A delusion of Olympic proportions

Who doesn’t love the Olympics? The finest athletes of the world compete against each other on the global stage—the peak of human sporting achievement on full display. On a platform so prominent, it’s unsurprising that we’d find countries, corporations, ideological movements, and other entities vying to insinuate themselves into the event—to enter the spotlight and even dominate it. Such entities would love to influence masses of people around the world. For those inclined to modern history, tracing the political shenanigans surrounding the Olympics can be half the fun of studying its past. From athletes protesting the domestic policies of their own countries to cold wars, hot wars, and terrorism, the Games have always had a political side, and the situation today isn’t much different.

Unsurprisingly, the LGBTQ movement has inserted itself into the Olympics over the past several years, as it did during Friday’s shameful, blasphemous opening ceremony. It’s not hard to find articles celebrating the visibility of certain athletes. But there is a fly in the ointment: a little thing called “biology.” And biology does not get along well with LGBTQ. The innate sterility is the first giveaway, but multiple aspects of reality militate against the LGBTQ delusion.

In the case of sports, the “T” has become a source of immense controversy, and rightly so. Simply put, men tend to be physically “faster, stronger, and less injury-prone than women.” And what we’ve seen over the past several years are men dominating women’s sports, not vice versa. These men claim to be women; they pretend to be women. But they are men—their sex has been given to them by God, even though they repudiate this gift in confusion and ingratitude.

In general, men have the biological advantage, particularly in sporting events that feature raw power. It’s one of the reasons women’s sports exist as a separate category. This reality becomes all the clearer at the highest levels of competition, particularly at the Olympic level. On the whole, the grain of natural reality reveals itself in the excellence of athletes competing at the international level. Do a simple comparison between male and female records of various events and a general trend becomes clear: Men have a physical advantage. And therefore sex-segregated sporting events seem the best way to ensure access and competitive fairness. So far, so sane.

But the highest sporting authorities in the world are now attempting to walk a tightrope between competitive fairness and sexual liberation. Simply put, men pretending to be women are at an unfair advantage against actual women. Yet, instead of putting down a blanket ban against transgendered athletes, we can find byzantine rules that attempt to carve out some competitive fairness while placating contemporary ideology. In 2015, it was recommended that men compete in women’s events if their testosterone levels were low enough 12 months before the event and throughout the time they compete. After the 2020 Games in Tokyo (held in 2021 because of the pandemic), a non-binding framework lets the governing bodies of various sports set their own standards. Thankfully, some Olympic sports have tightened their standards to ensure fair play. But it’s not hard to see what this decision really was: a cop-out.

Why? Because, despite biological realities that even small children can perceive, and despite a desire for fair sportsmanship, there is immense pressure to conform to the ideology of sexual confusion and licentiousness, and all from the highest echelons of power around the globe, particularly amongst the cosmopolitan elite of the liberal world. The International Olympic Committee feels the need to placate them, and, indeed, such liberals are in the IOC.

This gets back to my earlier observation: The Olympics are often the stage for important, high-profile cultural and moral conflicts. Many wish to use the Games as an opportunity to showcase moral degeneracy—to further legitimize and normalize what we Christians know is sin. And let the record note that Christians are not alone in this conviction.

In fact, plenty of countries that compete in the Olympics are at variance with the LGBTQ agenda. A progressive ideologue wouldn’t hesitate to use this international event as a cudgel against the opposition. Unsurprisingly, there may be attempts to portray the cultural supremacy of sexual confusion in the 2024 Games. After all, Olympic athletes are often celebrities of a sort, and many societies are eaten up by the cult of celebrity. Why else spotlight LGBTQ athletes?

Nevertheless, I think the transgender movement may become the bridge too far, and I am not the first to claim this. Simply put, nature keeps rearing its beautiful head to challenge ideological myths and celebrated vices. Yes, the commentators—particularly in the West—will drone on with their woke sermonizing and fawn over certain athletes who are caught up in sin. But don’t miss how reality contradicts their worldview—the truth will be vindicated.