‘STRIKING’ PARALLELS: What Can an Ancient Roman Cult Reveal About the Transgender Movement? ‘STRIKING’ PARALLELS: What Can an Ancient Roman Cult Reveal About the Transgender Movement?

The Daily Signal ^ | 03/21/26 | Tyler O'Neil

[Adder]

Ecclesiastes says there is nothing new under the sun, and while the transgender movement may feel new and modern, it echoes a cult from ancient Rome—during a “culture war” not dissimilar from our own, according to the detransitioner Forrest Smith.

The cult of Cybele or the Magna Mater, an ancient Roman “mystery religion,” highlighted effeminate men and even included the story of a man getting castrated in a religious ritual.

“I learned about this because it was a piece of rhetoric within my former community that trans people have always existed,” Smith—a man who identified as a woman and went under the knife in pursuit of that identity—told The Daily Signal in an interview before Detransition Awareness Day.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: cult; cultofcybele; rome; trans

[Adder]

Well, sorta...In a broad sense, there could be parallels drawn. A better explanation of the cult can be found here: https://www.theoi.com/Cult/KybeleCult.html

Still, Ecclesiastes is right...

[Dan Zachary]

So they are saying there were mentally ill people back then too? Who would have thought it?

[equaviator]

"What Can an Ancient Roman Cult Reveal About the Transgender Movement?"

Before there was Rome there was Bedrock.

[Uncle Miltie]

Hey trannies!

Keep your perversions, mental illness, and sexual deviancy out of the public square. They are inimical to the public order.

For example, there is no viable solution to the bathroom problem.

Don’t make me pretend that when you show up at the Square Dance as a 6 foot 3 inch pot bellied balding huge sweaty handed with a 5 o’clock shadow, you are somehow a woman! My brain is completely incapable of anything but autonomic revulsion. I’ll just stop going. I’m normal. Virtually all normal men want to punch you rather than dance with you. Go away!

[Pontiac]

In the Cybele myth, the man who castrated himself, Attis, dies. Smith, however, spoke about “life beyond transition.”

Elsewhere in the article it states that the man castrates himself.

Castration is a difficult operation to properly do yourself.

But ultimately castration is going to shorten your life.

I am going to guess that it will take the science of medicine a LONG time to come up with treatments that will replace what nature provides.

If ever.

I suspect that this Trans fad will die fairly quickly and the fact that fewer people will fall for this scam will relegate trans treatment to the orphan category of medicine where no one invest in research for treatments.

It is a sad thing that so many young people's lives are being shortened and that their lives will be filled with pain because of the greed of Liberals.

[Judge Bean]

https://fee.org/wp-content/uploads/ebooks/are-we-rome.pdf

[Ahithophel]

Wasn’t Bruce Jenner involved in a motor vehicle accident on the PCH near Malibu awhile back because of a defective tranny?

[MotorCityBuck]

Well if Ecclesiastes says it’s so it must be true…😴

[Hot Tabasco]

Parallel sentences, clever.

[hal ogen]

There always has been a relatively small contingent who are seriously mentally ill.

[equaviator]

If I were you I would stop going to those square dances, wherever they are. You don't want to have a murder on your conscience for the rest of you life, do you?