Policies That Harm Girls and Women

God assigned men the responsibility of protecting women. Not only is that clear in God’s special revelation; Genesis 2:15 tells us that Adam was placed in the garden to protect the garden and its inhabitants. It is equally clear in God’s general revelation (i.e. from observing creation); men have stood between their women and harm in every known culture of the world. This episode is about protecting women—our wives, our daughters, and our sisters.

History reveals that Christians have been known throughout the world for protecting women. Following the example of their master, who protected a woman caught in adultery who was set up by male Pharisees, from being stoned by them, and who even protected Mary who was sitting at Jesus’ feet as a full disciple from her sister Martha’s female stereotypes, first century Christians lived out the truth that every female is as precious as any male by rescuing the predominantly females babies left by chauvinistic Roman fathers in the wilderness to die. So effective was the Christians' protection of female babies that when male Roman children grew to adulthood finding a shortage of Roman women for marriage, they turned to the Christian adopted daughters who became their wives and led many to faith in Christ! At the cost of being labeled partisan, this episode reveals the truth about how harm to our girls and women is resulting from Biden/Harris policies of 1) an open border, 2) promoting gender affirming medical care, and 3) rewriting Title IX to allow biological males to compete against females and share their locker room.

OPEN BORDERS CAUSE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN & CHILDREN

The refusal of the Biden/Harris administration to enforce immigration law, which would allow women and children to be protected as they migrate to the USA, has led to countless parents sending their daughters on a journey to the southern American border. But most of the young women are captured by Mexican drug cartels and turned into sex slaves. According to one congressional report, immigrants, especially immigrant women, make up the largest portion of trafficking victims. Let’s stop and consider what this little word trafficked means? It means raping girls, boys, and women repeatedly and selling them into a life of being raped endlessly. Have you ever talked to someone who has been raped? Women say it rips apart their soul. It is a trauma so severe that it takes a lifetime of therapy to overcome it. And that is if it happens ONCE.

This refusal to enforce immigration law, however, harms more than the millions of precious girls and women setting out for a new life in America. 15,811 convicted sex offenders and another 4,250 charged with sexual assault have been apprehended at our borders by ICE but released into our country to victimize Americans instead of being sent home as immigration law requires. 22-year-old Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley, 37-year-old Baltimore mother of five, Rachel Martin, and 12-year-old Texas child, Jocelyn Nungary, are just some of many raped and murdered by illegal immigrant convicts caught and then released.

Further proof of what is happening through Democrat open border policy are the facts about the Mexican drug cartel’s income. In 2018, during the Trump administration, the cartels were earning roughly $500 million per year. Under the Biden/Harris open border policy the cartels' revenues have skyrocketed, 2000%. Last year, they made approximately $13 billion--26 times their income in 2018. Christians need to stop closing their eyes to the suffering of women who are being raped because of Democrat refusal to implement US Immigration law.

“GENDER AFFIRMING CARE” PREYS ON PUBESCIENT GIRLS

On Joe Biden’s inauguration day, the very first day in office, the Biden/Harris administration made clear its radical gender ideology by executing the “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” mandating the implementation of the transgender agenda throughout the US government. The words: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports….People should be able to access health care and secure a roof over their heads without being subjected to sex discrimination.” Here’s what it means: Boys who identify as girls must be allowed to compete in the girls’ athletic competitions, men who identify as women must be allowed in women-only spaces, healthcare plans must pay for gender-transition procedures, and doctors and hospitals must perform them. The Biden/Harris Justice Department then sent a letter to all state attorneys general warning that they could be violating civil rights laws if they keep minors from receiving “gender-affirming care.” Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs explains that gender affirming care requires:

• Supporting social affirmation: Adopting gender-affirming hairstyles, clothing, name, gender pronouns restrooms and other facilities.
• Supporting puberty blockers: Pause pubertal development using hormones.
• Supporting hormone therapy: Testosterone hormones for those assigned female at birth; Estrogen hormones for those who were assigned male at birth.
• Supporting gender-affirming Surgeries: “Top” surgery—to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts. “Bottom” surgery—surgery on genitals or reproductive organs. Facial feminization or other procedures.

Seven states and the American College of Pediatricians are suing the Biden administration for requiring physicians and healthcare personnel to provide affirming care to patients, including minors. In their brief they argue, “Doctors should not be compelled to harm children. But a new final rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requires physicians to perform, refer for, or affirm harmful gender-transition procedures and forces States to pay for these dangerous procedures in state health plans.”

