Maybe you heard of the recent incident regarding the Denver Post. A popular columnist claims that he was fired for saying there “are only two sexes, identified by an XX or an XY chromosome.” Jon Caldara alleges that he exhibited a difference in style from what the paper feels comfortable with. They found him “too insensitive.” He had also criticized an AP story which insisted that more options were available than just those two—and he charged them with trying “to change culture and policy.” He accused them, in fact, of activism. Two weeks later he protested a new Colorado law that “required elementary school children to beinstructed in transgender ideology.” Apparently, children in Boulder were treated to various videos starring a transgender teddy bear and a “Trans Community Choir” who sang to them about a transgender raven.
Well, gratefully someone lodged a complaint—even though he was fired for doing so. Is this the wave of the future for elementary school students? And some people wonder why young people can’t make change for a buck or have no idea where Indiana is (let alone Jamaica). We can probably skip history, also, since it might prove dangerous to know what happened in our past. As for genuine science, we probably should cut that to a minimum so kids can be steeped in evolutionary fantasy. No doubt such emphases will help them get good paying jobs—as soon as they complete Gender Studies for a college degree.
We only have Mr. Caldara’s word for it, but it does fit the political correctness philosophy. What he claimed about men and women is exactly true. Male and female are determined biologically. God created an XX Eve and an XY Adam. Eve did not whine that she actually felt she should be a male, nor did Adam complain about the way God made him. God still has two genders; He has not invented a third, fourth, fifth, ad infinitum. One would think it would not even be necessary to state such an obvious fact that there are two genders. How can someone lose a job over making such an obvious statement? Where does such insanity
stop?
What did the newspaper say? Megan Schrader acknowledged that she fired the popular columnist, but she declined to say why. Well, that’s interesting. If what Caldara said was a lie, all she would have to say is, “No, that wasn’t it; there were other issues involved.” The fact that she refused to say why lends credibility to his account of what happened. She did say she was trying to fill his position with a conservative writer because the paper values such voices on their pages. Right! If they’re like the Orlando Sentinel, they throw in a token difference of opinion now and then. All in all, the news media would not recognize fair and balanced if it bit them.