The era of men in women’s sports will soon be over

The US House of Representatives has just passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. This is just the beginning.

Of all the absurdities of the culture war, perhaps the most egregious is the normalisation of the idea that men should be able to identify their way into women’s sports. We are living through a period of mania, so we cannot clearly see how this will look to future generations. But I have little doubt that all those photographs of hulking men towering ov…