{"id":176979,"date":"2021-02-26T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176979"},"modified":"2021-02-26T13:59:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:59:36","slug":"walsh-with-the-insane-equality-act-the-democrat-party-has-declared-total-war-on-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-with-the-insane-equality-act-the-democrat-party-has-declared-total-war-on-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"WALSH: With The Insane \u2018Equality Act,\u2019 The Democrat Party Has Declared Total War On Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalsh-with-the-insane-equality-act-the-democrat-party-has-declared-total-war-on-reality%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nancy-Pelosi-1-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When John Money, the 20th century psychologist, pedophilia-apologist, and all around quack, first invented the concept of gender identity several decades ago, he probably couldn\u2019t imagine that the Democrat Party would one day enshrine his half-baked theories into law. Back when Money was running <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/horrifying-origins-of-left-wing-gender-ideology\">sexual experiments<\/a> on young boys, having them strip on camera, simulate sex acts on each other, and forcing one to live as a girl against his will, it would have seemed like a pipe dream that, in the not-too-distant future, his ideas about biological sex and \u201cgender\u201d being two somehow distinct and valid forms of identity would be legislatively imposed on the American population. And when his two human experiments eventually went on to take their own lives, I\u2019m sure Money might have feared that his theories would end up on the proverbial ash heap of history. But that is not what happened. Now the good doctor, who died 15 years ago, can look up from wherever he is \u2014 and I have some theories about where that might be \u2014 and feel proud that although the concept of \u201cgender identity\u201d is nonsensical and incoherent, and though his attempt to scientifically prove its validity ended with the tragic deaths of two people, still his ideas won the day and soon the entire country will be forced by law to live according to them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The so-called Equality Act was passed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday and moves now to the Democrat-controlled Senate. The law is a sweeping and radical assault on religious liberty, women, children, moral decency, and sanity. It is indeed the most serious legislative attack on women\u2019s rights in American history, as it seeks to legally erase women in a way, and to an extent, that not even the most dastardly and misogynistic agent of the Patriarchy could have ever dreamed. The people who worried that Mike Pence would bring Handmaid\u2019s Tale to life were, the whole time, working to establish their own dystopia that goes far beyond anything Margaret Atwood conceived.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bill has other significant consequences, too. As our own Ian Haworth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-equality-act-destroys-religious-liberty-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">explains<\/a> for the Daily Wire, the Equality Act sets the stage to dismantle religious liberty:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Equality Act would expand protection against discrimination provided by the Civil Rights Act (such as employment and housing) to also cover federally funded programs and \u201cpublic accommodations,\u201d which includes retail stores, online retailers, stadiums, and transportation service providers. As an example, this would mean that businesses targeted in discrimination suits for refusing certain services based on religious objections would be impacted by the Equality Act, such as florists or bakeries. The Equality Act would also supersede the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), passed in 1993 which \u201cset a higher bar for the government to defend laws if people argued those laws infringed upon religious freedom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Act also obliterates conscience protections for those who don\u2019t want to fund or perform abortions. Alexandra DeSanctis in National Review lays out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/02\/the-equality-act-would-require-government-funded-abortion\/\">details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Under the Equality Act, health-care professionals would be required by law to perform sex-reassignment procedures or offer related hormone treatment, even if such procedures contradicted their own best medical judgment. So too, the law would treat refusals to perform an abortion as pregnancy discrimination, which would be treated as an illegal form of discrimination on the basis of sex. The Equality Act redefines \u201csex\u201d to include \u201cpregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition,\u201d and, as the bill\u2019s opponents have noted, federal agencies and courts already have determined that the phrase \u201crelated medical condition\u201d can be interpreted to include abortion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is all quite horrifying on its own, but it isn\u2019t even the most extreme consequence of the bill. Worst of all, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be \u201cupdated\u201d to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, on the same level as race. The text of the bill reads, in part: \u201cAn individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual\u2019s gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as already noted, this mandate would apply to all \u201cpublic accommodations,\u201d and, conveniently enough, pretty much everything counts, or can count, as a public accommodation. Your home does appear to be exempt at the moment, but the Democrats, I\u2019m sure, will not let that loophole remain for long. What this means is that, if this law passes, it will be effectively illegal to provide any private or exclusive spaces to women. Bathrooms, sports teams, locker rooms \u2014 all of these must, by law, be opened to any man who demands access. Under the Equality Act, the government would not recognize \u201cwomen\u201d as being a necessarily distinct category from \u201cmen.