BarbWire picked up the Ruth Institute’s story about the first man to enter the Miss Universe contest. Originally published December 24, 2018.
The center of attention at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant wasn’t the winner – a young lady from the Philippines, who was barely noticed by the media — but Angela Ponce from Spain, a “transgender” man who believes that competing as a woman is a victory for human rights.
Ponce was hailed as the first “transgender” contestant in the pageant’s 67-year history. He said he was there to proudly represent “my nation, all women, and human rights.”
“How can a man who ‘identifies’ as a woman represent ‘all women,’” asked Ruth Institute President, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse? “What’s called transgenderism is fostered by the culture and advanced by the state, to the detriment of individuals, families, and society.”
Morse continued:
“Ponce is a man – a man who’s been surgically altered to resemble a woman, a man who considers himself a woman, but a man nonetheless. No amount of cultural indoctrination will change that fact. While we can readily sympathize with those suffering from gender dysphoria, their condition doesn’t alter reality.”
The government is increasingly being used to punish individuals and institutions that refuse to affirm the transgender dogma. Recently, a teacher at the West Point, Virginia, high school was fired for referring to a “trans” female student as “she.”
As Dr. Morse explains in her book, The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives, transgenderism is the latest advance of the Sexual Revolution, which “separates individuals from their bodies. Our bodies are regarded as unreasonable constraints on one’s freedom and self-determination…The modern Sexual State will, of course, be on hand to ensure that the entire society conforms itself to individual’s newly chosen identity.”
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