CNN News Writer Denies the Biological Reality of Sex at Birth

[Mike Mercury]

CNN (MM says: "no longer considered to be journalists") news writer asserts that we can’t know a child’s “gender identity” at birth

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-m...-sex-at-birth/


In an article reporting on Kristi Noem’s decision to veto the “Fairness in Girls’ Sports” bill, CNN reporter Devan Cole claimed yesterday that there’s no way to determine a child’s “gender identity” at birth.

“It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth,” Cole asserted, in a statement better fit for an unhinged opinion article than a news article by a breaking-news reporter.

In fact, as most of us are willing to acknowledge, for all of human history we’ve all relied upon a very simple way of actually knowing sex at birth. The concept of “assigning” sex at birth, far from being based on any “consensus criteria,” is a progressive invention designed to inculcate new parents into believing that a child’s biological sex and gender are sometimes, or even often, misaligned, and that it would be damaging to them to merely accept the reality of their biology at birth.

Cole has more to offer in this vein, critiquing two orders that Noem signed in an effort to require that biologically male athletes and biologically female athletes compete against others of their own sex:

Though the two executive orders signed by Noem do not explicitly mention transgender athletes, they reference the supposed harms of the participation of “males” in women’s athletics — an echo of the transphobic claim, cited in other similar legislative initiatives, that transgender women are not women. The orders also reference “biological sex,” a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students’ original birth certificates.

To Cole, the activist phrase “transphobic” is a matter of simple fact, fit for use by a hard-news writer, but the phrase “biological sex” is apparently disputed.

Of course, contrary to what Cole and his editors at CNN would like us to swallow wholesale, biological sex is a defined, observable, scientific reality — regardless of what anyone might believe about how best to deal with the policy issue of athletes who identify with the opposite sex.

To pretend that we as a society are incapable of knowing whether a child is a male or female at birth is lunacy. More than that, it’s lunacy in service of the left-wing project to redefine sex and gender as being entirely a creation of each individual, totally untethered from any biological or metaphysical reality.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed this morning, Margaret Harper McCarthy hits on exactly what is so problematic about this effort, especially as codified in the Equality Act, which Democrats are attempting to push through Congress:

At stake in the so-called Equality Act, currently before the Senate, is neither women’s sports nor bathrooms, at least not ultimately. At stake is the freedom of rational human beings to use a common vocabulary when speaking about what all can see. . . .

The Equality Act doesn’t concern such invisible mysteries as the Holy Trinity, for example. That is a matter of belief in the strict sense, though it isn’t irrational or private. Rather, the Equality Act concerns things everyone can see and understand. Infants don’t need instruction to know that their mothers are the ones who are nursing them, and their fathers are the ones who are not. Sexual difference is obvious to anyone with eyes to see.

[04 commemorative]

If I had a young daughter or grand daughter and I saw someone like that go in the "Ladies Room"after her...I would be taken away in cuffs
And probably be in jail......before SNIDE

[JetMechZ16]

It doesn't matter what they identify as. If they are physically a male they must compete in male sports. Identity is not the issue. They use the body given them at birth to compete. Therefore they must compete in the category that that body falls into. XY or XX. Easy enough.

[Vandelay Industries]

There's no way the Babylon Bee can keep up with this shit.

[Rodnok1]

Yea why use science to figure out what the child is.. Lets wait until they're 20 and let them decide. Fuktards.
People scoffed at NC HB2 aka the bathroom bill but it's a slippery slope, if males allowed in female areas the prisons be forced into desegregation, schools won't be allowed to tell them which room of any sort they can use. Sports will not be separated at all, etc.
But the libtards say the rights of people to do what the **** ever they want outweigh the protection of even one person(female or male), what happened to their "everyone is important" shit they spew.. Oh wait that only covers people they want it to.
Anyone ever run across a creepy fuker? I have and not just online.

[Iron Chef]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Anyone ever run across a creepy fuker? I have and not just online.

Plenty of them. Before it was stylish. I worked in Hollywood for years.

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by JetMechZ16

It doesn't matter what they identify as. If they are physically a male they must compete in male sports. Identity is not the issue. They use the body given them at birth to compete. Therefore they must compete in the category that that body falls into. XY or XX. Easy enough.

that makes soooooo much sense that you're likely to be labeled a

*racist
*bigoted
*sexist
*homophobe

by the CNN-o'crats.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

that makes soooooo much sense that you're likely to be labeled a

*racist
*bigoted
*sexist
*homophobe

by the CNN-o'crats.

Obviously, he's all of the above.

And I agree with him.

If a guy wants to dress up in women's clothes, put on make-up, and have people use female pronouns when referencing them, and even take a female name, I really don't care. Having people born biologically male competing against those born biologically female is stupid.

[JetMechZ16]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

that makes soooooo much sense that you're likely to be labeled a

*racist
*bigoted
*sexist
*homophobe

by the CNN-o'crats.

Originally Posted by Mick

Obviously, he's all of the above.

And I agree with him.

If a guy wants to dress up in women's clothes, put on make-up, and have people use female pronouns when referencing them, and even take a female name, I really don't care. Having people born biologically male competing against those born biologically female is stupid.

I don't understand why the points I brought up are not brought up in any of the courts. At least I haven't heard that argument being made. Sports should no longer be classified as male or female. Classify them as XX or XY and you must compete in the category that the body falls into. This would eliminate so much of this drivel.

[snide]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

If I had a young daughter or grand daughter and I saw someone like that go in the "Ladies Room"after her...I would be taken away in cuffs
And probably be in jail......before SNIDE

I'd be in jail with you.

[Hardluck]

These fukers are vile POS!