The Supreme Court has spoken, and the sound is one of relief for those who still believe that biological sex is a fact, not a feeling. By upholding the ban on transgender athletes in female school sports, the Court has, for once, aligned itself with reality over ideology. Yet let us not pop the champagne just yet.
This is a rearguard action, not a decisive battle. The cultural forces that have driven this madness—a self-indulgent denial of biology—remain entrenched in our institutions, from the academy to the boardroom. We are witnessing the intellectual decadence of a civilisation that has lost its nerve, and this ruling is but a temporary dike against the rising tide.
The question is whether it will hold, or whether, like the Roman virtues we have abandoned, it will be swept away by the next fashionable delusion.
