The Left's message to girls: Learn to 'lose gracefully'

 Evie Edwards details her cyclist race against a transgender athlete on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

During a recent House Oversight Committee hearing, Fatima Goss Graves, the Democratic witness and head of the National Women’s Law Center, demeaned the experience of women and girls forced to compete against physical males in sports by suggesting they "learn to lose gracefully." 

This is the message she wants young women to receive. It appears to be the message many in the Democratic Party want to promote.

I spend many off-work hours shuttling my daughter, a young female athlete, to and from sporting events and practices. Sometimes it’s running; I ran alongside her as she trained for a race for months, pouring her heart into every mile. Sometimes it’s swimming; throughout the year she has three grueling lap practices a week and regular early morning swim meets. 

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for fifth in the 200 freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18, 2022, in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Sometimes she wins, and when she does it’s because of a combination of her natural abilities and her dedication to practice. Sometimes she loses, and this is the reality of sports, which she is learning. But win or lose, my daughter, and all female athletes, must be allowed to compete on a level playing field. Only then can we talk about grace.

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It seems Goss Graves would have me deliver a different message to my daughter. Get pushed off a podium or into third place because