Sports must be fair if they are to be worthwhile. One basic way that sports are kept fair is that women compete against other women, not against men, who tend to be faster and stronger than female athletes. In California, however, fairness has been pushed out the window by some male athletes. After beating women athletes in the long jump, triple jump, and high jump, biological male AB Hernandez stood on the podium with them and will be moving on to compete for a women’s state championship medal.Track and field events, measured objectively by times and distances, make obvious the disparities between men and women athletes, the reason for Title IX protections. In April at the London Marathon, Sebastian Sawe of Kenya became the first man to run a world-record-qualifying marathon in under two hours, covering the 26.2 miles in 1:59:30. Yomif Kejelcha followed Sawe across the finish line in 1:59:41. In the same race, Tigst Assefa set a new women-only world record, crossing the line in 2:15:41, 16 minutes behind Kejelcha, the second-place male.Sawe’s smashing of the two-hour marathon barrier is reminiscent of Roger Banister’s first-ever sub-four-minute mile back in 1954. Both feats also demonstrate why women compete against other women, and not against men. More than 70 years after Roger Banister broke the four-minute barrier, the women’s world record in the mile, set last June, is 4:06.42. Just as a 16-minute difference is in the marathon, 6.4 seconds in the mile is a massive gap. And, the men’s record is much faster, at 3:43.13, more than 20 seconds faster than the women’s record.