Algérie Presse Service, 2023
Christine Flowers: When women are victims of a theory
Today, an Italian woman pulled herself out of an Olympic event because she was afraid of being killed.
The source of her fear came from the powerful fist of an Algerian opponent in the boxing ring. This opponent, who was previously banned from competition because of heightened testosterone levels, was allowed to compete at these elite games as a woman, against a woman.
According to the head of the International Boxing Association, the Algerian suffers from a rare condition where she has XY chromosomes, making her a genetic male, even though she has female sexual organs. But she has the power potential of a man.
And this brings us to the trans movement. It’s not about glitter and drag queens. It’s not about bizarre demands and pronouns. It’s not about bathrooms and locker rooms and nudity, although that matters.
It’s about a genocide that is happening before our eyes, the erasure of an entire group of people.
Those people? Biological women. There is a move to destroy the distinctions between man and woman, and that crusade is becoming more and more threatening with each passing day as men who pretend to be women have overtaken the language, the institutions and the laws.
They cannot, however, overtake and replace science. They cannot in any way shape or form erase the biological distinctions between the genders, only two of them, which give men superior strength and endurance. They cannot, like some ghoulish anatomical Etch-A-Sketch, give wombs to men, nor can they give women who think they are men the ability to shoot their sperm into a waiting egg and thereby create the life that will settle into that womb.
But as long as we allow the fictions to continue, and tailor our laws and our sensibilities around this insanity, and as long as we attack anyone who tells the truth about what is going on as bigots, and as long as we silence their voices with threats and electronic burials on social media, we are going to have women weeping at the edge of their futures, their hard-fought destinies, their dreams and their desires.
Because it is really only women who suffer in this. You do not see women trying to compete against men in athletic events. You do not see women trying to barge into dressing rooms, crashing into safe spaces. You see men who think they are women, and who have been allowed to play women, destroying the sanctity of our private spaces.
I am tired of being polite, and of telling the Emperor that his coat is beautiful. I am tired of having to curate my words so that the overlords of Facebook and Twitter and Instagram don’t wish me into the cornfield, like that little boy in the Twilight Zone.
Brave women have come out and started the battle, women like Riley Gaines and Abigail Schreier. I don’t have their voices. But I have eyes, and I can see an Italian Olympic champion weeping, and I have a voice, and I am not going to remain silent as her glory was stolen from her by an imposter.
You will say that it’s unfair to link this incident to trans athletes. Why? Where is the difference? How does the tiny sliver of a distinction matter to a devastated Italian with dreams of Olympic glory?
I’m not a feminist. But I will die on this hill. This…not abortion…is the greatest women’s rights issue of our time.
Enough is enough.
Christine Flowers is an attorney and lifelong Philadelphian. @flowerlady61
This isn’t a transgender issue or a drag queen issue. Imane Khelif was born with female equipment. In her childhood toddler photos – she’s dressed as a girl. You wouldn’t know she had male chromosomes. Her doctors and parents may not have known otherwise at birth. She played by the rules at the time. I don’t believe transgenders should play in women’s sports, however, Khelif isn’t a transgender. This isn’t black and white. I don’t know why you don’t do basic research about what you write about, Christine. You should know better.
The Algerian is a male who suffer from a disorder known as Testicular Feminization syndrome or Androgen Insensitivity syndrome. In a country such as Algeria, a karyotype (picture) of the baby’s chromosome is probably not required. Had it been so, it would have been possible to reveal to the parents that despite external appearances, the mother had given birth to a boy with a serious malformation. This condition does not allow the fetal testes to descend into an external scrotum and the fetal external tissue develops into a facsimile of an infantile vagina and clitoris. The parents had no clue and believed they had a new baby girl. Adolescence however will bring about the development of the male secondary sex characteristics, including narrow hips, straight femurs, broad shoulders, strong musculature, etc. Modern vetting and screening tests revealed the truth. Modern politics and political correctness have, unfortunately dictated institutional madness and hence a masquerading this unfortunate soul as a woman.
Viv, I’m not sure I follow your argument. International competition has rules regarding gender classification, and it involves more that pulling someone’s shorts down. DNA, chromosome mapping and testosterone levels are involved for certain sports – boxing being one of them. The IBA disqualified both these boxers because of testing results. The IOC didn’t trust the testing, or really didn’t care what they show. They ignored the science. Eligible women suffered. The BBC has a pretty good article on this.
Yes, all the way. Having two daughters and one granddaughter, I have always been both amazed and outraged at the pretend women trying to completely destroy women’s spaces and thus make them vulnerable to the psychological and physical attacks by pretend women. Time to restore some sanity to societal norms.
Where are the 2 comments listed under the comments tag? Are comments now being curated for “sensitivity”?
George, the comments have gone the way of politics – shifted progressive and subject to updated “better” and more tyrannical mythology. Good luck, George.
Thank you, Christine. As the father of a now 24-year-old young woman, this abuse of women boils my blood.
When will women en masse find their voice and scream “ENOUGH!”?
Christine,
What is a woman? And adult, female, human.
In the 13th hour of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked the Supreme Court nominee: “Can you provide a definition for the word “woman”?
Jackson, appearing confused, responded, “I’m not a biologist.”
Blackburn chided Jackson, claiming that “the fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about.”
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
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