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In a development that surely triggered at least three emergency Zoom meetings in Democratic communications offices, Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz held a press conference for National Girls and Women in Sports Day and proceeded to speak at length about the importance of girls’ sports for — try to stay calm — girls.
Not “birthing person.” Not “people who menstruate.” Not “whoever checked female on a form.” Girls. Actual, old-fashioned, biologically female girls.
At one point she stressed the need to ensure “that the spaces where girls compete are safe.”
Safe from what, exactly? Flying discus accidents? A line drive? A rogue marching band trombone section? The press conference did not specify, presumably because everyone in the room knew the answer and also knew they weren’t allowed to say it out loud without being forced to apologize on social media for the rest of their natural lives.
Speaker after speaker explained why girls’ sports matter — confidence, leadership, resilience, opportunity — essentially reciting the founding principles of Title IX without acknowledging the extremely inconvenient reason Title IX had to exist in the first place: males and females are not physically identical, no matter how many DEI consultants insist otherwise for $450 an hour plus travel.
One speaker even recalled that girls once “had to fight to be allowed to play.”
Yes. They fought because they weren’t allowed on boys’ teams and needed their own competitive category. Not because they dreamed of someday competing against boys who decided the girls’ division was more their speed.
The vibe in the room was aggressively wholesome, like a Nike commercial from a timeline where common sense never got replaced by Buzzfeed fan fiction. Sports build leaders. Sports build character. Sports build community. All true.
At no point did anyone address the obvious question: if girls’ sports are so important, what happens when boys decide they’re girls and take the trophies anyway?
The most shocking thing about the press conference wasn’t anything controversial. It was that it sounded completely normal. No scolding. No finger-wagging. No insistence that disagreement equals hatred. Just a bunch of adults talking about girls as if girls are a real category that exists in nature and not merely a suggestion.
Female athletics are not a charity program for feelings. They exist because average differences in speed, strength, endurance, and power between males and females are so large that pretending otherwise produces results that look less like competition and more like a Nature Channel documentary where the gazelle never stood a chance. This is not controversial. This is why weight classes exist, why age divisions exist, and why nobody demands that kindergarteners compete against linebackers in the name of inclusion.
Remove the boundary and you don’t get fairness. You get domination with a smiley face sticker.
And yet here was the lieutenant governor of a deep-blue state standing at a podium celebrating female-only athletic spaces as something precious and worth protecting, apparently without realizing she had just endorsed the central argument she and her party usually treat like it came from medieval plague doctors.
To be clear, nothing she said was wrong. That’s what made it so disorienting. It was like stepping back into a world where words still meant what they used to mean.
The press conference ended with applause, photos, and the comforting illusion that everyone had participated in a harmless celebration. But if words mean anything — a risky assumption in modern politics — the entire event amounted to an accidental confession: girls’ sports exist because girls are not boys, and fairness requires acknowledging that reality whether Twitter approves or not.
For one brief morning in Hartford, woke ideology took a coffee break and reality wandered onto the stage, said something obvious, and left before anyone could explain why it was offensive
Enjoy the moment. It probably violated several internal guidelines and will not be repeated.
Girls’ sports are for girls. Everyone in the room knew it. They just weren’t supposed to admit it on camera.
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