When the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots take the field in this year's Super Bowl, there is one thing you will not see. Neither team will put a biological female on the field to play in the game.

Is this because the NFL is sexist? No.

In fact, there is no formal NFL rule that prohibits biological females from playing in the league. However, the league's official rules repeatedly use male pronouns when referring to players.

For example, one section in the NFL rulebook addresses the issue of "Offensive Substitutions." "The following," it says, "are applicable to any offensive substitute who is entering the game: (a) He must move onto the field of play or the end zone as far as the inside of the field numerals prior to the snap to be a legal substitution. If he does not, and is on the field of play or end zone at the time of a legal snap, he is an illegal substitute."

Now, what if one of the players on one of the Super Bowl teams announces just before the game that he no longer identifies as a male but as a female, and that he should be referred to as "her"? Would the NFL rules written for a "he" still apply to him?

Would he really be the first female to play in the Super Bowl?

On Jan. 13, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases — Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. — which are challenging state laws in Idaho and West Virginia that prohibit biological males from competing in all-female sports. In the oral arguments in Little v. Hecox,........

© Townhall