OPINION:
In his divisive State of the Union speech last week, President Biden signaled his reelection campaign’s theme will be abortion. He can’t talk about the economy as his predecessors have done, given that three years of “Bidenomics” have cumulatively left us with prices 18% higher than when he took office.
This is why the president wagged his finger at members of the Supreme Court on hand for the annual address, scolding them over their 2022 ruling in Dobbs:
“Look, [in] its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court majority wrote the following … ‘Women are not without electoral, electoral power’ — excuse me — ‘electoral or political power.’”
“You’re about to realize just how much you were right about that. Clearly … those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women.
“But they found out. When reproductive freedom was on the ballot, we won in 2022 and 2023. And we’ll win again in 2024.”
The harsh words are a preview of the pro-abortion onslaught about to hit the campaign trail, and the GOP should be ready to respond. As Democrats’ attack ads bombard suburban female voters, Republicans can court the same demographic by just as relentlessly pointing out how Democrats have thrown women under the bus in favor of transgender “women,” a vanishingly small but vociferous constituency.
Adamant assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, transgender “women” are not women in a biological or real sense. It creates many problems for women if biological men need only claim they “identify” as women to be granted access to women’s private spaces, such as restrooms and locker rooms.
The inherent problem with the left’s unscientific position is even more apparent in girls’ and women’s athletics. The male biology and physiology provide a grossly unfair competitive advantage against actual women. Allowing males to dominate female sports undermines the point of providing women with a safe space in which they can compete in the first place.
The Women’s Sports Policy Working Group has been keeping score. As of Jan. 30, the group says there have been 578 male victories in female sports, with “male” in this case referring to “males who identify as trans or transwomen.” The total includes titles, medals, trophies, opportunities to advance to regional competitions. and scholarships lost to these athletic interlopers.
For a political party that claims to stand for fairness and women’s rights, Democrats should be made to own their creation of an unfair and unsafe playing field for girls and women.
That’s especially true in light of a new Rasmussen poll of 1,000 registered voters released this week that found that by better than a 7-to-1 margin, respondents said that biological males who claim to be female should not be allowed to participate in girls’ and women’s athletics.
This is a winning issue that puts the GOP on the side of “women’s issues” at a time when the party finds itself on the defensive. It may turn out that the left has underestimated the power of women — especially when it comes to mothers protecting their daughters.
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