President Trump was surrounded by female athletes of all ages on Feb. 5 when he signed a ruling called the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order.” From the Oval Office, Trump said: “The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology. With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”
But as it turns out, one stroke of a pen didn’t end this war. Sixteen days later, the governor of Maine—Janet Mills, a Democrat—defied Trump by stating that she would take the ruling to court to keep biological boys and men in women’s sports. Trump replied by threatening to withhold federal funding from Maine until Gov. Mills complies.
Things got worse for Mills when a video surfaced of her gyrating on a stage during a Halloween drag show in 2022. She is loud and proud about her defiance. She has thrown her full support behind the trans community, and she’s willing to ignore an executive order to push her views.
Not many Americans are willing to dance with Mills on this issue. A new poll from The New York Times has found that 79% of Americans—both Republicans and Democrats—do not want transgender-identifying men in women’s sports. And that number is 12% higher than a poll taken two years ago. That means a small minority of political radicals are pushing this agenda, and they really don’t care what the average American believes.
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Many of my foreign friends now ask me regularly, “What’s going on with the United States?” They are baffled. They are also losing respect for America because a growing number of our leaders have made drastic shifts when it comes to moral values—particularly in the area of sexuality and gender.
Meanwhile, we are expected to accept this madness because it’s “inclusive.” And if you challenge the transgender movement or dare to label gender confusion as a psychological disorder, you will be called a hatemonger.
It’s time for rational people to cry foul. This is not just an attack on family values; it’s an attack on basic intelligence. Here are three reasons the “logic” of transgender activists is faulty:
1. Gender is a biological reality, not an emotional feeling. In 2015 an Oregon woman named Rachel Dolezal was exposed as a fraud because she claimed she was Black even though she was born to white parents. Dolezal even became a local leader of the NAACP until her scam unraveled. She told NBC: “I identify as Black.” But she was laughed off the national stage because everybody knows you can’t change your race just because you want to. DNA determines race. You can’t “become” Black.
The same scientific standard applies to gender. Today’s code of political correctness says if you were born a man but you now “feel” you are a woman, you can use the women’s restroom, change your gender identity and play in women’s sports—no matter how that might affect others. But this is illogical, unscientific and highly unfair.
2. Gender must be affirmed. I don’t know what people are smoking these days, but something has clouded the judgment of educators who think children should be encouraged to “explore” gender possibilities. While gender is genetically inborn, a boy must be trained to be a man, and a girl must be trained to be a woman. Parents play a huge role in developing healthy gender identity in their children.
We live in a fallen world, thus people are susceptible to gender confusion. Sexual abuse, bullying, shaming, fatherlessness, lack of parental nurture and other factors can cause a child to question their maleness or femaleness. Yet if a person with gender confusion gets counseling and encouragement, they can overcome their emotional scars. So why are educators and psychologists today against helping children overcome gender dysphoria?
3. “Gender fluidity” is a scam. Secularists view the Bible as archaic and irrelevant, so they ignore the first chapter of Genesis, which says God created mankind as “male and female” (Gen. 1:27). In the past, even non-Christians believed in what America’s Founding Fathers called “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” We’ve operated fine for thousands of years on this earth with two genders. Why is it that all of a sudden people can choose from an ever-growing list of 64-plus gender options?
When people rage against God and rebel against His laws, they become foolish. Educators today have adopted the wacky idea that gender is fluid and changeable—and in some cases they are forcing these ideas on vulnerable kids. If a man decides he is really a woman “inside,” he is urged to take hormones, get breast implants, start wearing makeup and dresses and then post photos of his “transition” to social media to win acceptance.
One day, we will look back on this era and ask, “Who brainwashed these people?” It’s all a hoax, and it originated in hell. Thankfully our president called it out. So should we.
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