Having a kid that claims to be trans is the new
sign of status. Woke parents are weirdly proud to proclaim publicly that their
little Johnny is now a Jessica, and their Suzy is a Sam.
Or when one parent said their preteen was still working
their way through something called the “gender spectrum” to decide for
themselves what they want to be. And, of
course, what pronouns they will insist on.
For now.
So by all means stay tuned while we wait for this
breathtaking moment in history. What
will these children with their vast life experience at 6, 10, or 12 choose to
be for the rest of their lives? (Or
until they change their mind.) Will they
pick new, liberating names to celebrate their transition? Or a gender-neutral name like Spider or Mango
or Buttercup?
And will he or she become a ze? Or a zie? Or a wa/waz or a
fae/faeie? Or whatever? Because, you know, you can’t use the boring old he/she
they/them stuff – not if you want to feign outrage when someone meets you for
the first time and doesn’t know your pronouns.
The bigger problem is that kid’s probably not transgendered at
all. Certainly not in any biological
sense. Confused, perhaps. Socially
awkward, most likely, Desperate for attention, sure.
But not really somewhere in between or beyond male or
female. At times a child may feel they
are; at other times they may also feel like a an Indian princess, or a Viking,
or a dinosaur, for that matter. It’s all make-believe and usually temporary. However,
their biological sex hasn’t changed from the time they were born. Nor will it
any time soon. That’s a matter of
chromosomes.
And as of now, no one can change their chromosomes on demand
for whatever reason that make them male or female. That’s the real science.
Still, what about gender?
A lot’s been made in recent years that gender has nothing to
do with biological sex. Now
gender is supposed to be a fluid thing; it depends solely how someone “feels.”
As if gender is just a matter of what clothes and makeup you prefer. You can change it any time you like.
Redefining gender – and especially coming up with terms like
transgender – is another in a long line of sad attempts to change the meaning
of a perfectly good word that accurately describes a real thing into something now
completely meaningless. Something that can be exploited, too.
Because it’s usually done for profit and power. As this
is.
There have always been effeminate boys and masculine
girls. There have always been others who
aren’t necessarily more effeminate than other boys, or more masculine than
other girls, but are sexually attracted to others of the same sex. Still others
are sexually attracted to both sexes. Those
things are real. It’s not a question of
gender but according to a lot of real, objective science, those sexual
preferences may result from chromosomes, as well.
Because some things are predetermined in some way at the
chromosome level, it’s not a matter of choice. It’s something some folks are
already hardwired to be.
None of that has anything to do with the transgender
movement. More importantly, even less to
do with gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy now being pushed on
children by adults. I don’t care much
what other adults do to themselves, but I do have a problem when adults are
making irreversible life-altering decisions for kids.
I think most normal people feel the same. Why is it suddenly okay – and actually
celebrated – to intentionally and permanently surgically disfigure a child, or
pump them full of hormones causing long-term physical changes? All because some activist wannabe school
psychologist or teacher thinks your child suffers from something called gender dysphoria.
And why is it so prevalent?
Remarkable, isn’t it?
You have to wonder who profits from our society’s new-found
obsession with finding, treating, and “protecting the rights” of the suddenly
transgendered. Especially children.
I think it’s all so psychologists and pseudo scientists in
academia and healthcare can publish papers and books about it and invent
profitable “treatments.” So newly-minted “experts” can get lucrative positions
and speaking engagements. So “researchers” can tap new sources for grant money to
“study.” And to provide an infinitely small number of people a way to claim to
have their own interpretation which makes them extra special victims, and
worthy of disproportionate power.
Honestly, it’s largely a scam.
I have no doubt some people do in fact have mental issues
that make them believe they are a sex other than that they were born with. Just as some people believe they are getting
messages from aliens or instructions from God to kill their landlord. It’s a mental
illness, not a “condition.”
And last I checked, in the USA we don’t normally treat
mental illness with surgery anymore. Therapy and medicine have taken the place
of lobotomies and other invasive treatments.
Furthermore, these days we’re talking mostly about children
who aren’t really capable of making informed decisions about something as serious
and life altering as gender reassignment surgery. Dressing up and pretending to be something
other than what you are is something many kids do before they reach puberty. And
even after. I understand that.
But after then? WTF is wrong with these parents?
Folks, we are allowing parents to let others unnecessarily mutilate
and mentally and physically poison their children. Hospitals and doctors are
getting rich. Trans activists in schools are acting like feeder channels to
deliver kids to this carnage. And
gloating.
And instead of being arrested, parents, the activists in
schools, and the participating members of the medical establishment are all being
praised for being on the cutting edge – literally – of a revolution in helping children
develop.
It’s insane. There’s no other word for it.
