Christian Post Says Gender Equality is Madness, Cites “Transgenderism”

F. LaGard Smith claims women in leadership caused “transgenderism”

“Gender madness”

F. LaGard Smith, writing for the Christian Post, is very upset that Lia Thomas won something, and he thinks “you might be surprised at all the unlikely contributing factors” to “all the hoo-ha over gender fluidity, preferred pronouns, and transgenderism.”

So what is the “surprising roots of gender madness,” according to Smith?

It’s… Rosie the Riveter:

…depicted in WWII recruitment posters flexing her muscles, Popeye-like, with the defiant words, “We Can Do It!”. And do it they did! Millions of women abandoned their traditional roles in the home to “man” the munitions factories and shipyards while the men were off fighting. Having exchanged skirts for work trousers, many post-war “Rosies” took a liking to wearing slacks, complete with bobbed hair, eventually at “unisex” hair salons. In both careers and fashion, gender distinctions were increasingly blurred.

Is it my imagination, or does Smith sound peeved that women in wartime left their homes to (gasp) do “men’s” work? And how dare women cut their hair and wear pants!

Smith seems unaware that both men and women used to wear robes and the world didn’t end.

Elite athletes have physical advantages

Smith continues:

In time (buying into the feminist mantra that “women are just as strong as men”), women were recruited into the ranks of the military, firefighters, and police — supposedly squelching any notion of “the weaker sex,” at least until now.

Lia Thomas, the celebrated trans swimmer, ought to be given a medal — not for breaking all the records set by real women, but for finally exposing the lie that women are as strong as men, and that biology and chromosomes don’t matter.

I don’t follow sports, but I heard that a woman struck out Babe Ruth back in the day. I’ve also heard that Michael Phelps, a very famous swimmer with many records and wins, was born with a physical advantage:

Michael Phelps’s height, wingspan, and large hands and feet give him an advantage in swimming. His body also produces less lactic acid than his rivals, which shortens his recovery time.

Should Phelps be given a medal for exposing the lie that there is no such thing as an equal playing field?

I also heard that Lia Thomas was always a really good athlete, regularly beating men before her transition.

As far as I am aware, any elite athlete is going to be better at sports than other people. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Women aren’t meant to lead

Smith goes on to declare that “women are more naturally spiritual than men, [so] perhaps God has called men to lead so that, counterintuitively, they might be better followers.”

And I’m rolling my eyes. Smith is one of those misogynists who thinks women aren’t meant to lead.

He ends with this absurd statement:

when godly women take on roles ordained for men, their “spiritual transgenderism” fuels the trans fire cooking unwary innocents who are being brainwashed to their harm. Teaching boys and girls that they “can be whatever they want to be” is the right idea, but — given today’s trans world and God’s ordained gender roles — perhaps the wrong message.

So… it’s not Rosie the Riveter after all? Women in leadership is the problem. Women leaders are causing “transgenderism.”

I hope I don’t have to tell you this is absurd. I can hardly consider anyone could believe something like this, but Smith appears to.

Smith allows for “the wise judge, Deborah, the successful merchant, Lydia, and the ‘worthy woman’ of Proverbs 31” but, somehow, they didn’t cause a “trans world” while today’s women leaders do.

I’m not sure what a “trans world” is, but the tiny percentage of transgender people in our world who get a disproportionate amount of hate certainly isn’t it.

Smith doesn’t quite spell it out, but it appears that he is arguing that women in leadership are causing people to be transgender. I’m not sure how that could happen, or why. He gives no evidence, as he has none.

If the problem is teaching children that they “can be whatever they want to be,” Smith needs to explain why a boy would want to be a girl and vice versa. He does not do this.

There is nothing to this argument. It is a plume of hot air.

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