If you want to beat transgender ideology, don’t adopt its logic
Madeline Fry Schultz
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In a video that recently went viral, a woman shows off the boys’ clothing section at Target, where blue and peach-colored T-shirts are festooned with rainbows and cutesy cartoons. As the camera pans over Hawaiian shirts appropriate for any father grilling in his backyard, the woman recording the video intones, “This is the boys’ section.”
Also in view are pastel-colored T-shirts that could easily belong in a frat bro’s closet. There is one pink matching set that appears to be marketed toward boys, but if you look on the Target website, it seems to have only been purchased for girls. The one article of clothing that gets the woman to exclaim, “Oh, hey! We got a boy shirt!” is the cheesiest of the bunch.
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You don’t have to be blind about the way “wokeness” is invading public schools and libraries to admit this type of handwringing is just creating a problem where there is none.
Just like the maker of the video, complaining that little boys’ shirts have rainbows on them, one conservative commentator has decided that people must conform to a narrow, 21st-century concept of gender roles, or else they’re siding with the Left.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) came under fire for her attire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Her mistake? Wearing a tuxedo.
“I have known you for a [long time],” commentator Randan Steinhauser tweeted at Mace. She criticized Mace’s recently expressed policy positions, which we won’t get into here, and then proceeded to attack her appearance: “Further, as our culture continues to undermine women by celebrating men who pretend to be them — why would you choose to wear a tux to the WHCD?”
Let’s get this straight: The transgender movement — which argues if any young girl likes to wear tomboyish clothes, then she must actually be a boy — is being advanced by a woman who wears the clothes she wants to wear but still embraces her identity as a woman? Make it make sense.
Not to mention that Trump staffer Hope Hicks and beautiful women throughout the ages have opted for a chic suit over a dress. In essence, those who argue that rainbows on boys’ clothes or women in tuxedos are problematic are really just echoing the reasoning of the transgender movement: “If you dress out of line with my perception of the rules for your biological sex, you must be trying to make a statement about your new identity.”
Mace had the right response: “Curious … who wore it better?” Mace wrote, comparing a photo of herself to a 2020 photograph of former first lady Melania Trump matching her husband in a tuxedo. “I love freedom and liberty, including being free to wear a tux.”
https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1652777219066830850
There are many ways in which conservative and commonsense values are being attacked from all sides of the culture, from media to movies to fashion. But that doesn’t mean everything is a part of the culture war, and conservatives need to get a grip on reality if they want anyone to take them seriously. Otherwise, they just become the boy who cried “woke.”
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Madeline Fry Schultz is the contributors editor at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.