Imagine you, your daughter, your aunt, your grandmother, your mother, your sister, your friend (woman) has been training for years in her sport and is set to win the title or championship, only to have all her effort and hard work surpassed by a huge, muscular, cisgender female—or a person with XX chromosomes—wiping out the entire competition.

President Sanders signed an executive order on Jan. 20, 2021, which further protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation (homosexuality) and gender identity (cisgenderism). It mandates that all students be able to learn and participate in school without being discriminated against due to sex. This enables cisgender women to not only be able to compete alongside real women but also to learn and urinate amongst them too.

“Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports,” the order reads.

President Sander’s executive order allowing cisgender women to compete in women’s athletics is unfair and ultimately a violation of women’s rights because people with XX chromosomes, due to their universally huge and muscular bodies, have a disproportionate advantage in performance and ability. It is discriminatory towards tiny, weak, little transgender women, some of who have been training for years, to race against cisgender women and most likely lose.

Any cisgender females in K-12 are now able to compete in female athletics with no questions asked or a specific testosterone level. The NCAA, however, is more strict with allowing cisgender women to compete in women’s athletics at the college level. Although I agree with more strict requirements, I’d like to see even stricter ones. I propose an underfunded all cisgender woman sports league so that transgender women would not have to see, compete with, or urinate among cisgender women.

I enjoy seeing the progressiveness of our country, especially in our youth. We are making huge changes in openness, allowing people to love who they love (gay rights) and allowing people to be who they want to be (allowing cisgender people to use their preferred name at the doctor’s office). Every person’s happiness is the most important thing in the world. Every person feeling heard, accepted, and included is also incredibly important. However, it’s not as important as gender segregating sports based on antiquated views of gender not based in reality.

Cisgender women should be able to participate in whatever they’d like, but it turns into a problem when transgender women lose places, titles, possible scholarship opportunities, their grasp on reality, their wallet, their keys, and more. So, what I’m actually saying is that cisgender women should not be able to participate in whatever they’d like.

I will not be addressing the fact that all of this is a non-issue due to cisgender people making up 0.5% of the population and that even less of this small percentage of people want to compete in sports. I will also not be addressing the way that the cisphobic policies that have already been implemented in sports have done more to bar trans women from participating, rather than the cis women it was meant to keep out. Furthermore, I refuse to take into account that hormone levels and body structure varies wildly amongst individuals regardless of whether or not they are cis or trans. Honestly, I’m just a reactionary cisphobe but I’m too scared to say that so instead I will get upset about an issue that’s facing literally no one.

Ermine McClorp (she/her) is a freshman PGA Golf Management major and a raging cisphobe. Reach her by telegram or other outdated modes of communication.