Keep Telling the Truth

 By acknowledging so called "transgenderism" as if it is a real thing, we lie, knowing it to be a lie.  And every time we do that, we lose a little bit more of our moral authority.  We become ever more and more demoralized, quite literally.  So, it is good to see that others have picked up on the same theme and are speaking up.

Of course, you should not lose your own moral authority because without it, what credibility do you have?  But it is also true that you do no favors to the "transgendered."  Many will come around to accepting their place in society and the responsibilities that come with that role if they are not encouraged in their fantasy.  Naturally, I do not advocate making fun of them either, for they are more to be pitied.  In any case, people are more persuaded by kindness and understanding.  But being kind is not the same thing as repeating the lie. 

Today, at the American Thinker Michael J. Mueller has an article entitled Transgenderism: Perception and Reality Are Two Different Things.

The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), lists gender dysphoria as a mental disorder; however, society has been programmed to believe that individuals may choose whichever sex they prefer rather than accept the fact that gender is determined at fertilization. No Virginia, X chromosomes cannot be transformed into Y chromosomes, and vice versa. As Princeton University political philosopher Robert P. George put it, “Changing sexes is a metaphysical impossibility because it is a biological impossibility.”

While I don’t care who or what you try to mate with, which sex(es)/species you identify with, or what you call yourself, I do get annoyed when I am expected to accept and embrace your delusion. Publically shaming or “canceling” people for failing to call a middle-aged, woman sporting a crewcut, and testosterone-induced beard “he” is counter-reality. Likewise, not calling a self-professed non-binary they (like I’m supposed to deduce this?), will also get you shunned by the enlightened “woke” crowd.

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Transgendering is a psychological rather than biological matter. Dr. McHugh indicates young boys and girls seeking sex reassignment come with psychosocial issues such as “…conflicts over the prospects, expectations, and roles that they sense are attached to their given sex—and presume that sex-reassignment will ease or resolve them.” People suffering from gender dysphoria need therapists willing to assess and guide them in ways that permit them to work out their conflicts and correct their assumptions. Dr. McHugh believes that “treatment should strive to correct the false, problematic nature of the assumption and to resolve the psychosocial conflicts provoking it.”

Lying to people who suffer from transgenderism to show others how enviably “woke” you are is “virtue signaling” of the highest order that only exacerbates the internal struggle of the girl who thinks she is a guy. This uncompromising acceptance of transgenderism by the virtuous is a renunciation of reality especially when studies show that 80% to 95% of gender-dysphoric children eventually grow out of their dysphoria and become comfortable with their bodies after puberty if there is no hormonal or surgical intervention. Those who undergo sex-reassignment surgery commit suicide at 19 times the rate of the general population and almost double the rate of transgender-identifying adults overall.

My advice? Keep telling the truth.