Writing at this website on Tuesday, I pointed to the alacrity with which Elizabeth Hernandez of the Denver Post spun the deadly Saturday night shooting at an “LGBTQ” nightclub in Colorado Springs as a product of right-wing hate rhetoric. As examples of such rhetoric, Hernandez cited politicians and others who’ve expressed concern about, for instance, primary-school teachers pushing gender ideology on children and biological boys being allowed to use girls’ locker rooms because they claim to be “transgender girls.” The bottom line here is obvious: preposterous, reality-defying propositions about “gender identity” that once would’ve been considered nonsense are now orthodox among the bien pensant; and those who dare to challenge this orthodoxy with assertions of fact are now viewed as haters.
Hernandez’s piece, posted on Sunday, was no surprise. Neither was the Monday L.A. Times op-ed by Robin Maril, a former attorney for the Human Rights Campaign (the Democratic Party fundraising machine that used to pose as a gay-rights organization and that nowadays specializes in transgender PR). The Club Q shooting, wrote Maril, comes at a time when “the right has managed to breathe new life into an old, dangerous narrative – queer and transgender people are threats to children and to the health of the nation.” Nonsense. The “old, dangerous narrative” targeted gay men and lesbians, period. “Queer” was a label adopted by privileged academics who wanted to posture as socially marginal; “transgender” people, then called “transsexuals,” were never part of the gay-rights struggle (although groups like HRC have conspired to rewrite history to put them at the forefront of the movement).
Today’s critics of transgenderism, maintained Maril, are “stoking the basest of emotions — fear of erasure.” This is a common complaint on the left: if straight white males oppose open borders and the mass re-gendering of kids, it’s because these developments make them feel that their straightness and whiteness are under threat. In fact these critics’ most urgent concern, when it comes to the trans issue, is literal erasure: they’re worried, and justly so, about the surgical removal of young people’s healthy genitalia for reasons that aren’t medical but political.
Philip Elliott, writing in Time Magazine on Monday, agreed with Maril. “It…demands an aggressive suspension of suspicion,” wrote Elliott, “to think the current national environment toward LGBTQ rights has no bearing when a 22-year-old man allegedly walks into a gay bar and starts killing.”
Elliott decried recent legislation that seeks “to keep transgender youths from pursuing health care, playing sports on the teams of their choosing, or even identifying themselves in schools.” Translation: these new laws seek to protect confused minors from fanatics with scalpels, to prevent biological female athletes from losing out unfairly to so-called “trans girls,” and to keep gay kids from being led down the garden path by twisted trans activists eager to swell their own ranks.
On Tuesday, we heard from Brian Broome in Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post: “The conservative mind is more concerned that a drag queen is entering a classroom to read a story to children than a gunman is entering a classroom to shoot them.” And the New York Times gave us a rant by columnist Michelle Goldberg, who maintained that the Club Q massacre occurred amid a right-wing fixation “on all-ages drag shows” and “a growing moral panic about children being ‘groomed’ into gender nonconformity” – a “fixation” that she described as a product of a “puritanical tendency on the right” and an “increasingly apocalyptic worldview that sees the erosion of traditional gender roles as a harbinger of national collapse.”
OK, let’s look at these allegations. Why on earth are there suddenly such things as “all-ages drag shows”? How is it “puritanical” to question an irrational ideology which regards biological boys as girls just because they say they are? As for “traditional gender roles,” a major reason why so many toddlers are being labeled as transgender these days is that “traditional gender roles” have made a curious comeback on the left: today, a boy who picks up a doll or a girl who plays with a toy truck risks being placed on the fast track to puberty blockers, hormones, and even surgery.
Goldberg charged critics of this insane new dispensation with using “dehumanizing language” to describe self-identified trans people; in fact the rhetoric that’s really dehumanizing is the kind that euphemistically describes the removal of a healthy girl’s breasts as “top surgery” and a hysterectomy or penile amputation as “bottom surgery.” Goldberg herself used one of these dishonest terms: “gender-confirming surgeries,” a nice way of saying “butchery.” She spoke of “people who hurl baseless accusations of child abuse.” The British government has already put its foot down about the surgical mutilation of minors in the name of “gender confirmation”: it is child abuse. When will the U.S. government agree? When will the American corporate media stop parroting the abusers?
