We've seen it time and again from activists on the left claiming to be "science-based." There's just one problem: They don't know that science is a tool, and they deny any finding of fact that contradicts their agenda. We've seen it on climate, we've seen it on energy, and we've seen it in "transgender" issues, most especially in the hideously unfair practice of allowing "transgender girls/women" - that is, boys and men - to compete on girls' and women's sports teams.
That last practice is being addressed. Title IX, as interpreted by the Trump administration, is clamping down on this practice, rightfully, as being fundamentally unfair. On Sunday, we brought you the news of a rally in favor of girls' sports at a Yorba Linda, California, high school.
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Now, the mother of one of the "transgender" athletes is pushing back on the pushback, organizing a rally of her own. The problem is, the facts aren't on her side.
Pro-transgender activists held a news conference at a California girls' track meet on Saturday, just hours after "Save Girls Sports" protesters held a rally at the same meet.
It was the first round of the state tournament, as a trans athlete competed for Jurupa Valley High School, winning first place in high jump, triple jump and long jump.
The athlete's mom, Nereyda Hernandez, spoke at the pro-transgender press conference, which was hosted by LGBTQ-rights groups "Rainbow Families Action," and "Pride at the Pier" addressing the earlier protesters.
Note that the "trans" athlete - a boy - won first place in three events. Those first-place trophies and the recognition that go with them should, rightly, have gone to a girl. Not his woman's son. The mother had more to say:
"My daughter is a minor," she said. "Their conduct disrupted our peace."
The mother went on to claim the attention and controversy surrounding her child competing in girls' sports caused issues for her whole family, and the athlete's teammates, classmates and their families.
"The impact was so severe that I was forced to take a leave of absence from work because my focus had to shift to protecting my daughter's safety and emotional wellbeing," the mother said at the news conference.
"No parent should have to choose between their livelihood and protecting their child from public harassment."
Let's take that statement apart, shall we?
First: This young person isn't her daughter. He is her son. He clearly has issues, and while his mother doesn't seem interested in getting him the help he needs, he belongs in therapy, not on a girls' track team. Nor does he belong in the girls' locker room - or their showers. He may claim to "identify" as a girl. Fine. He can "identify" as a pot of mustard, a 1955 Studebaker, or the Atlas Mountains for all anyone cares, but he still doesn't belong on the girls' track team.
Second, these people always claim issues for the whole family. What issues? Can't she stand being confronted by biology? The protests in favor of keeping the girls' track team for, you know, girls, aren't happening in front of her house. It's the left, not the right, that harasses people in their own homes. The pro-girls' sports side only wants one thing: To keep girls' sports for girls, and not to have first-place trophies and honors go to boys who are competing unfairly.
Third: If this mother is worried about her son's emotional well-being, she should seek help for his gender dysphoria, if, indeed, he really suffers from that, and it not just another boy taking cynical and unfair advantage of a social contagion to win awards and recognition he could not win competing fairly against other boys.
Fourth and finally: What public harassment? Is calling for an end to this unfair practice, somehow, harassment?
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This is a high school boy in question. He's not a girl. He's a boy. He's not this woman's daughter. He's her son. He's competing in an event where he has significant physical advantages due to his sex. That's unfair to the girls who are competing. That's why Title IX exists, to stop this exact kind of fundamentally unfair practice.
A statement from Governor Newsom's office reads in part:
"California is one of 22 states that have laws requiring students be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school sports consistent with their gender identity. California passed this law in 2013 (AB 1266) and it was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown."
Tough noogies. If your schools accept any federal funding, they are subject to Title IX requirements. Title IX requires those schools to go by a competitor's sex - and let's dispense with the redundancy of "biological sex," as sex is fundamentally a matter of biology. Title IX requires sex, not the phony, made-up "gender" construct.
We're still winning this. Don't get me wrong. There will always be counter-protests. But as long as Democrats aren't ever allowed back in charge of Title IX enforcement, with their policy of being regularly counter to human biology, then we'll keep winning.
