For “all intents and purposes, I am a woman,” said Bruce Jenner, who now calls himself Caitlyn, to journalist Diane Sawyer in 2015. But if one of those purposes is sports, a man claiming female status is apparently not a woman, the ex-Olympian and California gubernatorial contender tacitly admitted Saturday.
At issue are comments Jenner made to a TMZ reporter when asked about legislation, being passed in many states, that would prohibit boys claiming a MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status or “transgender identity”) from competing in girls’ sports.
“This is a question of fairness,” Jenner told TMZ about such sex-mixing. “That’s why I oppose biological boys [sic] who are trans competing in girls’ sports in school.”
“It just isn’t fair and we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools,” Jenner continued.
When then asked if his position was “delegitimizing” to a person’s “gender identity,” Jenner responded, “Have a good day” (video below).
“Jenner tweeted out a link to the interview, writing: ‘I didn’t expect to get asked this on my Saturday morning coffee run, but I’m clear about where I stand. It’s an issue of fairness and we need to protect girls’ sports in our schools,’” relates the Daily Wire.
Jenner isn’t the only ex-athlete and MUSS individual taking this position. Just consider former tennis player Dr. Richard Raskind, who embraced a MUSS back in the 1970s and adopted the name Renée Richards. He was allowed to compete in women’s tennis after winning a 1977 lawsuit against the United States Tennis Association and subsequently captured the 1979 35-and-over U.S. Open women’s tennis title at age 45. Yet he has since changed his position on MUSS males in females’ sports.
Richards “opposes the International Olympic Committee’s ruling in 2004 that transgender people can compete after they’ve had surgery and two years of hormonal therapy,” wrote Slate in 2012.
“‘Maybe in the last analysis, maybe not even I should have been allowed to play on the women’s tour,’” the site quotes him as saying. “Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I’d had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me,” Richards also stated. “And so I’ve reconsidered my opinion.”
Richards wasn’t blowing smoke, either. To grasp the magnitude of the intersex performance gap in athletics, consider that in the 800-meter run, the record for 14-year-old boys is faster than the women’s world record. As for Richards’s game, tennis greats Serena and Venus Williams both lost badly to barely-trying German player Karsten Braasch, ranked 203 in the world at the time, in an impromptu 1998 “battle of the sexes.”
While there have been articles on this subject addressing male/female differences relating muscle mass, body chemistry, bone structure, blood-oxygenation levels and other esoteric matters, I’ve discovered that relating simple facts such as the above is far more valuable. Upon learning them — and then realizing that the notion of relative sex equality in athletics is a girl-power-propaganda-born myth — many people’s confusion about the issue of MUSS men in women’s sports disappears.
Yet while the lesson that men do physically surpass women must be relearned in certain quarters (thanks, feminism), Jenner’s and Richards’s position relates another truth: Men can’t become women.
In a way, the devout MUSS activists who condemn Jenner are being more consistent than he is, though it’s a perverse consistency. And it was reflected when the TMZ reporter implied that Jenner was “delegitimizing” MUSS individuals’ identity.
Understand here that MUSS activists claim what Jenner did in 2015: A man adopting a MUSS is a woman, period. Full stop. This means you’re to consider him a woman in all dimensions, no questions asked.
But by saying that such a person shouldn’t compete with females because it’s unfair, Jenner is tacitly admitting the truth: A man claiming female status is not a woman. (After all, why take issue with a “woman” competing with other women?)
Of course, this also means that you can’t “delegitimize” his “identity” because it’s not legitimate in the first place.
Yet the worlds’ Jenners would have us endure cognitive dissonance. We’re to consider them “women” when they so desire, without quibble, but then view them as something other when they say so.
It’s the same irrational, schizophrenic mentality telling us that when a woman wants to kill her unborn baby, it’s a “right” involving an “unviable tissue mass”; but if a man kills that pregnant woman, that mass somehow becomes a baby and the criminal can be charged with a double murder. Hell is a place where there is no reason — and, sadly, so is 21st-century America.
This really is the point, too. Many are concerned that the MUSS agenda could cause us to lose women’s sports. But games are frivolity. What should scare us is that we’re losing our sense of reality. And this process will, if not reversed, mean losing our civilization.
