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Men in Women’s Jails

Dec 27, 2021John StonestreetTransgenderLGBT, Transgender

*John Stonestreet, Radio Host and Director of the Colson Center*

Washington State now allows convicted male felons who identify as female to move to women’s prisons. No surprise but tragic nonetheless, reports are already emerging of biological males abusing and sexually exploiting female inmates.

One convicted child molester was transferred to a Seattle women’s prison after claiming to be a woman and changing his name. He’s now accused of raping a developmentally disabled female inmate.

A former guard told National Review that this predator was one of six men transferred there during his tenure. Another was also a convicted child molester. And all inmates must do to make the switch is convince an administrative panel they’re transgender.

California passed a similar measure, and already nearly 300 inmates have requested transfers… all men, no women. Now, prisons are reportedly handing out birth control. Ideas have consequences, bad ideas have victims—in this case, victims who can’t escape.

Vaccine Requirements for Euthanasia?

Dec 20, 2021John StonestreetEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideEuthanasia

Recently, a Switzerland-based euthanasia clinic posted that, going forward, anyone seeking so-called “death with dignity” must be fully vaccinated first.

It isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds. They aren’t saying you have to be healthy before they kill you. Instead, they’re taking precautions for the sake of the people who provide “assistance in dying.” They don’t want patients infecting the medical professionals tasked with killing them.

Even so, there’s plenty of tragic ironies here. For two years now, we’ve been talking about “doing what it takes” to save lives in the face of Covid. “If it saves just one life” then, we were told, that the masks, the mandates, and the lockdowns were all worth it. At the same time, proponents of doctor-assisted dying tell us that people should have full autonomy over death.

Inconsistencies like these remind us that as much as we suppress eternity in our hearts, it’s still there. Even when our worldviews deny it, life is a wonderful gift of God, and dignity is intrinsic to who He has made us to be.

Male Swimmer Breaks Women’s Records

Dec 14, 2021John StonestreetTransgenderFairness in Women's Sports, Transgender

To hear the NCAA tell the story, an average swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania became a nationally ranked superstar overnight. Check the receipts, and we learn Will Thomas only started breaking records and winning meets by comically huge margins when he began going by “Lia” Thomas this past year.

Similar incidents are increasingly happening in various sports at all levels, but swimming offers an especially clear picture of what it means when we allow men to compete against women. Success in swimming is heavily dependent on physiology. The length of the body, the body’s center of gravity, and even the placement of a person’s belly button can mean the difference between an average swimmer and a major competitor. A man can identify however he wants, and can even take dangerous hormone supplements, but his belly button isn’t going anywhere.

This sort of let’s-all-pretend-we-don’t-know-what’s-happening groupthink isn’t good for college sports or for women’s rights. It’s not good for Lia Thomas, his teammates, or his competitors. No matter how fast he swims, no man really breaks a women’s record.