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.