WALTER WILLIAMS: We Have An Identity Problem | Daily Wire

WILLIAMS: We Have An Identity Problem | Daily Wire
"...in the past when a person signed up for a Facebook account, "male" and "female" were the only options.
In 2014, Facebook introduced 50 gender options, including intersex, gender nonconforming, non-binary and androgynous.
In addition to the muddying of waters about one's sex, race has become muddied.
...This new liberal agenda allowing flexibility in determining one's identity was used by Rachel Dolezal to land a job as president of the Spokane, Washington, office of the NAACP...
...You might ask, "Williams, what's the problem?
This is America, and people are whomever they say they are."
Here's something for you to consider:
 For males between the ages of 17 and 21 to pass the Army's fitness test, they must do 35 pushups, do 47 situps and run 2 miles in 16 minutes, 36 seconds. Females in the same age group pass the fitness test by doing 13 pushups, doing 47 situps and running 2 miles in 19 minutes, 42 seconds.
Would it be OK for males who cannot meet the male requirement to claim that they are females?
Suppose a man is convicted and sentenced to a 10-year term at California State Prison, Corcoran. Should he be able to claim that he is a woman and be allowed to serve out his sentence at the California Institution for Women?
...With privileges being determined by race and sex, we need something like South Africa's apartheid-era Population Registration Act of 1950 to define in clear terms who belongs to what race and what sex and thereby prevent race and sex fraud.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University