The New York Times ran a glowing piece on trans college volley ball player Blair Fleming. They complained that Fleming was "outed" by Reduxx, thrusting Fleming from "being a mostly unknown college volleyball player to an unwilling combatant in the culture war." Throughout the article, the Times lies, calling Fleming "she" despite Fleming being a man. The Times praised Fleming's "work ethic" and "hard work," giving these attributes credit for Fleming's "kill shots," which had served to injure some women in the college volley ball league. 

"I never saw a ball hit so hard," the Times quotes Trump as having said when he shared a video of Fleming going h.a.m. on a competitor. The Times leans into Fleming's history, talking about how Fleming thought he was "gay" before the "lightbulb moment" of hearing the word "transgender" in 8th grade. At 14, Fleming "started to socially and medically transition," with support from his mother and step-father. A therapist was on board as well as doctors.

All of this is a horror. There's no reason parents should ever go along with this kind of damaging treatment for their child. Nor should the Times go around celebrating it. But what really struck me was this line: "In the decade after the N.C.A.A. introduced its transgender-participation policy, a handful of deep red states ... passed trans sports bans, but public criticism of trans female athletes was largely confined to the right-wing fringe. There was little public controversy..."

The NCAA changed their policy in 2012 to allow trans athletes to play on teams "aligned with their gender identity," so long as they had suppressed their testosterone for a year prior to competing on women's teams. This has its own problems, such as the fact that no matter how much a man suppresses his testosterone by taking estrogen, he will never reach even the high end of testosterone that women have—he will always be way higher. Not to mention that a male who has gone through male puberty will always be stronger and faster than the average girl.

But the real issue is that the Times said that the criticism of trans males playing in women's sports was "confined to the right-wing fringe" and that "there was little public controversy." This statement shows the outright extreme bias the Times has in favor of trans players and against women athletes even more than their use of the term "she" to describe a male volley ball player does.

There were countless women speaking out against trans inclusion in women's everything, even as far back as 2012. There was the Women's Liberation Front, which is a concern of radical feminists and not "right-wing fringe," founded in 2014. Posie Parker, aka Kellie Jay Keen, was in the UK fighting against the Gender Recognition Act as far back as 2004. A case on that issue finally went to the UK Supreme Court and was just decided this month, in favor of the zany notion that there are only two sexes and that trans women are not women. That's more than 20 years since Keen started fighting that battle—and she's not "fringe," but a women's rights campaigner, the kind which the Times used to back before they abandoned reality.

Back in 2012, I was writing satire about the absurdity of trans and complaining to anyone who would listen that saying men are women would lead to the erasure of women in language and in public life. I wasn't wrong. By 2015 I was writing about it in news outlets—so was Time Magazine, though they were in favor of the boys. By 2018, I risked my arts career to speak out and lost. In 2020 I wrote for The Spectator on "The Decade of Trans" and in The American Conservative on the garbage guidelines being spit out by athletic governing bodies. In 2012, Canadian women's rights activist Meghan Murphy had only just finished her masters degree. 

It was only in 2013 that 11-year-old Jazz Jennings landed on the scene in a reality television show with his parents, both of whom advocated for him to undergo drastic medical treatment to prevent him from undergoing puberty. The viewing public watched as Jazz was socially transitioned, medically transitioned, and ballooned into an overweight, depressed eunuch unable to have a normal life or romantic relationships.

The reason there was "little public controversy" was because the whole thing seemed insane. Anyone I talked to about trans back then said I was crazy for thinking it would blossom into an anti-woman nightmare. Am I to understand the Times thinks it's just "fringe" to be prescient and right? Feminists I spoke to about trans some 20 years ago thought we should just be "nice" to the men who want to be ladies, they said there weren't that many of them, that it wasn't a big deal, and that women should acquiesce to the demands of these fellows.

When I pointed out that feminists are supposed to be decidedly not nice, to not smile when asked, to be disagreeable, I was told to have some empathy. The empathy I had then, and now, was for women pushed out of womanhood and for the children—so many more of them now—whose bodies and minds have been irreparably harmed by what the Times seems to believe are mainstream ideas.

A UN study shows that female athletes lost some 900 awards to trans players. Two men just competed for the women's pool championship. A woman lost her high school fencing match because she took a knee rather than compete against a male player and Blair Fleming's female teammate Brooke Slusser has been threatened and harassed because she stood up for women and said that Fleming should not be on the women's team.

Why is there so much more outcry in recent years? It's because the trans delusion has become more prevalent in our culture. It's here, it's visible, it's transparent, and it's a lie. William "Lia" Thomas showed the lie in stark relief when his 6 foot plus frame jumped into the water next to his female competitors. Women who wanted to speak out were silenced by their coaches and schools; just ask Riley Gaines about that.

Women are now speaking out more than ever because finally they have nothing left to lose. A high school track and field athlete was in tears before her California school board as she told them how she was forced to allow a young man to watch her undress all because he claimed he was a girl. The school board told her to "wrap it up."

Even despite the "public outcry," even despite the subject moving from the "right-wing fringe" into the mainstream consciousness, the Times still has the audacity to run a puff piece on trans athlete Fleming, and to say, in their conclusion, that Fleming "suffered more than anyone." Fleming, in a final triumphant moment captured on a Zoom call, told the Times that trans players would be on women's teams in the future. "They're going to be there," Fleming said.

What the Times and Fleming are missing is that the American people have said "no." Trump is fighting hard for women, he's taking states to court over their refusals to function within the confines of reality. UK women had their recent win in their Supreme Court. More cases are pending here in the US. The "right-wing fringe" is mainstream and now that women aren't afraid of losing their jobs, their friends, and their careers for speaking the truth, nothing is ever going to shut them up again.