In today’s brave new world, the children are in charge.
“Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi, an outspoken leftist activist, sent out a series of tweets Wednesday, telling parents: “If you can’t accept your child for who they’re telling you they are, then you have no business being a parent.”
She went on to argue sex is “a label initially assigned by a doctor at birth,” suggesting it can be changed by the child at any point.
In a separate tweet, Lakshmi asserted transgender people “have existed since the dawn of humanity” and condemned “all of the bizarre false equivalency ‘what about-isms’ or the litany of reasons why you feel people who are different from you don’t deserve basic human rights are not only deeply stupid, but painfully corny.”
The TV personality’s tweets came the last day of Women’s History Month, when the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation published a letter signed by several celebrities and leftist activists condemning feminists who push back against some aspects of the transgender agenda:
In observance of Women’s History Month and Transgender Day of Visibility, we write this letter as feminist leaders in advocacy, business, entertainment, media, politics, and social justice who stand as, with, and for transgender and nonbinary people. Trans women and girls have been an integral part of the fight for gender liberation. We uphold that truth and denounce the ongoing anti-transgender rhetoric and efforts we witness in various industries.
We acknowledge with clarity and strength that transgender women are women and that transgender girls are girls. And we believe that honoring the diversity of women’s experiences is a strength, not a detriment to the feminist cause. All of us deserve the same access, freedoms, and opportunities. We deserve equal access to education, employment, healthcare, housing, recreation, and public accommodations. And we must respect each person’s right to bodily autonomy and self-determination.
In early February, the leftist American Civil Liberties Union tweeted a whole host of assertions it claims are “myths.” Among them is the claim that sex “is binary, apparent at birth, and identifiable through singular biological characteristics.”
CNN on Wednesday also ran an article in which the author initially wrote that there “is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.”
Ryan T. Anderson, author of the banned book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement,” explained, “We don’t ‘assign’ sex — we recognize and acknowledge a natural identity. I recognize my son is a boy — I didn’t ‘assign’ it. ‘Assign’ implies convention/choice.”
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The left has gone after well-known figures like “Harry Potter” novelist J.K. Rowling, who tweeted in June 2020 that sex is unchangeable.
“If sex isn’t real,” she wrote, “the lived reality of women globally is erased.”
Rowling was immediately condemned as “a transphobic bigot” using her sizable platform “to attack a vulnerable minority.” There were, though, some transgender people who agree with the author. For example, Dr. Debbie Hayton, a transgender-identified female, said many in the trans community “appreciate” Rowling’s “courage in speaking out against an authoritarian ideology that oppresses women, gay people, and trans people.”
“We need to return to reality,” Hayton said at the time, adding, “Sex is real and it is immutable.”
On his second day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order mandating all educational institutions receiving federal funding allow biological males who identify as female to join women’s and girls’ sports teams, use ladies’ locker rooms and restrooms, and be eligible for scholarships designed for women.
Journalist Abigail Shrier, author of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” which has, like Anderson’s book, been banned, said Biden’s action “unilaterally eviscerates women’s sports.”
“A new glass ceiling was just placed over girls,” she wrote.
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This week, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed executive orders banning biological males from competing on female sports teams at elementary and secondary institutional institutions.
In an interview last week with CBN News’ David Brody, Noem asserted: “Only girls should be playing in girls’ sports. That’s not up for dispute. My goal is really to protect our kids. Make sure that we don’t have boys playing in girls’ sports at the K-12 level and then also at the collegiate level, go fight a battle that we can win.”
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