Recently, The Washington Post released an article with this headline: “Our daughter wanted a mommy, so she picked one of her dads.” In it, the author praised his same-sex partner for taking a “motherly role” as assigned by their three-year-old adopted daughter. He argued that the term should be broadened, as if anyone can be a motherly figure.
This is another iteration of a fundamentally bad idea of the sexual revolution, that men and women are interchangeable. Still, the story betrays itself. Why did this three-year-old girl sense something was wrong in the first place? She somehow knew she needed a mother.
In fact, throughout the article, the author expressed concern that his daughter was “bending the reality” of having two dads. And that’s the very point: “two dads” is not a reality, it’s a social construction. Moms and dads? Those are baked into the human condition.
Dads can’t mom. And moms can’t dad.
Copyright 2024 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.
On Wednesday news outlets reported transgender swimmer Lia Thomas lost a legal challenge over eligibility requirements for competing in women’s races at elite competitions like the Olympics.
Thomas is a biological male who claims to be female.
In 2021 Thomas shattered women’s swimming records after he started competing against female swimmers as a transgender athlete. In 2022 he was even nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year. Since then, a group of current and former college athletes have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA arguing that letting Thomas compete in the 2022 national championships violated their federal rights under Title IX.
This legal decision is good news. Letting men compete in women’s sports reverses 50 years of advancements for women and effectively erases women’s athletics.
It hampers girls’ abilities to compete for athletic scholarships, and it hurts their professional opportunities as adults. In some cases, it can even be dangerous.
In 2021 Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) preventing male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school.
This good law protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas — and Family Council was pleased to support its passage.
Public opinion polling shows everyday Americans increasingly agree that need to preserve fairness in women’s sports. It’s encouraging to see leaders willing to take a stand to do exactly that.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
Our friends at ADF recently released a video discussing the Biden Administration’s decision to redefine “sex” in Title IX — and how ADF is opposing that radical redefinition in Arkansas and elsewhere.
Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education and in activities that receive federal funding — like school athletic programs.
But the Biden Administration recently released more than 1,500 pages of new rules drastically reinterpreting “sex” under Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Under these rules, public schools could be forced to let biological males compete in women’s sports and use girls’ locker rooms, showers, and changing areas at school.
Attorney General Griffin’s lawsuit alleges that the Biden Administration’s new rule is unconstitutional and threatens female students’ privacy and athletic opportunities.
We have written repeatedly about how women’s athletics is at risk of being erased in America.
Many states — including Arkansas — have enacted laws that preserve fairness in women’s sports.
In 2021 Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) preventing male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school.
This good law protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas.
It’s worth pointing out that public opinion is shifting on this issue, with more Americans agreeing that athletes ought to compete according to their biological sex rather than their gender identity. With that in mind, we believe the Arkansas Attorney General’s office and Alliance Defending Freedom ultimately will succeed in court.
Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.
