In a recent discussion on women’s sports and transgender athletes, actress and TV host Whoopi Goldberg shared her perspective while speaking with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s stance on trans athletes in women’s sports.
The conversation began after Mulvaney, who recently celebrated her third anniversary of transitioning, brought up Newsom’s comments about trans athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports being “deeply unfair.” Mulvaney shared her limited experience with sports, noting that her last sporting endeavor was at age six when she assigned herself as the team nurse during soccer.
Mulvaney referenced her friend Skyler, known as Pink Manta Ray, a trans athlete who transitioned from female to male and competes with other males – a situation that Goldberg pointed out isn’t the focus of Newsom’s concerns.
Goldberg then addressed the broader controversy surrounding trans athletes in women’s sports. “I think part of the problem that the trans community is facing, and it’s the same problem that women face, is if you don’t know anything about our bodies, you don’t know how it works,” Goldberg said. She challenged assumptions about female athletes’ capabilities, asking, “Have you seen female athletes? They know what they’re doing.”
The discussion concluded with Goldberg expressing a religious perspective on the matter, stating, “God doesn’t make mistakes,” and suggesting that the challenge lies not with trans individuals but with non-trans people’s treatment of others. “That’s what God is looking to see how you treat people,” she emphasized.
Men retain biological advantages over women even after suppressing testosterone due to several key physiological factors that are established during puberty and remain largely unchanged. Unlike women, men do not experience a cycle, meaning they do not undergo the same hormonal fluctuations that can affect performance, recovery, and endurance. Additionally, men typically have greater bone density, which provides increased structural strength and resistance to fractures, a critical advantage in contact sports. Their naturally higher levels of hemoglobin and red blood cells also enhance oxygen transport, leading to superior cardiovascular efficiency and endurance. Even after lowering testosterone, these advantages—along with factors like muscle fiber composition, tendon strength, and lung capacity—persist, giving biological males an edge in speed, strength, and durability that hormone therapy cannot fully erase.
