Posted on 03/07/2019 9:19:23 AM PST by Kaslin
Its 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.
Thats exactly what conservative news sites had been reporting, but somehow its 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, its 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 dont care what you call yourself or insist you are, its 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 arent willing to extend that courtesy, they want control.
Its 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 Live and let live has been replaced by celebrate or else.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 youll 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 couldnt care less about Brad or anyone else. A persons 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 theyre old enough to compete, if boys are allowed in, they and no other girls will stand a chance. Thats not me talking, its that pesky science again. Men are, on average, stronger than women, and theyre 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 womens world record is held by the American Florence Griffith Joyner at almost a second slower, 10.49 seconds. Flo-Jos record would easily crush the speed of 99.9 percent of the worlds 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 mens race in the Olympics, as her womens world record would have been a distant last-place finish in the mens 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 doesnt 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 its 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 womens 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 cant question anyones declared identity. There arent many professional womens sports, but theyd 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 wont 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.
That’s a good idea.....but THEY won’t stand for that.
The election of President Trump was a big step in the right direction, but we are still a long way from coming out of the abyss.
“The attending physician determined your sex (in almost every case) at birth.”
Amen, thank you for writing SEX rather than gender. I am 74 and I was taught in grade school that the word gender only applies to PRONOUNS, not people and there are THREE genders not just two as there are two sexes and certainly not more than three. Lest anyone misunderstand me the THREE genders are masculine as in he, him or his, feminine as in she, her or hers and neuter as in they, them or their.
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