Commentary
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was accosted last week after her speech about transgender athletes at San Francisco State University. Gaines became an outspoken critic of transgender athletes competing in female sports after being forced to compete against and share a locker room with Lia Thomas, who was born male and identifies as female. After her speech, protestors repeatedly chanted, “transwomen are women.”
This is the next step in the transgender movement. The movement’s goals have shifted from non-discrimination and acceptance (reasonable), to promotion, normalization, and changing the laws of biology, psychiatry, and the English language (not reasonable).
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines speaks at a rally outside of the NCAA Convention in San Antonio on Jan. 12, 2023. (Darren Abate/AP Photo)
The changing of language is even now reflected in the common dictionary. The latest edition of the Cambridge Dictionary changed the definition of woman. The old definition of woman was straightforward: “an adult female human being.” The new definition expands the definition to also include, “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.” (It modified the definition of a man similarly.)…