USA Today Prohibits Use of the Word "Male"
It is "hurtful" to use the word
I don’t mean to crowd your inbox, but this is so deeply relevant to my morning column.
Last week, Chelsea Mitchell wrote an op-ed in USA Today about the impact to her, as the fastest girl in Connecticut, when biological males were allowed to compete as girls.
One of the things Mitchell wrote was this:
The CIAC allows biological males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. As a result, two males began racing in girls’ track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these males took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.
That’s because males have massive physical advantages. Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average than female bodies. It’s obvious to every single girl on the track.
You can see Mitchell’s piece in its original form here.
USA Today has now edited Mitchell’s piece to remove the word “male” with an editor’s note that the use of the word is “hurtful language.”
Mitchell, of course, was talking about biology and the biological differences between the sexes. This is how USA Today has changed it:
The CIAC allows transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. As a result, two transgender athletes began racing in girls’ track in 2017. In the 2017, 2018, and 2019 seasons alone, these runners took 15 women’s state track championship titles (titles held in 2016 by nine different girls) and more than 85 opportunities to participate in higher level competitions that belonged to female track athletes.
Their bodies are simply bigger and stronger on average. It’s obvious to other girls on the track.
Note the last sentence. It went from “It’s obvious to every single girl on the track” to “It’s obvious to other girls on the track” thereby claiming biological males and females are all the same.
This is why Americans are less and less likely to trust the media.
I will never, ever, ever understand how the feminists who fought so hard and so long to even "have" women's sports exist in schools, are sitting back silently and allowing men and boys to push women and girls to the sidelines in their own sports.
The two boys who took titles from Selina Soule in Connecticut openly mocked her, telling her she needed to "train harder" to compete with them, and the judge in the case ADF brought to court also would not allow the term "biological males" to be used by her attorneys, stating “This isn’t a case involving males who have decided that they want to run in girls’ events. This is a case about girls who say that transgender girls should not be allowed to run in girls’ events.”
No, it's not. It's a case about biological males competing with biological females. But when the judge states that you're unable to state the FACTS of the case, you're going to lose.
You can feel God's protective hand pulling back from our society, giving many over to their own desires. Those desires are at war with any thought that there is in fact truth that is obvious and knowable. We live in the time where people willingly call evil good, and celebrate that so many people proclaim the same. After all there is safety and surety in numbers. They fail to realize that the broad path is leading to a place where God is, but the only attribute present is wrath. Woe to those leaders who deceive others as their judgement is even more intense than those who follow them. May we stand in the divide and risk all to point to the narrow path that leads to life. May the Lord give us all the strength and wisdom to walk through these days.