{"id":11692,"date":"2019-03-04T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11692"},"modified":"2019-03-04T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T01:03:01","slug":"pigs-on-two-legs-turn-on-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/pigs-on-two-legs-turn-on-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs on Two Legs Turn on Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. But suddenly the icon seems out of step with her progressive legend status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navratilova had the temerity to suggest that one\u2019s sex is biologically determined. In other words, transgenderism, even with the imprimatur of the social and biological sciences, cannot trump our innate genetic codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A frustrated Navratilova was editorializing mostly in the context of men \u201ctransitioning\u201d to women, while in many cases still enjoying innate muscular and size advantages over females in same-sex sporting events. As a result, she is being demonized unfairly as an intersectional traitor (\u201ctransphobic\u201d) and thus increasingly disinvited from a number of events by what is known as the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, her intersectional femaleness and gayness are revoked by improper ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barack Obama, once the progressive \u201cgod\u201d who was acclaimed to have the power to cool the planet and halt the rising of the seas, had the recent audacity to suggest, quite understandably, that young black teens need not ostentatiously show their wealth with gaudy chains, or highlight their sexuality with a cadre of \u201ctwerking\u201d girls. Worse, the now multi-million-dollar-mansion-residing Obama sort of suggested that young inner-city African-Americans who do such gauche things might be insecure about either their income or their sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/03\/pigs-on-two-legs-turn-on-each-other\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Tennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. But suddenly the icon seems out of step with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1156,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-32A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8625,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-does-the-modern-malleability-of-gender-and-race-mean-for-the-future-of-affirmative-action\/","url_meta":{"origin":11692,"position":0},"title":"What Does the Modern Malleability of Gender and Race Mean for the Future of Affirmative Action?","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0\/\/ National Review Online In the present postmodern world, we are told that there is no such thing as a biologically distinct gender. 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