USA Today Snubs Women by Listing a Man Among "Women of the Year"

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf greeting Dr. Rachel Levine at the York County YMCA.

You’ve probably heard USA Today named Rachel Levine as a “Woman of the Year.” That’s a pretty remarkable accomplishment, considering Levine is a man. He was born a man, remains a man, and will die a man, yet has excelled above more than 166 million legitimate contenders.

And why did Levine receive such honor among other candidates? Former US Ambassador Susan Rice said, “Your leadership during this pandemic has been vital.” But is that the case? Prior to being appointed by Biden as the Assistant Secretary of Health, Levine led the pandemic response in Pennsylvania. Governor Tom Wolf was among four other democrat governors (Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Andrew Cuomo, and Phil Murphy) who mixed nursing home patients—our most vulnerable—with covid patients. Levine knew the policy was disastrous and quietly moved his own mother to safety.

Out of all the possible candidates the Biden administration could have chosen to lead under Secretary Xavier Becerra—who has no public health experience himself—Levine is a slap in the face to all reason and sanity.

When Levine went through Senate confirmation hearings, Senator Rand Paul grilled him over his refusal to answer whether or not he was for puberty blockers and surgery for minors.

Perhaps USA Today felt it was necessary to reward Levine with such a high honor after Levine became the “first-ever female four-star admiral.”

I’m sure you’ve heard this vulgar but appropriate statement before: don’t pee on my face and tell me it’s raining.

Levine isn’t breaking barriers for women. Levine is stealing their thunder. I won’t lose sleep over it, but I’m not going to mince words or go along with the media’s delusions. Levine is breaking barriers for transwomen—I’ll give him that—but it’s offensive to believe the role of a woman is so frivolous that a man is best-suited for the job.

When conservative commentator Matt Walsh went on Dr. Phil’s show to discuss transgenderism, he asked whether or not a person can change their race based on identity. They dismissed his question as if it were ridiculous and even offensive. This segment was cut, but why is racial fluidity more ridiculous than using phrases like “pregnant people” and “people with periods?”

Rachel Dolezal was publicly ridiculed for identifying as black. If pretending to change your race is socially unacceptable, why is it okay for transwoman Lia Thomas to beat female swimmers by forty seconds in competition?

Nowadays, white people dressing up as Pocahontas or Moana for Halloween is seen as cultural appropriation, but it’s perfectly acceptable to appropriate a woman’s gender? That’s ludicrous.

I’m not suggesting we treat people with gender dysphoria with disdain, but we do need to scorn institutions that insist we ignore reality for political agendas. The editors at USA Today know better. The rest of the media knows better, and so does President Joe Biden.

If gender identity was merely about individuals referring to themselves in a manner that helps them cope through their dysphoria, it wouldn’t merit this much conversation. But it’s deeply political. Activists want to compel speech, have men invade female spaces (including prisons), and they want to secretly indoctrinate your grade school children behind the parents’ backs.

Levine being named, “Woman of the Year,” isn’t a celebration of womanhood. It’s a funeral for truth. I’m not willing to bite my tongue and let it stay buried.