Category: Transgender Ideology

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Ending Women’s Sport?

I said some strong things about Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner in my last post.  But on one thing Jenner and I wholeheartedly agree. Post pubescent males should not be allowed to compete against biological females in most sporting events.  It is simply not fair to do so.  And may result in the end of competitive sport for the ladies.  Jenner, considered one of the world’s greatest male athletes, recognizes the inherent unfairness of pitting male bodies against female bodies in sporting events where speed and strength are most important.

I was a good athlete myself “back in the day.” I ran track like Jenner. My times in my best event over 40 years ago would be competitive with the fastest female athletes in the world today. Male bodies possess huge biological and competitive strength and speed advantages over female bodies. Everyone knows this. Or at least we all once did.

I sometimes wonder if young people are not uniquely susceptible to a Gender Ideology that considers male-female body types irrelevant partially because they’ve consumed hours and hours of comic book fantasies which show the female super hero characters “kicking ass” just like male characters. Or because of the untold hours they spend in the virtual realities of the Internet where avatars and online personas become utterly believable to them. It’s fantasy folks! As any women who has ever fought or been assaulted by a reasonably healthy, physically average, or above average male could readily explain.

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It wasn’t that long ago in the Western world females were not allowed to publicly compete in sport.  It was considered most un-lady-like.  

Thankfully those days are in the cultural rear view mirror.  But now female athletes face what I regard as an existential threat to their active participation in most competitive sport.

I’ve already posted something about this threat. You can read about some “Real World Examples” in my “A Gender Identity Win For Women?” post.

I just became aware of another one.

Another Real World Example

Will Thomas, a native of Austin, Texas, competed for the Penn men’s swimming team for three seasons before taking off the pandemic year. During the 2018-19 season, Will was second-team All-Ivy League in the 500 freestyle, 1,000 free and 1,650 free. In 2019-20, Thomas competed in four of Penn’s eight regular-season events. According to the Penn swimming archives, Will Thomas last competed for the men’s team on November 16, 2019.

But now Will is Lia. And Lia is smashing women’s records in every event Lia enters.

Lia Thomas

A few female swimmers have anonymously announced their dismay. According to Outkick Reports

Even after a Wednesday team meeting where a source says Penn administration “strongly advised” its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a second female Penn swimmer has stepped forward to speak out via an exclusive interview with OutKick.

The second female Penn swimmer to speak out, who was granted anonymity due to what is viewed as threats from the university, activists, and the political climate, wants people to know that Penn swimmers are “angry” over the lack of fairness in the sport as Lia Thomas destroys the record books and brings fellow teammates to tears.

The second Penn swimmer to come forward was at the University of Akron Zippy Invitational where she watched Lia Thomas beat fellow teammate Anna Kalandadze by 38 seconds in the 1650 freestyle. OutKick’s source described Penn swimmers on the Akron pool deck as upset and crying, knowing they were going to be demolished by Thomas. . .

After just five meets and the Akron Invitational, Thomas has not just destroyed opponents. The Penn freestyle records are being rewritten by a swimmer who was second-team All-Ivy league in 2018-19 — as a male.

Akron was an absolute beatdown by Thomas, but it wasn’t without disgust from fans who were in the building watching meet, pool, and school records drop one after the other.

“Usually everyone claps, everyone is yelling and cheering when someone wins a race. Lia touched the wall and it was just silent in there,” OutKick’s source said during a phone interview.

“When [Penn swimmer] Anna [Kalandadze] finished second, the crowd erupted in applause.” . . .

A team source who was at Wednesday’s meeting says the administration drew a line in the sand and announced that Thomas wasn’t going anywhere and it was non-negotiable.

That leaves disgusted teammates no choice but to either stay quiet or speak up against the wishes of the school and risk repercussions. The second swimmer to speak out says that it’s her belief that coach Mike Schnur is just staying quiet and going about his business.

Another anonymous source said:

“They feel so discouraged because no matter how much work they put in it, they’re going to lose. Usually, they can get behind the blocks and know they out-trained all their competitors and they’re going to win and give it all they’ve got,”

Cynthia Millen of USA Swimming quit her job in protest.

Cynthia Millen quit her job with USA Swimming in protest of transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas / via Fox News

“It’s placing women who can never compete with a man at a gross disadvantage by basically … calling this person a female competitor,” Millen told a recent interviewer at Fox. “He’s not. It’s his body that will always be different and always be faster as a competitive swimmer. And it’s this great illusion that somehow, because he feels he’s a female, that he can be a female swimmer. This is grossly unfair to all the women who have worked so hard. Women biologically will never be faster than men.”

Still, the NCAA remains silent on Thomas and seems set to allow the Penn swimmer to attend the NCAA championships in March where Thomas will be the odds on favorite to leave with at least one national title and maybe more.

“Bodies swim against bodies. Gender identities don’t swim,” Millen told Fox. “Lia is a man who is swimming against women.”

Katie Ledecky, watch out! Here comes Lia!

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I’m a Classic Christian and regard Gender Ideology as anti-creational to the core. This blog is about “God’s Good Creation.” That’s why I’m writing about Gender Ideology. And “speaking up” as I’m confident Jesus would.

"Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female.'" [Matt 19:4]

As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.” Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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Most Americans Agree With J.K. Rowling

Obviously, polling should not determine moral questions. But, this poll should encourage those of us who think biology matters greatly and that we should not be cow-towed into accepting a clearly outrageous and currently unpopular point of view. Most Americans agree with the Harry Potter Series author, J.K. Rowling, that there are only two sexes & two genders, male and female. (See my “More Than Two Sexes?” post and my post on Rowling for additional detail). And that those two are determined not by internal desire but by biological fact. (Christian’s would infer God’s direction as well.). And additionally, they believe that when you state such an obvious truth it does not mean you are engaging in “hate speech.” (Beware of speech codes which train people to be irrational. George Orwell taught us that.)

What you do with your life as a biological male or female will be partially determined by the choices you and your culture makes, but you can never change your basic biology. You will always be either male or female. Those who say you can ignore biology and create your own body-independent version of “you” are peddling a falsehood under the guise of “freedom” (i.e. radical autonomy.) They are also asking the rest of us to affirm that choice in the name of “inclusivity.” We should rationally refuse to take the bait.

But because most are fearful of being considered a bigot for not jumping on the Trans-Train or other “inclusive” futuristic transports they often remain silent. Especially when speaking out may jeopardize a career. Polling agencies, however, provide a certain level of anonymity and honesty.

Here are the latest results from a Rasmussen poll.

75% of American Adults agree that there are only two genders, male and female. 63% Strongly Agree. 18% disagree.

There is an interesting political breakdown.

Democrats are far less likely to agree that there are only two genders (47%) than Republicans (82%). 60% of the politically unaffilitiated say they “Strongly Agree” that there are only two genders, male and female.

"By more than a 3-to-1 margin, Americans oppose a key educational policy of the transgender movement. Sixty-eight percent (68%) believe schools and teachers should not be allowed to counsel students on their sexual and gender identities without parental knowledge or consent. Only 19% believe schools should be allowed to engage in such counseling without parental consent."

Also,

More Black Americans (68%) than whites (63%) or other minorities (55%) Strongly Agree that there are only two genders.

If politicians are wondering why many minorities, Blacks & Hispanics, are voting increasingly for republicans over democrats and therefore not voting “in their financial interest” they might want to consider this cultural issue as one reason. Among others.

From a purely scientific point of view there are few things more empirically grounded than the male-female binary. The survival of more than a few species depends upon the natural coupling of this fundamental difference. I’m not a botanist but I’m told plants have male and female characteristics as well. Again, few things in life are more obvious than the male-female binary.

Many feminists like Rowling are fed up with confused men like Jenner appropriating the concept of woman.  Jenner has never menstruated or gestated and given birth.  Lactation and giving suck would seem more than slightly problematic as well.  Without these unique female experiences, among other less biologically determined experiences, how could Jenner possibly know what it is to be a woman? 

He can’t because he isn’t.  

He can’t anymore than I could know what it’s like to be a 6’ 5” Chinese woman!  For those who don’t know me I’m a 6’ 0” white guy. (Go see this eye opening YouTube video which documents the present day confusion on our college campuses.)  I do hope one day we will look back on this era and ask ourselves, how did we believe such nonsense? We’ve done so before.

We are a tolerant society and are willing to extend a wide range of civil rights to confused people.  But, please God, let’s not affirm their confusion.

As a Classic Christian, I also believe God created the material world, a world that includes our bodies, and God called that world good. So from a Christian point of view, there is no such thing as a person born in the wrong body. Only a severely broken non-integrated person would think such a thing. That person deserves our love and respect as a creature of God, created in the image of God, but we dare not unlovingly affirm his or her delusion. No more than we would affirm the delusion of an 85 pound eighteen year old who is convinced she is fat. Anorexia is a psychological delusion just like gender-dysphoria. Those dysphoria’s are “real” to the person experiencing them because they have a mental illness. Let’s take care of the unhealthy by helping them discover the truth about who they are.

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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.” Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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Always Erin

“No Child Is Born in the Wrong Body” is the subtitle of Erin Brewer’s book Always Erin. Here’s the back cover bio:

When Erin was a very little girl, two men hurt her.  She thought that she got hurt because she was a girl, and if she became a boy, she would never be hurt like that again.  But with the help of some wise and supportive adults, Erin learned that hurts can happen to anyone.  She learned how to love herself as a girl again, and to know that no matter what, she was Always Erin.

Erin Brewer, PhD., is co-founder of Partners for Ethical Care and the Compassion Coalition, and is dedicated to helping people understand the underlying issues of gender dysphoria.

(Paid link)


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Erin describes her traumatic experience.

Erin Explains Her Gender Dysphoria

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Here is an informative interview of Erin. She discusses her history and her current mission in life.

30 Minute Interview with Erin Brewer

A key moment in the interview:

(7:31] The thing is when I was working with therapists, they didn’t encourage me to disassociate (from my body).  They encouraged me to INTEGRATE.  They encouraged me to accept who I am.  And they saw that disassociation as a disease, a disorder, because it wasn’t functional.  It wasn’t helping me to be more successful and productive and accepting of myself.


Many of today’s therapists are fast tracking our kids, especially our girls, toward medicalizing their identity with body altering drugs and surgeries. You can read about it here, here, here, and here. Some states and Western nations have even outlawed the kind of Talk Therapy that helped Erin. Labeling it “conversion therapy.” [George Orwell Call Your Office!]

I encourage you to do what I’ve done. I’ve purchased a copy of her children’s book, Always Erin, and I’ve donated the book to a local library. There is another side to the story being told by Trans-Activists and Gender Ideologues. Erin’s side of the story needs to be included in our schools and public libraries too.

Pick up a copy and deliver it to those who need it. Maybe someone in your own family. (Paid link below)


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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.” Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.