The Group So Marginalized They Are Forgotten, by Anthony Esolen

I have been seeing ads put out by a conservative organization urging us to protect girls and women who want to play sports but are devastated to realize that they will never be able to compete against biological males—boys declaring themselves to be girls and barging in on the girls’ teams. When we ignore the basic facts of our biological nature, the voice-over says, “it is always women who suffer the most.” It’s not just that the girls are disappointed or frustrated. One of them points out that it puts college scholarships at risk.

Meanwhile, Catholics have heard of another wolf in the garb of shepherd, this one a Belgian bishop who admitted fourteen years ago that he had gotten into a habit of sex play with one of his nephews and then with a second one for good measure. I wonder whether the only reason why we know the sex of his victims is that English does not have a general word for the child of your sibling. To be sure, the peculiar nature of the harm he did to those boys is not to be discussed, not to be considered, perhaps not to be conceived. …

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