If Rachel Maddow wishes to prove her risible claim that males in female sports is a “fake problem” ginned up by a sinister “authoritarian” cabal, then she can try to defeat me in an arm wrestling match on her show.
She can try.
If Maddow wins the match — ha! — I will give up this website.
If I win, she must give up on her tedious narrative of evil, mean people harming the poor, innocent, marginalized sports cheats in lipstick, and immediately interview some of the girls who have been affected by boys in their sports.
Ms. Maddow is a year younger than me, probably exercises more, and stands two inches taller than me. All other factors being equal, that should give her a slight edge in arm wrestling.
But all other things are not equal, for I am male, and Rachel Maddow is female. She does not stand a chance. I will destroy her.
I will win with both left and right arms because Maddow cannot have more than 60 percent of my upper-body strength, grip strength, wrist strength, or elbow flexion in either arm, because she is female.
This will always be the case. Maddow could take testosterone, while I could be on estrogen for a year, and I would still overcome her on live TV because my advantages are immutable.
This match must take place live on Maddow’s show. Two referees, either from the World Armwrestling Federation (WAF) or the International Federation of Arm Wrestling (IFA), must oversee the event in accordance with standard rules.
After I demolish her pretensions of fairness and equality in transgender sports ‘inclusion’, Maddow will meet girls from Washington state who object to a boy in their sports and spaces, and hear their stories.
Despite the blue midterm wave, and a massive ad spend against it, Washington voters passed Initiative 638 to protect girls’ sports last Tuesday. The vote took place amid controversy over Logan Mihailoff, a junior boy allowed to compete as a girl.
Mihailoff ran in a boys’ junior varsity race on 5 September, finishing 76th.
About ten days later, Mihailoff raced as a girl for the first time. He immediately started placing 1st and 2nd, achieving his personal best rankings as a high school athlete.
The Camas School District and the state high school athletics association say that no rules were violated because students are allowed to switch teams mid-season and they cannot possibly discriminate against the poor lad’s ineffable sense of self.
‘Trans’ is a magic word. ‘Trans’ makes it okay for a boy who is already a full head taller than any of the actual girls he competes with to take their trophies and medals and prance around in their locker rooms and feel special.
To borrow the phrase Maddow uses against her ideological opposition on this issue, ‘trans’ is a “fantasist BS cop-out” from every normal principle of safety, fairness, and merit.
Commonsense legislation that is popular with a majority of Democrats becomes a “reorganization of government” to achieve power “forever”, according to Maddow. This is a projection of her progressive mind.
Nobody held a public referendum on whether Logan Mihailoff should be allowed to cheat at girls’ sports until after he had already cheated girls out of their sport for weeks.
This was the authoritarian move. Sensible and fair limits to the total demands of ‘trans’ are just that, sensible and fair.
As I keep telling Democrats, ‘trans sports inclusion’ is the wrong kind of ‘transgender visibility’. Rather than get used to it, people are repelled by it. This is a heuristic: an evolved pre-cognitive reaction that cannot be reasoned or shamed out of people.
It is possible to keep people silent about their true feelings, but they will express their resentment in the ballot box.
“That boy who switched teams mid-season was a gift to help people see the truth, a gift we should never have needed”, one anonymous Washington state resident who collected signatures for the initiative tells The Distance.
A Democrat who became disaffected with the party over transgender issues, including sports, she “was truly worried that the ‘genital check’ bullshit was going to work, especially with the ‘blue wave’ predicted.”
To her relief, the independents who turned out for Democrats also voted for the girls.
Maddow is repeating a tired line with greater force than ever. Charles Lane suggests at The Free Press that “the power of such sanctimonious rhetoric is waning” from the constant shaming of everyone who disagrees.
Maddow minimizes the number of male athletes identifying their way into female NCAA sports. Between our right and left arm matches, Ms. Maddow can tell her audience exactly how many male athletes she is willing to tolerate in every female NCAA sport.
One? Ten? A hundred? Cite an integer. How many special men in lipstick cheating at women’s sports is too many, for you, Rachel? Inquiring minds want to know.
After the sports segment, Maddow can talk to the organizers of Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG) who provided the petitions and instructions for the Washington initiative signature gatherers.
Democrats are on the wrong side of democracy with this issue. Advocates for Logan Mihailoff still believe they can persuade Americans to accept the unacceptable, but they will accomplish the opposite by trying to force it on an unwilling public.
We already saw this happen after Lia Thomas got out of the pool. Public support for transgender athlete ‘inclusion’ declined. Opposition rose. Nobody asked for this culture war and voters will not appreciate Democrats doubling down on it.
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