Haven’t posted one of these in a while. A man named Kate Weatherly takes first place in a women’s cycling event.
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Justice For Women
Genderizing Title IX in US Schools
Lawyer Candice Jackson has written a great piece for Genspect about how the U.S. government now interprets Title IX to cover ‘gender identity discrimination” side by side with sex discrimination.
She covers the fact that, “No, Trans Is Not Gay 2.0”. And many other important matters.
Grab graph.
Genderism inspires believers to seek a spiritual cure for the ills of ordinary human experience, by subscribing to a secularized gnostic dualism. “Born in the wrong body” and “becoming your authentic self” (at the low, low price of a lifetime of reality denial and extreme body modification) entice particularly vulnerable people to view any bodily or social discomfiture as a sign of having a “gender soul” that, when discovered and concretized through social and medical “transition,” represents a beautiful spiritual journey of self-actualization and esoteric wisdom. And because this blatantly spiritual, faith-based doctrine (pushed in a rather cultish manner by true believers) is buried under layers of pseudoscience and imitation civil rights, government officials and politicians reap the emotional benefit of feeling they are enabling the liberation of a “downtrodden minority” group. (There is no minority, and there is no group, of course, since literally anyone and everyone can claim a “gender identity” to take advantage of any of the legal and social privileges granted based on identity. This is reflected in the skyrocketing numbers of youth “identifying as LGBTQ.”) Gender identity ideology’s historically unique capture of US law (which normally prides itself on rationality and on separation of church and state) is due to this tripartite appeal: no decent person wants to feel they are “denying the science,” nor that they are “anti-civil rights,” nor that they are judgmentally oppressing anyone’s “individual expression of their true self.” This seductive combination is allowing a functional (pseudo)religion to become ensconced in laws like Title IX. And predictably, when a government trades liberal, Enlightenment rationality for dogged pursuit of pop-culture spiritual tenets, it is women, children, and homosexuals who suffer the greatest material harms.
Read the whole thing.
Relevant post.
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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion
Independent Council On Women’s Sport
Dr. Devin Jane Buckley (Ph.D. Duke) has written a superb article about the recently held, but largely uncovered ICONS conference defending women’s sport.
Speakers included Martina Navratilova and Olympic champions Inga Thompson, Benita Mosley, Donna De Varona, and Sue Walsh.
Under the Biden administration, Title IX, which originally barred sex-based discrimination only, has been gradually changing to include provisions against discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
One of the co-founders, former athlete Kim Jones, is also a mother of a daughter who swims in the Ivy League. She witnessed “emotional blackmail and abuse” firsthand when the NCAA allowed trans-woman Lia Thomas to compete in the female division.
“I watched the Ivy League request the girls to be quiet. I watched them tell the girls to place their thoughts and feelings below those of males. I watched the intimidation and coercion in mandatory meetings and at announcements at every single dual meet and championship meet. I have kept and read the emails suggesting counseling to make yourself okay with shared locker rooms with males.” - Kim Jones
Dr Buckley’s piece covers what Athletes, Scientists, Lawyers and Advocates have to say about our current crisis in Women’s Sport.
Despite the astonishing list of names and organizations involved in the conference, media coverage has been minimal.
A few days after ICONS, on July 15th, The University of Pennsylvania nominated swimmer Lia Thomas for the NCAA “Woman of the Year” award.
Nonetheless, dissent is growing. In the United States, 18 states have passed some version of a Save Women’s Sports Act. World Rugby, International Cycling Union, and the International Swimming Federation have banned males from the women’s category.
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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion