Listen up, girls! If you don’t want to compete against males in your sports, then you have to stop volunteering to do it. It’s as simple as that. You must stop allowing them to compete. Every time you jump into the pool to swim against a male, or spring out of the starting blocks in a foot race against a male, you’re harming your sport. Every time you do it, you’re volunteering to lose, and you’re volunteering for DEI. You may think that benighted sports authorities, virtue-signaling university administrators, doctrinaire activists, and misguided politicians are forcing this on you—and they are, but that’s not entirely the case. Certainly these ideologues work diligently against your interests, but this is only because you allow them to do so. They pretend to play by the rules (while breaking them through a reinterpretation that confers an advantage on some special group) and then insist that you play by the rules as properly understood. In the case of women’s sports this means that males redefined as “women” are allowed to compete in women’s sports against true women, over whom they have significant physical advantages. The true women are expected to compete in the women’s category just as though that category still protected them from competition against men. In short, the trans athletes can break the rules only because you agree to abide by them. This is an observation of general application: DEI— whether affirmative action, reverse discrimination, quotas or trans-rights— whatever its particular guise, depends on the cooperation of its victims. It may seem, to the contrary, that it’s the result of authorities with the whip hand imposing these things on the powerless, but that’s not quite the case.
They want you to play by their rules.
Picture source: halewoodtowncouncil.gov.uk
To take the example of women athletes, what if these women refused to play by the new rules? Here’s how. It’s absurdly simple. If a male is ready to dive into the pool to swim against women, when the signal is given and he dives in, don’t follow him. Stand and watch him do his laps. Sit down at the edge of the pool and encourage him on his lone swim with plaudits and shouts. Make videos. Post them online. How can they fail to go viral?
Imagine the same thing in a footrace. The starting gun is fired, the male dashes off, and the women all sit down by the starting blocks as immoveable as a bunch of Just Stop Oil Protesters. Imagine not only the disappointment and embarrassment of the trans athlete, but also the chagrin and fury of the virtue-signaling trans community as the race becomes a farce. Think how ludicrous it would be for the male to stand on the first place platform after running by himself, a first place medal on a ribbon around his neck, and no one on either the second or third place platforms. Imagine him standing alone in solitary victory, while the strains of his college alma mater or some ponderous national anthem wafts over the crowd, which outnumbers him thousands to one.
Team sports are just as vulnerable. If a male plays on the opposing team, simply walk away. Let the college or organization that sponsored the travesty handle the cost of refunding the tickets and commiserating with the vendors for their lost sales.
If this tactic were employed a handful of times, the farce would have to come to an abrupt end. How can you defeat women in sports if they won’t play with you?
The old radical Saul Alinsky’s political action handbook Rules for Radicals sets out techniques for besting political opponents. His fifth rule should always be kept in mind:
“Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
What could be more ridiculous than one-man foot races, one-man swim meets and one-team soccer matches? The result would be absurdist humor worthy of Monty Python or Green Acres at their finest. What the trans activists and other supporters of the current thing would do in this situation is more than I can guess, but how could it not be entertaining, and who knows what advantage their overreaction would confer?
There be would a cost, or the risk of one. Almost certainly female college athletes would be threatened with loss of scholarships and places on the team, but solidarity should reduce the risk. If the girls agree among themselves and stick together, what could their colleges and universities do? Toss them out and recreate the teams in an instant? Certainly not. Women athletes outnumber their opponents and it’s time they used their numbers to protect themselves. They must stop volunteering for DEI if they don’t want to find males in the pool, on the field, or in the shower with them.
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I learned in 2015, when attending a vigil for a 17-year-old girl brutally murdered by a stranger in a Melbourne park (Australia), that people in Western countries, in the 21st century won't tarnish their Meta, etc. "brand" getting associated with anything negative, no matter how justified, how much difference their objection would mean. While more than a thousand promised to attend the vigil, less than a dozen of us actually turned up - alongside reporters from all major TV channels. Hence gross injustice like DEI, as well as crime, including blatant police corruption flourish.
I dread finding out what it will take for the “be seen as happy under any circumstances”, “be seen as effortlessly successful/blind to anything negative at all times” attitudes to change.