The debate over biological men pushing into female sports and spaces has taken some interesting twists lately. On the one hand, we have leftist California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) appearing to have a change of heart on protections for girls’ sports. This alone sent LGBT activists into a fit of rage. For Newsom, perhaps a rare moment of clarity has struck: fairness in women’s sports means women competing against other women — not against broad-shouldered, towering men draped in skirts and spandex.

While Newsom’s comments have been met with a fair share of skepticism — not merely from angry leftists, but also from questioning conservatives — there’s another conversation taking place that’s raising eyebrows. On Monday, Dylan Mulvaney — the infamous trans-identifying “influencer” — joined Whoopi Goldberg on “The View” for a sit-down that quickly turned into a spectacle. Clearly, the two were utterly flabbergasted by Newsom statements that trans-identifying athletes have no place in women’s sports.

“Last week,” Goldberg said with a sassy twang, “Newsom said that he thinks that trans athletes competing in girls or women’s sports was deeply unfair.” She posed this as a question for Mulvaney. However, she made it clear she fully intended to speak her mind as well. In fact, Mulvaney had only begun to comment when Goldberg’s monologue stole the show.

According to the former actress, trans-identifying men and woman actually have a lot in common! As she put it, “Part of the problem 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. When you come in and you say, ‘These are men competing against women,’ you’re assuming that the women are weak and just can’t do anything.” She continued, “Have you seen female athletes? They know what they’re doing, so I’m not sure what’s going on or why this is an issue. God doesn’t make mistakes.”

The Daily Wire may have hit the nail on the head when they suggested Goldberg only used Mulvaney’s “appearance to defend men invading women’s sports.” Additionally, the outlet remarked, it’s interesting that Goldberg claimed “God doesn’t make mistakes” when “the idea that people can be born the ‘wrong’ gender is predicated on the possibility of God making mistakes.”

Goldberg seems convinced that the real takeaway isn’t about the lunacy of men stripping women and girls of hard-earned trophies or invading private spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms. No, in her view, the true lesson is that anyone questioning transgender ideology ought to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Because, apparently, the women and girls suffering from this madness are the ones to blame. “The challenge is not to the trans people,” she claimed, “it’s to the people who are not trans. That’s what God is looking at to see how you treat people. That’s what is happening.”

It’s one thing to spout this extreme ideology to a radical, trans-identifying activist who likely agrees with her every word. But I wonder, are these comments she would be willing to say, face-to-face, to all the girls and women who have been both mentally and physically scarred by the claws of this agenda?

Consider Payton McNabb, a former athlete, who will never be able to play volleyball again after suffering a severe brain injury at the hands of a man parading around as a woman. After this traumatic event, she found herself in a women’s bathroom with a man wearing a yellow dress. She spoke out against it and was kicked out of her sorority as a result. Is Goldberg willing to have a sit down with her?

What about women like Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan, swimmers forced to share a locker room with Lia Thomas — a 6’1” male who towered over the competition and dominated the pool? And what about the high school girls’ basketball players injured on the court because someone decided a boy belonged in their game? Or the dozens and dozens of girls that missed out on almost an entire season of volleyball because they refused to compete against a biological man against their will? Is Goldberg, or anyone who actively fuels this, willing to look them in the eye? I wonder if they’re willing to say the quiet part out loud: “I don’t care about you.”

Would Goldberg — or any of the voices stoking this fire — have the guts to face these women and girls head-on? I wonder if they’d dare speak this aloud: “Your pain, your losses, your fears — they don’t matter to me.”

Girls have been robbed of victories, women have suffered injuries, and people have lost their jobs — all because a tiny fringe in this country care more about a destructive ideology than they do about having compassion, showing respect, and engaging with common sense. And it truly is a minority. President Donald Trump’s landslide victory in November, as well as his slew of executive orders combatting gender ideology, only confirm what most Americans demand: fairness and dignity for their women and girls.

And yet, as some of these cases have proven, it only takes one ball being smashed in your face, one instance in which your safety is compromised, or even just one moment in which evil is confronted for a life to be altered forever. Isaiah 5:20 states, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”

There are many aspects of this fallen world that demonstrate the tendency sinful man has to call evil good, to put darkness before light, and to put bitter before sweet. Abortion, casual sex, homosexuality, and prostitution are only a few examples of this inversion of biblical truths and values. But the trendiness of transgenderism has really skyrocketed in recent years, leaving an impact — both visible and invisible — that we’re only beginning to comprehend.

On a recent episode of “The Briefing,” Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler stated: “Boys should not be on girls’ teams, and men should not be on women’s teams. They should not compete against females in athletic competition. Is that right or wrong? It is emphatically, unquestionably right, but it’s not enough and it cannot stand alone.” It can’t stand alone, he went on to say, because this issue goes far beyond physical differences between males and females. At its core is an ontological rebellion against creation order.

Beyond policy, this debate strikes at the heart of who we are and how we’re made. Conveniently, Goldberg did bring up God. But she did so erroneously, and that gives us a chance to humbly correct her. It is true that God doesn’t make mistakes, which is part of what made President Trump’s statement during the 2025 address to a joint session of Congress so powerful: “Our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.”

That’s the message the entire world needs to hear. That’s what children and adults suffering with gender dysphoria need to hear. That’s what the people who support and promote this destructive ideology need to hear. God doesn’t make mistakes, so how you are knit together in your mother’s womb (Psalm 139) is exactly how you are meant to stay. In God’s sight, we are precious and beautiful, made in His image.

Goldberg said that people who identify as trans struggle deeply. And honestly, no caring person should dispute that. We acknowledge that they are deeply struggling, because they are deeply confused. They’re fed devastating lies on a silver platter by a world all too eager to indulge rather than heal. And ultimately, that’s because the world can’t offer them what they really need, which is found exclusively in Christ.