Danish fabulist Hans Christian Andersen wrote a wonderful story, The Emperor’s New Clothes, about a king who walked around in his underwear in the misguided belief that everyone could see his invisible suit of clothes. The con men who sold the king on this ridiculous idea told him that his suit of clothes would be visible to everyone except those who are stupid or incompetent. The townsfolk go along with the pretense, not wanting to appear inept or stupid. “Look at the king’s magnificent suit of clothes,” they proclaim. The same situation is happening today as a group of dysfunctional people allege thatthey can change their birth sex. Instead of calling them out, our society accepts it.
“Society has accepted a destructive lie that you can create your own reality and define your own identity,” says author Ben Shapiro. “Transgender isn’t real,” explains Kara Dansky, women’s advocate and author of The Abolition of Sex. “It was simply made up. Words like gender identity don’t have any meaning. Every single human being is either a male person or a female person.” Despite the obvious truth of Dansky’sstatement, we have reached a place where to state the obvious gets you attacked as “transphobic.”
Transgenderism does not describe a marginalized group of people who need civil rights protection, Dansky says. On the contrary, “The so-called transgender agenda is being fueled by a massive, vicious, and well-funded industry in the guise of a civil rights movement. It is all a lie,” Dansky argues. “The obliteration of the material reality of biological sex should scare everyone.”
There is no “right” that says you can demand whatever you want. If you decide tomorrow morning that you identify as something other than your biological sex, it doesn’t give you the right to demand that everyone should accept your decision. Simply because a man decides he is a woman does not require everyone to go along with it. We have the right to disagree.
If I identify as a rhinoceros, it is not reasonable for me to demand that everyone ought to agree with me. In fact, it would be ludicrous if anyone agreed with me. My mental state would rightly be open to question. Why then are we so quick to ignore reality by glorifying the delusions of people who think they can change their birth sex?
The Left has confused tolerance with celebration. Tolerance for a minority should not imply that the majority must accept and celebrate minority viewpoints. We can be tolerant of transgender individuals while rejecting the biological integrity of their choice and challenging their mental competence.
The events of this past week have demonstrated that trans people may have serious mental issues, including a proclivity to violence. A trans woman in Nashville killed six people, including three children. Other trans people have physically assaulted those who expressed doubt. When anyone acknowledges the psychological foundation of transgenderism, that person is attacked for doing violence to trans people. A notable example occurred at a July 2022 US Senate hearing when Sen. Josh Hawley was accused of transphobia by KhiaraBridges, a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. Bridges suggested that men have “a capacity for pregnancy.” For the simple act of questioning that possibility, Hawley was accusedby Bridges of “opening up trans people to violence by not recognizing them.”
The implication of Bridges’ accusation is that questioning a nonsensical viewpoint is no longer acceptable. Once we go down that road, we are susceptible to an avalanche of absurdity. The brilliance of Andersen’s tale lies in the recognition thathuman beings are inclined to accept nonsense. Economist Thomas Sowell explained why this is particularly true today. When asked why American voters used to be able to see through obvious nonsense, Sowell replied, “That was before nonsense became a large part of the curriculum of our educational institutions.”
Transgenderism is not the only nonsensical idea floating around. Consider these delusional notions that have made it past the screwball test: men can have babies; human beings can change the weather; math is racist; the Russians own Trump; we should disband the police; cow flatulence causes global warming; voter ID is racist; all white people have implicit bias.
As a life-long believer in common sense, I am appalled at the willingness of our society to cast it aside in favor of ideas that no rational person should embrace.
Were looking at what was once only seen in old classic man made monster movies just wait until they create giant creatures stomping some City into rubble. Right out of Classic Sci Fi TV series like The Outer Limits
I think the Left pedals this ridiculous nonsense not because they actially believe it but to break peoples’ connection with reality, reason, fact and truth. The same reason Big Brother demanded people to agree that two plus two equals five.
Don’t tell everyone that man, my handler will have a heart attack even though they don’t have the vaccine, we say we do but we don’t.
A phobia is an irrational fear of something. No one is, or can be, transphobic, because transphobia isn’t real, just as transgenderism isn’t real.
Just the same as I am not afraid of witches or ghosts or the boogeyman under my bed, I am not ‘afraid’ of ‘transgenders’. I am not afraid of things that don’t exist.
The word or suffix “phobia” is misused as meaning “hater of.” Its handy for tyrants as it can be attached to anything and works as a false accusation.
People will believe all kinds of unreal things, that violate reality, that violate the Law of Identity and it’s corollary the Law of Causation.
For example. the Adam and Eve In the Garden of Eden, A Talking Snake, Original Sin, The Parting of the Red Sea, Noah’s Ark, An Immaculate Conception, A Virgin Birth, A Dead body Comes Back To Life After Three Days Then Rises Through The Sky To A Magical, Eternal, Utopia.
Others believe in 72 Virgins In Paradise and that Camel Urine Cures Cancer.
All of these beliefs violate common sense but people go on believing them. Accepting reality is a rational choice one must choose when one chooses to abandon unreason, whims, and magical thinking.
Atheists have caused infinitely more suffering in the last 100 years than any religious group even islam pales into insignificance in comparison.
On the other hand, atheists of the communist variety murdered more than 100 million people last century.
Against 2000 years of ongoing Revelation, provide ‘proof’ that none of the above occurred other than your fevered, threatened atheism fueled by a wish of the return of the Terror via the French Revolution and its worship of ‘reason’ alone as defined by your precious humanism.
The “sex” is embedded in your chromosomes!
Try change that!
Good luck.
tune in to ” big picture watch ” with jennifer bilek . you will then be fully informed as to who is running and funding the trans insanity .
Every steroid -using bodybuilder is aware of ‘roid rage.
Trans are shot full of such hormones which do incredible damage to the psyche.
Think “roid rage” on steroids. We see it in their behavior at protests. Some are certifiable!