As my colleagues have already written solid opinions about the Lia Thomas case, I felt the need to add my.02 just for record.
I sometimes feel like I’m in an alternative reality when I’m writing about the topic of transgender women in women’s sports, locker rooms, etc., because, for starters, it’s astonishing to me that the radical activists who are pushing for this don’t appear to be able to see the inherent danger in what they’re doing, how if these gender identity concepts are allowed to go unchecked, unchallenged, and are fully implemented at all levels of society, on down the line women’s rights as we know them will cease to exist for future generations of young girls.
That’s a terrifying thought, especially when you consider what early feminists in this country marched for (which is nothing like the hell modern so-called “feminism” hath wrought, but that’s a story for another day): A seat at the table, to be treated as equal (not better, not superior, but equal) to any man when it came to their contributions to society, no matter what forms their contributions took.
They simply fought. You must be listened and taken seriously, not just treated as the rambling little young/old lady who was merely being humored by her supposed intellectual betters in the room when she spoke of topics polite society said she didn’t have the capability to understand.
Well, guess what’s happening now?
That is quite remarkable. very same scenarioAs we speak, it is unfolding. Any woman – even those who have been highly regarded in the past as feminist and/or LGBT icons – who speaks out against the allowance of biological males in women’s sports gets told to shut up, sit down, and stay in their lane – and the shutuppery is coming from the very side of the aisle who just a few years ago repeatedly shouted through their megaphones about how the GOP was waging a “war on women” because of pro-life bills and judges who appeared to share that philosophy who were being confirmed.
But when you think about it, the real “war on women” is not in the debate over abortion. The real “war on women” is in the transgender/identity politics debate, where outspoken women or women who want to speak out but who are afraid to are once again being patted on the head and silenced by men – “feminist” men on the left, their Useful Idiot female counterparts like AOC, as well as transgender women who were born males.
This is what I found to be the most illuminating quote from a transgender women. It sums up my opinion on how this movement will impact biological women for decades to come.
Laverne is an actress, who was born a man but now identifies himself as a girl. There are no unique experiences that women have.:
Narrative that suggests all transgender women are transitioning from male privilege. It isn’t intersectional. Gender
— Laverne Cox (@Lavernecox) March 11, 2017
Culture influences how we are constituted. It is not possible to have a universal understanding of the gender of womenhood. This is to say that there’s no universal experience of gender, or womanhood.
— Laverne Cox (@Lavernecox) March 11, 2017
Cox says that everyone can have children, menstrual cycles and other traits associated with being female.
Folks, let me break this down for you: Not only is this just inarguably wrong based on science, but this is also the very definition of the dreaded “cultural appropriation“ the left has told us is so bigoted (but apparently not as it relates to transgender women), which is defined by the folks at Everyday Feminism to mean (bolded emphasis added):
In short: Cultural appropriation is when somebody adopts aspects of a culture that’s not their own.
But that’s only the most basic definition.
An understanding of cultural appropriation requires a deeper appreciation of a power dynamics in which it occurs. Members of dominant cultures take elements of other cultures that have been oppressed by them.
So we have men (the “dominant culture”) “taking elements” from women who have historically as a group been “oppressed” by this “dominant culture.” And yet we’re supposed to act like guys transitioning to girls and then appropriating their culture/sports/lives is okay, and then shut up and respect this in the name of tolerance, equality, and getting along?
I don’t think so.
In essence, here’s what Cox did: A biological male who now identifies as a woman mansplained to women that there is nothing “universally” unique about their experiences as females. Cox must have wanted to be identified as something or someone.
I hope I’m not the only one who finds this line of argument to be deeply disturbing and a direct threat to women’s rights.
In closing, what’s the most important thing to remember in this debate? That we mustn’t be silent on this, because the only way these radical ideas will flourish is if good people sit idly by and do nothing, either thinking it will pass or thinking they’d rather stay out of it for fear of being “canceled.”
All that’s needed to end this insanity is for the 99% of people who know it’s unfair and cruel to women, to say so. We must not speak out for extremists. https://t.co/df0gbotRmL
— a newsman (@a_newsman) March 17, 2022
It’s amazing, just think about it. Conservatives now own the CRT debate, as there are many parts of the country where CRT was implemented or was attempted to be implemented but educators pulled back due to the outcry from concerned parents, people who were unafraid to speak up because they knew their children’s futures were on the line.
The same scenario can play out in the transgender debate, too, but only if people are willing to do the hard work and stand up against it – and with no apologies. Although it may sound cliché here, the future of young girls is dependent on how we act now. You can either mumble or grumble on the sidelines, or you can speak up and make your voice heard. It’s just as simple as that.
Flashback–>> War on Women: Transgender “Women” Bully Vancouver Rape Crisis Center, Get Funding Pulled
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