One of my favorite films of all time is Jurassic Park, and almost all of my favorite scenes involve Jeff Goldblum's character Ian Malcolm. The smooth-talking chaos theorist's lines are so good not just because they're delivered with brilliance by Goldblum, but because they're timeless.
One of his most famous lines in the movie is "life finds a way." In the scene, Goldblum is effectively making the point that you can't stop nature. No matter how many barriers you put up to stop it, it will find a way to thrive, because ultimately, this is nature's dojo, we're just flailing around in it.
I thought of this scene the moment the news came down that the University of Pennsylvania announced that it wasn't just dropping its sacred cow in Lia Thomas, it was destroying the framework around his victories and restoring the honor to the women he had robbed victories and titles from with UPenn's help.
This included a press release from Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, who said "Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, UPenn has agreed both to apologize for its past Title IX violations and to ensure that women's sports are protected at the University for future generations of female athletes. Today is a great victory for women and girls not only at the University of Pennsylvania but all across our nation."
To be sure, the actions of President Donald Trump and his administration should be celebrated as they definitely had a huge hand in this major correction happening... but I do think this was inevitable.
It was inevitable for two reasons. For one, the intrusion of men into women's sports on behalf of the TQ+ movement was one of cultural and societal dominance, and this is America. Rebellion is baked into our blood. The moment someone attempts to rule us through some means, the American people become a bit irate, and begin pushing back. That pushback becomes stronger when you begin targeting our children.
As I wrote on June 2 after it was clear that corporations had largely gone silent about "PRIDE month" after years of making as big a deal about it as they could:
They were never in control. They were tolerated thanks to the American people being good, generous, and helpful. It was only a matter of time before the whole thing went belly-up. America simply got together and said, "Enough."
This should be a lesson to every activist out there. Over-saturation may give you the upper hand for a time, but it all ends the same way. People get tired of it. They start to feel annoyance, then revulsion. Familiarity breeds contempt, they say, and the LGBT activist community didn't want you to just be familiar; they wanted to drag you into their world, especially your children.
It was never going to work.
So firstly, the TQ+ activist community was dealing with American nature, which is so powerful that it created the most prosperous and technologically developed nation in history.
But then there was nature itself.
Men are not women. Women are not men. The differences are routinely exhibited and though they're consistently denied by the left, plugging your ears and lying about what's right in front of your eyes will only stop the truth from coming out for so long.
Eventually, nature would overcome human meddling. You can reason that how you like, but from my perspective, nature is a creation of God, and He made it absolutely relentless. It has to be to survive us, because we are ultimately blundering children who are still trying to figure out the basic rules of the universe we live in.
While nature is ours to oversee, we do play by the rules set within it, whether it's the nature of gravity, or the nature of reproduction. These are immutable rules. We cannot exceed the speed of light, and men cannot be women. These are hard natural stops.
Eventually, nature would establish itself within human society in real time.
Anyone who owns a garden knows that the battle against weeds and pests is an ongoing struggle, and if you walk away for even a few weeks, nature will begin reclaiming your little man-made attempt at organizing the natural world to your liking. Ever had a problem with nutsedge? It's natures way of telling you that if you drop your guard for even a minute, it'll come roaring back.
The same could be said about transgenderism.
Parts of humanity attempted to morph nature to its will, but eventually nature overcame it. People didn't want to have their nature taken from them and redefined. Women didn't want to be known as "birthing people," and men didn't want to accept the mainstream popularity of self-emasculation.
Nature found a way. As Malcolm said in Jurassic Park, it crashed through barriers, painfully and dangerously, but... well, there it is.
