By Manzanita Miller
The radical left has made “women’s rights” the focal point of the election this fall, hoping to galvanize women to deny former President Donald Trump a second term through fearmongering, while conveniently ignoring the reality that they are eroding women’s safety and opportunity at virtually every level. Keep in mind, these are people that for the most part, will not even define what a woman is, so they can hardly be counted on to know how to protect one.
While the left has hurled insults at Trump, warning of a pseudo “Handmaids Tale” if he is elected, the reality is that the globalist left’s self-serving agenda is harming women across the board. From abandoning school-aged girls to shower and change next to biological males to erasing women from women’s sports and opening the southern border to countless criminals, the left’s record on protecting women is nonexistent.
The radical left has erased safe spaces for women and girls at an alarming rate, allowing men who claim to be transgender to enter women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and even female-only prisons with little more than a beard and a verbal confirmation that they identify as “female”.
In April the Biden Administration issued a new rule blocking conservative states from passing legislation that would protect school-age girls from being forced to share bathrooms with men who identify as women. The rule is a direct blow to conservative legislatures which have been attempting to pass legislation protecting girls from the discomfort and harassment that results from being denied spaces of their own.
While the agenda-driven mainstream media is reluctant to adequately cover the reality of allowing young men into women’s spaces, assault happens and is crippling to its victims. Just last fall in Alexandria, Virginia, the family of a young woman filed a $30 million lawsuit against the Loudoun County Public School system, alleging the school did little to protect their daughter from being assaulted by a male student who was “wearing a skirt” in the women’s bathroom at the time.
When women aren’t defending themselves from the left’s attacks on basic privacy and safety, they are defending their rights to exist in women’s sports. The bleak reality is that by erasing the biological definition of a woman from public discourse – and law – a day is rapidly approaching when women will be erased from sports.
The left has apparently not learned from the public outcry after the swimmer Lia Thomas, born a male, won the NCAA Division I national championship for the first time in history in any women’s sport after winning the 500-yard freestyle as a biological male. Thomas was a mid-range swimmer when competing against men – he was 65th on the men’s swim team when swimming at the University of Pennsylvania – but “she” beat out every female on the women’s team, taking 1st place when competing against women.
Then there is the border. The Biden Administration’s sieve-like border is a dire national security disaster for the United States as a whole, but it poses particular risk to the most physically vulnerable – namely women and children.
Under the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous Open Borders agenda, approximately 10 million illegal alien encounters have been recorded by Customs and Border Protection. Then there are the 2 million or so “gotaways”, illegal aliens who may carry alarming criminal backgrounds, who have entered the U.S. but fled Border Patrol agents and are presumably inside the country to this day.
Now, close to three years from the date of President Joe Biden’s highly criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan, radical Taliban militants have regained power in the area and are rapidly dismantling any semblance of women’s rights in the country.
According to an article from the New York Times, the Taliban government has driven women from public discourse, stripped opportunities for education beyond the sixth grade from their hands, and even banned women from public spaces.
With unchecked migration into the United States, bringing with it value sets that run contrary to core Western values around women’s autonomy, is there any guarantee the same can’t happen in the United States over a few decades?
Latin America – where the vast majority of undocumented immigrants are streaming in from – is not exactly known for its positive treatment of women. In Mexico 10 women die a dayAMP as a result of “femicide”, the intentional killing because of their gender. In El Salvador, the most dangerous country for women in South America, the rate of “femicide” is nearly 10 times the global average.
Open Borders zealots do not appear to care that hundreds of thousands of criminals with no sense of Western values are breaking our laws, entering our country, and doing God knows what once they are here. No sane individual with an interest in protecting women and children would be able to support the Biden-Harris approach to foreign policy, immigration, and domestic issues with a straight face. The assault on women is very real, but it is blatantly obvious who is perpetrating it.
Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.