Imagine a fairly muscular, athletic young man, acting like a man and dressed as a man, tells you he identifies as a woman and asks you to sign a petition supporting his effort to play on his college’s women’s basketball team. Your response?
If you’re like 49 out of 50 students approached at the University of Maryland recently, you may sign and say “You go, (girl?)!”
And, no, according to Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips, who masqueraded as the aspiring woman, he didn’t show just the eyebrow-raising responses. He says that he asked only 50 students for support, and 49 offered it (video below).
Phillips explained his motivation, writing, “I wanted to see just how far young people are willing to go to accommodate those in the transgender community, so I went to the University of Maryland posing as a student who identified as a woman but was unable to try out for the women’s basketball team because of my ‘assigned gender at birth.’ …Despite making no effort to exude femininity, it soon became apparent that students were more than willing to go along with the idea that I was a woman who had every right to play basketball with other women.”
Shockingly, only one student, a young man, withheld support, explaining that Phillips was in fact a man and that biological differences were significant. All the others were apparently willing to say a naked emperor was displaying sartorial splendor.
Yet saying and believing can be two different things. Phillips also points out that many students “seemed hesitant and disbelieving, yet offered words of encouragement and agreed to sign my petition anyway…. [T]hey so aptly illustrate the politically correct environment in which Americans — especially millennials — have been taught that they cannot express any opinion that might hurt someone else’s feelings. I firmly believe that many of the students who signed their name in support of my fictitious cause were simply hesitant to speak up in opposition for fear of being labeled a ‘bigot’ or ‘intolerant.’” Of course, that people will play along with a socially destructive delusion is a tribute to the power of social pressure. Having said this, it’s also delusive to believe that “equality dogma” and the “transgender” agenda haven’t infected hearts and minds.
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