[Vision2020] Biology is not bigotry

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today’s (June 29: 2020) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks to Keely Emerine-Mix

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Biology is not bigotry

New St. Andrews’ ad about the appropriateness of sex-segregated bathrooms is one of the few things Doug Wilson and I agree on, and I was dismayed at (a recent) letter extolling the virtues of what the writer called “gender-neutral bathrooms.”

It’s not the sex stereotypes called “gender” that pose a risk to women when men invade our bathrooms, locker rooms, jails and shelters. “Gender” is nothing but a collective, oppressive set of behaviors that reflect either masculinity or femininity, and rather than existing in scores of different ways on an endless spectrum, it ought not to exist at all. That used to be Feminism 101, but undiscerning “tolerance” has changed that.

It’s biological sex and men’s socialization that puts females at risk in intimate spaces — which we’ve had public access to only for little over a century. Men’s bodies combined with male aggression can and do result in harm to women everywhere. How much more so in private spaces originally created to protect women? Now, any man who “identifies” as a woman can destroy that intent — and harm women.

Transwomen are men, and they should never be harmed in male facilities. But this is a problem of male violence that women are being asked to solve at our own risk. This is not liberal, and it’s remarkably intolerant of women’s safety. Biology is not bigotry, and liberalism desperately needs an overhaul if it thinks so.

Keely Emerine-Mix, Moscow

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Tom Hansen
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