The Gender Threshold

Where is the threshold between the masculine identity and the feminine identity?

In the past couple of years, we have seen an unprecedented number of biological males invade women’s competitions. People under names like Lia Thomas, Lana McClaughin, , Valentina Petrillo, Rikkie Valerie Kolle, Kataluna Patricia Enriquez, and Brían Nguyen (among numerous others) have inserted themselves into women’s sports competitions and beauty pageants, and the media has hailed this as a watershed moment of barriers being broken.

As a direct result of this invasion, an unprecedented number of young women have turned away from supporting the so-called trans community, after having spent much of the past decade regarding them as allies, and working alongside them to help topple many of the norms, values, traditions, and power structures that have defined Western society for centuries.

Many men, including prominent male conservative commentators, have come to the defense of women, and have committed themselves to pushing back against the ongoing invasion; while men at large have generally taken a similar stance.

The discourse and backlash on this issue has typically centered around the area of women’s sports, with the most common argument being shaped around the notion that biological males have too great of a physical advantage over women, for them to participate in women’s divisions. Likewise, the invasion has frequently been criticized as putting women at large at a disadvantage, while taking opportunities away from them.

But this particular argument doesn’t quite account for all of the outrage and backlash seen in the past couple of years. For example, a similar outcry has been made over biological males competing in women’s beauty pageants, even despite the fact that men have no biological advantage in such a domain. So why is there outage over it? The answer, of course, is simple. We know on an instinctive level that the invasion of womens sports teams and beauty pageants is wrong. Not only is it wrong, but its genuinely, overtly crazy.

We understand on some level, even if we arent necessarily able to articulate our thoughts, that this is not only a transgression against women, its an attack on their very identity. An attack which asserts that femininity and womanhood are not the exclusive domains of women. It also suggests that these competitions and pageants are not the exclusive domain of women.

And all of this is common sense, really. You will hardly see anybody try to use this as their primary talking point, but its the quiet part that everyone is thinking.

With that in mind, I recently came across an interesting news story. About a week ago, a female senior high school wrestler in Tucson, Arizona, made history last week as she became the first girl to win the state’s top title while competing against boys.

Audrey Jimenez of Sunnyside High School won the Division I title against male competitors, defeating four opponents in the process, to help the team win its seventh straight boys’ team championship.

Jimenez, who had previously won three consecutive girls championships, filed an appeal with the Arizona Interscholastic Association to wrestle on the boys side this year, and she was granted approval.

Interestingly, the public reaction to her victory has been almost unanimously positive on both sides of the political isle, at least from what I’ve seen. The general consensus has been: this is an astonishing achievement, and is a testament to the physical fortitude women are capable of when they apply themselves in that direction. A personal friend i spoke with, likened the victory to a man defeating a lion in a wrestling match.

Now, if you will, hold that thought. We’re about to go on a little journey.

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When we talk about transgenderism, we tend to have a particular conception in our heads of what transgenderism consists of. We think of men who wear makeup and dresses, for example, or we think of women who cut their hair short, and get a double mastectomy. In all of this, we have a tendency to focus primarily on the aesthetics of transgenderism.

But what exactly is transgenderism, and where exactly is the threshold between the masculine identity and feminine identity? Well, it largely depends on who you ask. If you ask an LGBTQ activist, for example, they’re very likely going to give you a convoluted sermon on how gender exists on a spectrum, and they're going to tell you that there is no definite line between masculinity and femininity. Many academics and scholars of today are sure to give you a similar explanation.

If you were to ask me, however, I would personally define transgenderism as the act of attempting to emulate or appropriate the mannerisms, appearance and/or behaviors of the opposite gender, while basing one’s identity around this appropriation. But what i wish to point out here, is that gender confused men and women tend to approach this quite differently.

When biological males appropriate femininity (or when men go to "transition"), the first thing we often see them do is externalize this through their physical appearance. They take great pains to make themselves look as feminine as possible, and they begin mimicking female behavior and mannerisms; albeit often in a clumsy, exaggerated manner; devoid of any real gracefulness.

They tend to become obsessed with living up to the aesthetics of womanhood, to where it becomes the only thing they ever think or talk about, and in the process, tend go so cartoonishly overboard in their appropriation of womanhood, that they become a caricature of women.

