It’s funny how the universe works.

The first round of the women’s NBL1 competition is set for April 1st. That’s when the Kilsyth Cobras, whose team is very likely to include a biological man, take on the Geelong Supercats.

Except it’s not April Fools, it appears to be the policy of Basketball Victoria to allow biological men to compete in the female league if they identify as women.

Basketball Victoria Chief Executive Nick Honey said the policy would ‘improve inclusivity’.

It’s almost as if ‘inclusivity’ is now a religious dogma that cannot be questioned.

Honey forgot to mention that the inclusion of a biological man in the women’s team means the exclusion of a woman from the women’s team.

He went on to say that Basketball Victoria recognises there is no ‘one size fits all’ answer as to whether or not players are eligible to compete.

He’s right of course. You can have small female players, usually known as guards, and you can have really tall female players, usually known as forwards. Size is not the issue.

The issue is biology!

Basketball Victoria’s Diversity and Inclusion Manager Sheena Atkin said:

‘Basketball has long prided itself as “Everyone’s Game” and this remains the case.’

Au contraire. Basketball is no longer everyone’s game. It is now a man’s game, where biological men can choose to play against their peers, or against women. And women must suck it up on the name of ‘inclusivity’ or be accused of bigotry.

The decision has sparked outrage from current and former basketballers who are less enamoured with the cult of inclusion than they are concerned about the safety and rights of women.

Former NBA star Andrew Bogut tweeted:

‘Word is @NBL1 South Women will have a biological Male playing this upcoming season. Are you ok with sacrificing the sanctity of Female Sport in the name of “inclusion”? #GirlDads where are you? The hashtag is trendy until action is needed.’

Two-time championship-winning NBL guard Matt Shanahan, who coaches the Victorian Metro Under 18s side and whose 16-year-old daughter is on the squad of an NBL1 team, said:

‘Opening a massive can of worms if this is allowed.’

NBL player Anthony Drmic described the decision to include a transgender athlete in the NBL1 competition as … ‘wild’.

Not as wild as Frankston Blues forward Chloe Bibby’s response.

The female NBL1 player tweeted:

‘As someone who plays in the NBL1, I don’t care what they identify as or their pronouns, she/her, they/them, he/him because regardless I’m still gone try beat their ass on court.’

I’m ‘gone’ try beat their ass? Is that some culturally appropriated slang from the American gangster scene? Da ghetto be so confusin’. Anyway, the tweet continued:

‘They want to play ball & I have nothing but the upmost respect for this person. Go kill it queen.’

‘Queen’ being the biological man now identifying as a woman in the women’s league where a biological woman is no longer playing on account of her spot being taken by the, er, Queen.

Sigh.

I wonder if the women who are excited by this decision will care when their spot on the roster is taken by a woman with a penis. (Note to self: Drop da mike.)

Meanwhile, in the USA, President Joe Biden has said anti-trans laws are ‘close to sinful’.

He didn’t say which laws he had in mind, but he went on to say:

‘It’s not like a kid wakes up one morning and says, “You know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change”.’

All of which raises the question, what do Christian schools do when their Catholic President says it is ‘close to sinful’ not to throw Genesis 1v27 in the bin?

A Christian school in Vermont has been banned from all inter-school sporting matches after their girl’s basketball team forfeited a game because an opposition player was a biological male.

‘We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardises the fairness of the game and the safety of our players,’ Mid Vermont Christian School head Vicky Fogg said in a statement.

‘Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general.’

Vicky Fogg by name, but wonderfully clear-sighted by nature.

The Vermont Principal’s Association (which evidently has no principles) responded by banning the Christian school from all future tournaments, in all sports.

And then, in justifying their decision to exclude Christians for believing, not in God, but in biology, the VPA played the ‘inclusion’ card.

‘The VPA again reiterates its ongoing support of transgender student-athletes as part of building an inclusive community for each student to grow and thrive,’ the association said.

These Wokey statements of allegiance to the inclusion cult are so tiresome.

Repeat after me in a trance-like state…

Trans women are women. We support inclusion. Trans women are women. We support inclusion. Trans women are women. We support inclusion. Trans women are women. We support inclusion.

Continue until it makes sense, or until you become so worn out that you couldn’t be bothered fighting unreality any longer. Just give in and let the current take you.

You can follow James on Twitter. You can order his new book Notes from Woketopia here.

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