Gender-affirming health care denies 4000 years of history and all of science, specifically anatomy (which shows obvious differences in reproductive systems), embryology (which shows that testosterone in male babies shapes brain development), endocrinology (which shows enormous male and female differences based on the presence of testosterone and estrogen), and genetics (which shows that every one of the thirty trillion cells in the normal female body is marked XX and in the male body XY).  Gender affirming care is based upon the enormous power of the LGBTQ+ lobby, which intimidates politicians, educators, and government bureaucrats into support for it. Its victims are primarily pubescent girls, whose anxieties and emotional turmoil over their bodies growing into womanhood are exploited by radical gender ideologues to cause the girls to believe a delusion—that THEY, not their biology, determines their gender. Here are some characteristics of the girls who are most vulnerable to believing the destructive delusion that they are actually boys in the wrong (female) body. They: 1) already have high comorbidities (emotional/social disorders like autism), 2) don’t “fit in,” 3) are often fleeing womanhood more than pursuing maleness, 4) may fear their body becoming sexualized, 5) may be confused about their identity because of stumbling onto lesbian porn and being aroused by it, 6) don’t fit their or their parent’s stereotype of femininity, 7) are starving for affirmation, since being cis is uncool but being trans brings immediate notoriety, 8) are lonely but feel understood by a transgender media coach. This socially outcast subgroup would be one that Jesus would fiercely protect. So must we!

The Harm to Children Done by Gender Affirming Care

• Although there has been an explosion of gender dysphoria among teen girls in the last 15 years, research shows that if left alone 82% will outgrow it. But the LGBTQ+ lobby wants government to mandate a shove of such troubled girls down the path of gender transition, sterilization, and body mutation.
• The most frequently used puberty blocker, Lupron, which is used to chemically castrate sex offenders has never been approved by the FDA for halting puberty. We don’t even know what it is doing to kids.
• Statistically, 100% of those who begin puberty blockers go on to cross-gender hormones, which always cause permanent sterility.
• The gender affirming care claim that we must put gender dysphoric children on puberty blockers and support their desire to change genders or they will commit suicide is utterly false. The illegitimacy of the main organization making this fraudulent claim, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, was exposed via internal WPATH documents released March 4, 2024, by whistle blowers. Long term studies of transgender adults in fact show a very troubling increase in the suicide rate of trans adults after ten years.
• Increasingly, de-transitioners, i.e. those shoved down the path of gender affirming care who now regret it, are making their voices heard. Such victims are proving what science is increasingly showing about the adolescent brain; it does not finish developing until age 25. Until then the young adult’s ability to understand the long-term consequences of immediate decisions is impaired, which partially explains suicide, risky drug experimentation, fast driving, and decisions to mutilate their bodies and become sterile because of a teen fad.

BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION CHANGES TITLE IX OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAW

August 1, 2024. WASHINGTON—The Biden/Harris administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX, the longstanding federal law created to protect girls and women from sex discrimination in education, takes effect today in public and many private schools in 24 states across the country. Title IX of the Civil Rights Act says that schools cannot discriminate against individuals based on sex, which gave women better access to higher education and athletics through women’s scholarships and requirements to fund women’s athletics. It led to a revolution in the sports world enabling women athletes to compete in their own sports leagues. But the current administration has swapped “sex” for “gender,” which allows biological males access to females’ bathrooms, locker rooms, sports competitions, etc. This change treats women unjustly, puts them at risk of physical injury, and sexually abuses them.

The Biden/Harris Title IX Change is UNJUST for Girls & Women

On September 29, 2023, The American College of Sports Medicine, in an article entitled ACSM Releases Expert Consensus Statement: The Biological Basis of Sex Differences in Athletic Performance, says, “Biological sex is a determinant of athletic performance: adult males are faster, stronger, more powerful than females because of fundamental sex differences in anatomy and physiology dictated by sex chromosomes. 

• Significant differences emerge at puberty due to anabolic effects of testosterone in males. Testosterone levels rise 20-30-fold in males during puberty and are 15 times higher in males than females by age 18. 
• Direct and indirect effects of testosterone during male puberty include increase skeletal muscle mass; lower percentage body fat; higher hemoglobin concentration and mass; larger ventricular mass (heart) and cardiac volumes; larger airways and lungs; greater body height; and longer limbs.
• Adult males are stronger, more powerful, and faster than females of similar age and training status. The difference in athletic performance where endurance or muscular power is required is roughly 10-30% depending on the event. 

Rilley Gaines is a 12-time All American University of Kentucky swimmer who, during her senior year, had to compete against a biological man claiming to be transgender, Leah Thomas, a member of Penn’s women’s swim team in the NCAA Women’s Swimming championships. She tells her story:

Beginning when I was six, I trained six hours every single day. By college, you swim fifteen thousand yards, which is about ten miles every single day. Three of those hours are before eight am. It's brutal. At the highest levels, you train all year just to knock off tenths of a second from your time. My senior year, I had a goal of winning a national title, which meant becoming the fastest woman in the country. I’m right on pace to achieve that when the NCAA allows a man, Leah Thomas, a mediocre swimmer at that, to compete in women’s athletics. He and I raced in the two hundred freestyle. We tied, which is really rare.

