trust the science

 Yesterday I learned that the winner of the Miss Maryland USA contest was a transgender woman. That's a man that believes he is a woman. Additionally, this man that thinks he is a woman is "married" to a United States Marine officer. This is being celebrated as an achievement in LGBTQ+ inclusivity. I couldn't help but wonder what the runner up had to feel like. Taking second place to a man in a woman's contest. Not only a contest for women, it's for single women, at least that is what the rules say. According to the Miss Maryland website contestants cannot be married nor never have been married. 

 Now I realize that in this modern-day world we live in the Miss Maryland contest and all the others like that aren't about physical beauty anymore. Mustn't judge on physical attractiveness, well because that is about sex appeal, isn't it? I get it, we aren't supposed to judge based on that anymore, at least not openly admitting to doing so. Still if the contest involves the title Miss it's my belief that only unmarried females should be in that contest. This individual who calls himself Bailey Anne Kennedy is a male and according to the law, married. So, for me two violations of the pageant rules. I only assume that if you are a member of that LGBTQ+ community that you are above the rules. They don't apply to you. 

 I'm trying to set aside my personal beliefs and feelings. Anyone that knows me or has read anything I have written already knows how I feel. Look, I'm seventy years old, white, straight and feel like a have good grasp on biology as far as gender goes. There are two of them, male and female. That can be determined thousands of years after you are dead by analyzing your DNA. It's true, your physical appearance doesn't matter at all when it comes to that identification. After you are dead and gone there is no way to tell how you felt about that, it is simply what it was. 

 I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. Currently the federally government recognizes same sex marriages as valid. I do not. As far as I'm concerned Miss Maryland, really a guy, is legally in a same sex marriage. So, what I'm saying is if we are supposed to go along with all of this nonsense, this make-believe world where boys can be girls isn't he married? Or does that rule only apply to heterosexual individuals. 

 That leads me to another question, how often can I change my identity? That's what they are doing right, identifying themselves? I hear that quite often, I identify as, and I am expected to play along with that. I can even face civil and criminal charges for not doing so. Is Bailey Anne Kennedy identifying as a single female for this contest? That seems to be the case and the Miss Maryland governing board is playing along obediently. Sounds like the same thing as these guys competing in women's sports. I'm encouraged as I am hearing about some push back on that nonsense as well. 

 I just feel this way about the whole deal. If you want to be included in the heterosexual world you need to be a heterosexual. If you want to live in your fantasy world where you simply get to identify yourself any way you want, and everyone plays along that, it is a different world. We don't have to hate each other for that, one group doesn't have to dominate the other, we can tolerate each other. It is important however that we all play by the same rules. 

 That includes your identity. If you were born as a male that is what you are. No disputing the science. If you were born a female that is what you are, no disputing the science. In matters where gender isn't a qualifier that isn't important. It is basic to those matters that are gender specific. That shouldn't be difficult to understand. If you want to identify as transgender that's fine, you do you. I do not have to play along with that. If you want to think of yourself as somehow different, the rules of gender don't apply to you, you need to establish your own contests among transgender people. Of course, there would be the issue of proving that identity. There is no scientific testing for that. It is just whatever you say. I think that in that case we would just have to go with a slogan the liberals, the progressive crowd that presses for LGBTQ+ rights use, "trust the science." Science doesn't care about your feelings. I can empathize, no I really can't in this situation, but I can trust the science. I recommend you do the same.