A moral call to arms about the transgender revolution

Some real men Republicans are already doing so. Gov Ron: "...gender-affirming care is a euphemism for disfiguring kids..."

And what does this "real man" think about mutilating adults? If someone believes they are crippled, should doctors in Florida be allowed to cut their legs off? Or if they believe they are blind, put their eyes out?

This trans problem is not principally about children, and if you make it so, you affirm the proposition that the phenomenon in adults is real and that mutilation is acceptable, ethical even.

And once you affirm THAT, you will allow children to be mutilated, because "who says "A" says "B".

The “trans” movement is trying to move society to the position that no one should be helping anyone with “gender dysphoria” to get out of it.

The "trans movement" is part of a larger conspiracy to make it impossible to believe in absolutes. Saying "men can give birth" and women can have penises" is the same as Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four being forced to believe that 2+2=5 (or 4 or some other number, or all at the same time). As Theodore Dalrymple put it:

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

Are you mad that Desantis is being frank about child mutilation?

Not at all.

I'm saying that if he, or you, or anyone else accepts ADULT mutilation of the genitals ("but just not the legs, or the eyes"), you have surrendered completely using some kind of libertarian nonsense philosophy.

Once you grant that it is POSSIBLE that "Bruce Jenner is really a woman", you have to make unprincipled exceptions to prevent child mutilation.

Mutilation is wrong BY DEFINITION, not because of "lack of consent".

Some guy in Germany was acquitted of murder because the man he killed and ate consented to be killed and eaten.

As I said before, "Who says 'A', says 'B'".

Mutilation is right, or it is wrong. DeSantis hasn't said it's wrong, he says it's wrong BECAUSE CHILDREN CAN'T CONSENT.

That's not nearly enough.

Desantis is the most manly politician out there on the Right side of this topic. He is doing good works. He said nothing wrong in the quotes above.

Yours is a false premise.

Being the best politician in American regarding opposition to child mutilation is absolutely NOT evidence of acceptance for adult mutilation.

Also, the 'A says B' stuff sounds kinda common core-ish.

“The “trans movement” is part of a larger conspiracy to make it impossible to believe in absolutes. “

Yes. Also true.

But those not understanding that can learn, understand and agree to less comprhensive arguments against it.

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