by Marcus Clintonius Americus
The movement to permit transgender women to compete in
women’s athletics is on the fast track to becoming the rule of law for all,
thanks to the efforts of newly elected President Joe Biden and his cabinet. Many
women directly impacted are calling it a “war on women.”
The normalization of transgenderism is not about any “war on
women.” There is no, and never has been, any “war on women” in modern history (herstory?).
Rather, what we are seeing play out here is the inevitable consequences of an
inherently self-contradictory political creed, one that contains within itself
the seeds of its own destruction. Identity politics is by definition a
political struggle between groups of people differentiated by a shared
characteristic such as sex, race or religion. It is fundamentally a force of
division, antagonistic to harmony-through-unity by its design.
Just as male feminists are inevitably taken down by charges
of sexual harassment (can you say Matt Lauer, Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, Al
Franken. or the latest, Governor Cuomo?), and similarly as “woke” whites are either
guilty of racism if they admit to their unconscious biases or guilty of “white
fragility” if they don’t, it was inevitable that feminists, too, would eventually
be hoisted on their own “sexual equality” petard.
If, as we are supposed to believe, actual biological
differences between men and women cannot possibly manifest themselves in career
choices, intellectual pursuits, sexual proclivities, or Legos vs. Barbie dolls…
if sex is really just a social construct…
then there is no reason to believe transgendered “women” have any inherent
advantages over normal women. And no law or policy should dictate otherwise.
Feminists who oppose welcoming transgenders into their
circles are called TERFS—Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists. Hence, the “TERF
wars” raging over women’s athletics.
The inclusion of biological male “transgender” competitors
turns women’s athletics, an important and consequential area of young women’s
lives, upside down; and at the highest competitive levels, such as the Olympic
podium, poses a true existential threat. College athletic scholarships are also
at stake for girls.
These TERF wars are a signal point in the evolution of
identity politics. It may be the first time that a defcon-level ideological
dispute has pitted two of the three foundational victim groups against one another:
women and the sexually non-conforming.
Let’s be clear about this, the actual, operational
definition of intersectionality is
the mutual agreement between the various “oppressed” groups as to their common
enemy: White men. Intersectionality is a reminder to the “woke” of what they
all share, despite any disagreements that might pop up between them; that any
such differences should always be viewed through the wider lens of what unites
them: the patriarchy. So put down your pitchforks, feminists and transgenders,
and stay on message.
Women versus transgenders. Rubber, meet road…
