The Supreme Court is once again at the center of a national debate as it considers cases that could determine whether transgender athletes may legally compete in women’s school sports. The rulings will affect not just a few states, but potentially the future of women’s athletics across the country. That is why this conversation is happening now, and why it matters beyond politics or party lines. As reported in the Supreme Court hearing this week, the justices are weighing whether states may lawfully preserve sex based categories in athletics.
At issue are state laws designed to protect women’s sports by limiting participation to females. Lower courts blocked those laws, and the states appealed. The Supreme Court is now being asked to decide whether those protections violate federal law or whether states retain the authority to preserve fairness in women’s competition.
This is not an abstract issue. It directly impacts girls and women who train, compete, and sacrifice in sports that exist precisely because male and female bodies are different.
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The Supreme Court case on transgender athletes forces the country to confront a basic question: should women’s sports be governed by biological reality or by self defined identity, and can fairness survive if sex differences are ignored.
Why women’s sports exist in the first place
Women’s sports were not created as a political statement. They exist because physical differences between male and female bodies are real, measurable, and significant. These differences appear early in development and become more pronounced after puberty.
Male bodies generally have larger skeletal frames, higher bone density, greater lung capacity, stronger connective tissue, and more muscle mass. Even with medical intervention, those structural advantages do not disappear. Hormones may alter some characteristics, but they do not undo years of male development.
This is not controversial in any other context. We recognize sex based differences in medicine, athletic training, and safety standards. The only place we are suddenly told those differences no longer matter is when women’s sports are involved.
When males are allowed to compete in female categories, women lose opportunities, records, scholarships, and in some cases safety. No amount of re labeling changes that reality.
This is why I believe women deserve fairness in sports. Equality does not mean erasing the very category that exists to protect them.
Compassion does not require denying reality
One of the most dishonest claims in this debate is that opposing male participation in women’s sports means lacking compassion. That accusation is emotionally powerful, but it is false.
I can acknowledge that some people experience deep distress about their bodies while also saying that distress does not redefine reality. Compassion does not require affirming every belief someone holds about themselves.
In every other area of life, we recognize that internal conflict often signals something that needs care, not celebration. We do not call confusion clarity or disorder health simply because naming the problem makes people uncomfortable.
Scripture presents the human person as a unity of body and soul. When those come into conflict, the answer is not to deny the body or rewrite reality with new terminology. The answer is truth, patience, and care rooted in what God created.
That is what genuine compassion looks like.
Language does not create reality
One of the most important aspects of this debate is language. Words are being used not merely to describe reality, but to reshape it.
Terms like “cisgender” exist to make what is normal sound like just one identity among many. Biblically, there is no special category for a man who is comfortable being a man or a woman who is comfortable being a woman. They are simply male and female, as God created them.
The word “transgender” is often treated as if it describes a meaningful change in sex. In reality, it describes a psychological experience, not a biological transformation. A man can alter his appearance, take hormones, or even remove healthy body parts, but he does not become female. A woman can do the same, and she does not become male. Saying that out loud is not cruelty. It is accuracy.
The same issue appears in phrases like “assigned at birth,” “transitioning,” or calling a male a “trans girl” or a female a “trans boy.” These terms suggest that sex is provisional, something that can be revised over time. But sex is not assigned, it is observed. Doctors do not guess. They recognize what is already true.
No one transitions from male to female or female to male. What changes is appearance and presentation, not reality. Adding the word “trans” in front of boy or girl does not create a new category of human being. It attempts to redefine what boy and girl mean in the first place.
This matters because women’s sports cannot function on ideological language. They require clear, reality based boundaries. When language blurs sex, those boundaries collapse, and women are expected to absorb the consequences.
Mental distress cannot be normalized away
Another aspect of this debate that deserves honesty is mental health. Acknowledging mental distress is not an insult. It is an act of concern.
Gender dysphoria has long been understood as involving significant psychological conflict. That understanding did not change because the human body changed. It changed because cultural pressure demanded a different framing.
High rates of anxiety, depression, and emotional instability among those who experience gender dysphoria are well documented. Pretending these struggles do not exist does not help anyone. Rebranding distress as identity does not resolve suffering.
I have had conversations where even expressing concern is treated as hostility. That reaction itself reveals something important. If compassion is only acceptable when it denies disorder, then it is no longer compassion. It is ideology.
A society that refuses to acknowledge mental struggle cannot offer real help. It can only offer slogans. As I have written before in Protecting Children From Gender Medicine, denying reality in the name of affirmation ultimately harms the very people it claims to protect.
Protecting women is not exclusion
One of the most troubling developments in this debate is how easily women are expected to step aside. They are told that inclusion requires their silence and sacrifice. That is neither just nor sustainable.
Female athletes train with discipline and commitment. Their achievements matter. Their boundaries matter.
Protecting women’s sports does not deny anyone’s humanity. It simply recognizes that fairness requires categories grounded in reality.
If the Supreme Court rules that sex no longer matters in athletics, women’s sports as we know them will not survive. They will become symbolic rather than competitive.
That outcome would not advance equality. It would erase it.
A biblical foundation for fairness and truth
My position on this issue is not political. It is biblical.
Scripture teaches that God created humanity male and female, intentionally and meaningfully. That design is not arbitrary. It extends to our bodies, our capacities, and our limitations.
When culture tells us that truth must yield to feelings, Scripture tells us the opposite. Truth is not unloving. It is necessary for justice and healing.
The Supreme Court can rule on law. It cannot change creation. No court decision can undo the reality of sex based differences or the need to protect women from unfair competition.
Where this leaves us
The Supreme Court case will be framed as a win or loss for one side or another. But the deeper question will remain.
Will we continue to protect women based on reality, or will we allow language and ideology to override fairness.
I know where I stand. I stand with women. I stand with truth. And I stand with a biblical understanding of the human person that refuses to sacrifice reality for approval.
Arch Kennedy
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