My wife and I are the parents of four daughters. The kids are all grown now and have been for some time; our youngest is nearing 30. When they were in school, there wasn't any discussion about boys being allowed in the girls' restrooms and locker rooms, no matter how those boys "identified."
Going farther back, to my own school days, the idea that you could "identify" as anything other than what was defined by the presence (or lack of) dangly things between one's legs wasn't even thought of; had you suggested the idea to my high school class of 1980, we'd have thought the idea crazy.
Oh, how times have changed. But for the better?
The nonbinary beauty influencer featured in Google's latest Christmas ad recently claimed that women who oppose sharing a bathroom with biological males are doing so out of a deeply seated hatred for transgender people.
Tiktok star Cyrus Veyssi is featured in a new online ad, which was part of a broader ad campaign for Google Shopping, wearing makeup and women's clothing while searching for skincare products using the Google service. The ad ignited immediate outrage on social media, with users accusing the tech giant of going "woke."
Veyssi, 30, has had features in several media publications recently about rising social media influencers and is a co-host on the Amazon Prime talk show "Influenced."
I may be belaboring the obvious, here, but is it unfair to expect a "beauty influencer" to be "beautiful"? Because, well, watch; here's the Google Christmas ad in question. I recommend you sit down before viewing this.
Google launches WOKE Christmas campaign featuring man wearing women’s clothing complaining about his skin. pic.twitter.com/Rvk7wa5NIh
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) December 11, 2024
Forget the "beauty influencer" bit, though, and forget the Google ad (if you can) and pay attention to what this dude is saying about the rest of us who object to men in women's restrooms and locker rooms:
While Veyssi doesn't often discuss politics on social media, he isn't afraid to take shots at people he disagrees with online. In a post marking Trans Week of Visibility last month, Veyssi put out a video responding to a female social media user who celebrated President-elect Trump's victory and "the right to be protected when going into a female bathrooms."
The woman said she was relieved "not [to] have to share a bathroom with a biological male."
"Hi diva, plot twist," Veyssi replied on Instagram. "You don't care about being protected from trans people. You hate trans people."
No, this woman almost certainly doesn't hate trans people. Granted I can't read minds, and neither can Cyrus Veyssi, but this isn't an issue that's driven by hate. It's an issue that is driven by biological reality, and by the rights of girls and women to enjoy their safe spaces for activities that, to be perfectly blunt about it, involve partially or completely disrobing. I don't see any issues with that, and honestly, I don't want women in the men's rooms, either.
Veyssi claims there is "no evidence" of issues resulting from this practice. I would advise Veyssi to speak to parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, or parents with kids in Oklahoma's Edmond Memorial High School, and make his case to them that it's perfectly OK to allow boys into girls' safe spaces.
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This isn't just a matter of safety. There is a good reason we segregate these spaces. It's for the comfort and peace of mind of the people who use them. Women are in general more vulnerable to problems than men are, but I will attest myself that I don't want to be standing at the big porcelain thing in the men's room and have a couple of women walk in; that would certainly cause me to clench up and interfere with micturition, which is after all what I'm in there for. (Guys my age have enough issues with that process already.)
As for Cyrus Veyssi, no, most of us don't "hate" transgender people. Most of us wouldn't care about you at all were it not for the constant demands for not tolerance, not acceptance, but approval, even celebration. Most of us wouldn't care about you at all if you didn't push for your "gender theory" horse squeeze to be taught to our kids in our schools. Most of us wouldn't care about you at all if you didn't insist on allowing strapping, six-foot dudes with wedding tackle intact in women's locker rooms and showers, just because those dudes are cosplaying as women.
That's what these people never seem to understand. There is always a bridge too far in any social issue, and the left always seems determined to drive over that bridge and burn it behind them.
