On April 4, The Blaze published a piece by Candace Hathaway concerning the “woke” inclination of the contemporary Left to accept the legitimacy of the Gender Transition of any individual simply because those so inclined are by definition members of a persecuted minority. It is a recipe for “social justice” that is literally idiotic.
On Feb. 8, in Lowell, Massachusetts, the girls’ basketball team of a local Charter School chose to forfeit a game which had not yet been completed because 3 of its members had already been injured by a Trans individual playing for its KIPP Academy opponent. The individual in question is apparently over 6 feet tall and sports conspicuous facial hair.
A few weeks later, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy revealed that in 2022 the U.S. Rowing Association had banished the very same person from a girls’ rowing league because of complaints lodged by parents who said their daughters were terrified of sharing their private spaces with him/her. The individual in question, apparently, had been caught staring lasciviously at the breasts of a girl changing a few feet away in their shared locker room. Not surprisingly, this jerk who is clearly trying to profit from the inanity of the contemporary Left, had had no success whatsoever when competing as a Man in rowing competitions against other Males.
Simple fact: There are beautiful, conscientious people of all races, both genders and every sexual orientation on the planet, just as there are millions of self-centered jerks devoid of any sense of moral integrity. One’s membership in the various oppressed Identity groups defined by the contemporary Left says literally nothing about one’s quality as a person. Yet in so many cases these days, the decisions of those given jurisdiction over various realms of human activity seem to be determined by the superficial criteria of Identity Politics. Hence the mindless sanctioning of trans athletes such as Penn State swimmer Lia Thomas [ 6 ft. 4? ] and the individual cited above, who, if they are not brazenly lying to satiate their lust, are at the very least using their obvious physical advantages to trounce biologically born Females in athletic competitions they have little hope of winning.
No one is endorsing the mistreatment of those afflicted with gender ambiguity. But how absurd is it that we live in a world where officially sanctioned authorities in Government, Universities and elsewhere, are making decisions based not on the facts of Biological Reality, but on a sentimental concern for those deemed to be compromised by their deviancy from the Human Norm? That Transgenders are so is not a value judgment but a simple, empirical fact. Honest self-awareness would no doubt lead athletes born Male to the conclusion that they have no right to compete against Females over whom they have significant physical advantages. But such self-awareness, formerly deemed essential to the concept of Morality, is not a significant factor in the contemporary Left’s superficial approach to the issue of “social justice.”