Just in (I have bolded the key passage):
The Department of Justice today filed a statement of interest in Idaho federal court defending Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act against a challenge under the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
“Allowing biological males to compete in all-female sports is fundamentally unfair to female athletes” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “Under the Constitution, the Equal Protection Clause allows Idaho to recognize the physiological differences between the biological sexes in athletics. Because of these differences, the Fairness Act’s limiting of certain athletic teams to biological females provides equal protection. This limitation is based on the same exact interest that allows the creation of sex-specific athletic teams in the first place — namely, the goal of ensuring that biological females have equal athletic opportunities. Single-sex athletics is rooted in the reality of biological differences between the sexes and should stay rooted in objective biological fact.”
Exactly right. Whatever you might think about sex vs. gender, implicit in any discussion is the assumption that there are in fact such things as male and female versions of each. The differences between the sexes being indisputably physical, they are stubbornly real. As Philip K. Dick once said:
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Read the rest here.