Winning any battle generally must include good PR. Those on the right, who generally have the better argument, often do not know how to win the public battle for their case.
When I did my doctorate work in Madison, I joined the local rowing club. It was a great group of people, individuals who took time out of their busy days as parents, lawyers, engineers, and students in order to spend an hour or two on the water. The level of competition was not like that at the university level, but the camaraderie was precious.
As a rower, both at Harvard and at Wisconsin, I was lousy. I loved the sport but I was not very good at it. While I was at the club, the coach for a while paired me with a young woman for workouts in a double scull. She was a national-level rower while I came in dead last at the annual Head of the Charles regatta. But when we rowed together, we were about even and as such we got in some very good workouts. This same woman later went on to medal at the Olympics.
The point above is that a middling male athlete could easily compete at the highest levels of women’s sports. And we see on a near weekly basis men and boys who claim to be “trans women” mop the floor with the natural girl/woman competition. This state of affairs has got to end. And as discussed in the previous installment, part of winning a war is winning the PR battle. And that means playing on your terms and not those that the other side force you to use.
The first order of business is to drop the expressions “trans woman” and “trans man.”
A human being has around 30 trillion cells. Except for those without DNA, the vast majority have either XX (female) or XY (male) chromosomes. There is no way to replace or remove a chromosome, and as such there is no way for a man to become a woman or vice versa. A guy might take drugs or be given some type of hormonal treatment or have some surgery to add or subtract real or imagined body parts. It does not matter. Just as no effort of painting or modification will turn a Fiat into a Ferrari, so too no course of chemical treatment or surgical action will turn a guy into a gal. Period. So let’s stop giving them some association with the opposite sex that they do not deserve. Do not call the guys who take hardware out of the hands of hardworking girls and women “trans women.” Call them “men with personal issues.” Take away the high ground that they have claimed for themselves. The only reason that they can insert themselves into ladies’ events is because there is that “woman” there, oh just forgot that pesky “trans” in front of it. “A trans woman is a woman!” they bellow. No. There is no such thing as a trans woman. There is only a guy who needs some serious psychological counseling. Just as I cannot claim to be a 6’2” Japanese basketball player, these guys cannot be women, trans or otherwise. They will never have the experience of women and they should not be taking trophies away from deserving girls and women.
Besides not giving them any name or title that includes “woman” in it, women competitors have to start looking at alternatives. I know that setting up and funding alternative leagues is not trivial, and in college, nearly impossible under the iron fist of the NCAA. But only women can stop this, and part of the program has to be non-participation where shameless rules committees and race officials allow guys claiming to be women to compete. Women should look for alternative venues, refuse to compete where guys are allowed to enter, and even demand that “trans” delusional folks be given their own competitive divisions away from the gals. Once Harry/Henrietta is not allowed to defeat the women but rather has to face off against his old teammates Gary/Gwen and Mike/Michelle, the whole charade will collapse for lack of interest.
Women sports leaders and politicians must continually point out that there is no way to change one’s sex and that the science is with the separation of sexes in sports enshrined in the original Title IX. If I could hold my own against a future female Olympic medalist, then any mediocre guy is strong enough and big enough to give the best in women’s sports a run for her money.
Part of the effort of the ersatz trans community and its heavy supporters in the press, political arena, and academia is to simply grab the high ground. “These people feel that they were born in the wrong body”. Then they should seek psychological counseling and not take out their personal issues on girls and women who have trained for hundreds or thousands of hours. There are many people in American society who need psychological counseling, from the homeless shooting up on the streets of San Francisco to the psycho who lit a guy on fire in the New York subway this week. People who would rather run away from their God-given sex rather than fully develop to their maximum potential for who they are need counseling. They do not need to take home hardware that legitimately belongs to others.
Do not give them the name “woman” in any description, look for alternative venues, and do not enter competitions in which guys are allowed to compete. The leagues are desperate for money and the lack of women competing will hurt them in the one place more important than their woke virtue-signaling: their bottom line. It may take time but in the end, the guys need to be removed from women’s sports. While politicians and others may help, only women athletes can do the heavy lifting to get them out.
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