It’s Biology – Not Identity

If you read me last week, you know I’m really “un-woke” and consider social justice a socialistic nightmare which has never proven itself despite numerous tries around the world.

This time I’ll focus on just one aspect of the new culture social justice advocates would have the rest of us embrace, namely, biological men competing in sporting events against women.

I won’t get into the whole array of the gender identity follies where kids as young as 5 and 6 years old are considered capable of changing their biological genders for the rest of their lives – in some cases without the knowledge or consent of the parents.

The fact is, I find it difficult to believe that I need to write about this at all. And I wouldn’t if the whole woke thing and specifically this transgender thing wasn’t stuffed in our faces regularly by an administration that condones and supports it, and a media that falls in line with this government – without a relevant question. It shouldn’t be a topic for any consideration at all with transgender affecting an estimated less than 1% of the population – oh, but it is.

So, prepare yourself for the remainder of this space to be filled with homo sapiens evolution and the commensurate common sense that it entails.

Jellyfish, sea anemones, flatworms, greenflies, stick insects, aphids, water fleas, scorpions, termites, boa constrictors, monitor lizards, Komodo dragons, and whiptail lizards are all capable of reproducing all by themselves – without males.

Human beings are not able to reproduce without both genders – male and female. As evolution occurred, the male was endowed by a pituitary gland generating more testosterone than females. That hormone gives the male more strength and stamina. Call it science if you will. In any case, that’s a fact.

The woke folks ignore the science and the facts. Theirs is the belief that any male can think and feel like a female and therefore must be acknowledged and accepted as a female.

As you’ve seen from me before, I don’t really care how any person may identify with the opposite sex. I have no bent to oppress any transgender male or female.

Just don’t put my face in it every time I turn around.

But when the ‘wokes’ tell me I must accept the biological male who states he is a female with every right to compete against biological females in sporting events, for scholarships at colleges allotted to females, for winning starting roles on various female sports teams I say no. No, I say “Hell No!”

It’s quite simple, actually. Biological males have built-in advantages over females. It’s why there are separate teams and separate sporting events for separate genders in the first place.

The first major public example of the disparity was Mia Thomas – the first openly transgender athlete who won and set a record in the women’s 2022 500-yard freestyle event. Formerly Will Thomas. Sh/e was a Penn State athlete who competed for 3 years as a man on the men’s swim team.

For this administration to apply Title IX to transgender women is bordering on the criminal. In court documents the DOJ is quoted “The United States has a significant interest ensuring that all students, including students who are transgender, can participate in an educational environment free of unlawful discrimination.” Since it has determined what is “unlawful,” numerous states have made it lawful to provide an equal environment for women in their sports and exclude transgender women from competing against women.

This administration, certain sports organizations and the “wokes” have decided what 70% of us disagree with. They think a young girl/woman who has spent years of training and determination to excel at some sport should have their dreams, yeoman efforts and sacrifice smashed against a muscle-advantaged biological man in their sport.

The obvious question which gets to the bottom of this insanity is how many women, transgender or no, want to and feel they can compete against their male counterparts? Answer: nary a one – and the reasons are obvious.

Yet this is part of the ‘social justice’ menagerie. Those disciples would say biological females are also free to compete against men. Right. And I am free to apply for a job in nuclear medicine. These folks might actually award me a position in that field if I were a minority and transgender woman – even without credentials. Equity rules, you know.

One of the key words that goes along with justice is fairness – marked by impartiality and honesty, free from prejudice, or favoritism.

We all work with who we are and what we are. I can’t change that for someone who simply asserts sh/e is someone or something else – and neither can anyone else.

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Have a great and prosperous week.

Hug somebody.

Reference:

https://animals.mom.com/animals-dont-male-reproduction-9838.html

SPIDER Bites

This week’s trivia question: What is the longest-running Broadway show? The answer to last week’s question: What musician was awarded the first gold record? Perry Como. At the time, 1958, Gold was the designation for 1 million in sales and Como’s Catch a Falling Star was the first. Since then, the Recording Industry d Association of America has designated Platinum as a million singles sales, with Gold now the measure of 500,000 in sales. The artist with the most gold records is Elvis Presley, with over 100 million records sold. Second place goes to The Beatles, with over 50 million records sold. These two artists are far ahead of any other artist in gold record sales.

Oh, thank Allah. The sun will come up again today. At the last-minute last night, Congress passed a resolution keeping the government open.

Downtown Philadelphia was the latest victim of extensive, organized looting last week as a number of stores were robbed of their goods. Are criminals having fun yet? “Try That in a Small Town.”

Many retailers have highlighted theft as a challenge to profitability. It’s gotten bad enough at Target that the company announced a closure of nine stores in response — the first major company to take such a drastic measure. Many other stores have closed outlets in high crime neighborhoods in major cities. It’s not only the companies that suffer, but it also negatively impacts the perceived safety, traffic and sales to potential shoppers and leaves employees of closed stores now without a job. I think it’s called ‘no-win’ for law abiding citizens.

According to the consumer price index, new car prices are up 21% since Biden took office, and used car prices are up more than 27%. Car parts are 22% more expensive, and auto repair prices are up 26%. Mind you, this is well above the 17% overall increase to the CPI since the start of Biden’s presidency. So, what does our President do? He joined the front lines of a striking auto industry union that wants to work only 32 hours per week with a pay raise of 46% and a defined benefits package. This in light of a taxpayer funded $85 billion boondoggle bailout effectively federalizing the auto manufacturers during the Great Recession – 2008-09. After GM’s fastest bankruptcy filing ever which left GM bond holders (and stockholders) SOL, the US sold the last of its 60% ownership in GM shares in 2015.

Tuesday saw the 10-year Treasury yield surge to a new 16-year high of nearly 4.57%. Bad news for future national debt service and future interest rates.

Oil prices for West Texas Intermediate jumped 3% on Wednesday as Brent barrels rose 2.5% to over $96. Storage levels at facilities at hubs in the US are near operational minimums. Not until 2026 will inflation fall to the sweet spot of 2%, according to the Fed’s latest projections.

The Senate unanimously passed a resolution late Wednesday formalizing business attire as the proper dress code while on the floor of that chamber. I don’t know if Fetterman owns a suit and tie.