I find the entries on Reality's Last Stand to be refreshingly common sense. The idiocy of the transgender movement and their claims/demands will be rejected by the vast majority of Americans. As a pediatrician, I am especially worried about all the young boys and girls who are caught in the web of peer and social pressure to consider gender fluidity, to their long-term harm.
One salient issue that the general public overlooks is that there are different types of transgender person.
1) There is probably some small number of people out there who genuinely have the medical condition gender dysphoria. My feeling is that it is a tiny number of the so-called trans population. These people are mentally ill and need sympathy, proper medical care, and perhaps most importantly, not to be encouraged in their delusions. The men who have this often want to quietly pass as women and are homosexuals (i.e., they are attracted to men).
2) The second group comprises massive numbers of depressed and heavily online teenage girls who are terrified by bodily changes occurring during puberty and are being assured by the trans movement that they are in fact “trans men”. Who knows why? White guilt might be one thing; this is an easy way to slot oneself into the victim group as opposed to being a blonde Becky in the oppressor group. Perhaps the scale and scope of the online pornography they’ve encountered online since they were children has scared them off wanting to be women.
3) The third group is the political ringleader group: the autogynephiles. These are men who remain nerdishly masculine in their hobbies and interests, often self-describe as lesbian, etc. They display no feminine traits at all, except that they are turned on by the idea of being women.
All these groups have different motivations and nothing really in common apart from being mentally ill. It’s time we stopped considering them all the same thing if we want to put an end to this.
Personally, I am more likely to believe it’s possible humans suddenly appeared 6 or 10 thousand years ago, and one dude rose from the dead a little over 2,000 years ago, than I am to believe that any and every dude born with male genitals and a male body can somehow “feel” or “believe” their way into being a woman or that it is just and moral to tell my 11yo daughter to strip naked in a pool locker room in front of mentally disturbed man that “feels” like he is “really” a woman.
The gender activists are now trying to de-stigmatize literal pedophilia. It’s pretty clear a lot of kids get harmed when they are sexualized, used as props for the sexual fantasies of grown men playing dress up, sterilized, genitally mutilated, or sexually abused as kids. Who does it harm for one to believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis?
While I am not a believer in new Earth Theory, I hold more respect for those who hold those beliefs than I do gender ideology activists. I’d also argue the average New Earth theory believer has a far better grip on objective truth/ reality than the average gender activists.
Excellent article. In the absence of ranked choice voting, though a life-long democrat, I will be voting Republican. My liberal friends chide me for being a single issue voter -well if that is what I am, fine - I don't want to live in a world that performs medical experiments on children.
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The most damaging aspect to the left is how the unquestioned and complete acceptance of gender ideologies hampers the legitimacy of organizations which otherwise champion and prioritize progressive agendas. But if these groups can be so out of touch with reality on this one issue, what's to say that their legitimacy on other causes is sound?
Transgender people have a right to live with dignity and respect. Adult transgender individuals should have access to gender affirming treatment, under the guidance of well-qualified physical and mental health professionals. But the complete re-organization of society to validate a non-falsifiable, Cartesian dualism is obviously ludicrous, and will ultimately harm the progressive cause.
Sigh. I tried to explain to a 30-something that gender ideology was going off the deep end. Response was that most of this was not happening at all, but “science” says puberty blockers help people.
Bravo, Bruce Lesnick, for identifying so many of the clear ramifications and dangers of "gender ideology." There are also the ex-wives and ex-husbands, the traumatized sons and daughters of, who are verbally abused, often publicly, and erased as mother or father. Later, the likelihood of wrong sex hormones causing osteoporosis, dementia, cardiac conditions and other ill health put the families in caregiver positions for narcissistic, demanding individuals. Here's a link to my description of female erasure, an experience originating in the early 1990s as my then husband started cross-dressing.
Thank you for this interesting article. You are correct about the ambiguous use of words and the fundamental confusion about discrete sexes. I pointed out some of the misunderstandings from a biological point of view in the essay” “If Aneuploidies = Sexes, Then Two-Headed Turtles Aren’t Turtles.”
