You are born a man or a woman, you don't get to choose

Maybe I’m a jerk for picking such a provocative title, or maybe this country is doomed because an utterly self-evident statement of the obvious has become provocative.

In any case, I want to begin by telling you about a grown adult male who, last week, beat a woman to a bloody pulp in front of a cheering crowd. As he gloated about his physical dominance over this outmatched female, media outlets and advocacy groups hailed him as a pioneer.

In fact, beating up women is literally this dude’s job. His latest victim ended up with a concussion, a broken orbital socket, and several staples in her head. Yet, still, the man who stomps women and brags about it on Twitter, is, according to our progressive cultural ringleaders, a hero. A superhero.

I don’t know where he acquired his superpowers — maybe he was bitten by a radioactive NFL player, or maybe he’s just a shameless coward who loves attacking woman — but his noble endeavors put him in the lofty company of men like Ray Rice and Chris Brown.

Only, Rice, Brown, etc., were condemned for brutalizing girls, whereas this man is celebrated.

Well, our hero, Boyd Burton (alias “Fallon Fox”) went overseas and had his penis chopped off, then came back and became a “transgender female” MMA fighter.

Don’t you see? It’s OK for him to break a woman’s face because he likes to pretend he is one.

It’s that simple. Want to give a girl a concussion? Just slap on some lipstick, take a few hormone pills, and you’re good to go. Society won’t merely accept your behavior; it will sound the trumpets and roll out the red carpet for you. It will tell tales of your epic bravery and even hand you a coveted spot in the Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.

Do you understand how this work? It’s cool to pound your fists into a woman’s cranium as long as you feel like a woman while you’re doing it.

Sure, it should come as no surprise to anyone that progressive ‘gender theory’ is a perverse, morally bankrupt, backwards, maniacal force of destruction. You might even say that a man with breast implants fighting women in mixed martial arts matches is a rather minor symptom of the underlying cultural disease.

And you might say that our country is facing too many cataclysms to worry about liberals patting a ‘Transgender Woman’ on the back for clobbering a bunch of Real Women.

I would caution you, however, that this has all gone beyond mere stupidity. We can’t sit on the sidelines and roll our eyes anymore while our nation becomes like a bad dream you’d have if you fell asleep during a gender studies class. Yes, we should deal with ISIS and illegal immigration and the economy and politics and all the rest of it, but sooner or later, sane, rational, clear thinking individuals have to wake up and smell the radical psychosexual indoctrination. It isn’t blowing up buildings or taking your job, but it’s eating away at the intellectual and moral fabric of our society. It’s driving people insane and blinding us to the basic realities of human nature.

We have to understand that no existential threat matters if our civilization collapses in on itself before one of those distant boogeymen gets the pleasure of annihilating it. I often feel like we are perched on the precipice of a giant black hole, and as we dissolve rapidly into it, the sentries scream from their towers that an asteroid is heading this way and it could kill everyone sometime around the year 2067.

The point is, millions of Americans have lost their grip on reality. This is the real crisis, and it’s far more urgent than most of what they’re talking about on the news right now. What were once the fringe ramblings of leftist feminists and homosexual militants are now mainstream doctrines.

Men can be women, women can be men, up can be down, down can be up, and we are all little gods who bend the laws of biology and physics to suit our desires.

Emotion reigns supreme. Our feelings have the power to shift the cosmos and turn what is into what isn’t and what isn’t into what is.

On that note, Mr. Burton’s escapades pale in comparison to the Kentucky couple who recently announced their plan to tell their kids that mom used to be dad and dad used to be mom.

And they are possibly one-upped by the ‘man’ who insists on breastfeeding his newborn, while still retaining the title of man. Trevor McDonald ‘transitioned’ from a female into a male (a statement that makes as much sense as saying a tree transitioned into a toad), but then, as a ‘man,’ she got pregnant. So she, who is a he, gave birth and she, who swears she’s not a she, decided she/he wanted to be a coach for La Leche League, a group for breastfeeding women.

La Leche League initially rejected her request, or his request, or the request of said entity. The organization has long held a ban on male coaches, mostly because that’s just a policy that couldn’t possibly make any more sense. The group treated Trevor precisely as she wanted; it treated her like a man.

But that wasn’t going to fly, was it? This is America, and in America we have the right to simultaneously be what we aren’t and what we are whenever we want, to whatever degree we want, and everyone else must dance to whatever rhythm we happen to be playing at any given moment. ‘He’ promptly went running to various civil rights groups, and eventually La Leche League did what everyone does in these situations.

Suddenly, in a moment of triumph for male breastfeeders everywhere, they declared a policy change. Men can now teach women how to breastfeed, and women who aren’t comfortable with it just need to check their white cisgendered privilege.

This story sparked reporting from actual news agencies who actually published sentences like this:

Last month, after more than a year of internal review, La Leche League International quietly expunged the gendered language from its leadership requirements and now acknowledges that men can, in fact, breastfeed.

And they quoted the spokeswoman of La Leche League, Diana West, who actually said this:

It was thought that only women could breastfeed. Once it became clear it wasn’t as straightforward as that, the policy had to change.

Except it is that straightforward, Diana. Nothing could be more straightforward. By no medical or scientific definition of the terms could a man ever breastfeed. If he is, then he isn’t a he.

