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As Transgenderism Becomes the Next Big Thing, Let’s Remember What Sexual Revolutionaries Used to Believe
The cultural revolution spearheaded by the Left didn’t end after Obergefell (not that anyone expected it to). While polyamory is very likely to be one of its next phases, the next two big steps — both presently ongoing — appear to be the replacement of religious liberty as a social right with freedom of worship as a private right and the transgenderism revolution. This is a big deal and worth our attention. As Maggie Gallagher reports in National Review:
New York’s Andrew Cuomo, and the governors of four other states, are banning official travel to Mississippi.
Charles Barkley is asking the NBA to take the All-Star Game away from North Carolina. PayPal is cancelling plans to expand there. And more than 100 corporations are attacking North Carolina over a bill protecting women from having to share bathrooms with transgender biological males.
Meanwhile the president’s administration has unilaterally redefined the gender-discrimination provisions of Title IX so that its rules forbidding gender discrimination now forbid “LGBT discrimination.” Meaning: Your daughter must shower with transgender biological males or else her school district will lose all federal funding.
Before we are all shoved into this brave, new, crazy world, let’s take a glance backward.
There used to be a fundamental moral principle on which the proponents of each successive wave of the permanent sexual revolution would rely: You have the right to engage in whatever sexual activity (or take up any sexual lifestyle) you like, so long as you don’t hurt anyone else or violate another’s rights.
This is the principle I formerly called “sexual libertarianism.” Later I called it “sexual libertinism.” In between I called it “sexual narfblarism,” which was by far the funnest term. (Follow that link to locate my reasons for modifying my terminology.)
Anyway, there was a time when it seemed that sexual revolutionaries actually believed that principle. Back then, we could all agree that women and girls have a right to not encounter male genitalia in their restrooms and locker rooms, and to not be seen in these settings by anyone with male genitalia (at least not without consent).
But with the transgenderism revolution, the same movement that used to trumpet that principle is now turning against it–the rights of those women and girls are now subordinate to the rights of certain others to adopt whatever lifestyle they want.
Why?
My guess is that many in the movement never believed it anyway. It was just convenient to their revolution. But I’m open to better explanations.
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If you’re happy fighting with the straw-cisman, don’t let me get in the way, fellers.
I’m saving this paragraph Right Angles!
I agree!
Thanks, guys, and the beauty part is they do this for everything, so you can also use it for assisted suicide and many other issues of the day.
Well, I won’t argue with you there. I withhold agreement, but I sure don’t have the knowledge or time (or, these days, the health) to disagree.
For the same reasons the Allies allowed the Axis powers to be at the top of the agenda. We were attacked–at home, and with a view to our defeat and possibly extermination.
Well, that is true.
Strangely, my mind is inclined to thinking that about the horror genre.
How would this literally accurate point about war correctly translate to an accurate point about a metaphorical culture war?
Again, how does this translate into the context of cultural war? It’s true enough, being the Word of God. But why it should be taken to mean cultural or legal pacifism is beyond me.