In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court made law where none should have been required. Transgender women (i.e., biological men) can no longer dominate women’s sports. To all who thought that having men in women’s sports was a good idea, the highest court in the land has determined that it is not. It should never have taken this long. The desire to push French laïcité here continues apace, but this decision estops it for now.
To any right-thinking human, the very idea of having men compete against women was, from the beginning, a crackpot idea. Men’s muscle mass and abilities far exceed most women’s, and the tale of the tape proved this. Transgender women who, when competing as males, often failed to place at all or place so far down the list that it had to have been embarrassing to their manhood. Apparently that manhood was fluid, to put it in the vernacular. Once allowed in women’s sports, these failed men often finished in the top three.
It will come as no surprise that three of the four women on the court dissented: Justices Sotomayer, Kagan, and Jackson. Ketanji Brown Jackson may not have read the Constitution to begin with. Her appointment by Biden is par for his course. In her confirmation hearings on 22 March 2022, she could not define a woman. “No,” she responded, … “I’m not a biologist.” I’m not a psychologist either, but I know a crackpot when I see one. It would have been funny if it were not so pathetic. She is our febrile ludibrium, a farce to weep at. As the friar in Romeo and Juliet said, “Women may fail when there’s no strength in men.”
The three dissenters wanted the lower courts to determine on a case-by-case basis rather than a universal ban. But that begged the question: why would it be right in one case and not in another? Either these men masquerading as women have an unfair advantage (and they do) or they do not. Thankfully, there is still some sanity on the court, and this nonsense will have, at least temporarily, come to an end. A public apology should be issued to J. K. Rowling, who courageously stood up to this nonsense early on, risking her fame and fortune. Riley Gaines also deserves an apology.
And that brings us to another point in this crazy mixed-up world. Comus wrote earlier this year about watching carefully what your children read, either from the public library or the school library. The UK has come out with a report very damning to children librarians, publishers, authors, et al. “Through the Looking Glass: A SEEN in Publishing Report into Transgender Activism in Children’s Literature and Library Services.” Launched on 17 June in the House of Lords, the report excoriates, “how editors and authors in children’s publishing have, for over a decade, promoted both the idea that children can be born in the wrong body and surgical interventions [can] fix this. A flood of books aimed at children, some of them in the 0-5 range, flout statutory safeguarding guidance.”
The report pulls no punches regarding the active complicity of children’s librarians. Anne Fine, an acclaimed children’s author and Carnegie Medalist, argued that the report could not be more damning:
Over the last decade publishers, booksellers, librarians, and a bevy of joyless would-be authors became a major conduit for trans-activist propaganda and harmful lies, while others (whose books sold a good deal better) were bullied into silence, or out of their careers, by positively terrifying campaigns of cancellation and spite.
The report goes on to point out that,
- Ignoring basic biology and established and robust theories of child psychological development, a large number of recently published children’s books promote social transition, double mastectomies, and the concept of children being born in the wrong bodies.
- By publishing, promoting, and purchasing age-inappropriate and scientifically inaccurate books written by trans activists, children’s publishers and children’s librarians are failing to adhere to statutory [UK] guidelines and eroding child safeguarding boundaries.
The report does not stop there. arguing that no child should be subjected to “adult fetishes foisted on them in books.” In a roundhouse slap to the American Library Association, it maintains that “librarians should note that ‘drag queen story hour’ is not appropriate for young children. A man who makes money from sexualized performances while wearing ‘womanface’ has no place reading to babies and toddlers in any setting, let alone a publicly funded one.” If all that were not clear enough, the report goes on to say “That ‘drag queen story hour’ for babies and toddlers has become a mainstream phenomenon is indicative of how deep the trans-activist rot has set in amongst our library services.”
The whole movement had already been hoisted on its own petard when the leaked WPATH files proved incontestably what we already knew: the surgeries could not be reversed, left victims sterile, shortened their lives by a decade or more, and increased the likelihood of suicide. If ever there were quacksalvers who deserved jail time, it is those surgeons and physicians who failed to live up to their oath: first do no harm. So why are these lies being perpetrated in our nation’s libraries?
With the 6-3 court decision now, lawmakers in this state need to step up to the task of cleaning up our libraries—all of them —nationwide. The “rot” of transgender nonsense is present in every South Carolina library, ever-ready to confuse and manipulate unwary children and unsuspecting parents.
