When a problem is too hot to handle, Congress doesn't. It simply appoints a commission in the same partisan image as the congressional committees that gave up on the issue. Only the Marines follow a commonsense approach to separating young men and women during basic training and, perhaps not coincidentally, have the highest recruitment success of any of the armed services. By comparison, the Army, Navy and Air Force are adamant about combining the sexes and have no plans even to collect data on whether gender integration is working. We asked Anita to share some insights on this issue of genuine national importance.
Many people confuse race and gender discrimination.
The two concepts are not the same. Mere skin color is never a legitimate rationale for any decision about how to treat a group. Sex is a different matter. Sex organs and sexual hormones create fundamental physical differences between men and women. Sometimes the differences don't matter, but sometimes they do.