According to the New York Post, the University of Southern California has adopted a policy banning men from certain workout areas. The plan, pushed by an LGBTQ+ group, is designed to prevent the presence of males from triggering women or non-binary students. It may, however, trigger a major legal challenge.
The group Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment (SAGE) demanded the new rule at the Lyon Center. SAGE bills itself as a “programming assembly and intersectional feminist organization under the student government, committed to uplifting all voices oppressed by the patriarchy.”
The Post quotes Mengze Wu heralding the move to end “male-dominated” spaces, adding:
“My past experiences with being in enclosed spaces where it’s very male-dominated have never been super pleasant. There tends to be this problem where I don’t get to take up a lot of space unless I really assert myself. And even then, I face a lot of hindrance in feeling completely comfortable.”
Other students said that barring men would protect her from always feeling “judged” by them.
The measure is likely to draw criticism and possible action from the Trump Administration. However, it is also discriminatory on the basis of gender. Men are being banned because their very identity or presence is viewed as offensive or disruptive. Imagine if USC took such exclusionary policies toward any other racial or gender group.
This is not the first such measure in higher education. Years ago, liberal educators embraced segregation as a positive tool for creating “safe spaces” and diversity zones, including women-only hours at gyms at Harvard and McGill.
Putting aside possible legal challenges, such segregation only further balkanizes higher education and reinforces the contested concept of “safe spaces” to protect students from other groups or divergent ideas. The identity group agenda is difficult to oppose in universities. To do so, one risks being labeled insensitive or, even worse, a force of male domination.
In the meantime, what will happen to Hanz and Franz who are just trying help?
Professor Turley seems to ignore the relationship of this issue to situations of legitimate sex segregation. People for and against the idea that trans-women are “women” overwhelming agree that segregation of men and women is legitimate (separate but equal) under some circumstances. I can see in this case a practical administrator saying that to be fair and avoid Title 9 complaints, we could give equal periods of sex segregation, but, are there many men needing male-only exercise except a few bro-males or whatever? The admin would get flack giving women and men equal time or women and co-ed, the latter being superficially unfair.
The admin of course could avoid this messy decision by not segregating and insisting that people behave and not stare, the rule that seems to work in every commercial gym. That expectation plus “Get over it” works in this case but not in the case of trans women in women’s showers or varsity sports.
What’s the difference? In the end it’s because the majority wants in some circumstances to draw the line between the biological sexes and not by self-identity or the still impractical concatenation of empirical measures like strength and T levels requiring expert analysis. People have common sense and treat the protected class of sex different from other protected classes. The people are right and the human rights orgs are not. People for and against biological “sex-based rights” are both mistakenly looking for an a priori rule. The fact is rights are no more a priori than auto speed limits. God didn’t outlaw racial discrimination. People did. Feminists who want to protect sex-based don’t want to admit that Phyllis Schafly was right and that sometime discrimination based on sex is ok. If you want to settle this, make a law, not an administrative rule or an EO.
I quit working at shoprite and now I make $65-85 per/h. How? I’m working online! My work didn’t exactly make me happy so I decided to take a chance on something new… after 4 years it was so hard to quit my day job but now I couldn’t be happier.
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Meanwhile, in other news, 98% of USC men have just declared their gender identity as “trans female.”
does that include gay men?
Yes, you’re included.
I wonder what ‘non-binary’ actually is in the context of this program.
Could The Arnold qualify if he simply declared he was nonbinary?
Many objective physical characteristics help segregate most men from most women, but what do you look for if your job is screening for nonbinary folks?
I would like to see the training manual for this employee. Is there a section titled Boobs & Balls or would that be unhelpful?
Could The Arnold qualify if he simply declared he was nonbinary?
Possibly. He did, after all, give birth to a baby.
it is the Sabbath and you are violating it
So did Jesus, he healed people on the Sabbath.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. James Carville is ranting incoherently, he makes no sense and doesn’t even understand what he’s saying. He delusionally thinks Trump won’t be president in 2027.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/carville-predicts-trump-wont-president-next-year-threatens-democratic-retribution
And then this little liberal snowflake says grass lawns are white supremacy, and everyone should just have weeds:
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2041921383807029450
Liberalism is a philosophy of divergence. Progressivism is a philosophy of monotonic change. Conservativism is a philosophy of moderation. Principles matter.
