OPINION:
The transgender movement has monopolized our news feed these past few months. It’s everywhere — in our social feeds, in celebrity culture, and shoved down our throats by American corporations. We watched six innocent people — including three children — gunned down by a transgender person in Nashville several weeks ago. Somehow, the mainstream media crafted a narrative that the shooter was a victim simply because she was transgender.
If you dared to “deadname” or “misgender” the killer, so-called journalists would ignore the heinous reality of what she did in their haste to use her preferred pronouns. Her murderous rampage was never referred to as a hate crime against Christians, although that was exactly what it was. And oddly, there hasn’t been much discussion since about her manifesto, because, as of the writing of this piece, we still haven’t seen it. We assume we never will.
What we have seen since those murders is a continued and relentless push for transgender activism.
The recent Bud Light debacle, which featured the insulting caricature of a woman Dylan Mulvaney, opened many people’s eyes to exactly what’s happening in our culture. Corporations and celebrities are not only forcing us to accept transgender people’s delusions but actively participate in it by pretending reality and biology no longer matter simply because they say they’re a certain gender.
At the same time, trans activists celebrate the squelching of women and girls while pretending to be pro-woman. What once was a call for “girl power” has become a demand for girls to accept their new place in the hierarchy — which is, ironically, behind biological men.
It’s really something to watch so-called progressive feminists applauding this while simultaneously complaining about the patriarchy. We watched Drew Barrymore literally kneel before Ms. Mulvaney on her show, without apology. Former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines was punched by trans activists at San Francisco State University simply for wanting to stand up for women and girls.
Remarkably, very few other female athletes are speaking out in Ms. Gaines’ defense. In fact, former athlete-activist Megan Rapinoe, a proclaimed “feminist icon,” sides with the trans women who seek to break records in women’s sports. She was among 40 “professional, Olympic, and Paralympic athletes that sent a letter to Congress opposing House Bill 734 that prohibits biological males from participating in female sports.” Ms. Rapinoe, of course, isn’t expected to compete against biological men since her athletic career is over, so what does she care?
Let’s face it. It has never been about the girls with these “feminists.” We know better.
What used to be a call for acceptance, tolerance and compassion has now become a sinister demand for respect — or else. Just ask Jeffrey Marsh (a friend of Ms. Mulvaney and a nonbinary activist whose social media content is disturbingly often geared to children), who openly said as much in a recent video. And instead of recoiling, appropriately, at Jeffrey’s menacing tone, the progressive moms praise Jeffrey’s stunning bravery. Way to empower girls and women, moms!
The transgender movement has exposed the raw underbelly of this newest iteration of feminism. It’s shown us exactly who progressive feminists are and what’s behind their motivations. They don’t actually care about or want to fight for girls or women at all. The only thing that these women stand for is abortion. That is their solitary focus.
If progressive feminists cared about the girls’ and women’s rights that our foremothers fought so hard for, you wouldn’t see them on their knees in front of biological men, and you wouldn’t see them applauding the destruction of women’s sports by biological men.
The Megan Rapinoes of our world don’t give a crap about women or girls, regardless of how much they align with corporate giants who shove “girl power” in your face. Actual feminism is exemplified in Riley Gaines and other conservative women who are pushing back against the nonsense. Progressive women are frauds who just keep serving the patriarchy that they claim to despise, and are too blind (or too afraid of being accused of bigotry, perhaps) to see the truth.
We’re at a crossroads in this country. We hear a lot of chatter these days about the right to exist. Women, girls, and their spaces are being trampled on by biological men, and women on the progressive left are not only allowing it, but inviting it and cheering it on.
What are you willing to do about it? While progressive women continue to embrace the patriarchy, conservative women should be fighting for our girls and women. That’s true feminism.
Where do you stand? And how loud are you willing to get?
• Miriam Weaver and Amy Jo Clark host the podcast “The Chicks on the Right.”
