Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
Democrats have long campaigned for public office on the divisive issue of group victimhood.
There is no doubt that the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a historic event. Democrats believed that their next historic event would be electing Hillary Clinton as the first woman president and she campaigned by repeatedly asking, “Wouldn’t you like to see a woman in the White House?”
Following the Clinton win, there would continue to be many more historic first presidents to include (in no particular order) the first Hispanic president, the first gay president, the first lesbian president and so on down the list.
Notice my above caveat of (in no particular order). I do however believe that women were supposed to come ahead of the LGBT coalition.
A problem for social justice warriors, including feminists, is that transgendered folk may be jumping the line.
In one case, a transgendered New Zealander won the Australian International weightlifting competition by a combination lift of almost 50 pounds. Although the winner was congratulated by other competitors after the win, not all of them were as expansive in their praise as others. The bronze medal winner, Kaitlyn Fassina, was quoted as saying, “She is who she is. That’s the way the politics ... and what the New Zealanders have decided. I can’t say much more than that. She is seen as female and that’s the way it is.”
Some women who are born women may be having difficulty accepting trans women as fair opponents.
In Texas, Mack Beggs, a transgendered male high school wrestler, born female, is being required to wrestle in the female division due to the fact that his birth certificate lists him as female. The 17-year-old wrestler has been undergoing testosterone treatment for more than a year and as a result of this has the muscle mass of a male the same age. A lawsuit filed by parents of Beggs’ female opponents is pending to allow Beggs to compete as a male.
It appears that women are losing both sides of this issue. How long will it be before male athletes identify as trans and begin to compete professionally in female athletics? There may not be much money in weightlifting, but female tennis and golf tournaments both have significant paydays for their winners. Can we actually expect the women athletes, born female, to continue to congratulate the transgendered athletes, born male, as they walk off with what the born females believe is rightly their prize money?
Social justice warriors brought this on themselves.
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”
Rube Render is the Curry County Republican chairman. Contact him at: