POLITICS: Cowardly pols still won’t acknowledge biological reality

In 2025, some Democrats are still too cowardly to say that biological men don’t belong in women’s spaces and sports.

In fact, they want to act like it simply isn’t a real problem.

We can thank Tish Hyman for putting two of them on the spot and exposing their empty platitudes.

The singer was tossed from a Gold’s Gym in Beverly Hills after she objected to a man, who identifies as a woman changing in the female locker room.

The more we learned about this space invader, Alexis Black, the darker the tale became: Black was convicted of savagely beating his ex-wife and breaking her jaw — and then took her first name as he transitioned.

Black is a walking red flag, but it’s Hyman who was penalized.

Kudos to her for fighting back.

Last week, Hyman, who is gay, asked Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who is also running for governor of California, what he’d do about men in women’s spaces — noting that any man, included those convicted of violence, can “self identify into a woman’s space under the current law,”

Swalwell, a mealy-mouthed progressive, danced around the question before generously admitting that “harassment” of women “was wrong.”

It was as bold as coming out against cancer.

Hyman zeroed in: “Are you against men in women’s locker rooms and sports? That’s all you need to answer.”

Swalwell continued to say a whole bunch of things while saying absolutely nothing.

Two weeks ago, Hyman asked the same question of California state senator Scott Weiner, who is also running for governor. He said “everyone deserves to be safe” and that trans women are being “brutalized in this country.”

The patriarchy remans undefeated in the Golden State.

Meanwhile in the Garden State, a Korean spa — where nudity is compulsory in sex-segregated spaces — is being forced to let dudes into the ladies room after losing a lawsuit.

The King Spa in Palisades Park was sued in 2022 by a man who identifies as a women because he was upset after being given a bracelet that only allowed him entry into the men’s room.

As a result, patrons are now allowed to use the rooms that coincide with the gender identity of their choosing.

Good luck to King Spa’s business.

And just this week, a man named Jammie Booker won the title of World’s Strongest Woman. Second-place winner Andrea Thompson of the UK stormed off the podium while offering the most concise assessment of the situation: “This is bulls–t.”

When it was revealed that Booker was a dude who had transitioned, he was stripped of his title and Thompson was given top prize. Sanity prevailed, but the idea that Booker felt entitled to compete against women speaks volumes about the state of women’s sports.

All of these stories unfolded as Mother Jones and Pablo Torre collaborated on a hit piece against activist and former college swimmer Riley Gaines.

The Mother Jones headline read that Gaines “climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports.”

In its report, the publication explained that Gaines was, gasp, paid well for her advocacy work. And it alleged that she didn’t really care about women’s safety — because her former coach at the University of Kentucky was accused in 2024 by two staffers of sexual assault.

Never mind that, after the allegations surfaced against her coach, Lars Jorgensen, Gaines put out a statement saying she was “blindsided and betrayed” by a man she once considered a friend. (Jorgensen left the school in 2023 and is now banned from coaching).

But for Torre and the Mother Jones reporter, that wasn’t enough to show that Gaines cared about predatory coaches. Essentially, they wanted Gaines to be more like Simone Biles, who was victimized by convicted sex offender Dr. Larry Nassar and publicly spoke out against her abuser.

Both Biles and Gaines, who was forced to share a locker room with trans swimming rival Lia Thomas, should be commended for meeting the issue of their time. They are both brave.

But only one of them is called a bigot, threatened and diminished for speaking out.

Thankfully, there are laws against, and consequences for, sexual assault and an organization — SafeSport, however flawed it may be — tasked with policing such allegations in the US Olympics and Paralympic movements.

However, there aren’t enough protections for women who simply want to keep female sports and spaces female.

Even now, too many politicians and people in the media don’t want to concede it’s an actual issue. Which makes Hyman and Gaines’ work more important than ever.