Since President Ronald Reagan, every president, Republican and Democrat, has recognized March as Women’s History Month. The purpose of this observance is purportedly to honor women, their role in our nation’s history, and their continued influence. But in recent years, the leftist obsession with expanding the definition of “woman” has made a mockery of everything truly feminine in favor of appeasing the few.
The idea that transgender women, who are biological males, should literally be treated and counted as women is increasing in popularity. After President Donald Trump signed executive orders declaring the government would not fund programs that support gender ideology or so-called gender transition for children, a federal judge responded by issuing a preliminary injunction against the executive orders.
Meanwhile, Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night was met with articles fact-checking his “anti-trans” comments. The campaign to push back against biologically based male and female categories is real — even during Women’s History Month.
A sex education group called SIECUS is celebrating transgender athletes, and the Democratic National Committee issued a statement that includes “LGBTQ+ women” while commemorating the month. In fact, the idea that transgender women should be counted as women is so accepted that Republican lawmakers in Maine who reject that are seen as the real problem. An article out of Portland, Maine, titled “Maine GOP lawmakers mark Women’s History Month by blasting trans women” only points to the widespread delusion.
Members of the Democratic Party, politicians, and voters alike are quick to point to Trump as a major threat to American women. We’re told his policies will harm us and our healthcare and restrict our freedoms. This is unsubstantiated fearmongering. In reality, the Democratic Party is the one that rejects established scientific truths when it comes to women.
Speaking up against the leftist campaign to rewrite womanhood means you’re branded a bigot. Never mind that first-wave feminism fought specifically for women to be treated as equals in the voting booth and elsewhere. The modern-day Democratic Party is so extreme it will happily eat its own in favor of appearing open-minded and inclusive. Men are added into the mix, treated as women if they demand it, and biological women have to shut up and take it.
HOW THE RIGHT IS EMBRACING ‘OPPORTUNITY FEMINISM’
Women’s History Month has never been widely celebrated by the Right. Perhaps it’s a big production that is more about special treatment than equal treatment. But at least conservatives understand that a month dedicated to women should only include praise and celebration of biological women, not men who believe they’re women or who wish to be them.
Increasingly, leftists are not only extreme in their beliefs but unmoving in their insistence that everyone else agrees and follows along, too. Even the areas that have long been reserved for women are subject to change if leftists think attitudes have not progressed enough. This is what we’re seeing with Women’s History Month, female-only sports, and more. If any group is trying to erase both official and unofficial gender-specific protections for women, it’s the Democratic Party.
Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog and a contributing freelance columnist at the Freemen News-Letter.