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If I took what I know about football and rolled it up and stuffed it under your mattress, it would not keep you awake at night.  Which is to say I don't know much about football.  But I have seen clips about football on television and in movies.

What I have observed about football is that it is a display of three types of hypermasculinity:  1.  there is the hulked-up hypermasculinity of the blockers who ram the hell out of each other; 2.  there is the fleet-footed hypermasculinity of the runners who sprint to heroically catch the ball; and 3.  there is the alpha male hypermasculinity of the ruggedly handsome quarterback who directs the whole show.  Amid all this is a lot of butt-patting and genital-sidling.  There is on the football field the display of what men find both celebratory and repulsive about male bonding.

There is also a playbook of choreographed outwittings to run against opponents.

My favourite football play was by Kurt, the effeminate gay teen on Glee, who got on the football team because of his ability to kick field goals.  However, he could only kick successfully if he did it as a choreographed routine to Beyonce's Single Ladies/Put a Ring On It.  The opposing team, as I recall, was so dumbfounded by his non-masculinity, his antithetical masculinity, that his kicks went sailing between the cross bars without any attempt by them to block.

These two football schemata, of hypermasculinity and antithetical masculinity, are used more generally than in football, and are particularly evident in transgenderism.

There is the antithetically masculine approach of transgender activists latching onto the ascendant acceptability of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community, even though transgenderism has nothing to do with sexual orientation.  Transgender activists relied on the association of something vaguely sexual about transgenderism, although the sexuality is actually biologic sex and that biologic sex is conflated with gender, but they counted on mainstream squeamishness to prevent scrutiny of why, exactly, transgender activists likened their cause to one of sexual orientation.  Minimal inquiry would make obvious that homosexuals and transgenderists are diametrically opposed on the heteronormative scale.

Then there is the hypermasculine approach of transgender activists ramming into women-only spaces, both physical (bathrooms, locker rooms, groups, meetings) and intellectual/emotional (telling women what it is to be a woman).

Transgenderism is a choreographed play, deploying both hypermasculine and antithetically masculine strategies, and the quarterback is patriarchy.