When I went back to double check something regarding the earlier post about two delusional women who think they're men and the various school officials who are enabling them I found a cascade of stories commenting on the bravery of Kye Allums "the first openly transgender" player in NCAA history. These stories are even crazier than I remembered.
They are almost uniformly gushing paens to this poor woman, lauding "him" for being "openly transgendered". I still don't understand why this woman isn't just batshit crazy. She's a woman who thinks she's a man, which she demonstratively is not. The fact that she and her enablers say she "identifies as a man" instead of "thinks she's a man" doesn't make it any more reasonable.
One athletic director said: "Anytime we can support a student and the way they choose to live there life, it can only be a positive thing."
Really? What if a student chooses to live his life as a child molester or a heroin addict? Is helping them live like that "a positive thing"? How does someone go through life believing such clap trap?
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Just Call Me Jesus
Just Call Me Jesus
Earlier this year a minor controversy erupted when a woman who plays basketball for George Washington University announced that she considered herself to be a man, wished to be addressed as such and planned to compete for a spot on the men’s team next year. University officials acquiesced and changed the team’s media guides and programs to reflect that “she was a he”.
Now a Michigan high school has eliminated the Prom King and Queen in favor of a “gender neutral court” in response to last year’s election of a young woman who considers herself to be a young man. What is most striking about these episodes is not that these poor confused women suffer from such delusions but the willingness of school officials, the media and others to indulge them.
Gender is not a subjective determination. If you have a uterus, vagina, etc. you are female. If you have testicles and a penis you’re male. Setting aside extremely rare circumstances which are not at issue here, all human beings are either male or female and that determination is not voluntary.
There is no question that these young people are women, yet allegedly responsible adults are going along with their patently false claims. Oddly, if they claimed to be Jesus Christ or Napoleon instead of male, they would be subjected to psychiatric testing, and in all likelihood institutionalized. Yet such claims would be more plausible in that they cannot be so easily disproved as their claims to be men.
Earlier this year a minor controversy erupted when a woman who plays basketball for George Washington University announced that she considered herself to be a man, wished to be addressed as such and planned to compete for a spot on the men’s team next year. University officials acquiesced and changed the team’s media guides and programs to reflect that “she was a he”.
Now a Michigan high school has eliminated the Prom King and Queen in favor of a “gender neutral court” in response to last year’s election of a young woman who considers herself to be a young man. What is most striking about these episodes is not that these poor confused women suffer from such delusions but the willingness of school officials, the media and others to indulge them.
Gender is not a subjective determination. If you have a uterus, vagina, etc. you are female. If you have testicles and a penis you’re male. Setting aside extremely rare circumstances which are not at issue here, all human beings are either male or female and that determination is not voluntary.
There is no question that these young people are women, yet allegedly responsible adults are going along with their patently false claims. Oddly, if they claimed to be Jesus Christ or Napoleon instead of male, they would be subjected to psychiatric testing, and in all likelihood institutionalized. Yet such claims would be more plausible in that they cannot be so easily disproved as their claims to be men.
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