Many of you probably received a push notification from the New York Times or other media outlets yesterday that Amy Schneider became the first woman to win $1 million on Jeopardy.
The Times never even mentioned that Scheider is biologically a man. He has no uterus. He’ll never know menstrual pain or childbirth or menopause. He is a man who suffered mentally and conformed his body to be what his brain tells him he is. But he will go in some history books as the first woman to do something and one wonders how they will resolve it when the first actual woman meets the same goal.
The media and the elite have embraced this lie as truth and you and I are to be censored or punished for telling the truth. Your Twitter account will be suspended if you point out Schneider is actually a biological male. In my business, activists repeatedly harass my advertisers and affiliates every time I point these things out. It is, frankly, why I urge people to subscribe to this email because I can afford not having advertisers as long as I have your support.
NBC News last night ran a story claiming there is no scientific evidence that men who become women have a competitive advantage as women. This comes as today some expect the young man now swimming as a female collegiate athlete could break a swimming world record by actual female Olympian Katie Ledecky. It comes after Craig Telfer went from 390th fastest high school runner on the men’s team to 1st on the women’s team two years later as CeCe Telfer.
To understand present societal instability, you need to understand a point that rarely gets discussed. The elite, i.e the people who have disproportionate clout to shape secular culture, news, and public policy, have embraced the lie that men can become women and now censor those who reject the lie for truth. This is not the only lie they embrace, but it is at the forefront of culture right now. Because so very many of them are also from upper-income families or themselves wealthy, they can avoid many of the societal costs others cannot who embrace their insanity. They are sheltered from the fall out of their insanity.
When the elite are so willing to abandon the truth for lies, the people know they’re ruled by insanity and will lash out in various ways. Likewise, if the elite have abandoned truth, you cannot be surprised when everyone else does too. This, by the way, is another reason Christians should be as committed to the actual truth as possible and not be so hardened into partisan tribal camps that they cannot be salt and light in society at large. It’s not just the Democrats who have rejected the truth and it will not be another political party that brings back sanity. It’ll be Christ and his church who do that just as they saved the world during the dark ages of old.
I'll confess to having had a change of heart on this subject. I don't see a compelling reason anymore to force people into boxes that don't fit them. I've seen trans people find genuine happiness after transitioning, that they never had before. I just don't see the merit anymore in trying to tell them to get back in the box that fit them so poorly. If I can brighten up someone's day by saying "she" instead of "he", then I think that's a good and valuable thing. The world is a difficult enough place already, right?
I do wish the activists could embrace some nuance, as well. The sports issue is a real issue, and shouldn't be ignored. There needs to be a better answer than to render female bodies completely uncompetitive. That seems less than progressive, yes?
I know this all seems upside down, but the more I listened, the more I learned, the more it started to make sense. I think it's Godly to respect, love, and support people.
I know a trans person who is really emotionally volatile. Very far left, very disrespectful of anyone that doesn't mostly see things their way. I butted heads with them for the longest time. I still do. I didn't want to give them the respect of a new name, a new pronoun. I didn't feel like they'd earned it. So finally, I prayed about it. I asked God, "what can I do to love this person better?" And you know what I heard back? Give them their pronoun. Give them their new name. Have the grace to give them the respect and decency that they can't find it in themselves to give me. So I did. I've felt pretty good about it ever since. Maybe I'm getting bamboozled by Screwtape, but it just seems like the right thing to do. The alternative is too harmful. Love wins. <3
Amen. It is counterproductive to use lies to try to advance our cause. In the end, the truth will out. As Solzhenitsyn said, "One word of truth outweighs the world."