There was a time, not long ago, when a man in a skirt belonged in a psychiatric ward, a prison, or a pride parade. Now the skirt shows up in the classroom, leg hair optional, defended as normal by teachers and activists alike. Against this bizarre backdrop, Slovakia has just passed a law that recognizes only two sexes. Male and female.
For many synapse-starved souls in the West, this sounds shocking. For most of human history, though, it was considered common sense. A man is a man. A woman is a woman. Children understood this truth long before activists tried to complicate it. Yet today, elites in Brussels, New York, and London insist that there are dozens of genders. They mock anyone who dares say otherwise. Slovakia has now stood up and said “Enough.”
The debate often gets clouded by bad-faith arguments. So-called experts claim there are more than two sexes because of intersex conditions. But that is misleading. Intersex people are not a third, fourth, or fiftieth sex. They are rare medical cases where development does not follow the usual male or female path. In fact, they prove the rule. If there weren’t two sexes to begin with, there would be nothing for intersex conditions to deviate from. To pretend otherwise is not science but ideology masquerading as science.
The true prevalence of intersex traits is vanishingly small, about 0.018 percent of births. And the overwhelming majority of these cases still resolve within the male or female framework once examined genetically or hormonally. In other words, the biological rule of two sexes remains intact. Rare developmental disorders do not create a third category; they simply mark exceptions that prove the binary. To pretend otherwise is like claiming that because some people are born with extra fingers, humanity has multiple species of hands. The rare biological quirks that complicate development don’t rewrite the rule of two sexes any more than color blindness abolishes the reality of sight.
Yet passion-filled, proof-free activists seize on these exceptions to claim “sex is a spectrum,” hoping the public won’t notice the sleight of hand. They conflate disorders of development with proof of dozens of new categories. But no civilization in recorded time recognized “intersex” as a distinct third sex. Ancient Rome, medieval Europe, traditional China — all acknowledged anomalies but never mistook them for the creation of new sexes. The modern West alone insists on turning medical irregularities into political weapons.
Predictably, Slovakia’s move is being painted as hateful by groups like Amnesty International. These groups are wrong. Is it hateful to affirm reality? Is it hateful to say that children deserve a mother and a father, not a social experiment? For centuries, societies across the world recognized marriage as between a man and a woman, tied to the natural reality of children and family. Slovakia has simply codified that tradition.
Western critics warn that Slovakia is moving closer to Hungary or even Russia. But why should standing up for family and biological reality be compared to tyranny? It is a strange moment when defending truth gets you branded as “illiberal.” This tells us more about the critics than about Slovakia. They live in a bubble where common sense is treated like contraband.
Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, called the vote “a great dam against progressivism.” He’s right. Progressivism has turned into a mind virus that refuses limits. It demands that men can become women at will, that pronouns can be multiplied without end, and that family itself can be redefined until the word means nothing. Slovakia has dammed the river before it could drown the valley.
The law also restricts adoption to married heterosexual couples and bans surrogacy. Again, critics cry “discrimination.” But is it discrimination to say that a child deserves both a mother and a father? That biology matters? That deliberately cutting a child off from one or the other is not progress, but cruelty dressed up in rainbow colors? The new Slovak law says no.
Some argue this is all a distraction from Prime Minister Robert Fico’s political troubles. Even if it is, that doesn’t erase the principle. Politicians may act for selfish reasons, but the truth of two sexes stands apart from motives. Reality is not up for debate because one man benefits politically.
You can only pretend for so long that men can have babies, or that women can become men by changing underwear and hormones. Reality reasserts itself. Biology bites back.
The broader issue here is cultural sovereignty. Slovakia has told the European Union that its Constitution comes first. Brussels may fume. Sanctions may follow. But this is a small country standing tall.
Slovakia has reminded us that societies have a right — and a duty — to defend the basic truths that make life possible. There are men. There are women. Together they form families. Families form nations. And nations that forget this, that chase after gender experiments and social fads, will not stand the test of time.
The West used to know this. America used to know this. Our churches taught it. Our schools reinforced it. Our laws reflected it. Now those same institutions often deny it. Slovakia’s vote is a signal flare: It doesn’t have to be this way. A country can choose common sense over nonsense.
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