A group called The Women’s Liberation Front has announced that California’s largest prison for females, the Central California Women’s Facility, has become a “nightmare” for the biological females incarcerated there. Since January when the “woke” Democratic authorities of California entitled biological Males who identify as Females to be confined in Women’s prisons, 300 men have applied for that “right.” Thus far only a couple dozen have been accredited but Amber Jackson, a prisoner at the C.C.W.F., has testified that heterosexual activity is already clearly in evidence. Indeed, according to the Daily Wire post of Aug. 7, one female inmate is already pregnant. Tacitly admitting the absurdity of the California policy, prison officials have made condoms and services for the pregnant readily available. But why would one who identifies as a Woman want to penetrate another Female with their penis? And why, please tell me why, would individuals with penises convicted of violent assaults against Women, sexual and otherwise, be confined in close quarters with the very same?
The compulsion to embrace those who feel oppressed has robbed the Left of its capacity to judge the legitimacy of those feelings, indeed has deprived it of its ability to think. Those who present themselves as the champions of Diversity actually loathe genuine Diversity, stupidly denying that some Cultural Regimes are demonstrably more evolved, more conducive to human fulfillment than others, while at the same time ignoring the equally obvious fact of the immense Biological Diversity of the species. Living in a world of fictions, they ironically denounce all who do not share their delusions as purveyors of misinformation.
A rationalist, one who respects the givens of Objective Reality, while making no moral valuations whatsoever about an individual born with the genitalia of one gender who “identifies” as the other, is nevertheless justified in asserting the fundamental biological differences between said individual and the gender with which he/she identifies. While I understand the term “deviant,” due to its usage in the past, has negative connotations, a condition which affects less than .0001% of the species is clearly a deviation from the human norm. But rather than admitting this biological fact, rather than demanding that individuals so afflicted maturely acknowledge the realities of their condition, the “woke” Left would have us pretend they are in fact indistinguishable from the gender they aspire to be, granting them the same rights as other members of that gender even when it clearly compromises the well-being of the latter.
Some people are born more intelligent than others, some more attractive. Some are gifted with prodigious physical abilities, others afflicted with serious genetic anomalies. But the egalitarian Left would have us pretend none of this is true. Given its refusal to acknowledge the givens of Human Biology, transgender Laurel Hubbard was allowed to compete on New Zealand’s girls weightlifting team in the recently completed Olympics. Have you seen pictures of this “woman”? That she/he failed to win a medal is telling, her/his chances of defeating male competitors apparently being nil. Female athletes, of course, are up in arms at what amounts to a significant threat to their ability to excel in athletic competitions which include individuals with all the hormonal/muscular “advantages” granted to Men. But why, one might ask, would the Left be willing to jeopardize the rights and well-being of the billions of Women which it has been defending against the oppressive machinations of Men for decades?
The answer is both obvious and bizarre. As the central focus of the Left is the salvation of the “oppressed,” those deemed to be more so are automatically granted priority over those who register lower on that Neo-Marxist scale. Yes, Women have been oppressed by Men in the past, but are not Black Women more oppressed than White, and Gay Black Women more so again? Granted this sliding scale, transgender individuals would no doubt constitute the smallest and thus most vulnerable “oppressed minority” on the planet. But does this fact alone endow those claiming to be trans-females the unquestioned right to invade the privacy and compromise the security of every woman on the planet? Is life and, more particularly, the relationship between the sexes, not significantly more complicated than the paradigm of the Left would allow? Are there not moral degenerates throughout the species, including among those categories deemed to be “oppressed” by their sanctimonious defenders? How many of the 300 “trans-women” seeking entrance to California’s girls’ prisons have tainted motives? Or is it outlandish to suggest that a Male condemned to 10 years in prison would even consider lying so as to assure himself unlimited access to that heterosexual delight most men cherish above all else?
I have just read a wonderful article by Barbara Kay of The National Post on the plight of Women in Canada’s prisons. It is now government policy that men claiming to be Trans can apply for admission to such without undergoing sex reassignment surgery [i.e., they can keep their penises!]. Kay reports that in a 2019 meeting of The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, a group devoted to the plight of imprisoned women, a former inmate named Kathy testified that she had repeatedly been harassed by a “male-bodied pedophile” with a history of hundreds of violations. The typically “woke” officials of Correctional Services ignored her testimony, dismissing her as just another ignorant bigot! But ex-prisoner Heather Mason, now an activist devoted to exposing the stupidity of our Liberal government’s policy, referred Kay to a statement made by former Deputy Commissioner for Women Kelly Blanchette, asserting “that of all transfer requests from men’s prisons, 50 per cent came from sex offenders who offended as men”!!!
This is obviously a complicated issue with no simple solution. I have read dozens of testimonials from women appalled that individuals with penises are allowed to share their public washrooms as well as the locker rooms of their favorite health clubs. It would seem mandatory that individuals purporting to be trans-women need to have undergone full sex reassignment surgery if they in fact no longer see women as objects of sexual desire. That is to say no one with a penis should be allowed entry to a woman’s washroom, locker room or, more definitely, a woman’s prison. This opinion is rooted not in lack of empathy for transgenders but in concern for the well-being of the billions of women who would no doubt feel threatened by the admission of biologically-born males to their most private of moments simply because they claim that, in spite of their penises, they are really no longer males.
Taking a pragmatic approach, one focused on real individuals rather than grossly simplistic stereotypes, would of course entail adopting a moral perspective, one concerned, for example, with the motives of those male Canadian sex offenders seeking entry to Canada’s female prisons. But morality isn’t really an issue for the superficial Left, a world-view which, judging everyone according to their Identity, sees all White North Americans as inherently racist while exonerating all People of Color as their innocent victims. Hence the elevation of a drug-addicted, career criminal such as George Floyd to the status of a Cultural Icon.