Recently Martina Navratilova objected to transgender women (biological men claiming to be women) participating in women’s sports. She claimed that they had an unfair advantage and would ruin women’s sports. There have already been a few examples of such transgenders winning women’s events. It has happened in women’s high school wrestling and in 2018 in world track cycling (Rachael Mckinnon). We need
Navratilova stated,
“You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women. There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard.”
Then in December the 18-time Grand Slam winner wrote in The Sunday Times that it was
“insane” that “hundreds of athletes who have changed gender by declaration and limited hormone treatment have already achieved honors as women that were beyond their capabilities as men.”
As expected, this has not led to a reasoned discussion, but instead to vilification and name calling. She is accused of being a trans-phobe-horrors! Nothing worse than that phobe word. Maybe you are not afraid of them but for them and for others. Well that is the nature of discourse today which is not discourse. Navratilova is a lesbian and does not object to people calling themselves whatever they want to. Some have pointed out that trans-sexuality in sports could be very destructive to Title 9, the requirement for equal support for women’s sports in schools and colleges. After the tremendous gains in women’s sports, there is now fear that such trans athletes will corrupt women’s sport.
Here the argument seems to be a no brainer. So why the lack of reason? Because her argument asserts a foundational difference in biology between men and women. She is not the only lesbian to be making this case. One noted lesbian sated she is a lesbian woman, a woman who loves a woman. She is for the LGB movement but not adding T to the letters!
The radical deconstruction of human sexuality by the racial relativists of our society do not want to accept that there are any norms or constants for human sexuality. All is a matter of social construction. We should not raise our children to be boys or girls. We see a hatred for any kind of creation order and even a nature given order. When a lesbian is vilified for stating the obvious, the heated push back is due to the fact that she is revealing that the “emperor has no clothes.” Foolish people do not want this kind of clarity. Eventually it can lead to the view the whole program to reject normal heterosexuality as the norm of human life and its expression in marriage, is indeed a bankrupt program. Any assertion of fixed sexual differences is a threat!