Let's Talk About [Biological] Sex, Baybee...
Not even Utah Governor Spencer Cox can command the tides.
The power of the human mind is a remarkable thing.
It can resist the most horrific terror, inspire limitless compassion. It invents and innovates. It can solve and create seemingly unsolvable problems. It discovers and creates new materials. It learns to manage natural resources to the benefit of people, increasing crop yields, taming rivers to provide water and electricity and extracting resources important to survival. It starts and ends horrific wars, but it also creates beauty in art and music. It creates civilizations, cultures, societies, and governments in a never-ending quest to find ways for humans to live together in peace.
This capacity for intellect is what makes the human mind special and sets mankind apart from others in the animal kingdom.
But the human mind, as powerful as it is, is limited.
While it can manipulate components within the natural world, it has no power to change a natural world that is based on a certain set of iron clad, immutable laws.
We are facing a situation here in Utah, an issue with which other states are dealing across the nation.
For decades, women have fought for the right to equal treatment in sports at every level. For our public schools, Title Nine protects women in any publicly funded educational organization. While recognizing biological realities of the differences in physical ability based on the biological differences in males and females, women have achieved a high degree of parity and access to funding of sporting activities.
But over the past few years, we have seen an increase in “transgender women” destroying the equality of competition within these sports - basically because they claim to be totally women, just with dangly men parts (and male genetics).
Our “Republican” Governor, Spencer Cox, has just indicated he will veto a bill passed through Utah’s House and Senate protecting women’s sports from competition with transgender women (biological males).
I do not think this comes as a surprise, Cox is a quisling politician who broke down in tears in 2016 when, as Lt. Governor, he apologized to Utah’s LGBTQ community at a vigil for the PULSE nightclub shooting, which while horrific, was not motivated by hatred of the LGBTQ community.
I know this is a little of the topic, but it is a necessary illustration of how politicians, like Cox, will turn a horrific event into political opportunism as they offer false compassion based on a lie. In 2021, on the fifth anniversary of the PULSE attack, Glen Greenwald, who happens to be a gay man and one of the few real journalists remaining, wrote:
“…numerous senators, politicians and activist groups commemorated that tragic event by propagating an absolute falsehood: namely, that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was motivated by anti-LGBT animus. The evidence is definitive and conclusive that this is false—Mateen, like so many others who committed similar acts of violence, was motivated by rage over President Obama's bombing campaigns in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and chose PULSE at random without even knowing it was a gay club—yet this media-consecrated lie continues to fester.”
Cox has never corrected or otherwise spoken about his participation in this lie.
Now that we have established that Cox is motivated by anything he thinks will give political advantage, we can understand how he is using his veto as a giant FU to, not Christians or conservatives, but anyone whose reality exists in the sexually dichotomous natural world.
So that brings us back to the issue of transgenderism in sports, and parenthetically, Biden’s “Equality Act”, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to provide explicit non-discrimination protections on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
I know what I am about to write will be classified as “hate speech” or somehow prove I am a racist, bigoted, homophobic conservative from the lily-white state of Utah, but nothing is further from the truth.
My perspective is that of a libertarian on such matters. I don’t care what you do or who you do it with, just don’t expect me to cheerlead for your behavior. I will resist to the death being forced to participate in any way in any lifestyle with which I disagree – because freedom is a double-edged sword. In a truly free society, when someone claims freedom to do a thing, it must also follow others will be free to choose NOT to do that thing. I may have religious or logical opposition, but I won’t force those oppositions on anyone.
However, my perspective of transgenderism is different from homosexuality or other LGBQ+ deviant behaviors (and again, “deviant” is not a pejorative term, it just means divergent from the norm). While the other behaviors generally feature people who attracted to the same sex, both sexes at the same time or show affinity for some other entity, these are situations that can be accommodated by manipulating the natural world to accommodate. For example, women can love women, men can love men, people can marry trees, buildings, cars or live as wolves if they so choose and those relationships can be defined within the dichotomous natural order.
The LGBQ+ community has never really sought to tear down natural order, they have argued that homosexuality has always existed in humans, and they campaigned against the traditional stereotypical view of their members, demanding to be included in the natural order of society. The desires of those in that community have been accommodated, for the most part, with inclusion and tolerance. While we understand that same-sex or “othered” gendering can never further the human race through biological reproduction, it is entirely possible to accept their choice without destroying the natural, biological, and genetic frameworks of the human race.
After all, everyone should be free to choose what is best for their own lives – as long as that choice does not impinge upon the right of someone else to make a similar choice for their own life.
Even though the “T” in LGBTQ implies transgenderism is the same as the other letters in the acronym, the simple fact is that transgenderism is NOT the same as it cannot be accommodated in society through manipulation of natural law; rather, it requires complete abolition of natural law.
No more than humans can vote to revoke the law of gravity or vote to change the weather, a vote can never make a man become a woman.
No matter how much the mind tells a biological male he is really a female, nothing – not even hormone injections, amputations, or transplantations – can overcome the basic genetic definition of their bodies as a biological male. A transgender female can perform the societal role as a mother but can never perform the biological prerogative of a female of the species, which is to give birth.
The same for transgender males. They can be made to look more masculine through chemical alterations and surgeries but will never have the ability of producing sperm to sire a child. Again, like transgender females, they can perform the societal role as a father, but never be able to sire a child. At the genetic level, a transgender male is still a biological female.
The key word in those the preceding paragraphs is “perform”. Transgenderism is a performative existence, pretending to be something they are not. A performative existence can be accepted by society under natural laws, a transformative existence cannot.
Natural laws are not subject to the whims of mankind, majority rule or legislation passed by some human created political body and yet, that is what the transgender community is asking. The transgender lobby is asking us to erase the lines between male and female, to abolish nature, as the price of their acceptance into society.
I recognize the rights of transgender beings to exist and their choice to live their lives in a manner they decide is best for them; however, I do not recognize their efforts to erase quantifiable genetic and biological reality.
That is a line no human or group of humans has the power or authority to cross.
Not even Spencer Cox.