Blue Ridge Style & Beyond
This happened in the UK. When the mother Tatiana Suarez raised the issue with the school they suggested she find another school for her 4 year-old since Islington Ofsted is an “inclusive” school.
Tatiana did just that.
I expect School Choice initiatives in the U.S. to be a rather hot-button political issue in the coming years.
Okay. I watched the following public service announcement (PSA) several times this weekend while enjoying Men’s College Basketball via Hulu.
Love March Madness!
Adidas featured a commercial which highlighted a transgender athlete. It also ran repeatedly. We got a Gender-Ideology full-press this weekend.
In the PSA below the sports of soccer, basketball, field hockey, and gymnastics were highlighted. Now, if the team camaraderie encouraged in this PSA is just for the purpose of organizing local pickup games, like at the YMCA, I don’t see any problem with boys and girls playing together, within reason (is there much left these days?).
But once it gets really serious, and the stakes are higher, say, with organized High School athletics and beyond, like it is with men’s March Madness, you are smokin’ weed or something worse if you think post-pubescent biological men and women can and should compete together.
Full contact sport, with men and women competing together?
That’s insane.
Here’s the 30 sec PSA….
Another thing about this PSA. It highlights team sport.
What about those sports that are mostly about individual achievement? Say swimming? Or Boxing? Mix Martial Arts? Wrestling? Figure Skating? Or like some of the ones you’ll find later in this post?
Yet even in team sport we would have an “inclusion” problem. Maybe Team A has included 3 biological males and they start for Team A’s basketball squad. Their opponent has the more traditional, less inclusive, 5 out of 5 biological female starters. Are you gonna tell me that the difference in those bodies doesn’t matter?
Are you smoking peyote?
Have you seen how physical and fast, and yes, more athletic, men’s basketball is compared to women’s basketball? There is a good reason for that.
Stop denying the madness. A Transwoman is not a real woman.
Why do you think the Ukrainian government refused to allow able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 59 to leave Ukraine? Was that just another example of deep seated old-world patriarchy? Something the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) human relation’s folk would find deeply offensive and legally actionable? Do you think the women and children of Ukraine would want to minimize, for the sake of inclusion, those male-bodied capabilities right now?
Not on their life, they wouldn’t.
The PSA above propagandizes a radical “gender neutral” agenda. No-doubt facilitated by young people who have watched too many Saturday morning cartoons where the female superheroes “kick ass” just like the males. This fiction is also made easier because our young people have been groomed from Kindergarten to think male/female body differences don’t matter or are irrelevant.
See the following posts for more information about how our schools have developed this agenda and have also co-opted parental prerogatives. And these posts for more information on how Gender Ideology impacts women's sport.
Here in the real world of sport, post-pubescent male length of bone, muscle mass, and natural testosterone infused aggressiveness, etc., will leave females in the dust. Or injure them. Anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. And probably agenda driven.
If male bodied athletes are allowed to compete with female bodied athletes, this will mean the end of women’s sport.
Is that the world we want to live in?
This is not about discouraging anyone genuinely confused about their sex or gender identity from playing pickup games during school gym class.
This is about refusing to recognize that when it comes to competitive sport, where potential scholarships are on the line, and perhaps the slight chance of a professional contract awaits, the body deniers among us are living in a dangerous fantasy world, a world that doesn’t care about female athletes.
In 2017 at the Connecticut State High School Track and Field Championship Andraya Yearwood won the women’s 100 meter and 200 meter races. Bully for her. Right? But here’s the problem. Andraya is a biological male. In Connecticut, students are allowed to play sports in accordance with their gender identity regardless of medical transition status. Andraya underwent no medical interventions prior to winning. No puberty blockers. No cross-sex hormones, in this case estrogen. “She” simply identified as “female” and proceeded to crush the competition.
You can read the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Transgender policy here.
This was allowed because the Connecticut Athletic Association along with several other state athletic associations has been captured by Gender Ideology. If you think the increased length of bone, muscle mass, heart and lung size of post pubescent males doesn’t confer a male advantage in a sport where speed and strength matter then you need to
Put down the peyote!
Here’s how a Hartford Courant journalist put it: “As We Rightfully Applaud Yearwood, We Must Acknowledge Many Questions Remain.”
Is this the world we want live in?
You can read about 4 biological female athletes who filed suit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) here.
Hannah Mouncey, who transitioned at age 26, is 6ft 2 in and weighs 220lb. Mouncey is a biological male but participates in a female Australian Rules Football league and pulverizes female players on the field. A picture is worth more than words.
Is this fair? Or is there an intrinsic injustice of pitting one sort of sexed body against another very different sort?
I’m with the real girls on this one. And against the body deniers among us.
The “Gender Identity and Expression” movement has a multitude of legal and cultural ramifications that most people have yet to think about in their rush to “affirm” confused individual choice for the sake of being, or being seen as, inclusive and/or non-bigoted.
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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.
A follow up post from my last one. And another article from the pro-woman, pro-child safeguarding news site, REDUXX. [Read the whole thing! The usual link disclaimer applies. 1Links from this blog to online resources don’t necessarily mean I support everything found on these sites. But as adults we should embrace viewpoint diversity. And make alliances where we can.]
I’ve known about John Money of Johns Hopkins University for some time now. Money is one of Freud and Kinsey’s leading successors.
Money, a sexologist and psychologist is considered the first to use the terms “gender identity” and “gender role.” In his clinical research Money described the “internal experience of sexuality” and the “social expectations of male and female behavior” respectively.
Money was on record as a hater of Judeo-Christian “repressive religious structures…[and their] anti-masturbatory, anti-sexual fervor.”
Here’s what he had to say about Pedophilia.
“If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who’s intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.”
The whole brief illuminates the history of our current cultural crisis, a crisis that creates a thick wall of separation between biological sex & gender. And pulls down any suggestion of a Male/Female binary by promoting the concept of “gender-fluidity.” The leading lights promoting this crisis assert in so many words that “inner conviction” trumps biological reality.
As a Christian, I’m compelled to say, this disintegration of human personhood with its body-denying philosophy will not end well. God our Creator will not be mocked.
Read the brief. If you have the time.
If not. Scroll down to page 15 of the Amicus Brief and you will see the following footnote “55”.
In an interview published in Paidika, an international journal for those advocating for pedophilia, Dr. Money said that adult sex with children is normal and often beneficial and said, “regarding paedophilia [sic] that I would never report anybody.” An Interview with John Money, PAIDIKA: THE JOURNAL OF PAEDOPHILIA 12 (Spring 1991).
When Money says he wouldn’t “report anybody” he means report to the police any patient engaged in an unlawful but consensual adult-child sexual relationship.
More details about Money’s legacy at REDUXX. [You should read the whole thing.]
As a culture, if we think biology is irrelevant, in this case puberty, and that only internal desires matter, then how can we say Dr. Money is wrong?
Today’s stigma-free ethic toward gender-fluidity affirms a child’s desire to “transition” at decreasingly younger ages. So as to become their “authentic self” sooner. A self free from the “dictates” of biology and the unwanted changes of puberty. (Pharmaceutical puberty blockers to the rescue!) Many top flight professionals in a variety of disciplines coach us to acknowledge and promote those “authenticating” body-denying desires.
For now, we draw the ethical line at pedophilia. For now.
I know that the vast majority of those who promote our current cultural crisis would never imagine crossing the ethical line just mentioned. But, for me, their body-denying logic leads in that direction.
Is this the world we want to live in? We better come up with some answers quick. Things are moving swiftly.