As conservatives, we must insist on telling the truth

 Gabe Kaminski makes the point that Conservatives Who Call Caitlyn Jenner "She" Forfeit the Truth. He is absolutely right. Perhaps I may seem to hard on this. After all, doesn't everybody tell the occasional little white lie? Perhaps so, but in this day when society seems to be going insane, and so many people insist that things that simply are not true are in fact the new truths, we must insist on reality.  And you know that this is a concerted effort to break society, so we, as conservatives can not afford to call a man who has been in the public eye for decades a woman.

Some on the political right, particularly those who are more fond of fusionism or libertarianism, are quick to pump the brakes on using a biological pronoun. It is rude to the person and it is important to be friendly, the person will often plead. If they wish to be called by a false pronoun, I will honor that request. It’s a free country! One conservative I spoke with said using inaccurate pronouns for transgender identifying people is being “respectful” and “every single conservative” ought to do so.

This could not be further from the truth. In actuality, it is disrespectful to both you and the transgender person to use the anti-science pronoun. It demeans your knowledge of reality and perpetuates lies harmful to you and the transgender person, as well as to the rest of society.

Jenner is running as a Republican. This means many conservatives who determine that there are two sexes, and most do, could punch the ticket for his female name in 2022. Yet these voters should not feel obliged to forfeit their intrinsic and prescriptive understanding of sex in order to accommodate another person’s feelings about what sex he or she claims to feel like.

If a person knows Jenner can only be a male or a female, and that he is in fact a biological male, that person is contradicting his own knowledge by referring to the candidate as “she.” One should not have to abandon one’s morals and sanity to appease gender activists, those who have been brainwashed by such ideology, and those struggling with gender dysphoria. Being manipulated into telling what you know to be a lie is not good for anyone.

As conservatives, we must insist on the truth and on reality. It is the only thing worth conserving.