This week I was blessed to witness my beautiful wife give birth to our second child, and I am in even more awe than I was with our first child. There was no novelty or romantic illusion about childbirth this time. My wife knew precisely what awaited her, yet her bravery and poise were remarkable. I should mention her road was longer than a typical pregnancy, beginning a year ago with countless injections of fertility treatments, followed by nearly 10 months of discomfort in which her body would be treated like a public housing unit, all culminating in a delivery which offers more pain than I have collectively experienced in my entire life. My amazing wife knowingly signed up for all of this a second time in order to selflessly give us another child.
Women engage in this type of heroism every day around the world, sacrificing their bodies in order to give life. Throughout recorded history, women have been revered for their ability to perform the miracle of birth. The strength, beauty and mystery of women are perhaps collectively best described in the concept of the sacred feminine, which deems femininity as being closer to a divine standard than masculinity. This is an understandable notion even for the least spiritual of individuals, as feminine names and pronouns are instinctively and routinely used by men in reference to any object of affection in their lives. From a classic car, to their homeland, to their very liberty, there is something empirical about women that men see as worthy of exaltation.
For all they endure, women clearly deserve this reverence, so we must ask, why then is there a movement in this country in precisely the opposite direction? In recent years, exclusive spaces for women such as female sports teams, locker rooms and bathrooms have been infiltrated by men. Males are robbing female athletes of glory and men are making women feel insecure in their own private settings. If any woman speaks out against this, she is labeled a bigot and bullied into silence by a woke mob, even though polling clearly shows the majority of Americans agree with her.
DEI ideologues seem unwilling to understand that it is not hate that drives America’s pushback against this offense against of women, but rather our love and appreciation for them. If we are to honor women as a society, there are a few things upon which we should all agree and not be afraid to say out loud. First, bearing children and taking responsibility for them is courageous. A man putting on a dress and pretending to be a girl is not. Wearing a dress does not constitute womanhood, just like placating a mental illness does not make someone compassionate. Second, female civil rights leaders did not earn their respective spaces only to cede them to politically motivated narcissists desperate to invent a new victim class to exploit. Third, the explosion in numbers of trans-identifying individuals clearly points to a fad-like social contagion, however, even with legitimate cases of gender dysphoria, the current practice of grouping biological men with women is not fair or respectful to women in the slightest.
Women deserve better than the dismissive treatment they are currently receiving. At some point, we lost focus on defending the rights and privacy of our mothers, sisters and daughters. We should return to that tradition in the most immediate course because if women do not deserve our respect and protection, no one does.
