If you, like the majority of Americans, oppose men infiltrating and dominating women’s sports competitions, you might be falling for Nazi propaganda. At least, that’s what Vox’s latest article “Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in Nazi Germany” implies.
Since the beginning of time, humans have recognized the fundamental differences between men and women. In recent years, the widely recognized distinctions between the sexes, however, have suffered attacks from a radical ideology that prioritizes the wishes of gender-bending men ahead of women and their protected spaces.
There is no doubt that males have an indisputable physical advantage over women. The American College of Sports Medicine says males “are stronger, more powerful, and faster than females of similar age and training status” which is why a whopping 69 percent of Americans are against letting males play on female teams.
According to Vox, however, anyone who counts themselves among the percentage of people who value the importance of preserving women’s sports is drawing on a narrative created by Nazis.
“The Nazi era has substantially shaped the conversation surrounding trans athletes today,” Vox author Alex Abad-Santos claimed.
He hinged much of his analysis on the book, The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, by New Yorker, New York Times, and Atlantic contributor Michael Waters and the athletic career of Czechoslovakian track and field star Zdeněk Koubek.
Abad-Santos claimed “there was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in
