Hi everyone!
The New York Times ran a glowing piece on trans college volleyball player Blair Fleming. They complained that Fleming was "outed" by Reduxx, thrusting Fleming from "being a mostly unknown college volleyball player to an unwilling combatant in the culture war." Throughout the article, the Times lies, calling Fleming "she" despite Fleming being a man. The Times praised Fleming's "work ethic" and "hard work," giving these attributes credit for Fleming's "kill shots," which had served to injure some women in the college volleyball league.
In that article, the Times revealed that Nike was funding a study, co-led by a trans scientist, to determine if males have innate physical advantages over women. The Times notes that when the NCAA first created their trans inclusion policy in 2012, to say that athletes should compete on the team that aligns with their "gender identity" rather than their biological sex, the going belief was that males who were taking estrogen "were, physiologically, more athletically similar to women than to men."
Oregon Health & Science University's Joanna Harper, who is trans, is cited as saying "The idea of retained advantage is something that has been postulated for maybe five years, and it's certainly true." The study is being funded by Nike.
"The vast body of evidence suggests that men outperform women, but trans women aren't men," Harper said, per the Times. "And so the question isn't, do men outperform women? The question is, as a population group, do trans women outperform cis women, and if so, by how much?" Erm, hello, I think Harper is tragically divided from reality. Trans women ARE men. Cis women ARE women. Trans women are not some subset of women, they are just men, and that's all there is to it.
The other thing that struck me was this line: "In the decade after the N.C.A.A. introduced its transgender-participation policy, a handful of deep red states ... passed trans sports bans, but public criticism of trans female athletes was largely confined to the right-wing fringe. There was little public controversy..."
The NCAA changed its policy in 2012 to allow trans athletes to play on teams "aligned with their gender identity," so long as they had suppressed their testosterone for a year prior to competing on women's teams. This has its own problems, such as the fact that no matter how much a man suppresses his testosterone by taking estrogen, he will never reach even the high end of testosterone that women have—he will always be way higher. Not to mention that a male who has gone through male puberty will always be stronger and faster than the average girl.
But the real issue is that the Times said that the criticism of trans males playing in women's sports was "confined to the right-wing fringe" and that "there was little public controversy." This statement shows the outright extreme bias the Times has in favor of trans players and against women athletes even more than their use of the term "she" to describe a male volleyball player does.
There were countless women speaking out against trans inclusion in women's everything, even as far back as 2012. The reason there was "little public controversy" was because the whole thing seemed insane. Anyone I talked to about trans back then said I was crazy for thinking it would blossom into an anti-woman nightmare. Am I to understand the Times thinks it's just "fringe" to be prescient and right? Feminists I spoke to about trans some 20 years ago thought we should just be "nice" to the men who want to be ladies, they said there weren't that many of them, that it wasn't a big deal, and that women should acquiesce to the demands of these fellows.
When I pointed out that feminists are supposed to be decidedly not nice, to not smile when asked, or to be disagreeable, I was told to have some empathy. A UN study shows that female athletes lost some 900 awards to trans players. Two men just competed for the women's pool championship. A woman lost her high school fencing match because she took a knee rather than compete against a male player and Blair Fleming's female teammate Brooke Slusser has been threatened and harassed because she stood up for women and said that Fleming should not be on the women's team.
Why is there so much more outcry in recent years? It's because the trans delusion has become more prevalent in our culture. It's here, it's visible, it's transparent, and it's a lie. William "Lia" Thomas showed the lie in stark relief when his 6-foot-plus frame jumped into the water next to his female competitors. Women who wanted to speak out were silenced by their coaches and schools, just ask Riley Gaines about that.
Women are now speaking out more than ever because finally, they have nothing left to lose. A high school track and field athlete was in tears before her California school board as she told them how she was forced to allow a young man to watch her undress all because he claimed he was a girl. The school board told her to "wrap it up."
This newsletter ended up being the basis for a column in Human Events today, you can check it out here.
Here's what's on my desk today:
Nike, trans scientist conduct medical ‘study’ on trans teens to see if men are stronger than women
“The vast body of evidence suggests that men outperform women, but trans women aren’t men.”
SCOTUS to hear religious expression case on allowing explicit LGBTQIA+ books in schools
The parents argue that requiring their young children “to participate in instruction contrary to their parents’ religious convictions violated the Free Exercise Clause.”
California school board tells female high school track athlete to ‘wrap it up’ during tearful testimony about trans teammate watching her undress
“I saw … a biological male watching not only myself, but the other young women undress.”
Trump meets with Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowes execs at White House to discuss tariffs
A Walmart spokesperson said, “We had a productive meeting with President Trump and his team and appreciated the opportunity to share our insights.”
