pjmedia.com In less enlightened ages than our own, this sort of thing was taken for granted: boys should compete in boys’ sporting events and girls in those set aside for girls. No one thought about boys playing girls’ sports at all, because no boy would have even wanted to do so, but everyone knew that a boy of only average ability would dominate girls’ sports, because of natural physical differences. All this has not exactly been forgotten nowadays; even worse, it has been denounced as “transphobic bigotry.” Everyone today is smarter and wiser than our forbears. We know girls are boys and boys are girls, and boys pretending to be girls and setting women’s sporting records are to be celebrated. Except, that is, in Iowa.
Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday signed into law a bill that forbids biological males from playing girls’ sports. Even if some burly fellow insists that he is really a girl, he has to play on the boys’ teams if he is going to play at all. Nowadays, we have to pass laws in order to reassert the truth of what everyone knows, no matter what they may insist to the contrary, and to beat back the fantasies and wishful thinking that dominate the popular culture. Even worse, the Iowa law is certain to be controversial. Those who cling to their woke fantasies won’t give them up without a fight…
