Back in the good âole days of 2015, the fight over allowing transgender women to use the womenâs bathroom in Charlotte, North Carolina, took center stage in the national political debate. At the time, only a Chicken Little would suggest that mixing gender preference and sexual identity could lead to harmful outcomes. In an article titled, ââTransgenderâ Needs A Legal Definition Right Now or Women Will Get Hurt,â David Marcus pointed out that trans advocates:
⊠insisted that the idea anyone would use the law to dress as a woman and invade womenâs private spaces [was] a myth. [But that November] Richard Rodriguez was arrested for dressing as a woman and peeking in stalls in the womenâs room at Virginiaâs Potomac Mills Mall ⊠[Further, they claimed that] Charlotteâs law was never intended to allow someone like Rodriguez to put on a dress and enter womenâs facilities.[1]
David Marcusâs fear that women would get hurt was far more than a myth. It was an understatement. Today, transgender women are invading more than womenâs restrooms.
Beyond the Bathroom
The move from spying on girls in the ladiesâ room to the cases of sexual assault in schools we saw highlighted in last Novemberâs Virginia Governorâs race is, by definition, an escalating threat to women.[2]Â But the ramifications of transgender ideology are even more far-reaching than that.
- Last summer, New Zealandâs Laurel Hubbard made history as the first transgender woman to compete in Olympic weightlifting.[3]
- In Australia, 6â2â, 220-pound Hannah Mouncey overpowered other women in both Australian rules football and on the national handball team.[4]
- Caitlyn Jenner not only graced the cover of Vanity Fair magazine in seductive lingerie but was also named Glamour magazineâs âWoman of the Yearâ in 2015.
- In October 2021, Rachel Levine became the first woman ever promoted to the rank of four-star admiral in the U. S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.[5]
And what about womenâs collegiate swimming? Traditionally, swimmers give us electrifying moments where they break records by tenths or even hundredths of a second. But recently, the University of Pennsylvaniaâs transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, won the 200-meter freestyle by nearly 8 seconds, the 500-meter by over 12 seconds, and the 1,650-meter freestyle by 38 seconds. Two of those were the best times in the nation.[6]
But the reaction to Liaâs victories hasnât been electrifying at all. Her teammates have noted that:
The crowd is unusually silent when Thomas crosses the finish line, cheering for the second-place finisher instead ⊠the team feels obligated to pretend they are happy for Thomas when they really feel demoralized and frustrated.[7]
Women Strike Back
For all their successes, these âwomenâ donât seem to be getting much love from their fellow females. In fact, there has been a backlash against every one of them. And the backlash has been led by women. Take Rose McGowan, for instance, who:
launched a blistering attack on the worldâs most famous trans woman â former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner ⊠âYouâre a woman now? Well, [expletive deleted] learn that we have had a VERY different experience than your life of male privilege,â McGowan said in a Facebook post she later deleted after facing accusations of transphobia. âBeing a woman comes with a lot of baggage. The weight of unequal history. Youâd do well to learn it. Youâd do well to wake up. Woman of the year? Not by a long [expletive deleted] shot.â[8]
Suddenly, feminism and transgenderism â both darlings of Leftist ideology â have created a new aphorism as it applies to the Patriarchy: âThe enemy of my enemy ⊠is my enemy.â
The snake, it seems, is eating its own tail.
Reality Bites
Behind Rose McGowanâs tirade is the tacit admission that transgender women are actually men. Itâs the same reality that drove Cynthia Millen, a three-decade USA Swimming official, to resign her position in the wake of Lia Thomasâs record-setting achievements:
Everything fair about swimming is being destroyed ⊠The fact is that swimming is a sport in which bodies compete against bodies. Identities do not compete against identities ⊠Men are different from women, men swimmers are different from women, and they will always be faster than women ⊠While Lia Thomas is a child of God, he is a biological male who is competing against women and no matter how much testosterone suppression drugs he takes, he will always be a biological male and have the advantage [of having a] larger lung capacity, larger heart, greater circulation, a bigger skeleton, and less fat ⊠I can no longer participate in a sport that allows biological men to compete against women.[9]
Donât miss Cynthia Millenâs words: âLia Thomas is a child of God.â Therein lies the transcendent reality in which the solution to all this mayhem must be grounded. Lia is a human being made in the image of God. For that, she deserves our love and respect. But that doesnât oblige us to patronize her delusion. The stakes are too high for that.
The ascendancy of transgender ideology is harming women in more ways than even its critics could have imagined. But it is doing more than that. Itâs a torpedo aimed at the foundations of a stable, healthy society. Whether itâs in the pool, on the playing field, in the boardroom, or in the sanctuary, denying reality is always destructive to those who practice it.
Footnotes
[1] David Marcus, ââTransgenderâ Needs a Legal Definition Right Now or Women Will Get Hurt,â The Federalist,
[2] Kaylee McGhee White, âLoudoun County Schools Covered Up Rape, Prosecuted a Concerned Father to Protect Transgender Agenda,â Washington Examiner,
[3] James Ellingworth & Sally Ho, âTransgender Weightlifter Hubbard Makes History at Olympics,â AP News
[4] Warner Todd Huston, âAussie Trans Athlete Hannah Mouncey Towers Above Opponents,â Breitbart News
[5] Matt Lavietes, âRachel Levine Becomes Nationâs First Transgender Four-Star Admiral,â NBC News
[6] Charmaine Patterson, âSwimmer Lia Thomas, Who is Transgender, Continues to Shatter Womenâs Records,â People
[7] âThe Week,â National Review, December 27, 2021, p. 10.
[8] Jill Stark, âCall Yourself a Woman? Feminists Take on Trans Community in Bitter Debate,â The Sydney Morning Herald
[9] Yaron Steinbuch, âTransgender Swimmer Lia Thomas is âDestroyingâ Sport, Official Says,â New York Post
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Bob Perry is a Christian apologetics writer, teacher, and speaker who blogs about Christianity and the culture at truehorizon.org. He is a Contributing Writer for the Christian Research Journal and has also been published in Touchstone, and Salvo. Bob is a professional aviator with 37 years of military and commercial flying experience. He has a B.S., Aerospace Engineering from the U. S. Naval Academy, and an M.A., Christian Apologetics from Biola University. He has been married to his high school sweetheart since 1985. They have five grown sons.
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