Man Up or Shut Up!

"I'm a man but I want to play on a women's team!"

Just recently  ESPN's Outside the Lines featured an interesting story about George Washington University women's basketball player Kye Allums. She was born a female and is still by all accounts a woman. However, she wants to be referred to as man. Now I'm not here to determine whether she has the right to want to be called a man or a women because having that right is irrelevant. She's a woman because genetically she was born a woman and still has a females anatomy.
My problem with this whole thing is that she wants to be referred to as a man but wants to continue to play on a women's team. Now by law she has that right to do that because technically she is a woman. However, if she is demanding that people look at her as being a man then step your game up and go out for the men's team and let a person that wants to be a woman have that scholarship to represent women's athletics.

She wants to have surgery to remove her breasts but won't have her genitals removed or take testosterone shots just yet because she would medically be referred to as a man and would therefore lose her scholarship as a women's basketball player. In my opinion, she wants her cake and eat it too and that simply isn't fair to her teammates, coaches, the university and the game of women's basketball itself.  If she was born a woman and represents the game of women's basketball, then it's ridiculous to walk around and tell the world that she is a man.

There are little girls all over this country that are playing the game of basketball that look forward to becoming young women. They are working hard to prove that girls can play the game with the same intensity as boys. So to refere to herself as a man does the movement of women's athletics an injustice.

Please understand that I don't have a Heaven or a Hell to put her into so my opinion of her sexuality is irrelevant. The word of God says in  Romans 1:26-27," Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error".  I constantly hear people saying that they were born this way. All I know is that we were all born in sin and God says that we must be re-born.

So people can choose for themselves what they will do with their lives. God gives us all the free will to make our own choices and to live our lives as we see fit. So whether she wants to be a man or a woman is of no concern to me because I don't have the power to judge her. I just believe that it's unfair to the game and the people that have worked so hard to make it what it is today for someone to masquerade within it as a man.

Tomorrow we will celebrate the ultimate women's game as Notre Dame takes on Texas A&M for the national title.  I'm happy to see that these young women represent the game with the utmost respect for themselves, their families and  their respective universities.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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