in the school. It was clear that I was the fastest guy in our elementary school. When there was no more boys for me to race against, I was scheduled to race against the fastest girl in the school.

She had done the same thing I did: she beat every one of her counterparts. Since there was no other girls for her to race so she was to race me.

I remember thinking it strange that the school would pit a boy and girl against each other. I remember thinking to myself that if no boy could catch me, how would a girl catch me? But since I was a typical little boy, always happy to show I could beat a girl, I raced her.

Fast forward nearly thirty years and the reality that males are typically faster than females has not changed. Looking into the world of competitive sports makes the biological differences between males and females clear. From muscle mass to respiratory function, the hormones that dominate our bodies create differences in us that are biologically verifiable.

Knowing this, it is not surprising that parents would be upset that transgender students are being allowed to compete in high-school sports.

In Connecticut, two transgender girls (born male, identifying as female) won first and second place in the 100 meter race at the State Open finals. This bothered parents of biological girls fearing their daughters were losing out on opportunities for recognition and potential scholarships. The parents have started a petition to change the state high-school athletics rules to require students to compete based on their biological gender. This according to a recent article.

It’s understandable that parents are upset. Their daughters are, essentially, being forced to compete against male athletes. This 100 meter race in Connecticut was largely decided before it even began. It was little more than a race between the two males for first and second place; with the females vying for third.

We are likely to see more stories like this one popping up across the country. Our culture’s eagerness to indulge the cultural confusion surrounding gender will ensure that. And while the backlash might be timid at first, it will grow. Students and parents that miss out on opportunities for recognition will not be content to sit, quietly applauding the sexual revolution.

Imagine how you would feel, trying to explain to your daughter why she has to race males. Imagine having to find a way to help your daughter understand that all her hard work and effort are likely for nothing as she is outmatched, physically, by this biological male. Why should she run? Why compete against an opponent with an unfair advantage?

In professional sports we don’t let athletes do things that create an unfair advantage. We don’t allow doping or the use of human growth hormones because it creates an unfair advantage against those not using these drugs. We say to our athletes, “you all have access to the same type of training, weights, diet, and legal medicine; it’s up to you how you utilize them.” Some excel, some don’t.

It is telling, however, that professional sports are segregated by gender. In fact, I would suggest that professional sports offer us the clearest picture o the biological differences between men and women. In every venue of pro sports, the bar is set higher for males. The tee box is farther from the pin, the 3-point line is farther from the rim, and the center-field wall is farther from home plate.

Women don’t compete with men in pro sports because there would be no competition. Regardless of how good the WNBA all-stars are, they have no ability to beat the NBA all-stars. No team of softball champs will hit anything Max Scherzer throws at them. Usain Bolt would barely warm up to beat a woman in the 100 meter sprint. And football…we don’t even have to go there.

People with common sense know that there is an inherent unfairness to allowing biological men and women compete together. It’s why everything from pro-sports to the Olympics is segregated. Because fairness demands this segregation. Fairness is why a transgender male was barred from being drafted into a women’s AFL league in Australia.

The panel that barred this male from being drafted into a women’s sports league said he would have “an unfair physical advantage” over his opponents. There it is, common sense.

The cultural advocates pushing the LGBTQ revolution, however, want us to celebrate equality by celebrating in-equality. They want us to be more concerned with the gender identity (feelings) of a kid that’s not ours than we are with the success of our own child. And if that means our child loses recognition or scholarships so the transgender child can “win,” so be it.

This is not equality. It’s obvious inequality for the sake of pc politics. It will create a divisive atmosphere in which kids will suffer a subtle oppression by being forced to remain silent. It’s tragic. It must stop.