One might ask themselves, why do gender confused men focus so heavily on aesthetics? Well, the answer to that, is because beauty and image are predominant qualities of womanhood. Men are drawn in by a womans beauty, above all other characterisrtics. Women, themselves, are aesthetic creatures, and their personalities are oriented around cultivating their beauty, and putting it on display. This is why you see them doing so all day, every day; and its a primary outlet whereby women express themselves.

This is what men see, and when a man attempts to emulate the opposite gender (ie, women), he largely does so from the standpoint of his perception of women; and since he sees women as delicate creatures of immense beauty and hypnotic gracefulness, much as women see themselves, these are the qualities he attempts to emulate.

On the other hand, women, while being aesthetic creatures, themselves; far more so than men, women are not primarily drawn in by a man's physical appearance, nor is man, himself, defined by his aesthetics to the same degree that women are.

Rather, man is defined by his will, his ambition, his strength and fortitude, his emotional sturdiness, his resolve, his status, his relative independence, and his authority. It is these qualities that women tend to admire in men, just as men tend to admire physical beauty in women, and its these qualities that women tend to emulate, when they go about trying to appropriate masculinity.

Much like the man's own appropriation femininity, however, women's appropriation of these masculine qualities is often similarly unnatural, strained, over the top.

Over the past decade, we've witnessed this on full display, as many young western women have sought to become the new men, in a sense. They've worked to model themselves after the likeness of men, and what that has ultimately looked like, is a generation of women behaving like male chauvinists.

We’ve seen them become loud, outspoken, and arrogant in almost all walks of life. We’ve seen them embrace exhibitionism and promiscuity, on levels never before seen in history. We’ve seen them not only become almost pathologically ambitious, but weve seen them become obsessed with ambition for the sake of being ambitious. We’ve seen them become obsessed with power, power dynamics, and leadership. Weve seen them become obsessed with engaging in masculine hobbies and pastimes, simply for the sake of subverting feminine norms. We’ve even seen some women attend so-called assertiveness training classes, where they were instructed by other women to speak as deeply and loudly as possible, to assert themselves aggressively when dealing with others, to take up as much physical space with their bodies as possible, and to even walk with their chests poked out. I'm not making this up, sadly.

Many women, themselves, have become a bumbling embodiment of the negative masculine stereotype that early feminists railed against, and as a result of this display of mimicry, within the past year, a reactionary movement has cropped up, of women who are aggressively returning to traditional femininity; also known as the "tradwife" movement.

But the point im trying to make here, is that when women emulate the opposite gender (ie, men), this doesnt primarily manifest as women in a womans physical appearance, as it does with men. Women, first and foremost, opt to emulate masculine behaviors and character traits, for the reasons that I mentioned. They try to emulate the most defining characteristics of men; the characteristics that women themselves are drawn to, and they emulate men from the standpoint of their perception of men.

Most women stop short of trying to look like men, because for one, they have have no real reason to, but secondly, In order to look like men, women would necessarily have to forfeit their feminine aesthetics and beauty, and in doing so, would forfeit a great degree of their power and influence. Most women actually have a deep-rooted fear of losing their feminine beauty. This is why you see women taking such great pains to preserve it. This is also why women in prison fights, have the unique tendency to slash each others faces with prison shanks. This is the female equivalent to what men do to other men who drop the soap.

Many women today spend their lives trying to strike a delicate balance between being externally feminine, while being internally masculine. But as gender bending confusion continues to reign supreme in the west, and as masculine women continue to be artificially propped up as the new cultural standard of womanhood, a growing number of women today are increasingly toeing the line. Some women are completely transitioning. Other women are simply letting their body hair grow, or they're taking up weight training in a effort to acquire a masculine physique, or theyre opting to wear masculine clothes or drive masculine vehicles, or they're attempting to externalize masculinity in various other ways.

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Funny enough, even though women are less inclined to appropriate masculinity through their physical appearance, some of the very first cases of this appropriation in the western world, came in the form of fashion statements.

In the 19th century, there was a dress reform that was underway among women, much of it spearhead by several prominent first wave feminists. Some of the aims of the reform were logical and reasonable enough. For example, a practice known as tight-lacing was brought under scrutiny, and rightfully so.

But the reform itself was largely concerned with what early feminists described as womens emancipation from the dictates of fashion. They demanded to free from the burden of conforming to men's expectations of how they should dress.

