1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,440 It’s now okay for a man to hit a woman. 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:10,900 That, in effect, is what the a mixed martial arts league decided when it allowed Fallon Fox, 3 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:16,300 a biological male, to fight as a woman simply because he identifies as one. 4 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:18,680 And the consequence of this decision? 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,820 Fox sent female fighter Tamikka Brents to the hospital with a broken skull and a concussion. 6 00:00:24,830 --> 00:00:28,450 Brents needed seven surgical staples to bind her wounds. 7 00:00:28,450 --> 00:00:33,120 The battered woman, a trained fighter herself, said of her match with Fox, 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,680 “I’ve never felt so overpowered in my life.” 9 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,600 Twenty years ago, if a man hit a woman so hard that he sent her to the hospital, 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,220 he’d be in prison. 11 00:00:43,220 --> 00:00:45,739 Now he can get paid for it. 12 00:00:45,740 --> 00:00:49,360 Today we are told that male and female are one and the same. 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:54,280 This denial of male-female differences has led to the astonishing belief that men and 14 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:59,980 women are not born male or female; they are whatever gender they say they are. 15 00:00:59,980 --> 00:01:04,860 Facebook went so far as to offer its users over 50 genders to choose from. 16 00:01:04,860 --> 00:01:06,820 Know what a “demi-boy” is? 17 00:01:06,820 --> 00:01:08,320 Me, neither. 18 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:13,360 The idea that gender-identification is now a personal choice might sound enlightened 19 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,660 to some, but it’s actually a very anti-scientific view of one of the essential facts of life: 20 00:01:19,660 --> 00:01:22,260 men and women are inherently different. 21 00:01:22,260 --> 00:01:26,640 Their brains are different, their hormones are different, their chromosomes are different, 22 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,140 and, of course, their bodies are different. 23 00:01:29,140 --> 00:01:33,860 No amount of peer-reviewed papers from gender studies departments can change this. 24 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:38,700 But that won’t stop the progressive elites who run our universities, news media, 25 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:44,160 many of our biggest companies, and even our high schools and elementary schools from trying. 26 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,520 For their efforts, women will pay an especially high price. 27 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,460 That’s because the men-and-women-are-the-same argument invariably leads women to be judged 28 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:55,540 against a male standard. 29 00:01:55,540 --> 00:02:01,260 Or, to put it another way, to be more of a woman, a woman has to be more like a man. 30 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:06,300 She has to want to have casual sex like a man; to serve in combat like a man; to pursue 31 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:09,800 a career with single-minded intensity like a man. 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,200 Of course, there are exceptions, but the overwhelming majority of women aren’t seeking casual sex; 33 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,670 don’t have the physical strength of men; and don’t share the same work-life 34 00:02:18,670 --> 00:02:20,420 priorities as men. 35 00:02:20,420 --> 00:02:25,060 Ironically, this quest for sameness is occurring at a time when science is telling us, 36 00:02:25,060 --> 00:02:28,200 more emphatically than ever, that we are different. 37 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,880 So, what your grandmother took for granted – men and women are different – 38 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,900 science now confirms. 39 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:38,751 But there is no room for science in, say, stores like Target or Toys R Us, where toys 40 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,600 are no longer divided into the boy section and the girl section. 41 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,200 Or in a North Carolina school district, where students can no longer be called 42 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,160 “boys and girls” but only “students.” 43 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:55,500 Or in college dorms, where co-ed bathrooms and even co-ed bedrooms are increasingly common. 44 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:59,300 For the tiny percentage of people who experience gender dysphoria, 45 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:01,800 we should have nothing but compassion. 46 00:03:01,810 --> 00:03:06,090 We should do everything we can to help them and protect their dignity, but we don’t 47 00:03:06,090 --> 00:03:10,560 need to overturn biologically defined sex differences to do so. 48 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,340 But that’s what’s happening. 49 00:03:12,340 --> 00:03:16,000 Using the wrong pronoun at the office might get you fired. 50 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,900 In Canada, it might land you in court. 51 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:24,400 In mixed martial arts, as we have seen, it can lead to getting your head bashed in. 52 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,240 Apparently, this is a small price to pay in a world where we must all 53 00:03:28,260 --> 00:03:31,480 genuflect to political correctness. 54 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:36,660 Even after being hospitalized, Tamikka Brents knew she had to toe the PC line. 55 00:03:36,660 --> 00:03:41,840 When asked how she explained why she lost so badly to a man who said he was a woman, 56 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,200 she said: “I can’t answer whether it’s because she was born a man or not, 57 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,740 because I’m not a doctor.” 58 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:52,900 Vice Magazine, writing about the incident, had no sympathy for Brents. 59 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:54,120 Why should they? 60 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,520 As they wrote, “…biological sex isn’t black and white.” 61 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,760 But in virtually every instance, it is. 62 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,780 The longer we allow the obvious to go unstated and undefended, the worse it will be 63 00:04:06,780 --> 00:04:09,620 – for boys and girls, and for men and women. 64 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:12,160 But especially for women. 65 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,240 The sexes are different. 66 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:19,320 Rather than trying to quash this reality, which can only lead to more needless confusion 67 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,320 and suffering, not less, we should step back and marvel at it. 68 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:24,740 And enjoy it. 69 00:04:24,740 --> 00:04:29,080 Male-female differences are among the most wonderful things in life. 70 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,980 I’m Ashley McGuire for Prager University.