By Toni Williams
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:
Feminists march on DC in 3…2…1…
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They don’t. They can’t, because all they’ve seen (if any at all) is the liberal sanitized version. All they know is ideology.
A girl that works her ass off to be the best in her field then gets stomped by some 200 lb converted job doesn’t matter to them. They only care about massaging the feelings of the people who create their own problems out of ignorance.
Transgender issues are in the mind, not the physical body. A “woman trapped in a man’s body” is not a woman’s physical body encased in a male shell. It is a mental disfunction and, if that’s the goal the person wants to pursue, fine. However, their male physical body should not be permitted to compete against the physical bodies of women should not be permitted. Let them compete in spelling bees or chess; games of the intellect.
@Petercat: I, too, believed that radical feminists would rise up to object vehemently against pitting males masquerading as females against actual girls in sports. Perhaps they are trying to figure out if they are allowed to object to another aggrieved interest group’s demands. Tucker Carlson did have a radical feminist on his show the other night that did have objections and opposition but her following was small.