Several of the key women in this movement made it a point to defy norms and dress codes of the time, by wearing and promoting an article of clothing that later came to be known as "bloomers." It was a sort of pantaloon for women. Believe it or not, this was a radical statement at the time. It garnered a significant deal of attention and backlash from men and women alike, and ultimately became a watershed moment for first wave feminism.

During the same era, there were a few notable cases of women being arrested for wearing pants in public places like courthouses (not bloomers, but actual pants). The most notable of these cases being that of Emma Snodgrass, who was arrested on December 20th, 1852 (note: this date is incorrect, but it is nevertheless the date that is commonly reported).

If you look at the contemporary press reports, there's something very interesting about them. The press were pretty appalled by this at the time, and seemed to regard it as an act of public crossdressing, although not in those words. When we look at this case today, it seems pretty extreme to us. Why would they arrest a woman for wearing pants? But you have to understand, cultural norms were radically different in the 19th century, than they are today. People of that era regarded this the same way, that we might regard a man wearing a dress in court house today.

Around the same time, the first true feminists began to gain momentum, and their arrival marked the beginning of a prolonged period where women would begin questioning the traditional role and identity of women, and would begin progressively casting off so-called traditional gender norms; a process that unfolded more and more over the course of a century, and has truly reached a melting point in our day.

After the turn of the 20th century, and coinciding with the unfoldment of the feminist movement, women began to cast off more gender norms and likewise began to integrate more and more of the masculine identity into their own personality. This has been such a slow-burning intergenerational process, that by the time we reached the 2020s, gender norms had become so nonexistent, that public female nudity seems normal to most people, while grown men can clearly be seen advocating for women to have their chance of leading and ruling over men. That's how far we've drifted away from normalcy! Needless to say, in our present era, when we look back on reports of women being arrested for wearing pamts, we can't help but marvel at it and wonder what those people were thinking.

If the trans community have committed one misstep in their quest to normalize their lifestyle, it's that they've tried to normalize too many things too quickly, instead of normalizing them very slowly over the course of a century, as feminists have done.

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Returning to our young female wrestler, when I read this story and i see photos of her, I cant help but view it within the context of the everything ive just mentioned, and I cant help but view Ms. Jimenez as a product and a victim of the times we are living in.

I urge you all to look at this story within a broader context; namely, the context of the current era. This wasn’t just a one-off freak situation. This is part of a much broader trend. This event occurred not only during an era where western men are being encouraged to assume the roles and identity of women, but it occurred during an era where women at large are being encouraged to assume the identity and roles of men.

If I didn’t already know from the headline, I would have had a difficult time discerning whether or not Jiminez is a biological female, and I lament that. I lament the fact that so many men, in particular, are applauding this story and encouraging her victory, and when i say so, I do so with all due respect to Miss Jiminez.

Ive shared my opinion of this matter online, and Ive been met with almost unanimous disapproval or backlash. I had people tell me that I didn't understand sports as a concept. I had them tell me that I didn't understand the honor in her fortitude, or respect the work she's put into her body, and that I should appreciate the feat of a strong girl overpowering a weak boy in the boys own wresting division.

Some of you may not realize it, but this is essentially the same thing as saying that a person doesnt understand drag as an artform, for not appreciating how a burly man can successfully emulate the graceful elegance of femininity. From a gendered standpoint, this is the equivalent flipside to the coin.

I must point out that so-called "trans women" have likewise worked hard on themselves. They've spent years and tens of thousands of dollars, modifying their bodies, shaving down their brow bones, getting electrolysis hair removal, taking hormones and hormone blockers, getting cosmetic surgeries, voice feminization surgeries, taking voice feminization classes, and spending years, learning how to appropriate and emulate the miraculous, graceful femininity, that we all know and love.

Furthermore, I've heard men say that if Miss Jiminez is capable of performing the task in the male division, we should be happy to let her compete in the male division. If we feel this way about women competing against men in wresting matches, then why do we look down upon about biological males entering female beauty pageants? If they're able to pass as a women, to the point of beating women in their own division at their own game, shouldn't we let them compete?

Whether you want to admit it or not, at the end of the day, its the same thing. It is one group trespassing into the domain of another group, under the pretext of capability. It's even nuanced in the same way, in that men are at a physical disadvantage in women's beauty pageants, just as Jiminez is at a physical disadvantage in the boys wresting division.

