Blue Ridge Style & Beyond
This happened in the UK. When the mother Tatiana Suarez raised the issue with the school they suggested she find another school for her 4 year-old since Islington Ofsted is an “inclusive” school.
Tatiana did just that.
I expect School Choice initiatives in the U.S. to be a rather hot-button political issue in the coming years.
Okay. I watched the following public service announcement (PSA) several times this weekend while enjoying Men’s College Basketball via Hulu.
Love March Madness!
Adidas featured a commercial which highlighted a transgender athlete. It also ran repeatedly. We got a Gender-Ideology full-press this weekend.
In the PSA below the sports of soccer, basketball, field hockey, and gymnastics were highlighted. Now, if the team camaraderie encouraged in this PSA is just for the purpose of organizing local pickup games, like at the YMCA, I don’t see any problem with boys and girls playing together, within reason (is there much left these days?).
But once it gets really serious, and the stakes are higher, say, with organized High School athletics and beyond, like it is with men’s March Madness, you are smokin’ weed or something worse if you think post-pubescent biological men and women can and should compete together.
Full contact sport, with men and women competing together?
That’s insane.
Here’s the 30 sec PSA….
Another thing about this PSA. It highlights team sport.
What about those sports that are mostly about individual achievement? Say swimming? Or Boxing? Mix Martial Arts? Wrestling? Figure Skating? Or like some of the ones you’ll find later in this post?
Yet even in team sport we would have an “inclusion” problem. Maybe Team A has included 3 biological males and they start for Team A’s basketball squad. Their opponent has the more traditional, less inclusive, 5 out of 5 biological female starters. Are you gonna tell me that the difference in those bodies doesn’t matter?
Are you smoking peyote?
Have you seen how physical and fast, and yes, more athletic, men’s basketball is compared to women’s basketball? There is a good reason for that.
Stop denying the madness. A Transwoman is not a real woman.
Why do you think the Ukrainian government refused to allow able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 59 to leave Ukraine? Was that just another example of deep seated old-world patriarchy? Something the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) human relation’s folk would find deeply offensive and legally actionable? Do you think the women and children of Ukraine would want to minimize, for the sake of inclusion, those male-bodied capabilities right now?
Not on their life, they wouldn’t.
The PSA above propagandizes a radical “gender neutral” agenda. No-doubt facilitated by young people who have watched too many Saturday morning cartoons where the female superheroes “kick ass” just like the males. This fiction is also made easier because our young people have been groomed from Kindergarten to think male/female body differences don’t matter or are irrelevant.
See the following posts for more information about how our schools have developed this agenda and have also co-opted parental prerogatives. And these posts for more information on how Gender Ideology impacts women's sport.
Here in the real world of sport, post-pubescent male length of bone, muscle mass, and natural testosterone infused aggressiveness, etc., will leave females in the dust. Or injure them. Anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. And probably agenda driven.
If male bodied athletes are allowed to compete with female bodied athletes, this will mean the end of women’s sport.
Is that the world we want to live in?
This is not about discouraging anyone genuinely confused about their sex or gender identity from playing pickup games during school gym class.
This is about refusing to recognize that when it comes to competitive sport, where potential scholarships are on the line, and perhaps the slight chance of a professional contract awaits, the body deniers among us are living in a dangerous fantasy world, a world that doesn’t care about female athletes.
In 2017 at the Connecticut State High School Track and Field Championship Andraya Yearwood won the women’s 100 meter and 200 meter races. Bully for her. Right? But here’s the problem. Andraya is a biological male. In Connecticut, students are allowed to play sports in accordance with their gender identity regardless of medical transition status. Andraya underwent no medical interventions prior to winning. No puberty blockers. No cross-sex hormones, in this case estrogen. “She” simply identified as “female” and proceeded to crush the competition.
You can read the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Transgender policy here.
This was allowed because the Connecticut Athletic Association along with several other state athletic associations has been captured by Gender Ideology. If you think the increased length of bone, muscle mass, heart and lung size of post pubescent males doesn’t confer a male advantage in a sport where speed and strength matter then you need to
Put down the peyote!
Here’s how a Hartford Courant journalist put it: “As We Rightfully Applaud Yearwood, We Must Acknowledge Many Questions Remain.”
Is this the world we want live in?
You can read about 4 biological female athletes who filed suit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) here.
Hannah Mouncey, who transitioned at age 26, is 6ft 2 in and weighs 220lb. Mouncey is a biological male but participates in a female Australian Rules Football league and pulverizes female players on the field. A picture is worth more than words.