\u201d All that matters is a person\u2019s \u201cgender identity.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This raises an important question: what the hell is \u201cgender identity\u201d? Well, it\u2019s not really anything in particular. It\u2019s an entirely invented, artificial concept \u2014 originating with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/horrifying-origins-of-left-wing-gender-ideology\">child-abusing quack<\/a> mentioned earlier \u2014 that is probably best defined, if it can be defined at all, by the Human Rights Campaign (a fervent and influential proponent of the Equality Act). HRC says on the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Definitions page of their website that gender identity is \u201cone\u2019s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither \u2013 how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One\u2019s gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let us try to wrap our heads around the sheer lunacy here. Your biological sex is what you actually are \u2014 your true sexual identity \u2014 as determined by immutable physical characteristics. Your gender identity is what you feel like you are, or what you want to be, or how you perceive yourself. Under the Equality Act, one\u2019s perception of themselves \u2014 even if incorrect \u2014 takes precedence over the reality of who they actually are. Indeed, the reality is no longer legally recognized at all. Delusion and fantasy supplant truth. Falsehood wins the day.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course, female sports teams never had anything to do with self-perception. It makes absolutely no difference what a male thinks or how he feels about himself. None of that changes the biological features which give him an unfair advantage over females. And though the male may feel like he was supposed to have a vagina (whatever that means), the reality is that he has the same equipment as any other male, and belongs in the same locker rooms and bathrooms as those other males. The sign on the bathroom door says \u2014 or said \u2014 \u201cmen\u201d and \u201cwomen,\u201d not \u201cthose who feel like men today\u201d and \u201cthose who feel like women today.\u201d That is the only sensible and coherent way to organize these things, and the only way that provides women with the privacy and protection they need. But sensibility and coherence are soon to be illegal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It does not take much imagination to see where this goes. If self-perception is more important than reality \u2014 if, in fact, self-perception <em>is<\/em> our new reality \u2014 then there is no reason whatsoever to limit that standard to gender. What about a white man who seeks the advantages of affirmative action in college admissions on the basis that he perceives himself to be black? It might be crazy to accept that a white man is a black man just because he sees himself that way, but it\u2019s still quite a bit less crazy than accepting that a male is a female just because he sees himself that way. And what about a pedophile who perceives himself to be nine years old? Again, it makes no sense to give his perception of his own age legal precedence over the reality of his actual age, but it\u2019s certainly no more senseless than doing the same in the realm of biological sex. Any argument for giving gender identity protected status would necessarily apply to age identity, race identity, or anything else.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As always, the Left will scoff at what they will call a \u201cslippery slope\u201d argument. And then, in a few years, they will do exactly what they mocked us for predicting they would do. That is the way these things always work, and will most assuredly work in this case. The Democrats have declared total war on reality. We have not even begun to reap the consequences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When John Money, the 20th century psychologist, pedophilia-apologist, and all around quack, first invented the concept of gender identity several decades ago, he probably couldn\u2019t imagine that the Democrat Party &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274299,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nancy-Pelosi-1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WALSH: With The Insane \u2018Equality Act,\u2019 The Democrat Party Has Declared Total War On Reality","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nancy-Pelosi-1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WALSH: With The Insane \u2018Equality Act,\u2019 The Democrat Party Has Declared Total War On Reality","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}