Posted on 02/06/2019 6:11:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Suppose I declare that I am a king. Should you be required to address me as "Your Majesty"? You say, "Williams, that's lunacy! You can't prove such nonsense." You're wrong. It's proved by my declaration. It's no different from a person born with XY chromosomes declaring that he is a woman. The XY sex determination system is the sex determination system found in humans and most other mammals. Females typically have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX) and are called the homogametic sex. Males typically have two different kinds of sex chromosomes (XY) and are called the heterogametic sex.
Governments are beginning to ignore biology and permit people to make their sex optional. Sex can be changed on one's birth certificate, passport, Social Security card and driver's license. In New York, intentional or repeated refusal to use an individual's preferred name, pronoun or title is a violation of the New York City Human Rights Law. If a person born with XY chromosomes asserts that he is a woman, then repeatedly addressing the person by the name on his birth certificate, referring to the person as "him" or addressing him as "Mister" violates the law and subjects the villain to heavy penalties. The law requires acknowledgment that sex is optional rather than a biological determination.
Do the people who support the optionality of sex also support the optionality of age? My birth certificate shows 1936 as my year of birth. Age cutoffs exclude me from many jobs, such as police officer, service member and firefighter. If one can change his sex on his birth certificate according to how he feels, why not his age? I think I'll petition to change my year of birth to 1972.
Super Bowl LIII made history. For the first time, there were two male dancers working out with a cheerleading squad -- in this case, with the Los Angeles Rams' squad. Men being on the field with female squads is not new. They've helped the women with stunts. But Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies danced with the female cheerleaders and performed all the same moves. It's nice to see cheerleader barriers fall, but there's another form of rampant cheerleader discrimination that needs to be addressed. I don't think I've ever seen a full-figured older female cheerleader for any professional sports team. Most appear to be younger than 30 and don't look as if they weigh more than 120 pounds.
There are other forms of discrimination in sports. There's a sensible argument that can be made for segregating sexes in football, boxing, basketball and ice hockey. Men are typically stronger and bigger than women, so integrating sports such as football, boxing, basketball and ice hockey would lead to disproportionate injury and possibly death to women. But what about sports in which there's no contact, such as tennis, bowling, billiards and swimming? Why should there be men's teams and women's teams? Why aren't feminists protesting against this kind of sports segregation? After all, feminists have ignored the huge strength, aggressiveness and competitiveness differences between men and women in their demands that women be assigned to military combat units.
Refusing to acknowledge chromosomal differences and giving people the right to declare their sex can lead to opportunities heretofore nonexistent. For example, the men's fastest 100-meter speed is 9.58 seconds. The women's record is 10.49 seconds. What if a male sprinter with 10-second speed claimed womanhood, ran in the women's event and won the gold? A lower bar to achieving fame and fortune exists in women's basketball. It would take only a few tall men who claim they are women to dominate the game.
Suppose a college honored the right of its students to free themselves from biological determinism and allowed those with XY chromosomes to play on teams formerly designated as XX teams. What if an "unenlightened" women's basketball team refused to play against a team with a starting five consisting of 6-foot-6-inch, 200-plus-pound XYers? The NCAA should have a rule stating that refusal to play a mixed-chromosome team leads to forfeiture of the game. It's no different from a team of white players refusing to play another because it has black players.
Williams is one of those old dinosaurs who still cleave to rational thought.
I reject your reality, and substitute my own!"
I am all for freedom. In that regard if you want to call yourself a woman and yet you pee standing up, have at it. However, I have freedom as well. Don’t infringe on my freedom to call you a dude and advise you to seek psychiatric help for your mental condition.
“...referring to the person as “him” or addressing him as “Mister” violates the law and subjects the villain to heavy penalties.”
What if a person prosecuted for accepting reality instead of a deluded fantasy simply tells the judge “I identify as a foreign diplomat and am not subject to the law under which I’m being charged. I demand to be released.”?
Is reality optional?
Certainly.
Just ask any Millennial, and/or “Social” “Justice” “Warrior”.
It’s included with the basic options package, just like being the first generation in recorded history to have mastered the art of sucking and blowing at the same time. :P
Ever since Kant the intellectuals have been saying that realty is unknowable, and truth is what works, what feels good, or what society says is true. There is no objectivity and there are no absolutes. Sooner or later anything goes.
“Governments are beginning to ignore biology and permit people to make their sex optional.”
Make their gender optional. There will always be two sexes. This is another sad case where the leaders of the global leftwing will deceive millennials into thinking they can be anything they want.
On that note, regarding transgenders in the military. If you have an innie you are a woman. If you have an outie, your a man. You will be uniformed accordingly. And while you are in the military, you will not be able to use your assumed gender as an excuse for American taxpayers to pay for your sex change. Leave the military and get it on your own dime.
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He jokes about being a king, but there are adult women who seriously consider themselves princesses and have no interest in reality.
Walter E. Williams for decades preached that one sided, privileged Tariffs are great for the U.S. Our industry is now GONE to foreign nations, and like Communist China, now owns Hollywood.
Walter E. Williams preached that the Tariff destruction of the USA middle class & fathers into poverty is a good thing.
Walter E. Williams must have been well paid by the cheap labor lobby because he can only rant now about obvious simple topics like, XX & XY.
And our free nation may not survive the destruction of cheap labor, sh*t hole foreigners.
Walter E. Williams is a Rino SCAM ARTIST, well compensated.
He was wrong. He duped Rush Limbaugh for years.
Instead unprotected Tariff trade with Communist, socialist slave nations, makes your fathers into slaves. That they are.
I am all for freedom. In that regard if you want to call yourself a woman and yet you pee standing up, have at it. However, I have freedom as well. Don’t infringe on my freedom to call you a dude and advise you to seek psychiatric help for your mental condition.
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Anti-discrimination laws and new Human Rights laws forbid you from having freedom in your private life on these issues. You must demonstrate PUBLIC acknowledgement or face the wrath of government .
We need an update to the classic children’s story “The Emporer’s new clothes”.
In this version, when the child yells “but he doesn’t have anything on”, instead of everybody agreeing with the child, the child will be hauled away by officials and taken to a re-education camp, where that child will be cured of his crime of living in a reality-based world.
‘It would take only a few tall men who claim they are women to dominate the game.’
stop talking about Britney Greiner that way...
Sooner than later reality will get its revenge.
I have freedom as well. Don’t infringe on my freedom to call you a dude and advise you to seek psychiatric help for your mental condition.
In NeuYawk you try that and you’ll be thrown in the slammer!
And while you are in the military, you will not be able to use your assumed gender as an excuse for American taxpayers to pay for your sex change.
Yeah, but if I have a outie can I still use the little girls’ powder room?
“Yeah, but if I have a outie can I still use the little girls’ powder room?”
Is there a Target on base?
I identify as a 74 year old man, educated in the public schools of South Carolina where I entered first grade in 1950. In that school I was taught that the word gender applies ONLY to PRONOUNS, not to people. I still think that way. Any reference to a person as being of male or female gender drew a reprimand from my teachers and any reference to something as absurd as “cisgendered” would have placed me in grave danger of being confined to a mental hospital. Any expression of the idea that a person could change from male to female or vice versa would have GUARANTEED confinement in a mental hospital.
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