Dr. Wayne D. Lewis Jr., president of Houghton University, advocated against biological males participating in female sports, emphasizing the importance of preserving the integrity of women’s athletics.
He argued that allowing males in female sports undermines the achievements of female athletes and threatens opportunities for girls and women in sports.
“Biological males’ participation in women’s athletics is wrong,” Lewis wrote.
President Lewis issued a statement today in defense of women’s collegiate athletics. Read the statement and listen to his interview on the issue with @BobLonsberry on WHAM 1180: https://t.co/LsgDSkaHBS pic.twitter.com/X35SqsjcBL
— Houghton University (@HoughtonUniv) March 4, 2024
“Most Americans and most of the world know it to be wrong. A fringe agenda under the guise of making school and collegiate athletics more inclusive for transgender people has grown to the place of now unfairly displacing gifted and hardworking female athletes, obliterating the historic achievements and records of female athletes of the past, and threatening to dismantle the opportunities and protections for girls and women in sport trailblazing leaders fought so hard to create and protect,” he said.
“Too many leaders, parents, professional athletes, and people of goodwill have been silent as female athletes are humiliated, silenced, and robbed of hard-earned opportunities. That silence is complicit with the fringe agenda that threatens to dismantle girls’ and women’s athletics,” he wrote.
Lewis urged for community support to address this issue.
“Enough is enough,” he said. “I will not sit by silently as a university president whose female student-athletes step weekly onto tracks, courts, and fields to compete but, in some cases, are forced to do so on playing fields we know to be unfair. I hope you will join me.”
The stance aligns with recent actions in Nassau County, New York, where officials banned men from competing as women in sports facilities under their control to safeguard the integrity of women’s sports.
“What we are saying here today with our executive order is that if a league or team identifies themselves or advertises themselves to be a girls or women’s league or team, then biological males should not be competing in those leagues,” County Executive Bruce Blakeman said.
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