Why I Won’t Read ‘Project 2025’ – Pagosa Daily Post News Events & Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado

First of all, let me say this loud and clear: I have never competed in women's sports.

I also have not read the 900-page Heritage Foundation document known as the Project 2025.

Project 2025 has been in the news lately, but I have no intention of reading it. And I am in good company, in that regard.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump gave his take on “Fox and Friends,” according to POLITICO reporter Isabella Ramírez:

“Project 25, I have no idea what it is — I don’t even want to see it. I don’t want to read about it because I mean I have no idea what it is,” Trump said. “Some people get together, they do something extreme; I guess it’s extreme. I don’t know. Because I don’t even want to see it. It doesn’t matter.”

I'm not running for president, so I guess I can safely read the document.

But I won't do it, for personal reasons.

I have never read a 900 page book and I am too old to start now. The longest book I have ever tried to read was Moby Dick, In college. It was 378 pages long, but I gave up after the third chapter. Luckily, my roommate read it and shared his notes with me.

I can read a roommate's notes and feel completely satisfied.

That's why I read the introductory notes on the Project 2025 Website homepage. (I guess Donald Trump doesn't even want to read the website notes. And I don't blame him.)

Almost everything I needed to know was summarized on the first page of the site. Luckily.

The 2025 Project is a historic movement, brought together by more than 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the deep state and return power to the people. Its “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” published in April 2023, is the product of a collaboration of more than 400 academics and policy experts from across the country.

The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to address our country's deepest challenges and get America back on track, including:

• Secure the border, finish building the wall and deport illegal immigrants
• Disarm the Federal Government by Increasing Accountability and Oversight of the FBI and Justice Department
• Freeing up US energy production to lower energy prices
• Reduce growth in public spending to reduce inflation
• Making federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected President and Congress
• Improve education by transferring control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments
• Ban biological males from participating in women's sports

We all support dismantling the deep state. In fact, we should dismantle everything “deep”—starting with the state, and going through Hollywood, Google, and the PTA. Disarming the federal government seems like a good place to start.

But what really baffled me was… why is the effort to ban biological males from competing in women's sports so important? down from the list?

Shouldn't this be the HIGH?

Yes, illegal immigration is a serious problem, as are restrictions on the oil industry, and don't get me started on education.

But if we are serious about addressing our country's deepest challenges, we must focus the federal government's energy on banning biological males. In a demilitarized way, of course.

I know I'm preaching to the converted, but our country was built on liberty and justice for all. While some politicians (whom I won't name) might argue that a biological male should have the “freedom” to compete in women's sports after adjusting his (now his) hormones and other physical details, the word “justice” obviously implies “fairness.”

There is nothing “fair” about biological males participating in women’s sports.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for women being able to race in NASCAR, whether they're men or not. It's not a women's sport.

Women's basketball is a women's sport. Just like women's soccer. That's why we use the word “women's.” Because it's for “women.”

How can we get this simple idea across to our country's leaders?

Perhaps we could update the Pledge of Allegiance? “…one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all, and in which only biological females participate in women’s sports.”

Anyway, I want to thank the Heritage Foundation. Many of us are thrilled that someone has finally written a 900-page book to defend women's sports.

Even if we never read it, we can approve of it. As long as we don't run for president.