Progressives will thump their chests and shout “SCIENCE!” when the subject turns to global warming or evolution, but in the next breath they spin impossible yarns about lactating men and testicular women.

If you question it, they’ll just smirk and smugly tell you to “do your research.”

Do my research to find out whether a man can be a man and still give birth and provide breast milk to an infant? RESEARCH? No, no I certainly will not. I won’t research to find out if men can have babies, for the same reason that I won’t research what sound a horsie makes or how many cookies I’ll have if my mommy gives me two when I already had three.

I studied these topics quite extensively in preschool. The lessons are fresh in my mind.

Of course, the ‘research’ they’re talking about consists not of biology text books but of left wing manifestos and ideological screeds that simply assert a bunch of convoluted notions, and ‘prove’ those assertions by making still more unqualified assertions. That’s how they invented the false dichotomy between sex and gender and used the suspect distinctions to turn fundamental laws of science upside down.

We’re left with millions of people who can’t even write three sentences on the subject of sex without contradicting themselves approximately 14 times.

They say that men and women are the same, but that a man can have a female brain and a woman can have a male brain (which means they aren’t the same).

They say that the physical differences are irrelevant, but that you can become a woman by getting implants, or a man by getting a fake penis (which makes the physical differences crucial).

They say that gender is a social construct, but that a man can be born a woman, and a woman can be born a man (which makes gender an inherent condition).

They say that not all men conform to gender stereotypes, but if a dude wears a dress he’s a woman, rather than simply a dude in a dress. Gender roles are summarily rejected and rigidly enforced, all at the same time.

They say that women shouldn’t be defined by what they wear, but a man can be defined as a woman if he wears what women often wear (which, you’ll recall, are things that can’t define them as women).

They say that a man can feel like a woman and a woman can feel like a man, but they never explain how anyone can feel like something they aren’t. Either feelings contrary to your nature prove that your feelings are disordered, or feelings contrary to your nature prove that your nature is disordered. The latter option has a few problems: A) it makes no sense. B) it makes the solid, real self into a slave subservient to fickle, immaterial emotions. And C) it makes no sense. Also, it makes no sense.

And worse than any of these glaring holes in their dubious, patently unscientific theory is the fact that more and more people passively adopt it, because they lack the fortitude to resist even the most insidious assaults on reason and general intellectual coherence.

Obviously there are extremely rare cases where someone is born with genital defects or other medical anomalies that make their sex more difficult to determine, but these situations have nothing to do with progressive gender theory. Using hard cases to support an untenable thesis is the liberal MO. They obfuscate simple issues by scouring Google for the most radical and extreme hypotheticals, which ultimately have little to do with the principles being discussed.

Obfuscation, after all, is the whole point. In the end, transgenderism, like every other progressive cause, is all about tearing down ‘oppressive’ (read: Christian) social constructs and erecting in its place something designed only to defy what previously existed. It never provides any answers of its own. It destroys the ideological competition through whatever means necessary, and then offers something with all of the downside of the Old Way, but none of its truth, wisdom, coherence, or track record.

Essentially, progressivism — especially when it comes to issues surrounding sex and gender — is like a real estate company that burns all of the houses in the neighborhood and then charges everyone rent to live under a bridge somewhere across town.

And the victims, as usual, are the people who they place the highest on the pedestal. The ‘transgender’ might get a voice fighting for their right to use whatever bathroom they please, but they don’t really need more restroom access. They can pee just fine in their biologically designated toilets. What they need is for someone to help them deal with their deep, profound confusion and unhappiness. What they get from progressives is just more confusion and even less happiness.

We’re often told about the tragically high suicide rate among transgendered people, and the immediate (and completely baseless) assumption is that mean Christians are responsible for it because they go around bullying various sexual minority groups. Somehow, nobody ever stops to contemplate that, perhaps, progressivism is driving these people in that direction because, rather than treating the underlying disorder, it tells the ‘transgender’ biological man to put on high heels and accept the very thing causing him so much psychological and emotional distress.

To paraphrase Orwell: in a time of universal confusion, stating the obvious is a revolutionary act.

The mother(if you could call her that) of a 13 year old boy in my school district informed the middle school that he attends that he was going to start attending the school as “Rachel” instead of “Brian” in September. The school told her to pound salt and that he will attend as “Brian” or he can get lost. Naturally, she complained to the local newspapers and the schools superintendent.

The superintendent’s answer was to put him in a different school(wow, great choice). Well, needless to say, the velvet mafia got involved and within a day, the superintendent proclaimed that “Brian” can attend as “Rachel”. He folded like a cheap suit. Typical BS!

The mother admitted that the kid suffered from heavy duty anxiety and depression. But, because he is claiming to be a transgender, nobody is going to bother investigating the matter and it’s basically case closed! The mother looks like a moon bat(blue streaked hair and all) and there is no father in the picture. In my opinion, she should be investigated by children’s services because there is obviously something wrong in that household. The kid looked miserable(and ridiculous-make up, dyed hair)and I doubt it’s because he wasn’t going to be allowed to go to school as a girl!

So, instead of saving a kid from a potentially bad situation, they will investigate no further because he is claiming to be transgender and that is ALWAYS to be accepted no questions asked! Now all of the kids in the middle school are going to be subjected to this lunacy because everybody just has to cater to this horse crap without questioning it!

What a crazy upside down world we live in. God help our children!

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