The women who have taken a public stand against transgenderism over the past year or two are among the bravest activists on the scene today. Mad respect for them.
You also gotta have a lot of admiration for the rare men who take a concrete stand, too — like Dale Shepherd here:
Dale Shepherd, 52, has been weightlifting for over four decades and participating in competitive weightlifting events since 2016. He has won numerous competitions, and currently holds nearly two dozen national records, according to The Global Powerlifting Committee (GPC) of New Zealand. ...
He is aiming to participate in the women's category for the [GPC's] June deadlift event in order to protest policies which allow men who self-declare a female gender identity to compete against women.
The only appropriate response to a boss move like this:
We've known for a long time that it's going to have to be women who lead the charge against much of this transgender madness. It's unfair, but that's the way it is.
It's women's spaces, after all, that are under attack — women's locker rooms, restrooms, sports, programs, scholarships. This won't end until women fight back en masse to end it.
But men absolutely need to do their part, too. Everyone needs to be doing everything they can to fight against this miserable ideology. Dale Shepherd gets it.
The GPC, meanwhile, looks like it's desperately trying to avoid the richly deserved humiliation Shepherd is setting up for them:
[A]fter submitting his application and declaring himself a "woman" for the purposes of the competition, Shepherd was hastily sent an email and told he was not allowed to self-identify as transgender and must have been on estrogen for at least one year to compete.
In the message he received, Shepherd was told that: "One year of hormone therapy is appropriate transitional time before a (MTF) athlete may compete in the women's division."
That appears to be a newly made-up rule. And Shepherd has signaled that he may take the fight to the courtrooms if they don't back down:
"I think there are some legal issues here for GPC. If they require only one class of athlete to provide medical records to confirm hormone replacement therapy but do not require any other class of competitor to do so, that would constitute discrimination."
