Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates just blasted out another misleading alert to their supporters, urging them to oppose the Save Women’s Sports Act (SB9) — a commonsense bill that would ensure girls’ and women’s athletic competitions are just that: fair and safe competitions for girls and women. But in their rush to champion an extreme ideological agenda, Planned Parenthood revealed just how far removed they are from reality.

Here’s the sentence that stopped us in our tracks:

“Transgender women are women, and just as abortion has existed as long as pregnancy has existed, transgender women have existed as long as people have existed.”

Let’s unpack this nonsense — and “nonsense” is being kind.

Even for those who subscribe to an evolutionary origin of the human race, this claim makes absolutely no sense. Just imagine how far the human species would have not progressed if early men had decided to identify as a women. Or better yet, imagine if the first pregnancies ended in abortion — where would humanity be now? Extinct. 

That’s not speculation; it’s basic biology and common sense.

To make matters worse, Planned Parenthood claims “there is no documented safety issue” — but ask any young woman who’s been injured going head-to-head with a biological male on the field or court. There are documented safety concerns because males have undeniable advantages in speed, strength, and bone density. That’s not a talking point; it’s science. In fact, even World Rugby — which Planned Parenthood tries to cite — banned males from competing in women’s international matches because of safety concerns, expliciting staying they do not recommend allowing men presenting as women “…to play women’s contact rugby on safety grounds at the international level of the game where size, strength, power and speed are crucial for both risk and performance.” Ignoring the physical risk to female athletes isn’t compassion — it’s negligence.

Planned Parenthood’s email calls SB9 an attempt to “deny the dignity and humanity” of transgender individuals. In reality, what the bill protects is fairness, opportunity, and safety for girls across Pennsylvania. No one is denying anyone’s humanity. What we are doing is acknowledging biological differences and standing up for young women who are being forced to compete on an uneven playing field simply because too many lawmakers refuse to acknowledge basic, objective truths.

As Josue Sierra recently wrote in an op-ed at Broad + Liberty:

“Rather than address the undeniable biological differences between men and women, or the dozens of real-world examples where female athletes were harmed or displaced, many progressive legislators are simply pretending there’s no issue at all.”

But partisan talking points won’t keep our girls safe. And here’s the hard truth:

“The refusal by some Pennsylvania Democrats to even debate the core question — do biological differences exist and matter in sports? — is a textbook case of avoidance. They hide behind cheap talking points, legal obfuscation, and false smears of bigotry while dodging the reality facing young female athletes across the Commonwealth.

Our daughters deserve fairness, safety, and opportunity. They deserve our courage to speak and debate these issues honestly — even when it’s politically inconvenient. One would hope even a Democrat could do this.”

SB9 isn’t about discrimination. It’s about preserving the integrity of women’s sports. When girls train for years, push through injury, and sacrifice to compete — only to lose a podium spot or scholarship opportunity to a biological male — it’s not “inclusion.” It’s the consequences of abandoning science for the sake of radical ideology. It’s ignoring the explicit desires and demands of parents all across Pennsylvania.

It’s injustice.

And if Planned Parenthood wants to continue pushing out ideologically extreme and scientifically incoherent sound bites, they should expect to be met with facts, not slogans.

Pennsylvania’s daughters deserve better. Let’s give them the fairness they’ve earned and the safe, competitive athletic spaces they deserve.

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