We have an enemy and the enemy wants our children. I know people with gender dysphoria. I also know the data: there is zero evidence that gender reassignment means that more of these people: sons, brothers, aunts, sisters… are alive. The death rate (suicide) does not go down after reassignment.
I also know that monkeying with hormones has risks. The psychological consequences of hormonal contraception (mainly depression) is common, as is the death rate if (cardiovascular risk) if you stay on the combined contraception into your fourth decade.
We have bodies, and our bodies have limits. Anyone who does crossfit, or runs, or does any sport knows this. But our enemy thinks we can make ourselves Olympians by wishing. [1]
Post-Christian man views his body as a tabula rasa—a canvas on which to express his identity and exert his will. In fact, the more contrary to nature one’s new self is, the more “authentic” it can claim to be. The recent mania for tattoos and piercings is a case in point. The desire to be free of the human condition and its limitations has ancient roots. It has taken Gnostic form in both the ancient and modern worlds. The Gnostic impulse rejects physical reality as evil. It seeks a higher, hidden knowledge—available only to an elite—in its quest for personal salvation. Animated by this knowledge, the Gnostic approach creates a kind of magical reality that refuses to admit conditions that resist the human will.
Today’s transgender crusade can be seen as the latest manifestation of this denial. It is inherently authoritarian, as other latter-day Gnostic projects have been, because it has to be. Nature and common sense oppose it. In the “Gnostic dream world,” as Eric Voegelin once put it, “non-recognition of reality is the first principle.” Critics who persist in drawing attention to reality must be discredited or silenced. Otherwise, the Gnostic fantasy world crumbles.
Soviet authorities silenced dissenters with late night knocks on the door. In the U.S., the tool of choice is weaponized civil rights. Critics of transgender ideology are denounced as bigots—guilty of the only sin left in our post-Christian world. In this way, the transgender movement’s true believers end reasoned debate, seize the moral high ground, and clear the stage for heart-tugging anecdotes of suffering and suicide, which they use to win sympathy and public support. At the same time, by claiming the mantle of civil rights, they enlist the power of the state to impose a political and cultural agenda.
Today, transgender advocates are creating a Potemkin Village—built on hormones, surgery, and chest-binders—to solidify the illusion on which their magical reality is based. By demanding that others employ “preferred pronouns,” they pervert language, using it not to communicate truth, but to advance their program—the hallmark of propaganda.
Weaponized civil rights. You cannot question Maori who scream racism, even if there is a reasonable chance that their family is in a gang. You will be abused. You will be called a bigot.
Meh.
You are going to need the Stasi. You are going to have to shut down servers — in other countries.
The correct response to these new civil rights is scorn. Contempt. Satire. Not appeasement. We have cultures to restore and souls to win. It is a not a time for defeat.
After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
(Joshua 1:1-9 ESV)
Israel disobeyed God in two ways: they did not conquer all the land. The land promised extends from Sinai to the Euphrates. Under Solomon they had hegemonic control of most of this, but they had fallen into the second trap. They had become syncretic, practising the evil religions of the pagans around them.
And the Transgender is a pagan at best, a gnostic at worst. Pagans do not deny natural law, the gnostics do.
And they use broken bastards, dealing with desires that cannot be fulfilled, as shock troops.
This narrative will not end well. Do not be part of it.
Meme it instead.
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Hat tip to Scott, who linked to the quote on the Borg.
Most kids who want to play with the girls or boys stuff should be allowed to do it. Kids are allowed to play. Since I belong to the last generation where most kids had brothers and sisters, you got dragged into the girly stuff because your sister would beat you up. The girls played in the mud as well: working out at a fairly young age that boys are stronger. A certain amount of non stereotypical play is normal. Fantasies are normal. Don’t medicate them.
Second point: there is very little evidence medications help most psychiatric conditions (exception being severe ADHD) in early to mid childhood. After adolescence, some more data. The correct approach is family therapy or behavioural therapy.
Final point: we shame my profession for medicalizing dissent in the soviet era (“Sluggish schizophrenia”) but we now demand we medicalize and treat the normal strains of life. No. There are enough people who are broken and mad, and I’d rather help them.