8 in 10 Americans Don’t Want Boys in Girls’ Sports

by Ken Ham on January 30, 2025
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You’ve probably seen the videos: a lanky, six-foot-tall high schooler takes off from the starting line, quickly outstripping the competition, taking first place by a landslide. In his wake are the other athletes: high school girls fighting for second place because a boy has stolen their chance at placing first. Well, according to a new survey, Americans are waking up to what’s happening and they want it ended!

The survey found that nearly 8 in 10 Americans (79%) don’t believe “trans-identified male athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.” This is just common sense—males are bigger, faster, and stronger than females. They have a larger lung capacity, larger muscles, a bigger heart, and other physiological features that—even if they are on estrogen—give them a major advantage over females. It’s why males and females compete in separate divisions in the first place!

To protect women’s sports, “27 states have implemented laws or regulations requiring trans-identified athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their sex rather than their self-declared gender identity” and Trump recently signed an executive order that defines male and female and bans males from competing in female sports (and vice versa) that receive federal funding.

The survey also found that nearly half (49%) of Americans affirm that “society has gone too far in accommodating transgender people,” and 71% said that “minors shouldn’t have access to drugs that will stop their natural growth and deform their bodies.” Thankfully, 24 states have “implemented measures banning trans-identified youth from obtaining puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.”

It’s encouraging to see the tides turning when it comes to the transgender issue.

It’s encouraging to see the tides turning when it comes to the transgender issue. There are so many consequences to gender ideology, it’s hard to even grasp them all—children left with confusion, physical pain, and mutilated bodies. Girls and women losing opportunities, scholarships, and awards to men. Women forced into humiliating, degrading, and dangerous situations as men invade their private spaces, including restrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, spas, shelters, and even prisons. Families are left in shambles after a parent decides to pursue his or her so-called “true self” and leaves to find a new identity.

And the list of pain and hurt just goes on and on and on.

When we rebel against God’s design for us, pain always follows because even in a fallen world, God’s design is good and it is necessary for human flourishing. Sadly, many Christians have been taught by our culture to be ashamed of what the Bible teaches about male and female (Genesis 1:27), and they’ve either gone along with the culture on this issue or they’ve just been quiet about what they really believe.

But our commitment to defend the faith, make disciples, preach the gospel, and love our neighbor should compel us to speak and share biblical truth even when it’s not popular. And the science of genetics confirms humans only have two sexes/genders—male and female, XY and XX.

I’m thankful for those who, since this gender madness began, have boldly stood on biblical truth, like we’ve done here at Answers in Genesis. I believe it’s made a difference and those courageous voices are one reason we’re seeing the shift in our culture that these new surveys are showing.

Let’s continue to do what the church is always called to do—stand for truth, whether most Americans agree with us or not!

Let’s continue to do what the church is always called to do—stand for truth, whether most Americans agree with us or not!

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This item was discussed yesterday on Answers News with cohosts Avery Foley, Dr. Tim Chaffey, and Rob Webb. Answers News is our weekly news program filmed live before a studio audience here at the Creation Museum, broadcast on our Answers in Genesis YouTube channel, and posted to Answers TV. We also covered the following topics:

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Watch the entire episode of Answers News for January 29, 2025.

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Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

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