New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) women’s swimming championships at the University of Maryland last weekend gave pro-trans media outlet Outsports a headline to celebrate: “Trans swimmer Meghan Cortez-Fields ends college career on the podium.”
Most Americans continue to react in disgust to another photo of a smiling male standing proudly with a women’s medal, and the first “out trans” to stand on an NCAA podium since University of Pennsylvania’s Lia Thomas in 2022. It’s only evidence of the insanity that continues to infect the wide world of women’s sports.
This year, New Jersey’s Ramapo College, an NCAA Division III institution, moved Cortez-Fields to the women’s roster after he swam three years on its men’s team. From the opening of the season, Cortez-Fields brought glory to the fledgling program, clocking new school record times in the 100-yard butterfly, 50-yard freestyle, and 200-yard individual medley.
Cortez-Fields was quick to credit Thomas with inspiration. Like Thomas, Cortez-Fields is a fully intact male who went through puberty. No amount of hormone suppression will negate that advantage in women’s sport, even if lacking in technique.
Facing pushback early in the season, Ramapo College claimed it was just playing by National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules. It was also giving a very mediocre male swimmer the chance to improve its dismal conference standing in a women’s sport.
New Jersey suffers from the same regional wokeism as Pennsylvania and other Northeast schools. No New England state has passed a law protecting female athletes in their
