The Sydney Morning Herald is distraught because a man is not allowed to join a women’s basketball team.

Transgender athlete Lexi Rodgers will be given advice and support by Basketball Australia if she chooses to reapply to join a women’s semi-professional league after her application was denied on Tuesday.

That is, a man who claims to be a woman will be given advice and support by Basketball Australia if he chooses to reapply to join a women’s semi-professional league after his application was denied on Tuesday.

Why? Why should he be given advice and support? He shouldn’t be trying to join a women’s league in the first place. Tell him to knock it off and go away. Support the women for a change.

Look at what a deplorable terf I am. How did I get this way? Why am I so heartless and cruel toward my trans sisters?

I can explain how. It’s this shit, repeated a billion times over the past ten years or so. How did the people who think all this is just fine get this way? Why are they so indifferent about the women who are being harmed by this bizarre belief system?

Rodgers said on social media that she was saddened by the decision, but says it is not the end of her journey as an athlete. Basketball legend Andrew Gaze backed Basketball Australia’s process, but said he was disappointed for Rodgers.

Why? Men don’t get to play on women’s teams. Everyone knows why.

Rodgers put out a statement on Instagram saying his passion for basketball motivates him to play to the best of his abilities “against the toughest competitors at the highest levels.”

But if that were true he wouldn’t be trying to join a women’s league. Women are smaller than men, and not as strong, and not as fast. That’s why sports have to be divided by sex. Women aren’t “the toughest competitors,” because their bodies have to do the work of childbearing rather than the work of getting balls into nets. Rodgers is just lying when he says his love of the game inspires him to take on the toughest competitors.