The patriarchy is alive and well, thanks to legacy media.
This week, USA Today released its “Women of the Year” list in “recognition of women across the country who have made a significant impact.” Notably, one of the women included on the list is … a man.
Rachel Levine, who became the first transgender person appointed to federal office last year, was awarded the honor for service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The publication praised the fact that Levine is the “nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender official.” It showed no regard for the actual women who could have been recognized instead.
USA Today’s list is, admittedly, not very important. But it is significant insofar as it reveals just how much legacy media outlets have bought into the Left’s extreme, radical gender ideology. They gladly use “preferred pronouns,” even though doing so often creates a grammatical and incomprehensible mess, in order to make us question what we all know to be true. Their goal is to change the very definition of “sex” and replace it with “gender identity.”
The inclusion of transgender persons in sex-based awards is meant to reinforce this point. USA Today is hardly the first publication to do it. Back in 2015, Glamour magazine named Caitlyn Jenner as its “Woman of the Year.” More recently, Time magazine chose Michaela Jae Rodriguez as one of its women of the year. Neither Jenner nor Rodriguez is a woman — both were born men and still have the chromosomal makeup of a man. No amount of rhetorical obfuscation can change that.
Yet they were given awards and recognition meant for women, whose burdens and responsibilities are so unique that no man, no matter how feminine he considers himself, can even begin to understand what carrying them must be like.
We should reject the media’s attempts to change biological reality and the language we use to describe it. Men are men, and women are women. There is no such thing as “gender identity,” only biological sex. If we allow the Left to decide otherwise, or if we make concessions for the sake of convenience for even a moment, we risk losing the truth. That’s a far bigger concern than who USA Today thinks is important.
