Democrats have done everything they can to sell Americans on transgender ideology. They tell us biology is irrelevant, that men can compete in women’s sports without consequence, that there’s no disadvantage to pitting female athletes against biological males.
Yet, the moment it becomes politically convenient, suddenly they rediscover what every ordinary person has always known: Men and women are different.
The latest example? Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.
During a Senate hearing, Hirono pressed FBI Director Kash Patel about the bureau’s physical fitness standards, particularly the requirement that recruits perform pull-ups. “A lot of women cannot because of physiological differences,” Hirono said, essentially acknowledging what Democrats repeatedly deny when it comes to sports, that men and women are not biologically identical. Patel didn’t shy away from affirming those differences.
He explained that FBI field agents need to be physically capable of chasing down criminals and doing tough, demanding work, which is why there are strict training benchmarks, including pull-ups, timed runs, sit-ups, and push-ups, as well as academic and marksmanship evaluations. In other words, the FBI isn’t running a social experiment in gender ideology; it’s preparing agents for real-world threats where physical ability actually matters.
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And yet, this same Mazie Hirono has been one of the loudest voices condemning efforts to protect women’s sports from male intrusion. In 2022, she accused Republicans of lying when they pointed out the very real problem of males dominating female athletics. “My Republican colleagues falsely claim that allowing transgender women and girls to play sports is harmful to cisgender women and girls,” she declared. She went further, smearing the GOP for supposedly “hurling insulting lies” about the impact on women’s sports. According to her, bans on male athletes in female competitions were nothing more than bigotry dressed up as fairness. Any concerns about denied scholarships, broken records, or stolen opportunities were dismissed as “discrimination.”
Hirono is now freely admitting that "physiological differences" between the sexes affect physical performance. There it is, plain and simple.
In the context of federal law enforcement training, the Democratic senator casually acknowledged the very argument Republicans have made for years — the one Democrats have ridiculed and even called bigoted.
This is the larger problem with the Democratic Party’s obsession with gender ideology. Democrats insist that words like “woman” have no fixed meaning, unless they’re talking about abortion, in which case, suddenly it’s a women’s rights issue. They tell Americans biology doesn’t matter — until it gets in the way of fitness standards, and then it suddenly does. They insist that letting males who claim to be women play women’s sports is an issue of fairness, then acknowledge that biological differences impact abilities and performance. The contradictions don’t just expose hypocrisy, but they also reveal a party more invested in pandering to the radical fringes of its base than in protecting women or supporting basic common sense.
I strongly believe that Democrats know full well there are differences between men and women, but they’re just too beholden to the radical fringes of their party to deny it… in select contexts. The Hirono exchange at the hearing proves it.
