Monday, November 24, 2025

When Joy Reid Discovers Biology -- In The Locker Room

Brian C. Joondeph

"Nothing reveals the hollowness of progressive politics faster than the moment when theory collides with biology."

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. . . "The specific trigger here was the now-viral confrontation at Gold’s Gym in Los Angeles, where singer/actress Tish Hyman, a black lesbian, complained about a biological male in the women’s locker room. Rather than take her seriously, the gym expelled her for objecting. 

"In the new progressive hierarchy, the feelings of a biological male now override the privacy concerns of a lesbian woman.

"In the LGBTQ+ alphabet salad, T is king and L is a back bencher. 

"Suddenly, Joy Reid is worried about a man changing next to her. It’s the same pattern we see when big-city liberals call to defund the police, right up until their home is robbed and 911 puts them on hold.

"This isn’t evolution -- it’s optics. Let’s rewind and take a walk back through Reid’s past ideological contortions.

"Asked years ago “What is a woman?” Reid floundered, visibly eager to avoid the obvious answer of an adult human female. Her discomfort was less about nuance than denial of reality. She is in good company, however, as a U.S. Supreme Court justice couldn’t answer that question either. 

"She then deployed crude analogies -- equating opposition to trans-medicalizing children with Nazi totalitarianism, claiming parents or doctors questioning puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones were on a morally “brutally violent” path.

"Add to that her 2018 fiasco, when her old hateful blog posts surfaced. She denied writing them, blamed hackers, and offered up a half-hearted apology when exposed." . . . More...

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