Academics Persist in Being the ’20’ on the ’80-20′ Issue of Trans

OPINION: They’re never going to convince everyday Americans that biological men should play on women’s sports teams.

It’s been almost two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. which allows states to ban biological males — or “trans females” — from competing on (biological) female sports teams.

If ever there was an issue that separates the common sense-adhering general public from the critical-theorizing academy — a so-called “80-20″ issue, if you will — this is it.

It’s also an example of what Gad Saad calls “suicidal empathy.” Taken by itself, no, allowing men to compete as women won’t collapse our society; however, the mindset behind such certainly will. If we let it.

Consider how the University of Vermont’s Felicia Kornbluh (who researches “the histories of feminism, gender, social welfare, disability, law, Jews in the United States, and reproductive politics”) reacted to the SCOTUS decision.