Indiana is mired in a legal fight over transgender athletes, and every detail is more absurd than the last.
The state’s ban on men and boys playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams is being challenged in court. A federal judge ruled that a 10-year-old boy must be allowed to rejoin his girls’ softball team, not even a month after Indiana’s ban took effect. The law was passed over the veto of GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb, who ludicrously claimed back in March that the current policies put in place by the state made the law unnecessary, because no male athletes had tried to compete in women’s sports before.
Now, after just one case, Indiana’s law is being dragged through the courts. Holcomb had claimed the law wasn’t necessary; instead, it looks like the law wasn’t even sufficient.
This legal fight was picked by the American Civil Liberties Union, a left-wing activist group that thinks that all men should be allowed to play in women’s sports. The ACLU of Indiana claimed after this initial victory that it is “misinformation about biology and gender” to argue against men competing in women’s sports, and that it is “sex discrimination that has long been prohibited under Title IX.”
So, we have a 10-year-old boy claiming to be a girl and humored for it by adults. We have a Republican governor who refused to stand for the integrity of girls’ sports in a reliably conservative state. Finally, we have the anti-science drivel from the ACLU, winning a temporary injunction in court while the organization rots from the inside out due to gender ideology.
Could anything make the story worse?
Yes. Here is a line from the Indianapolis Star’s reporting, with emphasis added: “The plaintiff, who filed the lawsuit under her initials A.M., began identifying as a girl before she was four years old.”
A 10-year-old child does not have the capacity to choose the opposite gender. A 4-year-old child absolutely does not make that decision on his or her own and has certainly been pushed down that path by parents based on one of any offhand comments children typically make.
And yet, we are told by liberal activist groups that this must be humored and normalized, while some Republican politicians do nothing but shrug.
Children suffering from gender dysphoria deserve sympathy. They do not deserve this kind of abuse — to be pushed along this path by parents and liberal activists starting as young as 4 (or even 3). Instead, groups like the ACLU will say that our entire legal system, and our entire understanding of basic biology, must be bent to the whims of transgender activists and the children they use as props. It is a terrible movement with despicable tactics, and it must be opposed every time it picks a fight against normalcy and sanity.