After we tied, we go behind the awards podium where the NCAA official looked at Thomas and me and said, “Great job but you tied, and we only have one trophy, and we're going to give that trophy to Leah because we've been advised as an organization that when photos are being taken it's crucial that the trophy is in Leah's hands.” There was no conversation with my coach or my AD or anyone that was representing me. The national championship trophy and my record setting time for women collegiate swimming were taken from me.

Later, my school warned me not to make trouble saying that if I objected to this unfair treatment, I would never get a job. No employer would ever hire me because they would look me up and see that I'm a transphobe. Their threatening warning continued,

“You know, Riley, you want to go to dental school. No dental school will ever accept you or even look at your application if you speak up about this. And remember when you signed that scholarship, you gave away your rights to speak in your own personal capacity. Remember whose name is across your chest, because it's not yours, it's ours. Understand, we have already taken your stance for you. If you speak out and any harm were to go Thomas's way, whether in the form of physical harm, emotional harm, self-inflicted for that matter—understand that could result in a potential death, and that would make you a murderer” (Interview with Riley Gaines on Verdict with Ted Cruz Podcast, October 4, 2024, The Assault by Men Playing In Women’s Sports.)

The Biden/Harris Title IX Change is PHYSICALLY HARMFUL to Girls & Women

• Peyton McNabb, a high school senior, was in North Carolina competing in women’s volleyball. A man claiming to be trans on the opposing team spiked the ball, hit her in the face, knocking her unconscious. That was September 2022. Still to this day, she's partially paralyzed on her right side. Her vision is impaired, her memory is impaired. She was supposed to play softball in college, but because of this brain injury, she will never play college sports.
• At a Massachusetts high school, a male claiming trans identity was allowed to play field hockey in women’s athletics. He slapped a shot that hit a woman in her face, knocking out all her teeth and requiring facial reconstruction surgery. This male is till harming women playing women's field hockey at the collegiate level.
• At the summer Olympics we saw the IOC allow two men claiming trans identity, to compete in women's boxing. Naturally, both men won gold medals in their respective weight divisions. One of the female boxers who fought against one of the male boxers, said she had never been punched that forcefully in her entire life, and that “this was nothing like a punch a woman could throw.”

The Biden/Harris Title IX Change SEXUALLY ABUSES Girls & Women

Sexually abusing a woman is forcing non-consensual nakedness or sexual acts upon her. Listen again to Riley Gaine’s description of what happened in the women’s locker room at the NCAA finals where male swimmer Leah Thomas appeared.

“The NCAA gave no warning to the women competing in the NCAA finals that a man was going to be standing naked right next to us in our locker room. When I discovered this, I said to an official, ‘I understand the guidelines that allowed a man into the pool with us. But what guidelines allowed a man into our locker room?’ This official responded, ‘We actually got around this by making the locker rooms unisex.’ I remember, thinking, ‘Okay, you realize by admitting you had to change the rules, you're admitting that Thomas isn't a woman.’ But secondly, unisex, means any man, any coach, any official, any parent, any pervert who wanted to, could come down there and share this changing space with us.”

“A swimming locker room is a giant, completely open square with no stalls or even aisles. And the suits that you're putting on—it takes twenty minutes to poke and prod yourself into them and that's twenty minutes in which you're fully exposed. When I had my back turned and I heard a man's voice in our intimate changing space, I really cannot put into words the feelings. Of course it's awkward. It's embarrassing, it's uncomfortable, it's humiliating. It's feelings of utter violation and feelings of betrayal. It’s traumatizing, really, and not even necessarily traumatizing because of what we were forced to see or how we were forcibly and non-consensually exploited, which used to correctly be called sexual abuse or sexual harassment. It was traumatizing for me to know just how easy it was for them to throw our rights to privacy as women entirely out of the window” (Ibid).

As this blog comes out, San Jose State is allowing a man claiming to be trans to play on its women’s volleyball team. Not only did he take a scholarship away from a woman, he has taken a roster and starting spot away from a woman, and is endangering the safety and privacy rights of his team’s women, especially when they travel. But finally, someone is having the guts to stand up to the LGBTQ+ movement. The presidents of four other Mountain West Conference schools, Southern Utah, Boise State, University of Wyoming, and Utah State have chosen to protect their women by refusing to compete against men claiming to be women. Instead, they forfeited their match, thereby taking a loss on their record.

In the past, God has sometimes used secular forces to shame Christians into doing what they should be doing. Maybe Gof is doing that here—giving a picture of what men should be doing—protecting women. May we oppose every ideology that harms these precious feminine creatures!

For Further Prayerful Thought

1. Why do you think many Christians and Christian leaders turn a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of girls and women being raped and turned into sex slaves by Mexican Drug cartels because of America’s open border?
2. What facts about gender affirming care do you most want to remember so you can point out its harm to parents of gender-confused kids?
3. What aspects of Riley Gaine’s story are most infuriating to you? Why do you think so many people cave to LGBTQ pressure when radical gender ideology totally contradicts science and common sense?