It’s mass PTSD and complex PTSD? I’m sure psychiatrists can classify it. 2 attempted assassinations isn’t amusing. Such a tragedy for everyone.
It’s a disability.
^^^^ Developed nations really aren’t interested in what’s happening in a small village in a 3rd world on a daily grind of considerations. Everyday the same dysfunctional harangue.
I had to look up nonbinary it’s so ridiculous. It means there are days men just want to wear dress and heels. Honest to God I had no idea so many men wanted to dress up.
My god keep it to yourselves and please everything else you do in private keep it private. Developed nations are actually walling themselves off from this and all the rest of it.
Peace and may you find the perfect organza.
So let me understand. A male penis is triggering, but a trans penis is not triggering? Do they get triggered if they don’t know the person’s gender? Or do they only get triggered after learning their preferred pronouns?
And a 3-inch vagina gives women devastating and insuperable penis envy.
That tiny 3/4 inch clitoris really galls them too!
Unless the guy has a micro penis. I wonder if that would trigger these women too?
People easily triggered shouldnt be coddled, life is hard, they need to toughen up. Death is even harder and no coddling, everybody dies.
Get over it.
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You seem triggered by this, something that will only affect you if you are a pervert who annoys women with unwanted attention and actions. A rapist would object to this rule.
^ Stupid comment ^
Not “triggered” that is left wing bs
Just find the left wing nut hypocracy hilarious
John, turn on the spelling checker or ask one of the comrades in the bunker for help.
What the heck are you talking about? Is seems you have rape fantasies and want to rape women. Get some professional help before you end up in prison and a registered sex offender for life.
LOL. They are including “non-binary” with women, but people are either male or female. If a man wants to enter the gym area where he is banned, all he has to do is say he is non-binary. Honestly, this is all so silly. These people are not smart enough to be taken seriously.
You are completely missing the point.
The point here is that women have made numerous reports about being ogled and verbally harassed in the gym by males who are probably juiced up on steroids. They asked for an accommodation for a space where they could feel comfortable. If they are comfortable sharing that space with non-binary males, then who are you or anybody else to question that decision.
The fact that the women feel comfortable around non-binary males suggests that this is not about discriminating against males. It is about protecting women from jerks who just happen to be male. If your daughter told you that she no longer goes to the gym because of the jerks who harass her, you would be the first in line to demand that USC do something about that. Well, USC is doing something about that, but in your MAGA frenzy of waging culture wars you complete overlook that this is about protecting women from a bunch of male jerks and nothing more.
If this was happening to your daughter, would you just tell her to suck it up ??
I very much doubt it.
In any instance you can legitimately exclude straight males
You might st exclude all who have xy chromosomes
Anything else is arbitrary subjective discrimination
Regardless this is just more left wing nonsense that will go down in flames
You have the right to exclude anyone you wish in your own private space
We have allowed some strictly male/female discrimination in a very few instances
You can also exclude people who misbehave
But you can not exclude straight men because some people misbehave
Just as you can not exclude all blacks because twice as much crime is committed by blacks
“males who are probably juiced up on steroids”
Seriously?! You believe USC is a bastion of roid ranging alpha males? USC? In California?! Unreal.
College men ogling college girls. Very likely. I did it at the rec center in college. The girls also ogled the men. That was half the reason of going to the gym.
Nothing you said has any value because this isn’t about “protection” or “jerks”. This is about massive virtue signaling. It is pure, unadulterated, discrimination wrapped in the thin veneer of moral authority.
It is repulsive and ignorant. Your defense of it just shows that you have entirely missed the point.
well-said.
Horse Puckey. There is no ‘binary/non-binary’ crap, your DNA, your chromosomes
indicate one of two things – unless you are a very VERY rare individual – you are
either male, or female. PERIOD.
USC may be ‘doing something about it’, but 99.9% of all other schools, let alone
private workout gyms don’t seem to see the need to, because, maybe, most of their
clientelle isn’t Looney tunes maybe?
BUT here is why I differ: I don’t have a problem if a gym of any kind cordons off an
area for women only, or even a set aside time frame for women only, but as I said
above, it’s for WOMEN only, not the pretend women.
Prove to me you are a woman, with DNA, Chromosomes, and I want to take a look
and see if you have any external ‘plumbing’, and if you cannot do all that, you’re a MAN.
All men should declare that they are in fact non-binary. Easy. There, I solved it for you.
Live not by lies. Don’t participate in others’ mental illenesses.