I also agree with you that the demeaning tone of the ideologues toward women is reprehensible, and I appreciate you pointing this out, yet again. It is a very important issue that bears repeating.
Your straightforward warning, “it’s time to wake up!” Should be a call to every thinking person. Thank you for this thoughtful essay, Frederick.
The jargon of these people is confusing. Is a "trans-woman" a biological female who thinks she's a male or a biological male that thinks he's a female? I'm befuddled until you get this stuff into practice, and NO, a male convict who thinks he's a female shouldn't be housed with female prisoners.
Good post and love your analogy. Never thought of ascribing this to subject of n=gender ideology but it is apt. I recently applied it to other related items:
A conservative might reply to the points made, quite rightly, in this article belie the fact that progressive thought and policy *always* shoots itself in the foot. The needs/wishes/desires of all the various minorities never perfectly interlock in some intersectual utopia. (Case in point: affirmative action.)
So, just to be our local little conservative for a moment: it is a hard pill to swallow, but the world is not fair, just, and reasonable. It will never be. We can make incremental, local improvements, but we will never succeed in banishing the limits that are given by both nature and society. Utopianism is what underlies leftist politics. However much I disagree with many on the American right, I just cannot sign on to any type of revolutionary socialism.
So yes, progressives are shooting themselves in the foot. Exactly. They've been at it for a long time.
“ 'Progressives' who yesterday chided others for not “following the science” on climate change have today thrown science out the window when it comes to gender ideology. ... they have abandoned any pretense of supporting free speech and civil liberties, supporting instead censorship of those who dare to say the emperor has no clothes."
This. I just don't understand how otherwise intelligent people embrace this fantasy-cult ideology.
I find the entries on Reality's Last Stand to be refreshingly common sense. The idiocy of the transgender movement and their claims/demands will be rejected by the vast majority of Americans. As a pediatrician, I am especially worried about all the young boys and girls who are caught in the web of peer and social pressure to consider gender fluidity, to their long-term harm.
One salient issue that the general public overlooks is that there are different types of transgender person.
1) There is probably some small number of people out there who genuinely have the medical condition gender dysphoria. My feeling is that it is a tiny number of the so-called trans population. These people are mentally ill and need sympathy, proper medical care, and perhaps most importantly, not to be encouraged in their delusions. The men who have this often want to quietly pass as women and are homosexuals (i.e., they are attracted to men).
2) The second group comprises massive numbers of depressed and heavily online teenage girls who are terrified by bodily changes occurring during puberty and are being assured by the trans movement that they are in fact “trans men”. Who knows why? White guilt might be one thing; this is an easy way to slot oneself into the victim group as opposed to being a blonde Becky in the oppressor group. Perhaps the scale and scope of the online pornography they’ve encountered online since they were children has scared them off wanting to be women.
3) The third group is the political ringleader group: the autogynephiles. These are men who remain nerdishly masculine in their hobbies and interests, often self-describe as lesbian, etc. They display no feminine traits at all, except that they are turned on by the idea of being women.
All these groups have different motivations and nothing really in common apart from being mentally ill. It’s time we stopped considering them all the same thing if we want to put an end to this.
Personally, I am more likely to believe it’s possible humans suddenly appeared 6 or 10 thousand years ago, and one dude rose from the dead a little over 2,000 years ago, than I am to believe that any and every dude born with male genitals and a male body can somehow “feel” or “believe” their way into being a woman or that it is just and moral to tell my 11yo daughter to strip naked in a pool locker room in front of mentally disturbed man that “feels” like he is “really” a woman.
The gender activists are now trying to de-stigmatize literal pedophilia. It’s pretty clear a lot of kids get harmed when they are sexualized, used as props for the sexual fantasies of grown men playing dress up, sterilized, genitally mutilated, or sexually abused as kids. Who does it harm for one to believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis?
While I am not a believer in new Earth Theory, I hold more respect for those who hold those beliefs than I do gender ideology activists. I’d also argue the average New Earth theory believer has a far better grip on objective truth/ reality than the average gender activists.
