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How Much More Trans Madness Can You Tolerate?
Six years ago I posted an article on this site about the excesses of the LGBTQ+ movement and what we might expect in the future if we passively stood by and just tolerated anything they dished up, no matter how outrageous. The very first “conservative” commenter of my post said: “This is one of the most deranged articles the site has ever had. Own it.”
Okay, I own it! I owned it then and I own it now. And so, here we are now, a mere six years later, and we are being told by raving maniacs that being against the chemical and surgical transitioning of children is tantamount to trans genocide. (I have to admit, I never saw this coming.) And it’s not only the crazed trannies themselves telling us this, but also supposedly rational people occupying positions of power in various government bodies.
So yesterday, a Christian school in Nashville was shot up and six innocent people were senselessly killed. Afterward, we found out that the shooter, who was also killed, was a trans man, which is a mentally ill woman who thinks she is and pretends to be a man. And it came out that the murderer had written a manifesto – the details of which have not yet been released – that revealed meticulous planning and presumably the motive. And we know that Tennessee recently outlawed the transitioning of children. So do the math.
And then we found out that radical trans activists were trying, along with Antifa, to organize a “Trans Day of Vengeance” on April 1 outside the Supreme Court in order to fight what they see as trans genocide.
And for several years now, every institution in our country has been promoting the insane and destructive LGBTQ agenda, with the “T” part occupying special prominence. And they all seem to sincerely believe they are virtuous for doing so. And they all seem to sincerely believe that any pushback on any element of the extreme, crazy LGBTQ agenda constitutes fascism and potential genocide.
Hello? Is anybody there? We are in the midst of an all-out civilizational emergency. The lunatics are literally running the asylum. Civilization simply cannot survive the total loss of rationality and the giving over to the most crazed narcissism imaginable. The only pushback we’ve seen so far is the part about transing children, and only in some states. Other states have declared themselves havens for the transing of kids. If all we do is delay children’s transitions until their 18th birthday, in some states, is that enough?
No, I agree with Matt Walsh who said – and I’m paraphrasing – the transgender ideology needs to be burned to the ground and the ashes danced around. Nothing less will suffice. Otherwise, no child will be safe and trans terrorism will be a new normal in our postmodern, post-Christian country.
Or is this post deranged, like the one six years ago?
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This has occurred in other areas too, much earlier than just 6 years ago. Even cochlear implants and other technologies were opposed by some people because they would destroy “deaf culture.” Basically, according to them it would be “genocide of the deaf.”
If you think it’s not an existential threat, Hank, take a look at birthrates and population projections.
The trans thing alone is probably not a big threat to society as a whole. It is the latest manifestation of a twisted set of ideas that are such a threat, I think.
They might say they want that, but once the men become like that, women lose interest: they don’t want to marry them, etc.
Or to use the Mr Spock example again, women are highly illogical.
It’s not helped by some groups/organizations using “trans” to mean “pretend” while others use “trans” to mean “used-to-be.” Which are opposites.
Ibid.
Meanwhile, I hope someone is keeping an eye on “Elliot” Page.
What we have seen here and in any other area where the Left can propagate movements that damage traditional American culture, the Left goes there big time.
We may now be witnessing an intensification that will feed this movement coming from the government abuses of the people during the so-called Covid Pandemic in which a major product of government policy was fear. This is introduced while the long-standing feminist movement is demeaning masculinity as toxic.
Homosexuality may not be compatible with transsexuality and conflict is increasing.
“I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.”
— Bob Hope (1975)
Agree. But how many victims of this suicidal cult “religion” will there be before it stops? Far too many I suspect because we humans stubbornly persist in destructive behaviors if the right incentives exist.
Virtue signaling …
I like it. Thinking outside the box. No deference to psych terminology. New primary categories. Deference to the “normal” in normal behavior. I like it.
I still use the root noun as the “thing” and the prefix to me the modifier. A trans-man is a man, who is pretending to be one (or more) of 57 other things. This is the opposite of how the Left uses language. And I find my way to be not only accurate, but transgressive against the Left’s upside-downing of language.
But don’t you get tired of having to explain YOUR definitions over and over? Seems like that could be as tedious as having your own pronouns.
I don’t explain, I lecture. And anyone who argues the point is not worth conversing with in the first place.
The real language involved always comes down to “Is s/he a biological man or a woman?” In other words, the “trans-” prefix is pointless and it is posturing.
You see defeat where I do not. Surprise, I guess.
The ability of the trans movement to unite left and right against it is pretty impressive. Radical feminist condemn it, Christian conservatives condemn it, parents condemn it, even parents whose kids embrace it want to condemn it but are terrified that they will lose their children in the process.
Meanwhile, conservative governors continue to make inroads in opposition to it, even as the lunacy of the trans movement becomes more obvious every day.
Trans will not destroy us. Homosexuality will not destroy us. A greater danger is the rejection of merit in favor of faux diversity. And even there, it is conservatives leading the charge against it.
Throw him in jail like was done with the J6 protestors. Seems that this incitement is of a similar level. Synergy.
Again, I don’t think so. As perverse and ridiculous as much of the sexual revolution is, a greater danger is the corrosion of our universities and the erosion of free expression. And the general and continuous growth of government, of course.
You could eliminate LGBT and keep everything else, and we’d still be in trouble. Or you could fix the big problems and keep the LGBT fruitcakes, and the nation would be okay.
(Not everyone in it would be okay, of course. Trans promotes real violence and destruction among our youth. That is an unfolding tragedy that will outlast the fad itself.)
Or been on it, too much of it, too long and in combination with who knows whatever else meds to help her cope with whatever her true underlying problems were. There’s far too little acknowlegement of the power of the chemicals the modified are given. Female bodies are not designed for any of it. If we had been, we would already have it.
I’ll dispute the “sexually normal looking” attribution: I think the astounding anger displayed is whlly disqualifying. The protestors must themselves have underlying disturbance. There’s too much fury to be healthy.
My wife gave me a very handy meme to clear up the confusing language about transgender people. Substitute the word “pretend” for the word “trans.” A “trans woman” is a “pretend woman,” and a “trans man” is a “pretend man.”
I think you underestimate the power of the average individual to look away while bad stuff happens, believing it will never happen to them or theirs. I think of them as passive enablers. They are those who vote for the Democrat on the non-partisan school board election, not knowing who they are or how they will consider school policy. They might not tolerate or help their own children mutilate themselves, but they will (and are) tolerating school boards allowing teachers to entice children into sexualized behaviour by means of social emotional learning. Enabling (passively or actively) is a well established leaning of many communities (and families.) I’ve said before: it’s hard to challenge someone doing bad things. Most people just don’t think of themselves as acting on principles. They live in d concrete.
As pointed out earlier, there are several groups/organizations/media outlets/ etc who do the opposite. For them, “trans” is “used-to-be” but they don’t state that up-front.
I hope you’re right, Henry. I really do.
I’m beginning to be distinctly uneasy. The Trans nonsense is of a piece with the BLM nonsense, and the tearing-down-of -statues, and the speech-is-violence, and canceling “conservative” speakers nonsense, all of which is part of the corrosion of our universities and the erosion of free expression.
The common denominator appears to be the furious rejection of reality. And it does seem to me that when half the population refuses to see even the most blindingly obvious realities…we’re in trouble.
they believe they’re fighting on the next civil right frontier. as crazy as that sounds
Also, those groups who are pushing not only opposite-sex but “non-binary” and “fluid” etc, they’re most likely to use “trans” meaning “what they used to be” since “trans-fluid” (transmission fluid?) doesn’t work as much for them. They might say a man is a “trans man” if he’s supposedly becoming “gender fluid” rather than (pretending to be) a “trans” woman.
“Queering” everything, for the progressive bourgeoisie, is the last act of cultural disruption left, and it’s easy. It requires no effort beyond applause and making appreciative nods while reading a NYT culture-beat piece about “queering the steakhouse” or “queering the oil-change industry” or “queering the dental-implant supply chain.” It means ascribing wisdom to a newly-defined subset of marginalized people and cheering them on as they upend those boring old norms that kept us from infusing, say, home-siding replacement with the suddenly-important need to insert freshly-invented concepts of sexual solipsism.
Since this country is a capitalist hellscape that consists of a few slivers of enlightenment hanging on the edge of Jesusland, cheering for anything that lets the air out of the tires of the rube’s Wal-Mart scooters is an automatic sign of enlightenment.
Funny you mention it because a few weeks ago I (for some reason) clicked on this video. I didn’t watch much of it, but I scrolled down to the comments and was actually heartened to see that most of them were not voicing support, but neither were they vitriolic. The tone is largely the sadness of it, and strangeness. I say this because this video is from Entertainment Tonight, and not a conservative/political channel.
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