To say that one is valid, while the other is invalid, is to imply that physical strength is somehow inherently more good or more sacred than feminity beauty. Theres really no logical pretext to treat the two cases differently, and for what's its worth, I'd argue that feminine beauty is equally as mighty as masculine fortitude. You all should know this better than any. Afterall, you have been subverted by it.

The problem with drag, the problem with men appropriating the feminine identity, and the reason why we are instinctively opposed to it, is because it is a perversion. We also know, instinctively, that it violates women and violates their identity. We know that femininity is the exclusive domain of women. Its like blackface, except worse, because not only are these men emulating women, but in many cases, they're looking replace women. They’re looking to become the new women.

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Over the past decade, I've seen a growing number of men celebrate women in masculine roles. Ive seen them admire and praise women for exhbiting masculine behaviors. Ive seen them lust after women who were built like men, claiming to admire their strength.

I think where men are confused, is that they have become convinced that masculinity is not the exclusive domain of men, and i have no doubt that this is largely due to the slow, century long normalization process that i mentioned earlier. Most of the men alive today have never lived in a normal world.

Many of these same men will still acknowledge that these activities women are participating in are masculine activities--- clearly--- because it's what they're currently promoting to men to "become more masculine," but they evidently believe women have a right to be masculine as well.

Coming on the tail end of the intergenerational process of feminist normalization, we find ourselves in an era where girls are no longer raised to be feminine. Many parents have no idea what that even looks like, and most girls don't have a single person in their lives, male or female, teaching them how to behave as women.

As I’ve covered in previous videos, many men in America todays are raising and socializing their girls, as though they were boys. They are engaging girls in almost exclusively masculine activities, while femininity (and the healthy cultivation of it) falls by the wayside.

There are many fathers who are fully intendeing on passing their torch to their daughters, and are grooming them to assume leadership roles over men in future; a process that will inevitably displace men, and throw gender relations even more out if balance than they currently are.

There's several reasons why men and father are doing this, and several of them are innocent enough. Some men are merely raising their girls in the best way that they know how. They want their daughters to be safe and prosperous, and they don’t see any better way to do so, than to raise and sociologize them as though they were boys. To be fair, they’ve also never been in a situation that called for them to know better--- until now.

Some of these fathers are trying to fill a void, and many of them dont even know it . Men Have a natural desire to raise a son, and this is a male desire that is well documented, going back to ancient times. This tradition is even mentioned extensively in Scripture.

In the 20th century, feminist theorists wrote about and crtiticing this proclivity in men, they labeled it as an unhealthy gender norm, and began worked to challenge and subvert this norm. By the 21st century, the norm had largely been eradicated, but the yearning in fathers remained.

Many of these men truly wish they had a son to raise up in their shadow, but this yearning has been strategically diverted, and since they don't have sons, and since they're living in a culture that strongly encourages them to masculinize their daughters, they're instead raising up their daughters in such a manner to fill the void. 50 years ago, this would have been unthinkable, but thanks to the slow normalization process mentioned earlier, it the new normal.

Other men, still, are driven by their libidos to prop women up in general. All men are compelled by their libidos to some degree or another, and a man's libido is not only active in the pursuit of sex. His libido is a force that drives him through life, whether he realizes it or not.

It the post-feminist era, mans’s libido is often suppressed, discouraged, demonized, and as a result, it is no longer integrated into his overall being in a healrhy manner. It is largely confused and diverted in various directions, and men in general no longer know how to recognize when they're being compelled by it.

Many of the men who prop women up are compelled by their libidos to do so, even though they may not realize it. This doesn't mean that these men necessarily wish to sleep with these women. It just means that man has an underlying force compelling him in a certain direction. You may choose to call it "libidic passion."

You'll notice that these men have no enthusiasm about grooming a young man for leadership, but when a young woman comes along, it ignites their passion, their eyes grow wide, and they pour their heart and souls into propping the women up. That passion is their libido.

Some men, through a combination of libidic passion and pornography consumption, which has warped their tastes and has desensitized them to perversions, often in subtle ways, have a fetish for masculine women, but that's another story in itself.

I’ll leave you all with this. As men, we should be doing everything in our power to discourage gender confusion, given the context of the era we're living in, and I think it's time for us to sit down and reflect on the consequences, both short term amd long term, of the direction we're currently going in. It's time for us to sit down and reflect on our motives, and the underlying forces that are driving us. And it's time for us to take measures to return to the identity that God intended for us to have.