In this two-part article, I examine the claim that trans women are the same as biological women. I consider the impact of that claim on the right of biological women to “be seen.”
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t marvel at the growing velocity of the absurd as it penetrates the heart of our civilization’s most essential beliefs. The latest victims are biological women who are the glue that holds society together.
If you wonder why woke fascism has targeted women, remember that historian Ariel Durant said, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” We are well on our way.
Banish women, and you abolish Western civilization and the family, which is its foundation. Abolishing women by symbolically substituting trans women in their stead is the same as replacing reality with Japanese Kabuki theater.
Therefore, it’s time to review the fundamental nature of humanity. Let’s start with the basics. Painful, though, that might be for some.
A Shocking Reality
There are two sexes, male and female. Some people are uncomfortable with this, but that’s how it’s been since before our ancestors climbed down from the trees. Heterosexuality, the biological norm, is based on two sexes working together to continue the species.
Men and women are biologically different and fulfill different genetic and evolutionary roles vital to the survival of the human race. These differences evolved over hundreds of millions of years. We ignore biology at our peril.
But the left insists that our mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives are not actually women. Women can now have a penis, which upends reality. Millions of years of human biology and behavior have been dropped into the murky depths of the woke abyss where all facts are submerged in the absurd.
Sociology Versus Biology
Left-wing sociological theories like “social constructivism” purport to justify the new rules. It claims that reality depends primarily upon our social perceptions, not biology. In effect, we can choose our own reality. This alleged social malleability is the foundation for the left’s attack on biologically based human sexuality.
Socially constructed fluidity is used to redefine the sexes. Women have been expelled, or at least demoted, from their central role in society. Consigned to being unpersons. Undefinable somebodies without rights.
We are told (ordered and brow-beaten) multiple times daily that biological men can be socially (and physically) reconstructed —transformed— into “real” women. Inevitably this presumed transformation leaves biological women without a place to stand. (Where is our modern-day Rosa Park ready to resist being shoved to the back of the sexual bus?)
Reality Stares Us in the Face (But you have to open your eyes)
Contrary to left-wing theories, doctors don’t arbitrarily “assign” sex at birth. For centuries doctors and midwives delivering babies couldn’t help but recognize the physiological clues nature put literally right under their noses. Unless tainted by woke madness, obstetricians follow the unavoidable signs of biology associated with the birthing process. Their observations recognize a complex biological fact based on our DNA.
Not surprisingly, most parents (please excuse their political naivete) instinctively understand this simple equation: penis = boy, vagina = girl; therefore, most raise their children accordingly. This now-forbidden practice of raising children as boys or girls according to their sex can be found across thousands of cultures over thousands of years. It is the primary basis of human civilization and culture.
A Psychological Imperative
What remains is a psychological issue. That’s where gender comes into play. Some people prefer partners of the same sex. Some go further and wish to assume the whole panoply of “female” or “male” roles by dressing and acting like a member of the opposite sex. They aim to fulfill a psychological desire to be/become a woman (or a man) or some variation on the theme.
Evolutionary biology explains why most women desire to get pregnant, give birth, and raise children. Women have, in full measure, the innate imperative of the human race to survive and reproduce. It’s literally embedded in their genes and is the origin of their historic role in human society. Men have their equivalent. Psychology explains why trans women may have similar desires or fantasies.
Psychologically trans women want to be accepted as biological women. But the existence of biological women is a substantial emotional, legal, and social obstacle to fulfilling their goals. The result is that the psychological and political ambitions of a relatively small number of people have demoted biological women to an indeterminate group whose very existence is an embarrassment to the trans movement.
But what good is the transformation from one sex to another unless one’s desires are validated by society? And that is the essential, gritty, upsetting part of the trans activist agenda. This is why pronouns have been transmuted into symbols of transformation and why we are ordered to ignore the evidence of our eyes. The expectation is that ordinary people must participate in the new agenda regardless of one’s own beliefs. Our job is to validate someone else’s sexuality. If you don’t accept the narrative in full, you are showered with nasty names or fired from your job. Or worse.
Continued in Part Two…