Regardless of what the mainstream media and Democrats might want you to think, no one can change their biological sex, regardless of the hormones or surgical procedures that they might undertake to attempt to do so. We are at a moment in time where up is down and down is up, and it's a dangerous precedent if we allow it to foment itself as a cultural norm and standard. If I were to die today and someone dug up my bones hundreds of years from now, they would know through well-defined science that my remains are those of a male. The same applies for women, and yet now we're seeing a movement from a very small but vocal community attempting to convince the entire nation otherwise. Unfortunately, we're slowly falling for it.
If a grown person who has gone through the hormonal ups and downs of puberty and is of sane mind wants to permanently alter themselves, that's their business, and, frankly, I couldn't care less, as long as their personal choices don't infringe on my civil liberties. However, this fringe group of people is trying to force everyone to change their gender norms -- norms that have been defined by years of science and civilization -- to make some feel better about themselves. We must all object to such coercion.
Today, we're literally being told that men can menstruate and have periods. We're told that birthing people have babies, not women. We're told that people are men, instead of men just being men. All of this is because of a pervasive movement in this country to undermine gender norms and to glorify the transgender community. Women have worked for over 100 years to get better pay and to accomplish groundbreaking achievements, only to have those things diminished by transgender women. Young girls and female athletes are now losing competitions against biological men who are competing against biological women because they have chosen to identify as a woman or girl. It no longer matters if a young girl or woman worked hard for her accomplishments in her given sport because it won't be good enough to defeat a biological male who is naturally stronger and faster. Yet, we now live in a dystopian society where we're supposed to believe that these new norms are OK. Well, they are not, and we must stand against them.
To be clear, opposing the idea of biological males who become trans women competing against biological women isn't synonymous with being against people who are different or who are trans; again, that's their choice or personal journey. However, what it does mean is standing against forcing the overwhelming majority of society to accept something that science tells us simply isn't the case. We now live in a society where parents have to worry about their children learning about sexuality at young ages, something Florida just recently prohibited in recent legislation that "classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards." I am hopeful that people are waking up and pushing back against this nonsense.
Cultural norms and standards are a definitive guide to our role in society and for a society's continued success. Men and women are different, and that is OK! Nature has designed us that way for very specific reasons, and we shouldn't ignore nor tamper with it. Yes, there is a fraction of the population that struggles with or is going through a gender identity crisis. That's their personal journey, and I feel for their struggle. However, they lose my support the moment they begin to tramp on women's rights or infiltrate our schools with gender discussions at inappropriate ages or attempt to redefine what it means to be a woman or man. These personal struggles are now infringing on the lives of everyone else, and we have a right to say something about it.
Why do these things matter, some might ask? Well, norms and structure matter because they define and regulate our society and help keep it civilized. They help us process and define things. They assign value and identity to things. Can they change over time? Yes, of course they can. But some things in particular that science has clearly defined, such as gender, are not up for debate. No matter how much some may say that men have periods, a man can never have a menstrual cycle because this requires ovaries and a uterus, which biological males do NOT have. It doesn't matter if some say birthing people because only women can have babies. These may be hard truths for some, but they are the reality, nevertheless. And there's nothing that a single person can do to change science and reality.