Is this fair? Or is there an intrinsic injustice of pitting one sort of sexed body against another very different sort?
I’m with the real girls on this one. And against the body deniers among us.
The “Gender Identity and Expression” movement has a multitude of legal and cultural ramifications that most people have yet to think about in their rush to “affirm” confused individual choice for the sake of being, or being seen as, inclusive and/or non-bigoted.
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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”
Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.
The Atlantic Magazine recently posted an article on its website titled: The Twitching Generation.
With the caption:
Around the world, doctors have noticed teenage patients reporting the sudden onset of tics. Is this the first illness spread by social media?
Uh…no it isn’t.
The social contagion of Transgenderism came before this one.
But you are not likely to have The Atlantic Magazine write a story about that.
For some reason, today, if a new phenomena is associated with sex or gender identity, then it will never be listed as an “illness.” That would be stigmatizing. And unloving. And perhaps illegal in some jurisdictions in the Western world. But why ”hands off” when it comes to exotic sexual or gender identities? Is that rational?
Exotic Identities having to do with sex or gender may only be accepted and affirmed. Or you will be called a bigot.
Why? Because sex, and now gender, are deemed the most identifying human attributes. You can thank Sigmund Freud and his disciples for that.
The only exception to this ”affirming-acceptance” cultural maxim is pedophilia (and perhaps bestiality). And if you think I’m being outrageously inflammatory to mention these ”last taboos” in this context, you need to read my next post! Or this older post about “Transpups.”
Here’s another quote from The Atlantic article about current teenage ”co-morbidities.” (An overlooked issue with regard to Gender-Dysphoria too.)
This fits with existing research showing that many members of Generation Z are anxious, isolated, and depressed, with body-image troubles worsened by the perfect bodies and aspirational lives they see on TikTok and Instagram. They are part of a grand social experiment, the first cohort to grow up with the internet on smartphones, the first generation whose entire lives have been shaped by the demands of social-media algorithms. Tics and twitches may be their unconscious method of saying: I want out.
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This is the world we live in. And our children are hurting. Kudos to The Atlantic for running this story. Now do the same thing with our Gender-Dysphoria epidemic. Connect the dots, I dare ya.
Adults and social media ”influencers” are telling our children lies about who they are and who they can become. Exotic identity expressions which contradict God’s creational design are all the rage today. You could call it THE American Idol, except it has enveloped the Western world as well. Radical autonomy is “the spirit of the age.” You create your own destiny.
| Agender | Asexual | Bigender |
| Binary | Bisexual | Cisgender |
| Genderfluid | Genderqueer | Non-binary |
| Pansexual | Polysexual | Third gender |
| Transgender | Transexual | Trigender |
| Two-spirit |
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Please read the Atlantic article and if I’ve educated you with this blog you will notice the relevant comparisons. For example:
A typical Tourette’s patient is a boy, ages 5-7. Until recently.
A typical Gender-dysphoric patient was almost always a boy, ages 3-5. Until recently.
These days teenagers suffer with problems that typically started much earlier in life. And most of them now are girls. One big difference however. Gender Therapists are fast-tracking Gender-dysphoric teens to Transition into something they are not.
Today we are witnessing an overall “affirming” environment that is “grooming” our girls and boys down the path toward exotic identity expressions. (Please read this post about our schools.) Unfortunately, unlike a tattoo or non-conforming hair and clothing styles, many of these expressions require medical intervention. We are witnessing the medicalization of identity. And our doctors, our therapists, our technologists, our pharmaceutical representatives, who have mostly brought great good to our culture, must be asked some very demanding conflict of interest questions. We need to hold them accountable.
Because our children matter more than their bottom line.
Planned Parenthood’s new Cross-Sex Hormone revenue stream is not purely about “liberation.” In some of our states a 16 year old girl can walk into Planned Parenthood and and receive doses of testosterone 40 times the natural female level. Without a note from a therapist or her mother!
Stop the Madness!
Here’s just one data point from the Atlantic article:
According to TikTok, videos tagged #tourettes have been viewed more than 5 billion times.
The Twitching Generation
Watch the videos in the posts listed below to get more detail about social contagion via TikToc, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr and their hordes of “influencers.” Especially, the first one. It deals with the sudden onset of Tourette’s syndrome among girls.
Parents! Concerned Citizens! Christians! Wake up!
The Atlantic article wrote about the fact that historically girls seem to be uniquely susceptible to social contagion. I mentioned this in a previous post. Please read: Our Girls 2 for more details. (Don’t shoot the messenger!)
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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”
Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.