Perhaps the craziest “science” of the Left (which has increasingly become the Democratic Party), is the fad of transgenderism. With this plunge into the Left’s pseudo-science, they claim to believe that it is possible for a person to change his or her gender at will: cut off that penis, those breasts, take some hormones and grow hair, or not.  They ignore the science that says that DNA determines the sex of an individual, not that individual’s whim.  In fact, Science Daily clearly states, “Men determine the sex of a baby depending on whether their sperm is carrying an X or Y chromosome. An X chromosome combines with the mother’s X chromosome to make a baby girl (XX) and a Y chromosome will combine with the mother’s to make a boy (XY).”

My sex is not “how I identify.”  My sex is how I was born.  But that is science, and the “Party of science” disregards science that doesn’t fit with their current agenda. Oh, certainly, there have been a few who have “switched genders” in the past, but now it has become trendy.  Parents who wanted a boy but got a girl at birth instead may now simply have the child, often as young as kindergarten, take sex change hormones, telling Megan that she is now to be called Michael and is really a boy.  

Fair Play For Women.comcontains an article entitled “Biological Sex Differences: Bone and Muscles.” In it the article says, “More and more males are now choosing to ‘live in role as women’. But they can’t actually BE FEMALE. It’s a medical impossibility. There is not such thing as a ‘sex change’. This is simple fact, not prejudice or transphobia. Biological sex affects every part of us, down to the cellular level. Our biological sex informs our bodily structure & function, metabolic processes, and health outcomes.”

The article goes on to examine ways in which men and women are different:

  • MALE BONES ARE BIGGER AND STRONGER, in both size and density. Peak male bone mass is around 50% more than women’s, and women lose bone faster as we age. 
  • MEN HAVE BIGGER HEADS AND LONGER ARMS AND LEGS than women, relative to body size.  The biological sex of an adult skeleton can be determined with 95% accuracy by measuring the hip bones alone, 83% accuracy by the skull, and 80% accuracy by the long bones (femur & tibia). [his method is consistently used by forensic anthropologists to determine the sex of ancient skeletal remains.]
  • FINGER LENGTH: Greater exposure to androgens in utero leads to a 4th (ring) finger that is longer in women than the 2nd (index), as often seen in men.
  • WOMEN HAVE A LONGER TORSO. Our skeleton accommodates extra reproductive organs and finds space to push things out of the way during pregnancy. It makes our legs shorter than men’s.
  • THE LARGER FEMALE PELVIS is better adapted for childbirth. It’s wider, longer, and held together by ligaments that soften during pregnancy, allowing the two halves to slide apart because of their narrow pelvis. Women’s slanted thigh bones put extra pressure on the knee joints, which have to rotate while men’s do not.
  • MEN HAVE BIGGER BRAINS by more than 10% relative to body size. Women’s brains have more connections between the two hemispheres, using both sides of the brain much more often than men.
  • WOMEN’S SKULLS ARE THICKER by 10% but men tend to have a bony ridge on the brow line and a heavier jaw. The male forehead is likely to slope backwards; women’s are more vertical.
  • ESTROGEN CORRELATES with higher eyebrows, fuller lips, and a rounder jawlinewith a more pointed chin in women.
  • TESTOSTERONE CORRELATES with a square chin & sharply angled mandible, a more prominent Adam’s Apple, more facial hair and male-pattern baldness with age.
  • EYESIGHT:Women’s colour perception and peripheral vision are better than men’s. Men do better on long distance focus. These may be evolutionary adaptations for childcare and hunting, respectively.
  • HEARING Women have much better high-frequency hearing; we’re particularly well adapted to identify a baby’s cry – this stretches to kittens and other young animals. However, we lose even more low-frequency hearing with age.
  • VOICE: Men’s (usually) deeper voices are the result of growth in the vocal tract and vocal folds at puberty.
  • MUSCLES: Women are around 30-35% muscle by weight, while men are 40-50% muscle. This varies a lot by age, health, fitness, body type and genetics. Any averagely healthy person can build more muscle by exercising and, to an extent, change the composition of their muscles. But women can’t match the bulk or strength of men’s skeletal muscles – unless they artificially raise their androgens by a significant amount, which would be dangerous.
  • HAND GRIP is one of the most widely-used markers for strength. The strongest 10% of females can only beat the bottom 10% of men! Weight for weight (lean body mass only), women’s grip remains pretty feeble compared to the men. These were large samples that included plenty of fit, young sportswomen with good upper body strength. Taking the 60 elite women separately, they were still only as good as an average to weak man.
  • MEN ALSO HAVE LOWER BODY STRENGTH ADVANTAGE. A 70kg elite male athlete can squat 35% more weight than a 70kg elite female; this goes up to 57% more when both athletes are 120kg.
  • MEN’S MUSCLES ARE MORE SOLID, due to a higher proportion of Type 2 fast-twitch fibres. This type of muscle fibre contains a lot of protein but not much blood. It can expand/contract rapidly with great force and generate its own energy, but it draws on the rest of the body for oxygen. 
  • WOMEN ARE 90% AS FAST AS MEN. Across all speed events, women consistently achieve 90% of the men’s speeds. This seems to be where our multi-tasking muscle fibres come good, but they still can’t close that 10% gap.
  • MUSCLES OF THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. You don’t see much about them in the fitness blogs, do you?! These incredible organs are lined with muscles so powerful that they can squeeze a baby out, and so elastic that they can stretch to accommodate the baby & placenta, etc, while holding them safe – and then return to shape.
  • THE VAGINA is not a ‘hole’. It’s a muscular tube connecting internal organs to the outside world. Around the mucosal lining is a folded layer of smooth muscle. Another layer wraps lengthways around that, so the vagina can stretch & hold in all directions.
  • THE UTERUS is a thick-walled muscular organ with no fewer than three layers of folded muscles going in different directions. Together, they’re called the myometrium.
  • MEN DON’T HAVE any such awesome muscles in their reproductive organs. They feel strong contractions during orgasm, as women do, but theirs are localised bursts while our whole uterus & vagina contract in waves – more often and for longer, if we’re lucky.
  • WOMEN’S LIGAMENTS ARE THINNER AND SOFTER than men’s – apart from around our reproductive organs, where they can be phenomenally strong and elastic. At puberty our ligaments become “lax” compared to men’s. This would seem to be a hormonal effect designed to facilitate separation of the pelvic bones for childbirth – pity it weakens all of the ligaments all of the time, as our “laxity” causes joint instability. It’s responsible for a high number of sporting injuries.”

To accept as fact that individuals can change their sex is both contrary to fact and to science.  While hormones can make some changes in an individual’s bodily appearance, they will not change the shape of a woman’s pelvis, the breadth of a man’s shoulders, or the longer length of his legs and arms, or many other factors that were determined by their DNA and with which they were born. Neither will they allow a transgender man to compete equally in men’s sports or a transgender woman to compete fairly in women’s sports.  Yet, the Left ignores the fact that a transgender woman is still a man, and that a transgender man is still a woman.

Certainly this is a repudiation of science, but it is also a war on women.  The Left pushes, and indeed the House of Representatives recently passed a bill, to allow individuals to use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender that they “identify with” rather than the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex.  This puts girls and women at risk since it means that locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers will now be open to “girls and women with penises.”  But don’t worry about explaining that to your kindergartener. No doubt her progressive teacher will already have done so!

In addition, transgender “females” are being allowed to compete in female sporting events.  This is blatantly unfair. In an article entitled, Sex-Based Differences in Skeletal Muscle Kinetics and Fiber-Type Composition by K. M. Haizlip, B. C. Harrison, and L. A. Leinwand  and published by the American Physiological Society, the authors claimed that “Previous studies have identified over 3,000 genes that are differentially expressed in male and female skeletal muscle.”  Another article published by the same Society, “Endocrinology and Metabolism,” asserts that “Male skeletal muscles are generally faster and have higher maximum power output than female muscles.” In other words, men are generally stronger and faster than women. 

In Connecticut, a group of young women have filed suit against the state for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.  “Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field,” said the students’ legal representative, Christiana Holcomb, an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom. “Women fought long and hard to earn the equal athletic opportunities that Title IX provides. Allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports reverses nearly 50 years of advances for women under this law. We shouldn’t force these young women to be spectators in their own sports.”

“I’m sorry to underscore the inequity here, I’m going to highlight the fact one of these male athletes now holds ten records inside the state of Connecticut that were once held by ten individual girls and were established over the course of about a twenty year period,” Holcomb told T.V. commentator Tucker Carlson. “So it’s fundamentally unfair to allow biological males to step into women’s sports and frankly dominate them and take away opportunities not just to medal but to be at the podium to advance at the next level of competition and even compete for scholarships.”

So the so-called Party of Science not only ignores real science , but they also are willing to sacrifice the good of biological girls and woman for a tiny class of individuals who are not who they say they are. Someone needs to teach Democrats some Science!