Are you tired of being bombarded by ads, TV programs, professional sports messaging, sports show highlight segments, and athletic competition ad infinitum, ad nauseum pitching the normality of sexual confusion, in particular transgenderism?
Hi, I’m Rex Rogers and this is episode #255 of Discerning What Is Best, a podcast applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world, and a Christian worldview to current issues and everyday life.
Mar. 26, 2026, “the International Olympic Committee (IOC) finally issued a ruling it has been contemplating for months: Men can no longer beat up on women at the Olympics.”
IOC president, Kristy Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, said, “At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat, so, it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category.”
“One thing we will be waiting and seeing about is whether this policy will be applied retroactively. Will men who claimed to be women be stripped of their medals? Will they get an asterisk next to the records of their achievements?”
Wow. Yes, finally.
The Olympics first formally allowing transgender athletes to compete traces back to a policy shift in the early 2000s, when the IOC created eligibility rules permitting participation under specific medical and legal conditions. Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender woman, i.e. a man, to compete at an Olympic Games in weightlifting at Tokyo 2020, held in 2021.
Beginning with the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the IOC new policy restricts—I’d say “protects”—women’s events to biological females, determined through a one‑time SRY gene test. The IOC cites scientific review and the need for uniform standards across sports as the basis for this change.
But there’s more to it than science. The science, common sense, morality, biology, and history have been there all along.
What’s really going on is that the IOC is bowing to the enormous shift back to sanity that is underway in Western culture, back to 2+2=4, back to basic birds and the bees intel known to humanity dating to Adam and Eve. The IOC also saw the financial writing on the wall. They did not want to lose sponsors who are fed up with being asked to support illogical and inane and unfair competition their customers found offensive.
The IOC posted an article on its website, entitled, “International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.” Notice the wording. “Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category.”
Meanwhile, leave it to CNN to once again demonstrate how to use a media method called “framing,” i.e., slanting a story according to a desired narrative. Rather than saying “protecting women,” their headline said, “Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility.” Virtually all other media followed suit: The Guardian, ESPN, NPR, LA Times, USA Today, the NY Times said “bars.” FoxNews.com entitled its article, “IOC announces new policy to ensure only females compete in women's competitions.”
No one was “banned.” Male athletes posing as women can still compete as males if they qualify. One X user posted, “No one is prevented from competing. No one is excluded. There is a sex category for everyone. Everyone can compete, where eligible. You need to be good, and to qualify.”
Interestingly, 1976 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner, now living a sad life as Caitlyn Jenner, cheered the IOC ban on biological men from women's Olympic events.
While the idea and a few participants and activists have touted the transgender issue since the 1950s, the 2010s are the decade when transgender identity became a national cultural issue, and then in the 2020s solidifying it as one of the most contested topics in American public life.
After the Supreme Court of the United States declared same-sex marriage legal in Obergefell v Hodges in 2015, the focus shifted from LGB to LGBT with the T taking center stage. For more than a decade, American culture has been treated to a tsunami of propaganda masquerading as science and compassion, demanding what intolerant activists called “tolerance,” and calling people “bigots” for simply expressing prudence, rational thinking, and horse sense. But no, if you were anti-trans you were somehow not with it.
In his book, 1984, George Orwell said, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Yes, don’t believe your lyin’ eyes.
The Bible has something to say about reasoning in a reasonable world. In the language of the old King James Version of the Bible in 2 Pet. 3:5, people are described as “willingly ignorant.” In other versions like NIV, it’s “deliberately forgetful” or in the ESV, “deliberately overlook.”
In 2 Thess. 2:11, in the language of the old KJV, it notes how people give themselves over to “strong delusion.” In the NIV it’s called “powerful delusion.”
Paul is describing people who reject the truth and embrace lawlessness. Because they refuse truth, God allows them to experience the consequences of their choice—being swept up in deception.
In other scriptural passages, we learn ideas, including wrong or evil ones, have consequences. “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done” (Romans 1:28). “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;” (Hosea 4:6). Those who “hated knowledge” reap the consequences (Proverbs 1:29–31). These passages echo the same moral logic: rejecting truth leads to confusion, distortion, and judgment.
Hopefully, this policy change by the IOC—which Jenner described as top of the mountain and what they do has a domino effect on down—hopefully, this means other sports associations will also return to rationality and sanity.
Meanwhile, we should not use terms like “Trans women” because these individuals are men. And reject the media vocabulary labeling people “biological” men or women. There is no other kind of men and women.
We should keep men out of women’s prisons and locker rooms. It’s a related but different subject, but the transgender ideology is costing the criminal justice arena millions of dollars that would not need to be spent if men were put in men’s prisons.
Another part of the propaganda is what we see in television and cinema. Yes, it’s fun to watch our favorite female protagonist on police shows like NCIS or FBI or Magnum PI, etc., fight, knock down, beat up or otherwise subdue a bad guy.
And no doubt there are women in law enforcement, military, and security who have learned to handle themselves in a way that protects themselves and their partners. But is it really realistic to believe 115-pound women can at any time physically overpower 190-pound male assailants?
On a similar note, “the fact that most men would win most fist fights most of the time against most women is why (a given female conservative pundit) considers anti-gun views to be anti-women and anti-disabled. If you ban guns, then people will only be able to use their physical strength to defend themselves. Even a knife or other melee weapon requires strength to be used effectively. And to ask women and disabled people to rely on their physical strength means that they will be disproportionately at a disadvantage. Now, you need some strength to operate a gun, and some people will be too profoundly disabled to operate one safely, so a gun doesn’t completely level the playing field…” but for many, it could be a life-saving tool.
This is just one ripple effect of the nonbinary ideology that for a time has deluded American culture. It also makes a direct impact on everything it touches. For the LGB—lesbian, gay, bisexual—these folks are attracted sexually to others of the same sex, but still, they remain women or men, so there is no need for special restrooms, yada yada.
But for the T in LGBT—transgender—this person psychologically and emotionally and spiritually believes he is a she or she is a he, so they present a category that disrupts all of civilized society. They say they require and they demand special treatment, separateness, “other,” which translates to new family, social, commercial, educational, athletic, governmental, and health costs.
But no, as a civilization perhaps in the name of liberty we allow, but we are not required to endorse, promote, or in totalitarian fashion demand adherence to the abnormal represented by a miniscule percentage of the population.
I find it sad. I watched Bruce Jenner become the world’s greatest athlete in 1976. What happened to him? Did he die? So, I am not gloating about the IOC ruling, but I am certainly glad for it.
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