Men are encroaching on women’s realms, stealing championships, mocking the very meaning of “woman,” and subtly reversing centuries of progress. The testimony of Chloe Cole and former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan at Thursday’s congressional hearings once again points to a disturbing void in the story: where are the feminists?

Despite the obvious attacks on women’s rights and all the achievements they fought hard for, the headlines do not feature major feminist stories defending these women. Where is Gloria Steinem today?

Why are high-level feminist activists so liberally tolerating the reversal of women’s rights? It’s simple. This is exactly what they wanted.

The quest for women’s liberation in the 1960s slowly laid the groundwork for today’s seemingly sudden assault on women’s rights. In fact, it has long been brewing for men to invade women’s spaces. Over 25 years ago, Dale O’Leary criticized nonsense and demanded a change in her 1997 book Gender Agenda:

“Police told me it was ‘respectful to ask someone who questioned their gender identity which gender they prefer.’ The issue of women who object to doing so must still be resolved. “

If someone had listened to Mr. O’Leary’s troubles 25 years ago, I probably wouldn’t have had to play volleyball with a cross-dressing boy. But if someone had listened to me even two and a half years ago, maybe 14-year-old Blake Allen’s Vermont school was about a boy watching her get dressed in the girls’ locker room. They wouldn’t have suspended her for complaints.

Feminists are showing their cards in celebrating the “inclusion” of men who “identify” as women, but they never think about women’s prosperity.

Feminists in the 1960s have long struggled for a single standard. Rather than acknowledging complementary designs for men and women, feminists sought to ignore distinctions entirely. This is exactly what he was aiming for in several laws of the 1960s, mostly unsuccessful laws. Equal Rights Amendment It was supposed to be equal for everyone.

However, something very obvious is getting in the way of this comparison. It’s basic biology. Simply put, women can have children, but men cannot.

If you can’t change this, what have feminists done? Denying it, disassociating femininity from biological distinctions, and turning to our bodies, feminists advocated destroying the uniqueness of healthy bodies.

Fertility? biological enslavement. release? contraception.

In their attempt to eliminate “patriarchy,” they decided to cut it off completely from reproduction and suggest that women could be just like men.

Under this new paradigm, the unique abilities that come with sex are suddenly abandoned because you are never bound to your own body. The emergence of transgenderism.

Who can say that a man cannot be a mother when being a woman and being a mother are completely separate? Not a feminist! Unsurprisingly, the current Planned Parenthood Commissioner testified before the U.S. Congress: pregnancy“

Beyond biology, what are the real differences between men and women? Is femininity something more than just a dress?

Biology is now just an expression and we can customize it ourselves. This is a direct attack on the sanctity of human design and natural law, and leads to existential questions that we all must consider…what relationship do we have with the bodies we live with? Is there?

The truth is that we live in our bodies and denying it limits our potential. Femininity is not a costume, it is a powerful tool ingrained in our being, and its awareness aids self-actualization.

There is no freedom in a single standard. A square nail is inserted into the round hole.

Equality does not mean sameness, and assuming it is a high barrier to the prosperity of all human beings.

As an NCAA volleyball player, I believe there is a difference between men and women. The men’s volleyball net is at least seven inches higher than the women’s net. It’s not that one net is better than the other, but by doing the sport to fit your body, both to prosper. But if men and women played at the same net height, it would be unfair because of the average height and jumping ability of the men. So we push women aside because of biological differences.

As a nation, we have to recognize that we instinctively have different desires, different ways of learning, different paces of growth, etc. For both sexes to thrive, it must be socially accepted that both can thrive in different ways. The results are not the same, but that’s a good thing. But this is exactly where feminists went wrong.

This transgender moment exposes the harm of pursuing homosexuality. If they were really about the theme of female flourishing, they would honor what makes them unique instead of making them the bad guys.

Macy Petty is an NCAA volleyball player and ambassador for Young Women for America, Concerned Women for America’s college leadership program.

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