Goldberg’s philippic, as noted, ran on Tuesday. Then, on Wednesday morning, came a brand-new piece of information. In a court filing, lawyers for Anderson Lee Aldrich, the accused Colorado Springs gunman, stated that their client identifies as “non-binary,” uses “they/them pronouns,” and prefers to be identified as “Mx. Anderson Aldrich.” It seems, in other words, that what we’re dealing with here is not some Trump fan in a red cap who’s been led by “hateful” right-wing propaganda to shoot up an “LGBTQ nightclub”; rather, Aldrich, who last year was arrested for threatening his mother with a homemade bomb, would appear to be one more member of the psychologically troubled army of young people who’ve been swept up by the poisonous transgender craze. And his reason for shooting patrons at Club Q may be everything, anything, or nothing – with the single exception of the one motive that Hernandez, Maril, Elliott, Broome, and Goldberg have attributed to him with such passionate self-assurance.
“queer and transgender people are threats to children and to the health of the nation.”
Sadly lots are, not all, but I believe that the majority are, they are often obsessed with youth and target young boys causing confusion at a time in their life when they are already confused. The individuals doing the grooming would believe that the child is willingly going along but they are not.
I’m going to use the pronouns “it” and “nothing” when referencing this thing.
“twisted trans activists eager to swell their own ranks”
That old idiom “misery loves company”?
So, recruit as many as possible, and the young are “easy targets.”
The bitch has one thing right. I absolutely DO hate perverted filth that target children for grooming & mutilation, and make no bones about it.
I also hate these lying trash that seize every opportunity to slander their betters, when not dreaming up out-right frauds & hoaxes to do so.
People who are white, normal, Christian, males have gotten a little sick-and-tired of being branded as worthy targets for simply being white, straight, Christian, males.
And if some trans filth dons a skirt so he can gain entry into the girl’s bathroom, and rape underage girl’s (like happened in Louden County), he’ll be the 2nd one dealt with . . .
The schoolboard superintendent who arranged it would be first one explained the facts-of-life.
Young men and boys are simply being driven crazy the unhinged policies of the “progressive” Left. It has been happening for quite some time, now, and it is all by design.
As always the nations leftists Media lays the blame on the right without no evidence to back them up the Denver Compost is such a liberal leftists rag jump on their bandwagon without looking out for hidden pitchforks
Also, why are these SAME people always supporting Anti-Americanism, Climate Scams, Green energy, injections with untested, radically new substances that do not work as claimed, those who want government to dictate what medical treatments citizens are allowed to receive from their physicians, lock downs, masks for viruses that are too small to be caught in them, Marxist organizations that act to destroy the US & murder its citizens, deny investigation of highly suspicious elections that have plenty of proven fraudulent votes counted as genuine,, want to permanently sterilize & mutilate children, want the government to have ownership of children, sabotage our government & society with their agendas that are harmful & anti-American, etc.
It is like these SAME people are trying to destroy us.
Not to be cruel, but maybe this man experienced a lot of rejection by LGBTQ (and cis) due to a rather unattractive physical appearance, and then maybe through attempted compensation with obsessive and aggressive behaviors toward same for acceptance, that further alienated him; his self image declined to such a low that he finally had enough and acted out. An extremely sad case that turned into a tragedy of horror.
If this entity does not seem to think He is a man then do not feed or give him water. He will change his mind quickly as the Guards ask him “tell us if you are a man and we will feed and give you water” as they do not have to provide feed or water to anyone that is not male or female.
I have bad news & then good news for flaming leftists aching to use this event to slander, yet again, patriotic conservatives.
Bad news: the murdering prick uses the telltale leftist ethos of picking a “personal pronoun” – NOT a construct of normal Americans i.e. conservatives. (Only idiots like Kamala Harris embarrass themselves by using such ridiculous terms)
Good news: the flaming punk’s name will end up on mail-in ballots in battleground states – ensuring he still votes straight democratic.
He minds me of Zandar from the G.I. Joe Cartoons he could disguise himself as anyone including Alien but gives himself away with Snakeyes spots his carton of Milk
The USA is in Satan’s grip and will have a very hard time trying to break free and at this point it looks doubtful that it will. Abominations like crimes against nature and abortion and abuse and mutilation of children cry out to God for vengeance. The Demon demands more and more evil at every turn and will never stop.
The British government has already put its foot down about the surgical mutilation of minors in the name of “gender confirmation”: it is child abuse.
This is quite remarkable good sense on the part of lame-duck politicians
Rule Britannia – for once !
So that’s what a few buttstrokes to the head looks like in real life. Practiced it, but TG never had to do it. I hear the Vet that took him down wasn’t too concerned if he lived, as long as he was stopped(sound priority), but I think he was holding back a little. I can see why leftist doofus was so groggy at his first hearing though, lol. Hope he never recovers the ‘sensibilities’ to think what he did was okay.