The punishment for pandering far outweighs the supposed benefits.
That’s the lesson we can all learn from the state of Missouri and Life Time Fitness’ treatment of Ellis Discordia Montano, a 52-year-old divorced father of one who now identifies as a woman.
The state of Missouri was the first to cave to the LGBTQIA+ alphabet mafia and issue Montano a driver’s license classifying him as female. Montano carries a bat and two baseballs in a holster between his legs. He still uses them in the traditional way. He identifies as a lesbian.
Two weeks ago, Montano signed up for a membership at a Life Time Fitness in suburban St. Louis. In accordance with state directives, the club instructed staff to treat Montano as a woman so he could continue to please women. Three days later, on July 29, Montano was seen roaming the indoor pool area in a royal blue bikini and in the women’s locker room, where he showered, shaved, and applied makeup.
He eventually ran into Cindy Zykan, who politely told Montano, “Excuse me, but I think you might prefer to stay in the men’s locker room.”
Montano rolled up his T-shirt, grabbed his man-chest, and shook them in front of Jikan’s face, retorting, “This is not appropriate for a men’s locker room.”
The cost of pandering is astronomical. America faces a pandemic of pandering that we must confront. It leaves us all vulnerable.
Not to be outdone by the joke, Jikan responded: “You have a penis. It should be in the men’s locker room.”
The exchange marked the beginning of 10 days (and still ongoing) of unrest in Ellisville, Missouri. Life Time Fitness management defended their decision to allow Montano to undress, shower, and groom himself with women and children. Montano, who lived in his car, spent the next week working as a “clerk” at the gym from about 9 a.m. until the early evening. Gym members organized protests in the parking lot.
Montano responded with posts threatening harm to himself and others on social media platforms. He also posted pictures of a gun. He cryptically posted: “Is the minor inconvenience of asking someone to move out of my way worth the risk of killing that person instead?”
He took aim at Cindy Zaikan in particular, posting: “If you’re going to be hounded and harassed, I suggest you be nicknamed Cindy Zaikan. Sure, the last name sounds like cold medicine, but she’d make a great, stupid villain in your autobiography.”
The social media posts forced Life Time Fitness to revoke Montano’s membership. On Monday, police officers physically removed him from the club. The next day, Montano drove to Ziquan’s home, where her husband, Andrew, a former Marine, found Montano’s Jeep Wrangler parked down the street. Andrew ran inside the house, locked his wife in the bathroom, grabbed a gun and went inside to defend himself.
“It’s not a game anymore,” Andrew said in a phone interview. “He’s gone from being a keyboard warrior to someone locating us. This is serious.”
“Now I’m even more scared,” Cindy added. “Now I’m scared of you.”
So how did it come to this? How did Andrew and Cindy Zykan end up being targeted by a man who identified himself as a recently divorced woman whose ex-wife was a Life Time Fitness employee?
Pandering.
We have led transvestites to believe they have the right to undress, shower, and defecate alongside women and children. We have raised their expectations, which in turn raises their victimization, oppression, and anger. Plumbing has always been a determining factor in bathroom use. Bats and balls here. Mitts and gloves there. There used to be universal, objective standards. Now it’s all subjective and based on emotion.
We are playing along with the delusions of psychopaths. We are pandering to them. This pandering is what makes transgender people so dangerous. They are willing to die and kill as long as we don’t all join in on their delusion.
Men can get pregnant. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg jumped into a hospital bed with his “husband” after the woman he bought gave birth to the baby. This is “normal” behavior. We nominated a woman to the Supreme Court who refused to define what a woman is, insisting that only biologists can explain something this complex, and yet JD Vance is “weird.”
The punishment for pandering is confusion.
If Stevie Wonder identifies as a race car driver, should we give him a driver’s license? Should we put him on pole position for the Daytona 500 in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion?
The pandering never ends.
We tell women they don’t need men, despite the fact that men have been responsible for nearly every technological advancement in history. We tell women they are victims of toxic masculinity, despite the fact that men have played a role in society that shortens life expectancy by six to seven years compared to women.
We tell black people that systemic racism is the cause of our economic and educational shortcomings, but the truth is that the abandonment of biblical values, especially traditional marriage, is at the root of our failures.
The cost of pandering is astronomical. America faces a pandemic of pandering that we must confront. It leaves us all vulnerable.
After three years of pandering to Joe Biden and pretending his cognitive decline wasn’t obvious, no one is going to want to tell his successor, who is of South Asian and Jamaican descent, that she is incompetent and just a pawn in the push for World War III.
We would rather complain about tragedies than prevent them from happening. No one could pretend to be surprised when Ellis Discordia Montano was caught up in a tragedy in Ellisville, Missouri. Our pandering made it inevitable.
