DO CHILDREN DESERVE THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN SCHOOL LOCKER ROOMS, BATHROOMS, AND SCHOOL SHOWERS?
STATEMENT BY 60 PLUS ASSOCIATION
FOUNDER/CHAIRMAN JIM MARTIN
STOP THE WORLD! I WANT TO GET OFF!
1962, 60 YEARS AGO, WHEN I CAME TO WASHINGTON AS
A NEWSPAPER REPORTER, JACK KENNEDY WAS IN THE
WHITE HOUSE, NEAL ARMSTRONG HAD NOT YET WALKED
ON THE MOON, STROM THURMOND WAS STILL A
DEMOCRAT, AND TITLE 9, LEVELNG THE ATHLETIC
PLAYING FIELD FOR YOUNG FEMALES, WAS 10 YEARS IN
THE FUTURE—–SO I’VE WITNESSED A LOT OF HISTORY,
SO MUCH HISTORY THAT FOR TODAY’S EVENT, I SAY STOP
THE WORLD! I WANT TO GET OFF! THAT WAS THE NAME
OF A POPULAR MOVIE IN THE 60s TO ESCAPE THE CHAOS
BACK THEN. IT CLEARLY DESCRIBES TODAY’S WORLD,
THIS RADICAL EXPERIMENT IN GENDER ENGINEERING,
EPITOMIZED BY THE PROFESSOR WHO DECLARED THAT
MEN CAN GET PREGNANT. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID. AND TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR WHERE I STAND
REGARDING THIS GENDER ENGINEERING, I MAKE
REFERENCE TO ONE OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS, JOHN
ADAMS, WHO SUPPOSEDLY ONCE SAID DURING DEBATE,
“FACTS ARE STUBBOREN THINGS.”
WELL, I STRONGLY CONTEND THAT THE FACTS
PERTAINING TO THIS RADICAL GENDER EXPERIMENT
I SAY THIS ON BEHALF OF MY TWO DAUGHTERS, NINE
GRAND DAUGHTERS AND OVERALL MY 7 CHILDREN, 19
GRAND CHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT GRAND CHILDREN! I COULD NOW ENHANCE MY REMARKS BY QUOTING
SEVERAL ATHLETES BUT I’LL ONLY QUOTE ONE WHO
STARRED IN MY HOME STATE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
KENTUCKY, RILEY GAINES, WHO POINTEDLY SAID HER
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT, BY FAR, WAS NOT IN RACING
LIA THOMAS BUT IN HAVING TO SHARE BATHROOM AND
SHOWER FACILITIES. SHE AND OTHERS, SHE LAMENTED,
WERE “‘EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE, NOT ONLY
ARE YOU FORCED TO RACE AGAINST A MALE, YOU’RE
FORCED TO CHANGE IN THE LOCKER ROOM WITH ONE.”
ARE
THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO SEXES, FEMALE AND MALE,
AND WHICHEVER SEX YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE
IDENTIFIES YOU, IS HOW WE STRONGLY CONTEND IS THE
SEX YOU SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED BY AS YOU ENTER
ADULTHOOD. NOW TO MY TOPIC: DO CHILDREN DESERVE
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN SCHOOL LOCKER ROOMS,
BATHROOMS AND SCHOOL SHOWERS? YOU BET THEY DO!
I TURN NOW TO BRUCE JENNER WHO SET A NEW WORLD
RECORD AT THE 1976 OLYMPICS IN THE 10-EVENT
DECATHLON, THE MOST GRUELING OF ALL ATHLETIC
ENDEAVORS. JENNER WAS BESTOWED THE TITLE
‘WORLD’S GREATEST ATHLETE.’ I ADMIRED BRUCE
JENNER THEN AND ADMIRE HIM NOW AS CAITLYN JENNER.
I ALSO ADMIRE LIA THOMAS FOR TRANSITIONING, AS
JENNER DID, FROM AS THEY SAY, BEING TRAPPED IN THE
BODY OF THE WRONG SEX.
BUT I DON’T ADMIRE LIA WHO, AFTER SWIMMING FOR
THREE YEARS ON THE MEN’S TEAM, DECLARED, AS HE
BEGAN SWIMMING AGAINST FEMALES, AND WINNING
RATHER EASILY, SOMETIMES BY MORE THAN 30 SECONDS,
SAID (QUOTE) ‘I FIND IT VERY REWARDING! (CLOSE QUOTE)! REWARDING INDEED! ABSOLUTE TOTAL
DISRESPECT FOR HIS FEMALE TEAMMATES! AND BRUCE
JENNER, AS CAITLYN JENNER, ALSO STRONGLY DISAGREES
WITH LIA’S RACING AGAINST FEMALES, SAYING
“IT’S NOT FAIR. WE HAVE TO PROTECT GIRL’S SPORTS IN
OUR SCHOOLS.”