Excellent article. In the absence of ranked choice voting, though a life-long democrat, I will be voting Republican. My liberal friends chide me for being a single issue voter -well if that is what I am, fine - I don't want to live in a world that performs medical experiments on children.
The most damaging aspect to the left is how the unquestioned and complete acceptance of gender ideologies hampers the legitimacy of organizations which otherwise champion and prioritize progressive agendas. But if these groups can be so out of touch with reality on this one issue, what's to say that their legitimacy on other causes is sound?
Transgender people have a right to live with dignity and respect. Adult transgender individuals should have access to gender affirming treatment, under the guidance of well-qualified physical and mental health professionals. But the complete re-organization of society to validate a non-falsifiable, Cartesian dualism is obviously ludicrous, and will ultimately harm the progressive cause.
Sigh. I tried to explain to a 30-something that gender ideology was going off the deep end. Response was that most of this was not happening at all, but “science” says puberty blockers help people.
Bravo, Bruce Lesnick, for identifying so many of the clear ramifications and dangers of "gender ideology." There are also the ex-wives and ex-husbands, the traumatized sons and daughters of, who are verbally abused, often publicly, and erased as mother or father. Later, the likelihood of wrong sex hormones causing osteoporosis, dementia, cardiac conditions and other ill health put the families in caregiver positions for narcissistic, demanding individuals. Here's a link to my description of female erasure, an experience originating in the early 1990s as my then husband started cross-dressing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gIgGPfcN08
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com (recent analysis of WPATHs new SOC8)
Thank you for this interesting article. You are correct about the ambiguous use of words and the fundamental confusion about discrete sexes. I pointed out some of the misunderstandings from a biological point of view in the essay” “If Aneuploidies = Sexes, Then Two-Headed Turtles Aren’t Turtles.”
https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/if-aneuploidies-sexes-then-two-headed
I also agree with you that the demeaning tone of the ideologues toward women is reprehensible, and I appreciate you pointing this out, yet again. It is a very important issue that bears repeating.
Your straightforward warning, “it’s time to wake up!” Should be a call to every thinking person. Thank you for this thoughtful essay, Frederick.
This is superb! It's extremely educational with a clear meaning; it's so factual that anyone who doesn't see the truth lives in dreamland.
The jargon of these people is confusing. Is a "trans-woman" a biological female who thinks she's a male or a biological male that thinks he's a female? I'm befuddled until you get this stuff into practice, and NO, a male convict who thinks he's a female shouldn't be housed with female prisoners.
Spot on! An excellent analysis.
Excellent, sir.
Good post and love your analogy. Never thought of ascribing this to subject of n=gender ideology but it is apt. I recently applied it to other related items:
https://kwnorton.substack.com/p/ouroboros-jack-kerouac-and-the-killing?r=boqs0&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
A conservative might reply to the points made, quite rightly, in this article belie the fact that progressive thought and policy *always* shoots itself in the foot. The needs/wishes/desires of all the various minorities never perfectly interlock in some intersectual utopia. (Case in point: affirmative action.)
So, just to be our local little conservative for a moment: it is a hard pill to swallow, but the world is not fair, just, and reasonable. It will never be. We can make incremental, local improvements, but we will never succeed in banishing the limits that are given by both nature and society. Utopianism is what underlies leftist politics. However much I disagree with many on the American right, I just cannot sign on to any type of revolutionary socialism.
So yes, progressives are shooting themselves in the foot. Exactly. They've been at it for a long time.
“ 'Progressives' who yesterday chided others for not “following the science” on climate change have today thrown science out the window when it comes to gender ideology. ... they have abandoned any pretense of supporting free speech and civil liberties, supporting instead censorship of those who dare to say the emperor has no clothes."
This. I just don't understand how otherwise intelligent people embrace this fantasy-cult ideology.
YES! Liberal Democrat CASA here. Agree 100%.
I strongly feel 'trans' is the identity that now stands in for 'lack of identity,' a developmental issue.
Developmental Trauma, 0-3, leaves dissociation, lack of self regulation, self hatred, numbness/ over-reactivity, poor relational skills, poor sense of self.
"Designated issue" = gender.