Posted on 07/18/2015 7:31:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was filling out a form at the doctor’s office the other day when I was reminded of a stark truth: Biological, genetic males will never be females, no matter how much surgery they have and no matter how many hormones they take.
The medical form had a line that said: “FEMALES: Time of last menstruation?” – and in a flash, I said to myself, Yes! There really are differences between males and females!
And that’s another reason why Bruce Jenner will never be a woman, no matter how hard he tries. (Let me pause for a moment for all those who want to shout, “Bigot! Hater! Transphobe! You’re worse than Hitler!” Go ahead and get that out of your system, then you can keep reading. But feel free to pause every so often to vent your feelings.)
I was reminded of this stark reality again when my son-in-law Jimmy played part of the video of Bruce Jenner’s acceptance speech for his ESPY’s courage award.
Jimmy had pulled up the clip on his cell phone, and I was sitting next to him when I heard a man speaking.
It was only when I looked over at his phone that I realized who the man was – now looking like a strangely disfigured woman – and Jimmy said to me, “It looks like a joke, but everyone is going along with it.”
But of course.
To not go along with this – no, let me take this a step farther – to not celebrate this wonderful moment is to be a mean-spirited, close-minded bigot of the worst kind. Even if you’re not smiling broadly enough and clapping vociferously enough when “Caitlyn” Jenner is announced is to mark yourself as a bigot (just ask former NFL icon Brett Favre).
And God forbid you say, “I just know that's Bruce Jenner and I'll leave it at that,” as former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield said.
The vitriol directed at Holyfield for uttering these simple, common sense words is vicious beyond description, but it’s fully justified, of course, because he’s being judgmental.
It’s a good thing for the world of sports that Jenner isn’t a young, world class athlete today.
Otherwise, the Olympic committee and other sports organizations would have to decide if this athletically gifted male could compete with females. Would they dare be transphobic and bigoted and tell him he couldn’t?
These issues have already come up in the world of combat sports, where a so-called male-to-female fighter has been dominating his female opponents to the point that some have openly complained and others have refused to fight him.
Is this really fair?
It appears that the female fighters involved are not impressed with the testimony of medical experts who have declared that this biological male, because of female hormones, has no physical advantage over his opponents.
The absurd, even surreal nature of this discussion is underscored by an article that appeared on the website for KOAT News, an ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The headline reads, “Birth certificate keeps transgender student off volleyball court,” and the story begins with these touching words: “Like many teenage girls, Alex Trujillo likes makeup, has teen idols and stays active.
“Yet, she can't play on the girl's volleyball team at Laguna-Acoma High School. School officials say that's because Trujillo was born a male.”
How bigoted and discriminatory! How utterly transphobic!
How can this be? The school will not let this biological male play on the girls’ volleyball team and compete against other girls simply because of a piece of paper?
The article, which always refers to him as her, states that “she isn't free to play the sport she has a passion for,” explaining that, “The gender on student's birth certificate dictates which team he or she will play for, according to the New Mexico Athletic Association. In New Mexico, someone can amend their birth certificate but only after reassignment surgery.”
Did you catch that? The gender on the birth certificate dictates what side you play on.
To be precise, it’s whether you are male or female that dictates what side you play on, because males have athletic advantages over females, and the birth certificate simply notes whether you are male or female. Even after sex-change surgery, those advantages and differences largely (or completely) remain, which means that you still should not be able to switch sides in sports.
But even with the allowance for changing one’s birth certificate after sex-change surgery, which is still outrageous, this wasn’t enough for transgender advocates, who say that the New Mexico laws are “unfair because not everyone opts to have that surgery.”
Once again, we are catering to social insanity, and if we really care about Alex (or about Bruce Jenner or about countless others who struggle deeply with gender identity issues), we must stop collaborating with this social madness and do whatever we can to help them find wholeness from the inside out.
The news of the last few days – from the New Mexico story to the prestigious ESPY awards – reminds us that we have our work cut out for us.
Who is going to drink the Kool-Aid next?
At least each of us can say, “Not me!”
I thought we were now at the point in the evolution of society where we can just “indentify” as whatever we want.
Rachel Dolezal can be a black woman
Bruce Jenner can be a woman.
Mental illness is a sad thing. It’s particularly sad when it affects an entire society.
On all of this garbage, bottom line is DNA. At this point in time, DNA cannot be changed from male to female. You can go through all the disgusting Dr. Mengele surgeries to look female or male, but in the end, your DNA will ALWAYS betray you.
We need to make DNA illegal
Gee! Who'd a thought...
When you have to deviate from natural biology and contort definitions to “feelings, lifestyles and choices” then the argument is a lie.
The whole premise of ‘transgender, transsexual, transvestite, etc.’ and whatever other cute diversionary names they come up with still boils down to deceit at two levels: to the public at large, and to themselves.
Anything and everything, excuse upon excuses, diversion upon diversions, all to hid the real problem that ultimately cannot be hidden - mental illness.
The world has truly gone mad. I hope and pray that we look back at this one day and say, “what were those people thinking?”
That it is all just a hysteria-induced psychosis much like the “War of the Worlds” hysteria of 1938.... but I’ve been wrong before.
I want to be a tree.
The Liberty Tree.
The only way for someone to put an end to this madness is for a “male” college kid with decent basketball skills to join the female basketball team at a d-1 school. When he/she begins scoring 100 points every game then it will end.
and transvestites are really sick Men in Drag
Most true males are actually lesbians in men’s body’s.
And it's even worse when society plays along.
It has been decided that every person in the world has a definitive DNA. It is also proven that DNA will allow one to determine male from female. So it makes no difference what goes on between some wackos ears what he/she wants to call themselves THEY ARE DEFINITELY MALE OR FEMALE as decided by nature not some half brained feeling that it isn’t so. If they want to call themselves Martians it does not make it the truth.
I’ll bring the water.
I would start a different trend. Across the nation...when you get polling paperwork or gov’t census data or anything to ID your heritage...ID yourself as a Filipino. Encourage your kids to do it...your wife...etc. Once we start to filter this data into national databases, and there’s like 220 million Filipino-ethnic Americans...someone will finally say enough and we stop this stupid behavior.
I don’t see anything to stop some idiot from fixing himself as a ‘borg’ (Star Trek) and starting to force the gov’t to recognize him as ‘Eleven of Sixteen’.
To encourage a person with a delusion that their fantasy is real has to be one of the cruelest things you can do to them. They are mentally ill and need help, not enabling. Something is horribly wrong with a society that rationalizes mental illness as normal while attacking those that point out this lunacy.
NO amount of surgery will change that.
It was 40 years ago that “Renee Richards” (born Richard Raskind) was denied admission into the US. Open Tennis champions because this hen used to be a rooster! The NYS Supreme Court ultimately let him compete as a women.
Dick Schaap: “Sure, Renee Richards should be allowed to play in the U.S. Open, but would you want your brother to date her?”
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