Posted on 03/07/2019 9:19:23 AM PST by Kaslin
It’s an odd juxtaposition that in 2019 the self-professed “party of science” is pushing all their chips into the center of the table against the concept of biology. Democrats have rejected not only biology, but all of human history and their own eyes to embrace the idea that what constitutes a “man” or a “woman” is now open to interpretation. To think otherwise, to believe your lying eyes, is now on its way to being a hate crime.
Were this just a passing fad you could maybe laugh it off. But this delusion is being codified in law in states across the country. California made it a crime for state workers to use the wrong pronoun in nursing homes. When it was reported that people could face jail time for this “offense,” the left-wing PolitiFact leapt to declare it “misleading and inflammatory.” The only problem is they also admitted they “also found an element of truth: Violations of the bill could, under limited circumstances, be treated as a misdemeanor with punishment of up to one year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.”
That’s exactly what conservative news sites had been reporting, but somehow it’s misleading when conservatives report it.
Fear not, fans of the clear definitions of words and biology, PolitiFact found a law professor who assured them “the bar for criminal prosecution would be extremely high.” Of course, these are the same people who assured us we could never be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt, it would always just be an additional ticket were we pulled over for something else. Thanks to the creeping hand of government, you can be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt now.
None of this is to defend people driving without seatbelts, it’s to illustrate how government works, particularly so-called “progressive” government. Like the Blob, they inch along a little at a time, expanding ever-more into areas we were told it would never go.
On the transgender issue, I suspect most people are like me – I don’t care what you call yourself or insist you are, it’s your life and you can live it or screw it up however you like. Just extend the same courtesy to me and everyone else. But leftists aren’t willing to extend that courtesy, they want control.
It’s not enough that a man be free to prance around in a dress demanding to be called “Chelsea,” everyone else must also call him Chelsea and celebrate his existence as a woman. Live and let live has been replaced by celebrate or else.
Call traitor Bradley Manning “Bradley” or Caitlyn Jenner “Bruce” and you’ll be accused of “dead-naming” and be banned from social media. Personally, I have no use for any Jenner, so the odds of me using either name are slim. As for Bradley, I have a policy of showing his lifestyle choices as much respect as he showed our national security secrets with which he was trusted.
Still, I couldn’t care less about Brad or anyone else. A person’s private life is theirs. As long as what anyone does something with is of age and willing, knock yourselves out. But now this delusion is creeping again, this time into sports.
The top female track stars in Connecticut high school sports are boys, and they crushed the competition. As the father of two girls under 2-years-old, by the time they’re old enough to compete, if boys are allowed in, they and no other girls will stand a chance. That’s not me talking, it’s that pesky science again. Men are, on average, stronger than women, and they’re faster. As I wrote in my book:
“Usain Bolt is the current world record holder for the 100-meter dash, completing the run in just 9.58 seconds. The women’s world record is held by the American Florence Griffith Joyner at almost a second slower, 10.49 seconds. Flo-Jo’s record would easily crush the speed of 99.9 percent of the world’s population, and not just because there are more people better qualified to be competitive eaters than competitive runners. But she would be an afterthought if she ran in the men’s race in the Olympics, as her women’s world record would have been a distant last-place finish in the men’s finals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The last-place finisher in the 100-meter finals posted a time of 10:06 seconds.”It doesn’t matter what someone says or thinks they are, they are what biology (not surgery and hormone pills) dictates they are. You can live your life however you want, but men competing with women is imposing your life on others, and it’s wrong.
Since leftists now demand gender fluidity is real, that a person can declare themselves to be the opposite of what they are or not at any given moment, what would stop any aging male athlete to retire to a second career dominating women’s sports? Michael Jordan could proclaim himself Michelle and rule the WNBA; Tiger Woods, bad back and all, would rack up one LPGA Tour victory after another, not to mention a whole bunch of dates. Imagine the outcry.
But that outcry would have to be tempered by the rules leftists are now imposing – that you can’t question anyone’s declared identity. There aren’t many professional women’s sports, but they’d all be fair game for duffers and scrubs to take over. The Olympics are already getting on board with this concept, so you can kiss goodbye any actual female weightlifter or track medalists, and wresting won’t be far behind.
Or we could simply admit reality – that men and women are biologically different – what someone feels like is irrelevant to that truth. Let people live their lives however they wish, but when it starts to infringe on others, biology wins the day. Either that or we all agree to look back on what East Germany did to their female athletes not as the disgrace it was, but as early progressive.
Laws against God’s nature are doomed to failure.
I hate to endorse stupidity as the national pastime but...
Everything you know is wrong...
Any male that fathered 6 children like Bruce Jenner did can never become a woman no matter how hard he tries. It is impossible, the idiot better give up.
They are indeed.
‘Laws against God’s nature are doomed to failure.’
like abortion has failed...?
The idea of competitive sports is to measure yourself against your peers. It is not for identity validation.
It signifies nothing if Hakeem Olajuwan returned to play on the local high school team. It would mean NOTHING to Olajuwan.
All athlete’s shun users of PED because then the playing field is skewed. Even in today’s atmosphere, there should be some “unprogrammed” girl that declines to play against a “dude-looks-like-a-lady”.
Estrogen should be named a PED. Just sayin’
He has yet to confirm the retirement of his...um...equipment.
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Exactly.
We have let this go on far too long.
The attending physician determined your sex (in almost every case) at birth. If there is any doubt, genetics rules. With two X chromosomes you are a woman for the rest of your life. With an X and Y chromosome you are a man forever.
The mentally disturbed Left wants us to believe that sexual orientation should somehow change that but it is dead wrong. Their desire to disrupt and destroy society with these lies needs to be met head-on with the truth.
What two adults choose to do behind closed doors is none of my business, of no one's business but the two adults themselves. That is sexual orientation, not their sex which was determined at birth. Those who desire to foist their sexual orientation upon the general public and jabber that it is their "right" to dispute science need to be abruptly and if need be violently stopped.
The left immediately leaped at the opportunity to restrict our freedom by throwing people in jail for the “wrong” pronouns. Leftism is about restricting choices and whipping people into conformity.
Oh wait, that part about girls saying they are men and then winning agains the men never happens? Just men who claim they are girls taking away all the awards and records from real girls? Oh shoot, I guess all my high minded virtue signalling above was pure nonsense. Sorry!
I wouldn’t call a dead baby a success.
What needs to happen is to not call it “men” or “women” sports, but rather “XY” and “XX” sports and require each contestant to submit to a DNA test with each entrance. No matter how many pills you take, your DNA does not change.
What about the decent young man or woman who wants actually to marry a real man or woman or of the genuinely opposite sex and actually have real male and female children who gets snookered into “marrying” one of these Mengelized things and only learns after the “marriage” what’s happened?
Note: “Mengelized” is a work I just created that’s based on the name of Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi concentration camp “doctor” who specialized in live, involuntary human experiments, like sexual conversions. He’s be a “pioneer” and a “hero” to today’s left.
Are you trying to be funny?
Real transitions are perhaps as long as 50yrs down the road.
It will have to wait for major advances in nano-technology.
I shudder to think of what will be done with such power and a lifespan that can only end with an accidental death.
It’s coming, it’s inexorable.
It will be the end of the world as we know it, automation will have taken over to produce all products and almost no one will work for a living.
I realize it is as hard to imagine as our present world would be to those in the 17th century.
There are some on FR right now who will survive to see that world.
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