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OPINION: If we decide to live in a society based on muh feels over reality, we’re doomed
The U.S. Supreme Court is slated to soon consider West Virginia v. B.P.J. which will determine if the Mountain State’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” and those of others, are constitutional.
The case originates from a male student, who identifies as a girl, who ran on the girls’ cross country team during his middle school years.
He later joined the (girls) high school track and field team, and as a freshman placed third in the state in shot put.
The high court’s decision, which probably won’t come until October, will settle if “Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological sex,” and “whether the Equal Protection Clause prevents a state from offering separate boys’ and girls’ sports teams” based on same.
The student and her parents are represented by the ACLU, which noted West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed the Save Women’s Sports Act “despite his inability to name any transgender athletes” in the state.
Lambda Legal frames the case thusly: Plaintiff B.P.J. feels “sad and frustrated” about the WV law, and knows “how hurtful a law like this is to all kids like [him] who just want to play sports with their classmates.”
“I just want the opportunity to participate in school sports like any other girl,” B.P.J. said.
Last year, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 the WV law violated transgender students’ rights, and said in B.P.J.’s case “the ‘fair competition’ was not impacted by the student’s participation on the girls team.”
The court also noted the law “inherently treats transgender women differently […] because females can participate on any team but males cannot.”
West Virginia University Law Professor John Taylor emphasized this point in a recent news story — that WV’s law, like one in Idaho, only applies prohibitions to biological males, not females.
Maybe that’s because lawmakers in West Virginia and Idaho aren’t morons; they know biological females identifying as males pose no threat to boys/men on sports teams, either physically or when it comes to stealing performance awards.
MORE: Parents of transgender female track athlete: ‘cruel’ to make him run against boys
I’m confident the SCOTUS will recognize reality and science (remember how progressives and Democrats used to yammer about being the purveyors of science? Good times) and reverse the Fourth Circuit.
All progressives and LGBTQ+ activists have left on this topic are muh feels (“sad and frustrated,” “hurtful,” and the pictured anecdote) along with outright self-delusion: Conservative politics and homophobia are behind transgender sports bans, not fairness; trans athletes are “trailblazers” akin to Jackie Robinson; cancelling people for the reality view that “male” and “female” are not “social constructs.”
And hilariously, some still stick to the notion there’s “no scientific answer” for what is “fair” regarding men competing against women. Etc.
And recall the professor who said minors don’t have the “agency” to get tattoos … but signed on to a letter supporting “gender-affirming” care for that very same demographic. New York State forbids minor from getting tattoos even with parental consent — but not gender “transition” procedures!
The very least our institutions can do — so reasonable people, who still comprise a majority of the country (I hope) don’t have to go to a rubber room — is to recognize that men and women are indeed different.
MORE: California allows more girls into track championships following success of trans athlete
UPDATE: In a related matter, Harvard University lecturer James Doyle announced on X last week that he is leaving his position and cites “the spectacle of this nation’s ‘intellectual élite’ enforcing moral auto-lobotomy as a condition of entry to polite society.”
“I’m talking about the idea, currently (I hope) dying on its feet, that men can literally be women, & its horrific ramifications, including male rapists in women’s prisons & the mutilation & sterilization of confused gay & autistic teenagers,” Doyle tweeted. “This is easily the most extraordinary outbreak of mass irrationality I have encountered in my life, & it has permanently & profoundly altered my conception of human beings.”
IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: A “Reality Based Women’s” backpack sits poolside; Esme Vee/X. INTERIOR IMAGES: Jonathan Kay/X, Goodreads.com
