Dear Daughters,
Some of the most profound questions in the world are the simplest.
What is a woman?
It’s a short question Matt Walsh asked numerous people around the world. Interestingly, many men and women were unable to answer that simple question. Some people (especially the highly educated) became evasive and remarked that there is not a simple distinction. A college professor of gender studies stated that you are what you feel, regardless of what biological sex you were born with.
Our culture has been inundated with the idea that your feelings play the most important role in your life. Some of our society has come to believe that you are what you feel. Science and reality are tossed to the wind in exchange for feelings and opinions. Feelings are king, supreme, they are everything – and now have become the confusing and dangerous idea that your sex is not necessarily the body you are born into, but whatever you feel like during a given day.
When babies are born, they are obviously male or female. According to science, sex is assigned not at birth, but at conception. Every single cell in the human body has the DNA of either male or female. There is a biological difference between women and men. And if we can’t agree that this foundational truth is a reality, then how can we protect our girls and women?
Today, the word gender has become how a person perceives themselves. If you have a male body but feel like a female, you are able to become a female – which has been named transgender according to many college professors. Which inversely means if you were born with female genitalia but feel like you are a male – there are hormones and surgeries to make it appear you are a male.
You may have heard about Lia Thomas, a man on the Penn State swim team, who was 65th in his class as he competed against other biological men during 2018 and 2019. In 2019 he began transitioning to a woman and joined the women’s swim team. In 2021 he started competing against women, winning 1st in the 500-meter women’s freestyle. In 2022 he won the NCAA Division 1 title in the same race. Recently he has been nominated as “NCAA Woman of the Year.”
When interviewed recently, he stated that he is now “happy” being a woman, when in the past he was depressed and confused. So, does this mean that many women are supposed to be willing to give up their right to win in women’s sports because it makes a transwoman “happy” to win the medals and accolades which should have been theirs? Some women will speak up but only to be shut down by those who have more power and volume.
My heart goes out to all those biological females competing against Lia Thomas, because the training they have gone through doesn’t mean anything when a biological male can come in with 2 years of hormone therapy at the age of 22 and win first place easily.
Some may accuse me of being transphobic or anti-trans, but it is simple science which naturally gives an advantage to a man going through puberty who then chooses to transition to a woman. For so many years women have fought for equal rights – in voting, becoming doctors, going to college, and choosing many occupations that have in the past been occupied only by men. But now they are being shut out of their own sports.
Women’s sports are mocked when trans women are invited to compete with biological women. There is absolutely no way a biological male who feels as if he is a female can compete honestly on an equal playing field with biological women.
By the way, the simple definition of a woman is:
A woman is an adult human female.
As Mr. Rogers said many decades ago,
Life is deep and simple, but our society has made it shallow and complicated.
Love, Mom
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