Rational Limits
Medical technology created the trans-cultural crisis. Advanced body modifications now enable people to enact their “chosen” gender. As a result, what used to be fantasy plus drag, has assumed some level of quasi-reality. Drugs and scalpels have converted transvestic desires into “trans.” But the science is still crude. The surgeries are mostly irreversible. The drugs are potentially dangerous. Plastic surgery and hormones can only go so far.
The transformation is imperfect. Biology continues to confound “science.” On average, a born male has a larger, more muscular body, heavier skeleton, male genitals, and more body hair than a woman. A biological woman has female sex organs, a more petite body, extra body fat, a differently angled pelvis, and breasts. There is also evidence of inherent differences in certain aspects of brain functionality between the sexes.
Plastic surgery can do wonders for some individuals, but the authentic biological substrate remains. Surgeons can remove body parts and prescribe hormones and other drugs. They can construct simulated organs, but actual functionality is limited.
In the final analysis, sex transformations are usually a long and arduous process undertaken to satisfy the subject’s psychological needs and desires. Trans women are not biological women; they are men who want to live like women and who go to considerable extremes of discomfort and risk to assume that persona. And whatever one thinks of the justice of their cause, progressive politicians have adopted them as another politically exploitable social splinter. And these same politicians use the issue to impose guilt on society for their own reasons.
The End of Women’s Sports
The innate differences between men and women are apparent in “women’s” sports. A six-foot, four-inch, two-hundred-pound male swimmer who declares himself a female can outswim most five-foot, six-inch, one-hundred-thirty-pound biological women. A trans male can outcompete a woman in a power-lifting match. He can sprint faster, outwrestle, and play better basketball than his female competitors. The biological substrate of maleness stubbornly refuses to disappear.
The Constitution, as currently interpreted, has indeed become a suicide pact for women’s sports and other rights. And so, adding insult to injury, biological men who aspire to be women are muscling women out of their sports and locker rooms. Women’s rights to their own activities and privacy are ignored.
Exile
The left is cheating women of their birthright. When questioned, leftists insist there is no definition of a “woman.” Even a biological “woman” appointed to the US Supreme Court denied her own womanhood by dodging a request to define the nature of a woman. The mere act of noticing differences between trans women and biological women is deemed transphobic, which is simply a way of brow-beating the observer into ritual submission.
With a quick and insincere farewell, activists dismiss the authentic existence of the majority of the human race. It is possibly history’s most extreme political statement. It is also a social message designed to erase inconvenient biological facts. There is no such thing as a woman. Therefore, I am a woman if I so choose.
However, we have yet to reach the point where the sexes are actually interchangeable biologically. However, it may happen eventually since that is how medical knowledge and genetics are trending. But we aren’t there yet. Perhaps we never will be.
For the foreseeable future, a woman remains a biological creature with a uterus, ovaries, vagina, petite body, and the genes she inherited from her parents. Until now, God, or nature (depending on your belief system), has provided us with our working definition of a woman. We should use it wisely and often.
Pretense
Let’s stop pretending that we can’t define the essence of a woman. The differences are marked and undeniable, both physically and psychologically. The radical trans movement is yet another example (as if we needed any) of how the left dehumanizes its victims. Denying biological women the respect conferred by definition is a moral atrocity perpetrated on half the human race.
Women are being cheated by woke culture. The mad rush to abort women as a class deprives them of their right to full acceptance as human beings. It is morally and ethically wrong. Refusing a definition, or commingling it with that of trans women, is an act of aggression and utter contempt. It is one of the worst excesses that woke fascism has tried to force down our collective throats.
The overwhelming majority of humans instinctively know how to define a woman. But we are not allowed to speak this basic truth out loud. But we should. Loudly and often. Women exist. They have rights. Let’s stop pretending they don’t.
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