The Washington Post recently published a story titled, “A trans girl was banned from her track team. Now she’s competing with the boys.” It follows Eliza Munshi, an 18-year-old male who identifies as transgender. Munshi joined the girls’ track team earlier this year, after President Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports.” But because of the executive order, Munshi was unable to play with the girls without invalidating the league—so Munshi had to compete with the boys.

In many ways, this is a success story from the perspective of those of us who have fought to protect single-sex spaces: Munshi, who is male, was able to compete with other males, even if Munshi does not conform to sex stereotypes (the Post story says Munshi preferred “glittery red flats” and “fairy dresses” as a young child, and Taylor Swift and pink hair as an adolescent—none of which make a person female). Activists have unfairly maligned the women’s sports movement, stating that it wants to keep people who identify as transgender out of sports altogether—but in reality, no proponent of single-sex women’s sports cares if someone like Eliza Munshi plays on the boys’........

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