All mammals are binary, meaning, there are two kinds: male and female. The term sex is used to signify the concept of this binary divide. Since “sex” is also a term for what we do in bed (or other places), gender seems to be a more convenient way of speaking of such differentiation. Yet it is trendy to say that “gender” is merely a social construct. Sure, we are still born in male or female bodies. That is our “sex.” But “gender” is being used to refer to people’s subjective feeling of what they “are.” Nobody can deny that society has a lot of influence on what we expect man or a woman to be like. The roles were a lot more narrowly defined in the past. Men were expected to be strong, dominant, brave and responsible for “bringing home the bacon.” Women’s roles were even more narrowly defined. A woman was supposed to be a homemaker, look pretty and be nurturing. We were expected to submit to the dominant male. The feminist movement was women’s revolt against the narrow confines of the women’s role.
We’ve come a long way, Baby! Now women can wear pants, get jobs, run for political office and even serve in the military. Homosexuality, the attraction of people to those of their own gender, was once considered a perversion. It certainly wasn’t considered natural or normal. And it was illegal. People in this stigmatized group revolted and started a movement which has been largely successful. We don’t even use the word, “homosexual,” preferring to call ourselves gay. We have come so far, same sex couples can be legally married. There have always been gays who played the role of the opposite sex. We had gay men who dressed like women and usually played the women’s role in bed. They were called queens or drag queens. Lesbians who played the masculine role were called butch, dykes or diesel dykes. The influence of feminism on the lesbian community was to discourage what feminists disparaged as “role playing.” Feminists didn’t approve of the narrow way women were characterized in society and didn’t want lesbians to perpetuate society’s stereotypes of gender in games of butch/femme.
Transgenderism was originally a very small phenomenon that started and developed separately from the gay community. In fact, I had butch friends who proudly declared they didn’t want to be men. They were happy and proud to be women who loved women. I remember hearing about a woman in Sweden named Christine Jorgensen who had a sex change operation. S/he was largely thought of as a freak and not associated with the gay movement. The small trickle with which transgenderism began is now a turgid river. Transgenderism is now an important part of the gay movement which is now called GBLTQ, “gay, bisexual, lesbian, transsexual and queer.” While “homosexuality” is no longer much of an issue anymore, transgenderism has exploded, not only in influence but also in numbers. People are transitioning as early as the age of three. Naturally, there is an adamant backlash to transgenderism and people are raising all sorts of objections.
Critics of transgenderism have said its end goal is to abolish genders themselves. I disagree. Transgenderism actually seems to reinforce gender as a binary phenomenon along with the stereotypes society places on each gender. Society associates certain traits with each gender. We know what is considered girly and what is manly. Overcoming gender stereotypes would enable a boy to be what society calls “girly” and still be fully accepted as a boy. It would validate him as a boy who likes dolls or whatever “girly” thing he happens to fancy without calling him a sissy. The women’s movement has worked hard to expand the things a woman is considered legitimately able to do. I know a 14-year-old girl who is on track to become an engineer. Thanks to the women’s movement, girls are no longer confined to the narrow range of lifestyles they had once been restricted to. There are a lot more male-to-female transgenders than female-to-male. Could it be that the traditional male role is now more restricted than the traditional female one?
A lot of opposition to transgenderism is made by Christians on religious grounds. They consider the two genders the work of God and consider transgenderism an attack on belief that God is in control of life. It is interesting how much this religiously-based resistance to transgenderism is similar to belief in nature. I oppose it on the basis of my belief in objective reality. Transgenderism gives subjective feelings higher standing than physical reality. A baby can be born as a perfectly normal boy and yet, if he feels like a 
girl, his feelings trump the objectively verifiable fact of his sex. It is reality that must be corrected to put it in line with someone’s feelings. Now, the ideologues have even gone so far as to say that the body of a transgender is the kind of body of the gender s/he says s/he is. In other words, if a boy says he is really a girl “inside,” his male body is really a girl’s body since it is the body of someone who insists he is a girl. Physical, verifiable reality fades into nonexistence.
It boggles the mind how such a psychotic denial of reality has achieved so much political power and so quickly. Quentin Van Meter, MD, FCP helps shed some light on this puzzle in this video.
At the Teens4Truth Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, Nov. 18, 2017. A physician who was in the Johns Hopkins Univ. Hospital group where “transgender medicine” was developed describes the lies, bad medicine, and fraud behind that movement. Quentin Van Meter, MD, FCP is a pediatric endocrinologist. He is a Fellow of the American College of Pediatricians and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
How did this movement develop so quickly and become so powerful? As the saying goes, follow the money. The gay rights movement had always been grassroots. Gays were 
really underdogs. I remember when we didn’t even have separate bars for gays and lesbians. Everyone shared one space and there was a camaraderie that I haven’t seen since lesbianism became politically correct, thanks to the feminist movement. Cross-dressing was illegal in New York, where I lived. It was called “impersonation.” One could circumvent the law by wearing three garments pertaining to one’s own gender. Nowadays, the transsexual movement claims to have been the spearhead for gay rights. They claim the famous Stonewall Riots as their doing. This must be news to many gay rights activists who had been there when. Of course, many of the gays in that event were Queens. Maybe that’s what they meant. But it was grassroots activists who started the movement. The Gay Liberation Front was the first of such organizations which 
reached maximum visibility in the Gay Freedom Day Parades. The transgender movement, on the other hand, seems to be very top-down, led by a moneyed elite. Three philanthropists principally responsible are Jennifer Pritzker (a transgender male), whose activities were detailed in another blogpost, Jon Stryker, and George Soros. Much of the philanthropy has been channeled through the Tides Foundation. We 
are talking big money here. Besides the very stunning difference in origin, the new transgender movement has an authoritarian way about which we haven’t seen in the gay rights movement. Although they talk the language of equal rights for oppressed minorities, the transgender movement actually restricts rights of those who don’t want to play ball. As Jennifer Bilek says,
Concurrent with these rapid changes, I witnessed an overhaul in the English language with new pronouns and a near-tyrannical assault on those who did not use them. Laws mandating new speech were passed. Laws overriding biological sex with the amorphous concept of gender identity are being instituted now. People who speak openly about these changes can find themselves, their families, and their livelihoods threatened.
As I mentioned above, this new authoritarian movement speaks the language of Social Justice Warriors. Those who refuse to drink the cool-aid are called bigots, transphobic and, generally speaking, people who would kick helpless little puppies. Today, the women’s movement, of all things, has been standing up to the transgender movement in a way that is reminiscent of objections lesbians had when part of the Gay Liberation Front. Lesbians complained they were overwhelmed by the numbers of gay men in the movement. Today, feminists complain that male-to-female transsexuals is flooding women’s space with men calling themselves women and demanding equal standing in the movement women painstakingly built up. They still have male privilege. Now they are extending that privilege to our spaces. It seems there no place on earth where men don’t have the right to infiltrate. Politics make strange bedfellows. Always have and probably always will.
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Links
- The money behind the transgender movement.
- Who Are the Rich, White Men Institutionalizing Transgender Ideology?
- The Open Society Foundations & the transgender movement.
- Follow the money: Trans billionaire makes new $1 million grant to Chicago pediatric transition clinic.
- Cis Chick Stirs Up Shit. My first blog post about transgenderism
- Money’s Folly. Dr. John Money took a boy who had been the victim of a freak accident in which he lost his penis and tried to raise him as a girl.
- The Transgender Agenda.
- Nothing is True. Everything is permitted.
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