Truth, Dignity, and the Courage to Be FIERCE
In recent weeks, the Supreme Court heard two pivotal cases that expose a defining question of our time: Will we acknowledge the truth of the human person, or allow ideology to eclipse reality? While the cases concern athletics, their implications reach far beyond sports, touching human dignity, anthropology, and the moral foundations of our society.
Protecting Women’s Sports
The Court heard Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., both challenging state laws designed to protect women’s sports by excluding biological males from female competition. These laws recognize that male puberty confers lasting advantages in size, strength, speed, and power, and without such protections, women’s sports lose fairness, safety, and their purpose of providing equal opportunity for girls and women to compete. Little v. Hecox addresses Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which limits female athletics to biological girls using objective criteria. West Virginia v. B.P.J.challenges the state’s Save Women’s Sports Act and raises the question of whether Title IX, intended to protect women’s educational opportunities, can be reinterpreted to require inclusion of biological males. At their core, these cases ask whether the law should uphold biological reality or yield to an ideology that denies sexual difference and the truth of the human person.
Christian Anthropology: Truth, Love, and the Human Person
Christian anthropology teaches that every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, shares a common human nature endowed with inherent dignity, embodied as a unity of body and soul, and gifted with intellect, reason, and free will. Because we are made in God’s image, sexual difference is not arbitrary but reflects the truth of our Creator; to deny this reality is ultimately to deny the God who created us. Our embodied existence reveals this dignity and points us toward authentic relationships with others and, ultimately, union with God, reflecting the relational love of the Holy Trinity.
Love, rightly understood, is the will oriented toward the good of the other. Even in the face of opposition, such as from those who mistakenly support transgender ideology, our response must never be contempt or cruelty. Christians are called to see the world through the eyes of Christ, and respond to these heresies with truth, love, and mercy. We should therefore pray for and desire the healing, wholeness, freedom, and conversion of the hearts of those who are entrenched in these falsehoods. As Christ comes to us in grace and truth, so too must we act, embracing both truth and charity together.
Why This Matters for FIERCE
Our mission at FIERCE is to empower female athletes to thrive in their God-given identity and authentic femininity. Rather than merely reacting to the culture around us, we seek to be a thermostat, setting and upholding a higher moral standard through teaching and witness. FIERCE exists to be a LIGHT in the world, helping to reclaim the truth of our faith and the dignity of the human person, especially the gift of womanhood. We hope and pray for a positive outcome of the recent cases, but the battle for truth remains. In the 23 states without protections for women’s sports, we are called to do our part: living truth boldly, proclaiming it in charity, and allowing faith in God and His grace to empower our every action. This is the courage our moment demands. This is what it means to be FIERCE.