Blinken’s Blunder

There are wars and threats of war all over the world. Some experts think we’re headed toward a third world war. So, with crises in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, the people at Biden’s State Department must be really busy, burning the midnight oil on the most serious issues.

Well, Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently found time to issue a memo instructing State Department employees on -- wait for it -- what pronouns they can use when referring to men and women.

He also instructed State Department employees to avoid gender specific words like “ladies” and “gentlemen,” “mother” and “father,” “husband” and “wife.”

The theme of this memo was respecting other people’s gender identity. But the memo really is a war on reality and truth.

State Department employees were instructed to identify their preferred pronouns in emails and meetings. If you get on a Zoom call, you’re supposed to tell people what your preferred pronouns are to avoid any misunderstandings.

But the memo also said that gender identity is fluid. So, if someone wants to be called “he” on Monday, you can’t assume it will be the same on Tuesday. Someone can feel differently and change genders at any time.

This is yet another demand by the radical LGBTQ movement, a movement that said, “Leave us alone so we can live our own lives.” But it has no intention of leaving us alone!

The homosexual lobby succeeded in redefining the meaning of marriage, which many Americans thought was just a matter of “fairness.” But now this movement is redefining normalcy. Now it is telling you what language you must use.

Now we have men and boys invading girls’ and women’s bathrooms and girls’ and women’s sports. As a result, athletic records set by girls and women are falling like dominoes. Girls are also being cheated out of college scholarships, their hopes and dreams are being crushed. But it’s even worse than that.

Not long ago, virtually everyone in America believed that it was wrong for men to beat up women because women are obviously weaker than men. But now the progressive left thinks it is great progress that men and boys are beating up women and girls in sports competitions. (Here and here.)

The latest example involves a Massachusetts high school girls’ basketball team that forfeited a game after three of its players were injured by the end of the first half. It turns out that one of the players on the opposing team is a boy. He’s at least six feet tall and has facial hair.

This is total insanity! Yet, the most powerful people in government, in academia, and the media are attempting to force it on all of us.