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God's 4-H Club

Most Americans have heard of 4-H (Head, Heart, Hands, and Health), which is a youth development program administered under the auspices of both the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I recall they had a 4-H club in the high school I attended in my home town in Central Illinois, which, like 4-H clubs all over America, provided educational opportunities for young people aged 8–18 related to agriculture, healthy living, science and technology, and civic engagement.

Well, that sounds terrific...especially in a highly agricultural area like Central Illinois. But my oh-so-cool friends and I had absolutely zero interest in what seemed to us like a total snoozer—a boring club full of nerdy farm girls.

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Separation Anxiety

I've been teaching English in Taiwan since 1992, and in my early years here I worked for a woman who operated a branch of a chain of language schools where I taught children's classes in addition to adult conversation classes. She also ran a private kindergarten where I was regularly pressed into service teaching children between the ages of three and six.

One rite of passage I witnessed regularly occurred when a very young child was left at the kindergarten by his or her mother for the first time. Many children, although they may have been a bit timid or anxious initially, got through it in fine fashion. By lunchtime they would be running around and playing with the other kids, and seemed none the worse for the experience.

For others, however, it was a very different story. Some children would be so traumatized by their perceived abandonment that they would scream and wail for hours on end at volumes belying their diminutive size, impervious to any attempts by teachers or other children to interact with or comfort them in any way. In some cases, this continued until mom returned at day's end to pick the child up, only to continue unabated the next day. I remember one little girl who screamed all day for two solid weeks—I think she finally just wore herself out.

Sooner or later, the kid finally begins to realize that (a) crying accomplishes nothing, (b) the people at the kindergarten are nice, (c) there are some cool toys to play with and some fun activities to be part of, and (d) that yes, mom really will come back.

I suppose it's a natural part of growing up.

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6/2/2026 — From the "S-o-o Proud" Department...

A boy pretending to be a girl* won the triple jump competition in the California state high school track and field competition recently. Now, that's bad enough...but it didn't end there.

It was arranged for AB Hernandez, the biological male in question, to share the top spot on the podium beside the real winner, a biological female who isn't even named in the article I read. And just to top it off, Hernandez was also awarded his gold medal first.

What's noteworthy about this stupidity is that it is drawing criticism from both sides of the fence.

One side of the fence (the gender-fantasy crowd, which includes the family of Hernandez) criticized the fact that poor AB had to share the first-place platform with the biological female who placed behind him in the competition. Apparently they feel that just took away too much of the shine from AB's superlative performance (what with him beating a bunch of talented girls and everything), and that the girl who actually won should have been demoted to second place behind their prince AB.

The other side of the fence (the gender-sanity crowd) is criticizing the fact that Hernandez was allowed to compete against girls in the first place.

I have a suggestion for the gender-fantasy crowd: Perhaps you're not going quite far enough. So here's an idea: Have Hernandez share the first-place spot on the podium, but have him elevated about 10 feet above the girl that actually won the event. Then have Hernandez hold up a big sign that reads:

I AM A BOY PRETENDING TO
BE A GIRL SO I CAN "WIN"!!!
I'M S-O-O PROUD OF MYSELF!!!

I think that sums it up pretty accurately.

*Incidentally, from now on I am going to make a conscious effort to avoid using the word "transgender," and the reason is simple enough:

There is no such thing.

It is effectively an oxymoron, because you cannot "trans" your gender. This is a biological fact. That's how God designed us...it's that simple. Also, one's gender is not "assigned at birth": It is established at conception, and can never be changed by any means. That's not anyone's opinion—that's a biological fact.

Saying someone is "transgender" is like saying they are driving at -65 mph, a negative speed. That's physically impossible and makes no sense—you are either traveling at a positive speed or you are not moving...there is no such thing as a "negative speed." (Going in reverse doesn't count: That's not about speed, that's about velocity, or speed in a given direction.)

From now on, I'm just going to call such people exactly what they are: a male pretending to be a female, or vice versa. (In a pinch, I might resort to saying someone is a "so-called" transgender, but you get the idea.) If members of the gender-fantasy crowd are offended by my refusal to play their fantasy word games (and I'm sure they are), I certainly won't lose any sleep over it.

Oh, and forgive me if I take a pass on "Pride Month."

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