Follows is a commentary I sent to the Minnesota Star Tribune after the Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) were served notice from the feds that they had been violating girls’ and women’s Title IX rights, and had ten days to redress that gross human rights violation.
“Transgender athletes just want to do the sport they love,” reads the headline. Here’s my theory about how liberals who identify as 100% non-misogynist manage the cognitive dissonance demanded of them: by substituting Lia Thomas for Jazz Jennings. I think their hearts are trained on the poor souls who are so tormented by their innate gentleness that they’ll trade in their effing genitals for permission to join the sisterhood. Which press outlets are willing to set them straight on this? Epoch Times? NewsMax? Even I don’t consume those sources.
Almost always, there are two types of examples used by the media to obscure the flaming Andrew Tate-level misogyny that is at the heart of gender ideology. One is the little 6-year-old boy with adorable long curls who wants to play local rec center soccer. What hideous bigot could say no to that? The other gambit, and this has been used by the NCAA and almost every other sports organization from high school to elite level—a female who identifies as either nonbinary or male or both and continues to compete in the female category. TRAs say, see? No unfairness. Trans athletes belong in sports. There is, in fact, nothing to see. Those are females playing in the female category. Case in point, Gender Justice is sponsoring a talk with recently retired WNBA star Layshia Clarendon, the first "transgender" athlete in the WNBA. Clarendon has spent her retirement advocating for the inclusion of "trans" athletes, the nonsensical part of that being, she was a female before identifying as nonbinary/male, she's still female now and played always on a female team. Somehow Gender Justice thinks people are too stupid to think to themselves, Huh, I wonder why Clarendon didn't stat playing in the NBA, according to her gender identity? Of course every stinkin person with two brain cells to rub together knows the answer to this, as dpes Clarendon
Anybody who pretends he or she still doesn't get it is being willfully ignorant, and I have no time for the willfully ignorant. I hope they touch the proverbial hot stove and get burned. No sympathy.
It is so sad that so many people hate girls and women and are not afraid to show it.
Sarah, great article. Good luck getting it published, hopefully without the editorial board deciding what they think it should say. 😊
Indeed, "Minnesota is a massive, misogynistic mess." Thank you for expanding upon the situation so others can see the situation more clearly.
Love that you call out these headlines:
Transgender athletes just want to do the sport they love
Far-right anti-trans bigots try to ban transgender athletes from sports
Feds try to steal trans rights to compete in girls’ sports and use their locker rooms
Trans genocide! Trans genocide!
Propaganda at its worst.
“Transgender athletes just want to do the sport they love,” reads the headline. Here’s my theory about how liberals who identify as 100% non-misogynist manage the cognitive dissonance demanded of them: by substituting Lia Thomas for Jazz Jennings. I think their hearts are trained on the poor souls who are so tormented by their innate gentleness that they’ll trade in their effing genitals for permission to join the sisterhood. Which press outlets are willing to set them straight on this? Epoch Times? NewsMax? Even I don’t consume those sources.
Almost always, there are two types of examples used by the media to obscure the flaming Andrew Tate-level misogyny that is at the heart of gender ideology. One is the little 6-year-old boy with adorable long curls who wants to play local rec center soccer. What hideous bigot could say no to that? The other gambit, and this has been used by the NCAA and almost every other sports organization from high school to elite level—a female who identifies as either nonbinary or male or both and continues to compete in the female category. TRAs say, see? No unfairness. Trans athletes belong in sports. There is, in fact, nothing to see. Those are females playing in the female category. Case in point, Gender Justice is sponsoring a talk with recently retired WNBA star Layshia Clarendon, the first "transgender" athlete in the WNBA. Clarendon has spent her retirement advocating for the inclusion of "trans" athletes, the nonsensical part of that being, she was a female before identifying as nonbinary/male, she's still female now and played always on a female team. Somehow Gender Justice thinks people are too stupid to think to themselves, Huh, I wonder why Clarendon didn't stat playing in the NBA, according to her gender identity? Of course every stinkin person with two brain cells to rub together knows the answer to this, as dpes Clarendon
Excellent post, Sarah.
Have restacked several times, with excerpts.
Anybody who pretends he or she still doesn't get it is being willfully ignorant, and I have no time for the willfully ignorant. I hope they touch the proverbial hot stove and get burned. No sympathy.