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On his first day in the Oval Office, within hours of being sworn, Joe Biden invited reporters in to watch him sign a foot tall stack of Executive Orders to reverse Trump policies. Among those hailed as victories is one that purports to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. The effect of this order is to erase women.
First of all, let me be clear. I am not anti anybody. However you choose, as an adult, to express your sexuality and your gender identity is fine with me. I have known trans people all my life. I meet people where they are and accept them as they express themselves. So, you can belay your hate.
What I do care about are women, biological women, gay or straight women. With the Executive Order, Biden erased women at least from sports. Let us take a look at the Executive Order. You can read the whole thing here. Here is the portion that erases biological females:
Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love. Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports. Adults should be able to earn a living and pursue a vocation knowing that they will not be fired, demoted, or mistreated because of whom they go home to or because how they dress does not conform to sex-based stereotypes. People should be able to access healthcare and secure a roof over their heads without being subjected to sex discrimination. All persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation.
You know the part in that paragraph, “how they dress does not conform to sex-based stereotypes”? That’s a little confused. Biology is science. Gender is a social construct. It’s how we dress, wear our hair and present ourselves in public. And, gender expression has been fluid over the centuries. I am not sure that whoever wrote this for Biden to sign understands neither science or history.
The most troubling part of this Executive Order, and the whole thing is troubling, the part that erases women is the “school sports” part. Why do I write that? Biology. Period. Paragraph. End of story.
Boys and girls are different. They may express their gender based on their individual preferences, but their biology is different from in utero. The website Fairplay For Women explains the biological differences in great detail. The differences in hormones, bones, and muscle mass only increase with maturity.
Go ahead and called me a TERF, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist or a Conservative Right-Wing Nut Job. I don’t give a fig. Boys and girls are different. It’s biology. It’s not wishful thinking. I follow the science. If you are a woman trapped in a man’s body, live your life. But, you don’t get to pretend your are a biological woman. You cannot ever be. Live your life, enjoy your life, but acknowledge reality.
Allowing boys who identify as girls to compete in girls’ sport erases girls. Let’s go to the digital video:
I am gonna say out loud what everyone is thinking. Those male to female athletes look like dudes. In the video, Rapper Zuby is dead right. He can walk into the gym any day and crush the women’s record in weightlifting, not because he is an athlete, because he is a man with a different biology.
The trans-lobby, which is well-funded, is out in force:
To all the TERFs and everyone else, here's a primer on what the Biden EO does and does not do. It certainly does not "erase women". https://t.co/pWsyTiD9gG pic.twitter.com/eg2QcGA66I
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) January 21, 2021
Science says there are sexes. The culture of the day claims there are 64 genders. You can claim to be anything you want. You do you.
But let’s be clear: There are two sexes. The Biden Executive Action allowing male to female trans boys to compete against girls in sports does erase women. Biological women cannot compete on the same level.
Biological women must not be silent. We must not allow ourselves to be erased. I am woman and I am going to roar.
Featured Image: Bernhard Ungerer/Flickr.com/cropped/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
senecagriggs says: The internet serves as a microscope to highlight the brokenness of humanity. Before the internet, did anybody think that a man could be a woman?
Kevin says: I’m surprised. You missed the perfect opportunity to end with a bang. You should have included a video of the 1971 Helen Reddy song, “I am woman.” The first line of the song … I am woman, hear me roar.
Your video reference from RT (Russia Today … the first Russian global TV station) … There are many websites (RT, HuffPost, Mediate, DailyKos, DailyMail, et al) that once I see the link back to these sites … I pass them over. On both the right and left, they are filled with slanted viewpoints (at best) and usually are filled with outright lies or significantly misrepresenting the facts. If we were back in college and giving a presentation and citing sources, I don’t think the RT reference would stand up to scrutiny. Palmer Report, ONAN, InfoWars, RT … once an article references back to those sources, skip it.
Cameron says: OK, so please provide an example of the perfect neutral website that matches your standards. I get what you are saying but I watched the video. Every single person they reference is talked about in other sources.
Cameron says: “The culture of the day claims there are 64 genders.”
And yet every instance of gender reassignment surgery is either male to female or female to male.
Jack says: This is great news. Since we can pick our gender, I am now a woman so my car insurance must go down
Mary says: How would the boys go with a female to male player in the team? Would a weak link be tolerated? Re female teams, it is up to them to refuse to play with a big strong trannie., esp the opposing team.
NTSOG says: “How would the boys go with a female to male player in the team?”
You may know that the Williams sisters once believed they were good enough to beat professional male tennis players around ranking 200. In Australia in 1998 they played against Karsten Braasch a German tennis player ranked 203 at the time. He beat them easily after playing golf and having a few drinks earlier in the day. There is a good reason for the division of men’s and women’s sports in many, though not all, cases: there are sports such as equestrian events in which women beat men often, but they do not involve direct physical contact. There are different types of events within some sports, e.g. women’s beam in gymnastics versus rings for men to cater for differences. Physiology, skeletal structure, muscle mass, VO2 intake, etc. are all factors which apply and generally men are better endowed. When I was a young physical education student I and my male colleagues occasionally played pick-up games during breaks, e.g. indoor soccer, in which some of the very fit women PE majors participated. We always played half-pace and were very careful to avoid the sort of hard contact we routinely dealt out to each other lest we hurt the girls who, when it came to it, were simply unfit to play at our male intensity.
Cameron says: “He beat them easily after playing golf and having a few drinks earlier in the day.”
I admit it. I laffed like a mad scientist whose creation came to life when I read that line. Then I had to read up on the match.
“Braasch was thirty years old at the time, while Venus and Serena were seventeen and sixteen, respectively.”
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Pete says: Regardless which of the 64 genders you choose, you are either a “XX” or “XY”.
Rob Reznicek says: There was also a case a few years back when a boys U15 (age 15-and-under) soccer team beat the US Women’s National Team.
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Philip says: Did you vote for biden
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