People have been set up 50 years by third-wave feminists. Simply take a look at what they’ve done to women’s sports. Their ancestors in the movement may be horrified.
The first-wave feminists turned their attention to various versions of gender equality after the first suffragettes’ claims of election and property rights were fulfilled by the Mary Wollstonecrafts and the Susan B. Anthonys. Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug chanted for equal employment, equal pay, and equal educational opportunities after burning their bras in the streets and ascending to Capitol Hill. Perhaps Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, the federal civil rights law that guarantees gender equality in schooling in all of its manifestations, be it admissions, scholarships, doctoral programs, housing accommodations, or athletics, was their greatest accomplishment.
What a change a half-century can make. You’d be hard-pressed to believe Title IX exists at all when you witness the trademark bias that exists in women’s sports these days.
Third-wave feminists, those who have sacrificed women’s justice on the altar of collateral for trans-identified men, are to be credited for this. They contend that one’s “natural sex” is fleeting, that gender is expressive, and that the coherence of gender expression is illogical. These feminists, Gloria Anzaldúa and Judith Butler, gave us the venom of “queer theory,” and set up a real-life battle of the sexes in high school gymnasiums all over.
Yes, Lia Thomas’s Body Is the Problem, but >, >, >, Well, Lia Thomas’s Body Is the Problem.
These same liberals have perpetuated the myth that gender differences stem from “our deeply held and largely unchallenged assumptions about science and gender,” not the abundant evidence of the sport advantages of transgender-identified males.
Perhaps there will be evidence of injured female athletes if the widely recognized evidence of male athletic advantages isn’t enough for third-wave feminists to call for the end of men in women’s sports. These wounds that girls and women sustained during athletic competitions with trans athletes are not the subject of mere speculation. Fresh women’s risk of serious physical injury is already well documented and rising.
Take a look at a recent game between KIPP Academy in Lynn, Massachusetts, and the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell, Massachusetts. A transgender six-foot-tall male basketball player with facial hair who was a member of the KIPP Academy ladies’ basketball team injured several people before having to force the Collegiate Charter School to forfeit. He is seen wrestling the game away from one of the women in a now-distributed film, which causes her to hit the ground where she clings to her arm in pain.
Due to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s illegal use of “sex” in Title IX to include “gender identity or expression,” events like these are no longer an aberration in school sports. In fact, they provide proof that this recent influx of sex bias is not yet at its height.
After a trans-identified male person threw a basketball at her head and knocked her unconscious in 2022, North Carolina tennis player Payton McNabb suffered a serious injury.
A trans-identified male competitor injured a female athlete last year when he threw her a game that knocked her tooth out during a field hockey game in Massachusetts.
Children’s Sports on the Chopping Block: >, >, >
There are numerous instances of male athletes playing in semi-professional women’s sports, including soccer, volleyball, and mixed martial arts. The social masters at legacy internet firms who are firmly committed to the transgender agenda have undoubtedly kept others silent, and these injuries are just the ones we are aware of.
Where is the female outrage of our mothers today? Where is the shock of the third-wave women regarding the effects of intersectionality and otherness?
How many more female athletes may be injured before a new wave of feminists emerges, those who have the courage and unwavering demands for justice from the second wave and who have the understanding of the first wave’s understanding of moral order and equal law?
We present women must acknowledge that the second wave has failed us and that it took our grandmothers and great grandmothers years to claim. We have held the ballot for less than 100 years. We must never stop trusting in our own eyes, call out discrimination where it is hidden in plain sight, and recognize the chauvinism supported by commitments to “queerness,” equity, and the mutability of sex, something that even arch female Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote was “not substitutable.”
If not for our own sake, then for the sake of the people who will come after us, we must accomplish these things.