YES, I EMPATHIZE WITH LIA’S RIGHT, BUT THERE’S ONE
FACET OF HIS TRANSITIONING WITH WHICH I STRONGLY
DISAGREE. IT ACTUALLY LIES AT THE HEART OF THE
DEBATE. FINA, SWIMMING’S INTERNATIONAL GOVERNING
BODY, RECENTLY ADOPTED A POLICY THAT ONLY PERMITS
SWIMMERS WHO TRANSITIONED BEFORE AGE 12 TO
COMPETE IN WOMEN’S EVENTS. TO FURTHER EXPLAIN THE
POLICY, I QUOTE: ‘THIS IS NOT SAYING THAT PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO TRANSITION BY AGE 12. IT’S WHAT THE
SCIENTISTS ARE SAYING, THAT IF YOU TRANSITION
AFTER THE START OF PUBERTY, YOU HAVE AN
ADVANTAGE WHICH IS UNFAIR.’ (CLOSE QUOTE). FOLLOW
THE SCIENCE! WE COULDN’T AGREE MORE. THE FINA
DOCUMENT WAS NO FLY BY NIGHT POLICY.
PRESENTATIONS WERE MADE BY THREE ENTITIES, AN
ATHLETE GROUP, A SCIENCE AND MEDICINE GROUP, AND
A LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP. 71.5% VOTED IN
FAVOR OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS!
NOW TO THE WOKE COMMUNITY. BETTER TO LET
SLEEPING DOGS LIE. WOKESTERS HAVE POTENTIALLY
AWAKENED A NATIONAL SLEEPING GIANT TRIGGERED BY
EVENTS IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. AFTER LOUDOUN ADOPTED A TRANSGENDER POLICY, AND AFTER A SEXUAL ASSAULT OCCURRED IN A GIRL’S BATHROOM,
ARRESTS WERE MADE, LAWSUITS ENSUED AND PARENTS
DEMANDED MORE ACCOUNTABILITY IN WHAT THEIR KIDS
ARE TAUGHT. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE TERRY
McAULIFFE WEIGHED IN: “I DON’T THINK
PARENTS SHOULD BE TELLING SCHOOLS WHAT THEY
SHOULD TEACH.”
IT BECAME AN
ELECTION ISSUE AND WHILE ANALYSTS ACKNOWLEDGED
THAT GLENN YOUNGKIN WAS ALREADY PROJECTED TO
WIN, THE ISSUE HELPED PROPEL GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN
INTO A MUCH SOUGHT OUT SPEAKER AS OTHER PARENT’S
GROUPS AND GOVERNORS SEEK HIS ADVICE. SO
WOKESTERS, BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR.
AND I CAUTION MY FORMER PROFESSION, THE MEDIA,
YOU’RE CLEARLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH WHAT A MAJORITY
OF VOTERS ARE THINKING. IN FACT THE PRIME REASON I
LEFT JOURNALISM, A PROFESSION I LOVED, WAS BECAUSE
OF THE RAMPANT BIAS, SO BIASED THAT JOURNALISTS
ARE NO LONGER VERY RELEVANT, AND THAT’S A SHAME.
A QUICK REFRESHER: A JOURNALISM DEGREE IS A
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE! I REPEAT, A BACHELOR
OF SCIENCE! WHEN I EARNED MY BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA’S SCHOOL OF
JOURNALISM, A SCHOOL ALWAYS IN THE NATION’S TOP
FIVE, I WAS TAUGHT THAT JOURNALISTS SHOULD REPORT
ON THE WHO, WHERE, WHY, WHAT, WHEN, LEAVING
ANALYSIS TO THE EDITORIAL PAGES. WHAT A QUAINT CONCEPT. ALLOW THE READER TO READ UNBIASED AND
IF THE READER SO DESIRES, TURN TO THE EDITORIAL
PAGES FOR ELUCIDATION.
I SEE MY TIME IS UP. I THANK YOU, MOST SINCERELY,
FOR YOURS.
Note: This presentation was made at the “Stop The Title IX Take-Over” rally, held on August 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C.