The cognitive dissonance in the transgender debate over the definition of boy and girl is summed up in just one sentence from a New York Times op-ed.
The writer, Alexandra Brodsky, a Skadden fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, basically excoriated conservatives for sticking to the idea that men who look like men should probably just use the mens room. The inspiration for the OpEd stems from a recent Minnesota lawsuit that claims female students were traumatized when the school let a boy claiming to be a girl use the ladies locker room.
“The organization bringing the suit sees no problem in the girls’ locker room if there are no transgender girls present,” Brodsky writes. Then, summing it all up (emphasis ours), “The claim depends on the belief that transgender girls are actually boys.”
The Webster’s definition of the word “actually”: Used to refer to what is true or real. What’s real about the trans community, that no one disputes, is that transgendered girls have a Y chromosome. Literally, actually boys.
For its part, the Minnesota lawsuit alleges that a transgender girl twerked in the girls’ locker room and asked the girls inappropriate questions about their body parts. (RELATED: Trans Student Twerks In Girls’ Bathroom, Parents File Lawsuit)
The female students claimed they suffered from harassment and had to change schools to avoid being in a hostile environment, according to the lawsuit.
“The suit, which uses male pronouns to refer to the transgender girl, treats one student’s prejudices as fact and her classmate’s identity as a threatening fantasy,” Brodsky argues.
Brodsky equates the transgender girl’s harassment of other female students to normal female behavior.
“Instead, the complaint reads, heartbreakingly, as the story of a transgender girl acting like any other girl- dancing in the locker room, expressing insecurities about her body- in the face of rejection by her peers,” Brodsky laments.
According to Brodsky, telling a transgender girl she must use a different locker room only serves to reinforce “narrow visions of what makes a good woman.”
“When schools fail to value female athletes, or punish girls for ‘unladylike outfits,’ they reinforce narrow visions of what makes a good woman,” Brodsky writes. “The same thing happens when they tell a girl she has to change in a different locker room solely because she is transgender.”
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