Trans Athletes Decline to Race in Open Category

Meanwhile, gender ideologues at a tech conference suddenly rediscover objective truth

A special category created for trans competitors at this weekend’s Swimming World Cup in Berlin has attracted exactly no entries.

Zero.

Nadir.

Not even one.

Well, knock me down with a participation ribbon.

World Aquatics created the open category after banning male-to-female transgender athletes from competing in women’s events last year.

They made available various distances and strokes for trans athletes to compete in but not a single transgendered athlete has bothered to sign up.

Organisers reported …

“World Aquatics can confirm that no entries have been received for the open category events.”

Is this really a surprise?

Surely transgender athletes cannot agree to participate in such a competition.

Gender ideology makes transgenderism an all or nothing proposition. Men can either become women, or they can’t.

To compete in World Aquatics’ open category is an admission that while not identifying as a man, you are not - in truth - a woman.

It’s an admission that “Trans women are women” is a lie.

And they cannot have that.

So attempts to accomodate trans athletes with their own category do not work. But anyone with a brain knows they were never going to work. The trans issue is ultimately not about inclusion, or diversity, or acceptance, or tolerance … it’s about the nature of reality.

Does objective truth exist?

Can we speak about ‘norms’?

Or is reality entirely subjective and able to be moulded like plasticine to suit our whims and fantasies?

Deep down everybody agrees that objective truth exists, even those who insist on denying it in order to appear inclusive.

Take, for example, a recent tech conference celebrating women and non-binary people in computer science that took place in Orlando last month.

Delegates at The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing became enraged when men registered for the event.

The event was supposed to be the "world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists”.

Attendees were charged $1,300 per ticket.

But women complained that “suspected cisgender men” may have "finessed" the system by pretending to be non-binary, or selecting "prefer not to answer" on their registration forms when asked to indicate their gender.

Of course, the claims couldn’t be substantiated because how could anyone be sure that the “suspected cisgender men” didn’t identify as something else?

That you must never assume another person’s gender is one of the holiest commandments of gender ideology.

And yet delegates complained …

"On top of that these men are acting like zoo animals, sprinting to the booths, and physically hurting the attendees.

"Chaos was the word of the day. Many men, attending as non-allies, overstepped boundaries. We witnessed inappropriate comments, breaches of personal space, and a sheer lack of decorum."

Organisers apologised, saying …

"We tried to create a safe space, and this week we saw the outside world creep in. This makes me angry, and it makes me sad, but mostly it makes me want to fight."

So it seems that the very open-minded women and non-binary tech delegates do know a bloke when they see one.

And it seems that the very open-minded women and non-binary tech delegates do know that simply identifying as a female doesn’t make John a Jill.

They are gender ideologues when it suits and they are biologists when it doesn’t.

The moral of the story is that none of us believe in objective truth, until the consequences of our flirtation with relativism start to bite. And then we quickly become believers once again.