Words Matter

A dispute this week between ESPN and the governor of Alabama shows why it is so important for conservatives to push back on the left’s attempts to use deceptive words in order to fool the public.

This week, Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation protecting collegiate women’s sports from men who pretend to be women. Here’s how the leftists at ESPN described the legislation, “Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation on Tuesday that will ban transgender women from playing on female sports teams in college.”

Someone not paying close attention might be confused as to why the governor would ban “women from playing on female sports teams.” So, Ivey responded to ESPN’s spin.

She tweeted: “Let me fix that ESPN: *Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation on Tuesday that will ban biological MEN from playing on FEMALE sports teams in college.”

No conservative should ever say “trans women.” It suggests that men can become women. They can’t. It is an outrageous lie to suggest they can. But today the left is insisting that we all must lie by calling a man “she” or “her.” 

The famous philosopher and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned that we must never allow anyone -- the left or the state -- to force us to lie because lies and violence are intertwined. He said:

“Violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle. . . The simple act of an ordinary brave man is not to participate in lies, not to support false actions!”