Posted on 04/10/2018 7:18:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If our world survives a few more generations, historians will doubtless look back at our current era and ask, "Was there something in the water? Something in the air? How is it that an entire society went mad at the same time?"
If you've read my columns over the years, you know I have compassion for those who genuinely struggle with their gender identity. That is something I wouldn't wish on anyone, something I do not treat lightly. At the same time, you know that I have often spoken against today's cultural madness in which perception becomes reality.
In the latest example of that madness, the Boston Marathon (among other marathons) has announced that men who identify as women can compete with the women.
Since everyone runs together, it would simply mean that their times would be compared with the times of the female runners. And since both the male winner and the female winner receive the same prize money ($150,000 in Boston), if a man who identifies as a woman beats the other ladies, he would win the prize.
Again, I'm not questioning the fact that some men believe they are really women (and vice versa). I'm simply stating the obvious: These men are not biological women, and it is not fair for a biological male to compete against a biological female. It doesn't take a rocket scientist at MIT to explain these simple facts.
But who cares about facts these days? What I feel is the only thing that matters. My morality. My truth. My reality.
Yet this corporate insanity is not limited to America.
Writing for the Daily Wire, Amanda Prestigiacomo tells us what is happening in Iran:
"The Iranian 'women's soccer team has found a loophole. Instead of comprising a team of actual women, they have added on eight full grown men who they claim are transgender and awaiting sex changes.
"'The country's football association was accused of being 'unethical' for knowingly fielding eight men in its women's team," reports The Telegraph.
"'[Eight players] have been playing with Iran's female team without completing sex change operations,' said Mojtabi Sharifi, an official described as 'close to the Iranian league.'"
Yes, "Members of the national team were ordered on Wednesday to undergo gender testing. Iran's soccer governing body implemented random checks in 2014 after four women's team players were discovered to be biological men who never underwent a sex change."
If you're wondering why these male players weren't noticed before, it's because, "Players on the Iranian women's team are mandated to wear long-sleeved jerseys, pants, and hijabs." (Adding to the sad irony of this story is this: While homosexual acts are punishable by death in Iran, sex-change surgery is "rampant" and is actually pushed on gays by some Islamic clerics.)
To say it once more: I'm not passing judgment on the motivation of these men. I'm not making a determination about the absence or presence of gender confusion in their lives.
I'm simply saying that there's a reason we have boys' sports and girls' sports in our children's schools (let's not forget about the locker rooms and showers!). And there's a reason we divide into male and female sports in every major professional league, as well as the Olympics. Men and women are built differently.
Last year Science Daily reported that, "Researchers identif[ied] 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women."
Specifically, "Weizmann Institute of Science researchers recently uncovered thousands of human genes that are expressed -- copied out to make proteins -- differently in the two sexes. Their findings showed that harmful mutations in these particular genes tend to accumulate in the population in relatively high frequencies, and the study explains why. The detailed map of these genes, reported in BMC Biology, provides evidence that males and females undergo a sort of separate, but interconnected evolution."
This makes perfect sense.
A 2014 report from the University of Helsinki indicated that, "Identifying genetic associations with X chromosomal genes can be particularly valuable in helping researchers to understand why some characteristics, such as height, differ between sexes. . . . Because women have two copies of this chromosome and men only one, identifying genetic associations with X chromosomal genes can be particularly valuable in helping us to understand why some characteristics differ between sexes."
Is anyone really surprised?
I do understand that a tiny percentage of people have a chromosomal or genetic or biological abnormality, because of which they do not fit neatly into normal categories. But I seriously doubt that the 8 men playing on the Iranian women's soccer team fit into this unique, neither fully male nor fully female category. Or that Bruce Jenner fits into this category. Or that the first man who will run as a woman in one of the marathons will fit into this category.
Last year, "Andraya Yearwood, a freshman who was born a male, won the girls 100-meter and 200-meter dashes at the Connecticut high school Class M state championships.
"Kate Hall — who last year won the girls 100-meter dash Class M state title as a sophomore — came in second to Yearwood at this year's 100-meter race and was tearful in the aftermath," the Hartford Courant reported.
"'It's frustrating,' Hall of Stonington High School told the Courant. 'But that's just the way it is now.'"
Let's hope it doesn't stay that way for long.
Indeed. And thus should not be allowed to mutilate themselves via surgery.
Nothing new. Henrich-Nora Ratjen did it first in the 1936 Olympics with Nazi blessings.
Wonder what other things the Nazis did will soon be “normalized” here.
Why even have separate men’s and women’s events? If men are going to compete against women anyway, just have one event where everyone competes.
I’m open to the Something In The Water position.
The Left pushed this tranny stuff to prove that they had the power to do something totally hideous, bring the media and much of the private sector along, and be totally IN OUR FACES.
...except now they’ve boxed themselves in. They saying that gender is whatever one feels like when they get out of bed in the morning, and with that they’re about to wipe out women’s sports. People do have limits, even those who tended to side with the Left on this crap - and it’s hard to see those limits not being hit here, with the result FINALLY being some serious pushback.
“Maybe it’s the Flu shots. Soldiers fighting in World War II were the first patients to receive the flu vaccine when it was approved for military use in 1945 and civilian use was approved the following year.”
My theory was the above-ground nuclear testing. The air was quite contaminated when the Baby Boomers were being gestated and then born.
In a day when the media-driven public wasn’t shocked and outraged at the slightest glimmer of hint of a mere suggestion of homophobia, sexism, racism, and whatever else the finger wagglers are obsessed with.
Liberals always know best, and look down their noses to people who believe in traditional moral standards, until their made up new, better reality blows up in their face.
At the risk of sounding rude, the Emperor has no c**k.....
Again, I’m not questioning the fact that some men believe they are really women (and vice versa). I’m simply stating the obvious: These men are not biological women, and it is not fair for a biological male to compete against a biological female. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist at MIT to explain these simple facts.””
Why isn’t it fair. Let em have equality and stop the hypocrisy in its tracks.
even have separate men’s and women’s events? If men are going to compete against women anyway, just have one event where everyone competes.””
That would be equality and that is not really what they want. They want legislated advantage and raw discrimination by force of law over men.
I agree
A Frankenstein vagina is not equivalent to a real woman’s wares
Plus besides sexual and reproductive organs there is the essence of femininity
You can’t concoct that
Correct. Drag queens are a caricature of women. Like minstrels in blackface only women.
Excellent analogy. Well said.
The world will belong to those who have children. Leftists and trannies/homosexuals can’t stand children.
good!!! let these shrieking moonbat snowflakes enjoy the monster they've created
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