In real life, you may not find yourself needing to defend heterosexuality and God’s design of the binary sexes; you’re either male or female, and we all know this. But online, and in situations where the left has pushed it too far, you may find yourself facing off virtually or in person with one of those rabid pro-trans activists who insist on shoving the trans lie down your throat.
That’s not an exaggeration. The typical debate posture for the left, and trans activists in particular, is to attack aggressively, sometimes try to shout you down, and pretend that you are the one coming at the debate from the fringe. Yes, you who have the nerve to believe that human development that’s happened over hundreds of thousands of years does not need to be turned upside down because a man with a mental illness, a man who thinks he’s a woman, insists that you believe that, too. Not because the science changed, but because you might hurt his feelings by “misgendering him,” or God forbid, not allowing him to share a locker room or restroom with your minor daughter.
Because the left is so aggressive and so relentless, it can be a bit overwhelming. For this reason, it may be worth keeping a few simple comebacks at the ready if you ever find yourself interacting with someone from the left who advocates for “trans rights” in women’s sports.
“Trans women are women.”
Of course they’re not. If they were, you wouldn’t need to call them “trans women.” You’d just call them “women.” That’s because they don’t share any of the biological traits of real women. Take your pick: reproductive organs, chromosomes, skeletal anatomy – the list goes on. Men and women are biologically different. Politics, feelings, and a societal strategy of appeasement don’t change this. If “trans women” were actually women, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion.
“Trans women have a right to participate in sports.”
I agree with you. They do have a right to participate in sports, and so, if they meet every objective definition of a male, they can and should participate in male sports if they can compete. No one is stopping them. They can use the locker rooms and participate in competition with those who share the same biological traits and advantages when it comes to sports competition. Modifying testosterone levels does not change the human anatomy, the size, or the innate strength of the athlete. Excluding men from female sports is not inappropriate discrimination. In fact, allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports discriminates against the women. Women are built differently than men, which is why Title IX came into being in the first place – to give women a safe place to compete against each other.
“You need to be a biologist to know the difference between a man and a woman.”
There are many variations of this narrative. The most recent came from WNBA basketball coach Stephanie White.
Indiana Fever coach says she “isn’t educated enough from a scientific standpoint” to say if men should be able to play women’s sports. These people are batshit insane. pic.twitter.com/j5uCIPT2X2
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 1, 2026
But the most famous person to take this line of attack was Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during her nomination hearings.
‘I’m not a biologist’: Remember when Ketanji Brown Jackson couldn’t define what a woman is during her confirmation hearing? pic.twitter.com/FED6voMN8i
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) October 22, 2025
The simplest retort to this is, if I asked you to tell me whether you are a man or a woman, you could tell me, couldn’t you? Well, if you can do that, you know the difference between a man and a woman. Your claim that you need to be a scientist or a biologist is more than being evasive. You’re being dishonest.
“Surgeries and hormone treatments level the playing field.”
Untrue. Medical science can’t, through hormone therapies and surgeries, take away a biological male’s competitive advantage. He’s bigger, stronger, faster, and innately more aggressive than most women he’d compete against. Separately, if you have to do all of this so that he can compete with biological females, you’re already admitting he’s a man in the first place. You’re also defeating the purpose of competition. Sports have rules and regulations against performance-enhancing drugs like steroids. Artificially trying to change a man’s testosterone levels so that he can compete against women is the same fundamental ethical violation, only in a different application — you're tampering with his physiology to enable him to compete against a class of people who don’t have access to the same biological advantages.
Massachusetts girls high school track and field state championship a few weeks ago. Can you guess which is the male?
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) March 14, 2023
Chloe's message to the girls he beat who protested his inclusion..."Deal with it. Just deal with it." pic.twitter.com/s0c6T7qmum
“If you oppose trans athletes in sports, you’re a transphobe.”
There it is – the name-calling portion of the debate, which is a sign you’re winning. The simple response to this is to point out again that you are all for trans athletes competing in sports. In fact, say you’d love to see a trans athlete who is a biological male compete against other biological males as it should be.
“If you force a ‘trans woman’ to share a locker room with men, 'she' will be traumatized, attacked, and ridiculed.”
We can’t even start to address this before we first address the needs of young girls and women who do not wish to be exposed, literally, to male genitalia and biological male behaviors in their own private spaces. Until you admit that this is the most overriding human rights issue at play here, we can’t even talk about private spaces for trans athletes.
Teenage girl sees a naked biological male at a YMCA shower room
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 22, 2023
Media: “She says she’s a woman, period. That’s where it ends.” pic.twitter.com/PW30C3Dqvm
“When you include trans athletes in women’s sports, all women benefit.”
Sports are by nature exclusionary. The best athletes and teams win, the lesser ones lose. The best ones play, the lesser ones sit on the bench. The best ones win the trophies and the prizes, the lesser ones do not. The best ones get the scholarships and the contracts, the lesser ones do not.
Biological males unfairly rob biological females of opportunities and recognition for their athletic achievements. Even if it’s just one male who competes in a field of 200 swimmers or track athletes, he’s taking away a place that a biological woman would otherwise have, and one which she’d deserve. Again, this is why Title IX exists. Allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports makes a mockery of Title IX and all of the progress women have made in athletics to date.
A high school girl’s disappointed reaction after losing to a biological male in a track meet is sparking national debate. pic.twitter.com/3j4wkbgkaH
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) May 13, 2025
This just scratches the surface of the issues trans activists will bombard you with. They will also point to famous athletes who’ve gone on record in support of allowing men to compete against women in sports. That doesn’t change anything. They’ll claim that “trans women” are a rare occurrence in women’s sports, but that’s deceptive. While one male competing in field of female athletes is one too many, the end game for leftists is to start small and expand incrementally. To look backward, historically, and to claim that, to date, “trans women” are rare, is to intentionally avoid discussing plans for the trans movement, which we all know is to make this sort of competition more common.
The one inconvenient truth in all of this is that nothing has changed. Men can never be women, and so to try to win a debate over science by using politics and emotion will never win. That’s why conservatives need to be comfortable knowing that on this issue, more than any other, they couldn’t be more right.
