Wed Nov 23, 2022 – 12:55 pm ESTWed Nov 23, 2022 – 12:57 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — On November 22, the National Hockey League (NHL) had an announcement:
The NHL is proud to support this past weekend’s Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating! #HockeyIsForEveryone #NHLPride pic.twitter.com/OfEoAVXtH5
— NHL (@NHL) November 22, 2022
One of the first replies summed up much of the reaction:
So, men playing on womans team?
— Code (@BlueMountian12) November 22, 2022
The NHL was swift to respond:
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary identity is real.
— NHL (@NHL) November 22, 2022
None of that, of course, actually means anything. As Matt Walsh memorably put it: “What is a woman?”
If a woman is merely an identity to be donned and discarded at the whim of those who wield it, and is only incidental to biological reality, then what is someone identifying as if they are calling themselves a woman?
In response to that question, we merely get the chanted liturgies of our culture’s rainbow high
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