Women's sports have just gotten a lot harder. No sexism intended.
Posted on 04/10/2018 7:18:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If our world survives a few more generations, historians will doubtless look back at our current era and ask, "Was there something in the water? Something in the air? How is it that an entire society went mad at the same time?"
If you've read my columns over the years, you know I have compassion for those who genuinely struggle with their gender identity. That is something I wouldn't wish on anyone, something I do not treat lightly. At the same time, you know that I have often spoken against today's cultural madness in which perception becomes reality.
In the latest example of that madness, the Boston Marathon (among other marathons) has announced that men who identify as women can compete with the women.
Since everyone runs together, it would simply mean that their times would be compared with the times of the female runners. And since both the male winner and the female winner receive the same prize money ($150,000 in Boston), if a man who identifies as a woman beats the other ladies, he would win the prize.
Again, I'm not questioning the fact that some men believe they are really women (and vice versa). I'm simply stating the obvious: These men are not biological women, and it is not fair for a biological male to compete against a biological female. It doesn't take a rocket scientist at MIT to explain these simple facts.
But who cares about facts these days? What I feel is the only thing that matters. My morality. My truth. My reality.
Yet this corporate insanity is not limited to America.
Writing for the Daily Wire, Amanda Prestigiacomo tells us what is happening in Iran:
"The Iranian 'women's soccer team has found a loophole. Instead of comprising a team of actual women, they have added on eight full grown men who they claim are transgender and awaiting sex changes.
"'The country's football association was accused of being 'unethical' for knowingly fielding eight men in its women's team," reports The Telegraph.
"'[Eight players] have been playing with Iran's female team without completing sex change operations,' said Mojtabi Sharifi, an official described as 'close to the Iranian league.'"
Yes, "Members of the national team were ordered on Wednesday to undergo gender testing. Iran's soccer governing body implemented random checks in 2014 after four women's team players were discovered to be biological men who never underwent a sex change."
If you're wondering why these male players weren't noticed before, it's because, "Players on the Iranian women's team are mandated to wear long-sleeved jerseys, pants, and hijabs." (Adding to the sad irony of this story is this: While homosexual acts are punishable by death in Iran, sex-change surgery is "rampant" and is actually pushed on gays by some Islamic clerics.)
To say it once more: I'm not passing judgment on the motivation of these men. I'm not making a determination about the absence or presence of gender confusion in their lives.
I'm simply saying that there's a reason we have boys' sports and girls' sports in our children's schools (let's not forget about the locker rooms and showers!). And there's a reason we divide into male and female sports in every major professional league, as well as the Olympics. Men and women are built differently.
Last year Science Daily reported that, "Researchers identif[ied] 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women."
Specifically, "Weizmann Institute of Science researchers recently uncovered thousands of human genes that are expressed -- copied out to make proteins -- differently in the two sexes. Their findings showed that harmful mutations in these particular genes tend to accumulate in the population in relatively high frequencies, and the study explains why. The detailed map of these genes, reported in BMC Biology, provides evidence that males and females undergo a sort of separate, but interconnected evolution."
This makes perfect sense.
A 2014 report from the University of Helsinki indicated that, "Identifying genetic associations with X chromosomal genes can be particularly valuable in helping researchers to understand why some characteristics, such as height, differ between sexes. . . . Because women have two copies of this chromosome and men only one, identifying genetic associations with X chromosomal genes can be particularly valuable in helping us to understand why some characteristics differ between sexes."
Is anyone really surprised?
I do understand that a tiny percentage of people have a chromosomal or genetic or biological abnormality, because of which they do not fit neatly into normal categories. But I seriously doubt that the 8 men playing on the Iranian women's soccer team fit into this unique, neither fully male nor fully female category. Or that Bruce Jenner fits into this category. Or that the first man who will run as a woman in one of the marathons will fit into this category.
Last year, "Andraya Yearwood, a freshman who was born a male, won the girls 100-meter and 200-meter dashes at the Connecticut high school Class M state championships.
"Kate Hall — who last year won the girls 100-meter dash Class M state title as a sophomore — came in second to Yearwood at this year's 100-meter race and was tearful in the aftermath," the Hartford Courant reported.
"'It's frustrating,' Hall of Stonington High School told the Courant. 'But that's just the way it is now.'"
Let's hope it doesn't stay that way for long.
I think it’s fair. It’s called “equality.” I think Bella Abzug would be proud.
Men are better than women at everything, including being a woman.
Turns out it takes a man to break the glass ceiling?
Who are we to judge that those eight Iranians are not women? We need to check our privilege.
The latest Boston Marathon trends were blazed by Rosie Ruiz.
When historians look back on this period of American history, they will say: so sad, an empire built on human freedom, devolved into a tyranny of perversion and political control, built on a mountain of printed money and debt.
Now that men are women, we can finally get some competent women engineers, managers and ceos
Needs an astersk.
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Maybe it’s the Flu shots. Soldiers fighting in World War II were the first patients to receive the flu vaccine when it was approved for military use in 1945 and civilian use was approved the following year.
I also have compassion for them. Because they are deeply troubled, disproportionately suffering from depression and committing suicide at extreme rates. They are, in truth, mentally ill. But it's illegal to treat them, instead they must be denied treatment and enabled until they kill themselves so lefties can signal their virtue and feel good about themselves.
That said, if you decide you are a women trapped in a man's body and you want to live as a women, you must not forget that part about having a man's body. Do not engage in competitive sports, even if you love them. it's just not fair to the women.
Rosie Ruiz. Ah I remember her well. Did she have 2 ball bearings that made her win?
Not at EVERY thing. Sorry.
Good article, but don’t say “biological female or biological male.” It’s “Male or female.” No qualifier is needed.
I want more of this. I want more men to join women’s teams and to win. Them, maybe, just maybe, the thick headed pc brain idiots will finally see the truth. But I doubt it.
The US was never going to last forever; the only question was timing and proximate cause. We are now able to recognize the emergence both.
Like Rome, the US has its natural inconsistencies, but a dynamic and resilient society is able to adapt and change. However, the growing problems become manifest when internal (domestic) enemies perceive an advantage from destruction rather than reform.
What I find interesting is that while many/most focus on the decline, like newborns, there are constantly new developments taking place. Because they are not (yet) broadly known, they do not warrant attention until success makes them subjects of the historical record.
For example, while Rome was falling, the church was in ascendance. While the US is falling, virtual societies based on AI, advanced genetics and virtual reality may make nation-states obsolete.
Societies in ascendance are always patrimony based on logic, ability & results. It's a sure tell a nation is in decline when it loses focus on (scientific) progress and becomes focused on internal, emotion needs and wants.
Don't cry for the US; rather, focus on where the action is.
Why not just be the person who came in last and identify as the person who came in first?
Andy really was ahead of his time.
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