While I am writing this, it is being said that we all must support Ketanji brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Because she is black, we must all support her. Because she’s a woman, we must support her.
In 2016, the legacy media told us the only way for Americans to prove that we’re not all just a bunch of misogynist pigs was to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House.
The #MeToo movement told us – rightly so – that women in entertainment and in corporate cultures have been threatened, bullied and silenced for decades and it’s high time to start taking their complaints seriously. Their silence has been too long.
For the last few years we’ve been lecturing each other nonstop about the shabby treatment of women in public areas of our society. This has brought about some significant revelations, and led to even more important conversations. So it is tragically disappointing that the same people who have been pushing us to recognize a person’s womanhood above anything else in her life, and to believe her without question when she expresses her experience as a woman, are now telling women to shut up about their pain in being forced to compete against males in their own Title IX-protected sports.
By now we all know the saga of UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas, who is a male who identifies as a woman and as such has been allowed to compete in women’s athletics. This has led to women being pushed off the podium, and threatened their college athletic careers. The women of UPenn’s swim team and their colleagues across the sport have been begging for AnybodyTo listen to them. A person can “identify” as anything they want, but that doesn’t change the reality of biology. Lia Thomas is a man in a man’s body when it comes to sports, and women have been so vulnerable to the male domination of their own pursuits that we had to build an entire amendment to protect them.
Lia Thomas is one single person, standing in defiance of a sea – or pool, as it were – of young, intelligent, accomplished women who are begging for the return of sanity and simply the opportunity to compete in their chosen sport as women, against women. They do not want to travel the Moon. They just don’t want a man in their competitions.
Swimming World MagazineJohn Lohn, editor, pointed out the obvious in his recent screed about the absurdity of the current NCAA pool situation.
Because the NCAA only required one year of hormone-suppressant therapy for a transgender female to compete in women’s sports, Thomas was eligible to race for the Quakers. Thomas follows all regulations, let’s be very clear. The problem is that the NCAA’s guidelines were based on outdated science and didn’t account for the advantages of Thomas undergoing male puberty and significant testosterone production. A 6-foot-3 frame. Natural strength is greater Greater hands and feet. Enhanced lung capacity. These edges cannot be completely mitigated, as far as I know.
The idea that physical differences exist between men and women in history is a puzzle. Yet, here we are. All of science, biology and history are on their side. Yet, here we stand telling them to put up or take it. Bullying and cancel-culture have come to the rescue of brave women. The Virginia Tech swimmer who was bumped out of a spot by Thomas’ podium placement wrote a letter to the NCAA explaining her frustrations as a female athlete.
She was rewarded with a suspension from Twitter and accusations of being a TERF – a trans-exclusionary radical feminist, for you normies out there.
— marthadurham (@marthadurham512) March 21, 2022
It is exactly the type of bullying that #MeToo Hollywood fought to end. Harvey Weinstein made use of his authority position to coerce and trap women. If they didn’t agree, he would cancel their livelihoods and professional viability. Others who spoke out were insulted and marginalized as gold-diggers or whores.
It’s no different than what is happening to female athletes and their supporters across the country and the world at this very moment. Gyorgy and other women are accused of being idiots, TERFs (tertiary entitites), bigots, bigots, and losers. Do you believe that all women are equal? Sure…unless they’re saying something mean about a man.
The misogyny of what is going on to women athletes at UPenn and other venues is beyond comprehension. It is nonsensical and in an era where Science™ has become the sole measure of truth, the anti-science wing of humanity has been allowed to bully young, defenseless women in the name of a social trend that has absolutely nothing to do with human biology or science. This has absolutely nothing to do equality.
Are we to believe all women or only those who were once men?
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