By Joy Pullmann
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
The latest girls’ 100- and 200-meter dash winner from
Cromwell High School in Connecticut has some broad shoulders, manly biceps, and
a mustache — because he’s not a girl. The power of social stigma is strong
enough, however, in this politically and culturally Left community to coerce an
entire girls’ track team and their families to affirm an idea their eyes and
experiences can easily disprove and which is directly harmful to their own
aspirations and children.
Just listen to the 15-year-old transgender youth’s mother
explain
why she is willing to say that her obviously male son, who also has not
taken drugs nor undergone surgery to mimic femininity, is a female. She thinks
helping him affirm the truth will cause him to take illicit drugs or kill
himself in revenge upon his community for refusing to affirm a lie: “The
decision to be supportive was easy, right? Because she can be whoever she wants
to be, but what she won’t be is suicidal, she won’t be an addict, she won’t be,
you know, dependent on other ways to feel good. She needs to be herself. And if
that means I support her in her transition as a transsex–transgender female,
then that’s what I do as a parent.”
This is a real number to do on a mother, to tell her that
her choice is between refashioning the entire world to fit a delusion or a dead
child. It’s a real number on a child, to tell him that he can be the center of
an entire world fashioned around his fantasy if only he picks the currently
politically correct fantasy, and that he should feel justified in threatening
those who love him with suicide or other self-harm if they don’t comply. “Nice
little son ya got there. It’d be a shame if anything…happened to him.”
Mass manipulation is the practice of an enslaved,
totalitarian society, not a self-governing one. Transgender politics run on
emotional manipulation rather than appeals to reason, tradition, and natural
law that lead to informed consent from citizens. This is because reason,
physical reality, and natural law oppose the trans lobby’s political aims. They
manipulate mothers with the threat of their children’s suicide because it’s
effective, just like the mafia threatening business owners with harm to
themselves or loved ones is effective.
But is it just? No. In the long run, allowing this scam
facilitates popular delusions and expands injustice. Good therapists help their
clients accept and live within reality; enablers try to protect their
codependent partners from reality, and thereby make the problem worse. Even if
this social delusion is tough to counter, it is the right and necessary thing
to do.
The Victims the
Trans Lobby Doesn’t Want You To See
Every time a boy places in a girl’s sports competition he
is necessarily displacing a girl. This is how competition works: it’s a
zero-sum game. There can only be one winner of the 100-yard dash, only one
second-place, and so forth.
Not only is it not a fair competition to run someone with
naturally higher testosterone levels, tougher bones, and higher muscle
saturation against women who naturally have less of all these
athletic-enhancing features (which is why we separate men and women’s sports in
the first place), every single time a boy does so he is taking away
opportunities that rightly belong to a girl: opportunities to win a trophy,
gain self-confidence, push one’s personal best, and develop momentum going into
high-level competitions that can lead to scholarships and careers.
While the meet that sparked news coverage of this young
man was only an early-season local meet, his times there would have netted him
second place in the girls’ state
track championships last year in the 100-yard dash, and approximately tenth in
the 200-yard dash. If he competed in the right division against boys, however,
his times wouldn’t likely even get him to state, as every single boy who
performed at state last year bested his times in both events by a solid margin.
Now, he has room to develop, since he’s just a freshman,
but that’s how things stand right now. Playing a boy as a girl is unfair, and
it always was going to be, since — newsflash — men and women’s bodies are
different.
When The Sexes Are
Considered Interchangeable
Even transgender adult males who are taking cross-sex
hormones are hard for women to beat. Just ask Canadian female cyclists, or the
female MMA fighters against Fallon Fox. Obviously as it grows this trend will
erode sex distinctions in sports events. The International Association of
Athletics Federations already struggles to define male or female-ness for
competition purposes due to a handful of intersex and transgender competitors,
notably runner Caster Semenya.
This will take a long time to work out socially, but
major upheavals will be unavoidable. One that has already begun to hit is the
implications of judicially and regulatorily expanding a variety of laws
forbidding sex discrimination to also encompass sexual orientation and gender
identity. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently wrote sexual identity
as a protected class into the portion of a 1964 law forbidding sex
discrimination, Title VII. The 8-3 majority took the opportunity granted by the
Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision
legalizing gay marriage to expand the word “sex” to mean not just male or
female biology, as was understood at the time the employment discrimination law
was enacted, but also one’s sexual self-understanding and behavior.
How are the gay marriage and trans issues connected? With
the legal supposition of interchangeability of the sexes. The Seventh Circuit
majority in Kimberly Hively v. Ivy Tech
Community College made it clear that since Obergefell concluded it’s discriminatory to regard sex differences
in marital coupling (i.e., to say that a male-male pair is in any way different
than a male-female pair, even though men and women are physically distinct
beings and one of each required to create children) it’s also discriminatory to regard sex differences in potential
employees’ choice of sexual partners.
Both gay marriage and transgender policies hinge on
people agreeing that a man can be essentially
the same thing as a woman, and vice versa. Marriage, as a keystone in law,
once legally genderless allows for de-sexing other institutions. This
assumption in Obergefell, now
embedded in Supreme Court precedent, is therefore also affecting rules about
sex differences in many other forms. Such as school sports and bathrooms.
That’s the connection to a pile of federal regulations
that have a huge effect on a variety of social policies. For example, under
President Obama the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, Education
Department, and Department of Justice all announced they would read various
statutes prohibiting sex discrimination to also encompass gender identity, even
though this contradicts the majority of the related jurisprudence and
regulatory interpretations since the laws were enacted.
Turning
Protections for Women Against Both Sexes
This is also how laws that were intended to protect women (like Title IX) are being
transmogrified to provide special advantages for men who choose to masquerade
as women. Once laws and regulations have accepted the LGBT advocacy groups’
premise that sex distinctions are not important, laws and social activities
based on those distinctions, which usually advantage women, are in jeopardy.
In a case also before the Seventh Circuit where a
Wisconsin public school district wants a transgender girl to use a private
shower instead of showering with the boys, since her demands violate the boys’
privacy, “The key legal issue…is whether federal sex nondiscrimination
law—Title IX—which was intended to provide equal access for girls to
educational opportunities—will instead be used for a purpose other than
Congress intended.”
The judge hearing that case was very aggressive with the
school district lawyer despite his ask simply being that the girl get a sex
change before she join naked activities with boys, calling that policy
“separate but equal” and “Jim Crow.” Well, ma’am, men and women are different but equal, and that’s
simply a fact of life. Sex differences are not the same as racial differences.
It’s not bigotry to point out that only a woman has a uterus and only a man has
testicles (the rare intersex conditions that do exist are properly understood
as disabilities, thereby being exceptions that prove the rule).
Obergefell is a
head domino, and we’re about to see it knock down a lot more sex-distinct
policies. It’s a pretty sure bet Americans did not expect tolerance for two
consenting adults doing whatever behind closed doors to become a spearhead for
forcing naked boys to shower next to naked girls and make girls second-class
players on their own fields. That’s what happens when you base social policy on
feelings rectroactively justified by pretend reasoning, and use courts as a
major vehicle for turning those feelings into policy rather than through
elected officials more responsive to legislating by consent.
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