Transgenderism… 12 June 2022

    Transgenderism: Why Stop There?
    Deroy Murdock / April 01, 2022

    “Identifying” as someone who one is not has become all the rage.
If you think you’re somebody you’re not, the whole world is expected
to nod its collective head, if not stand up and cheer.
This is especially true for gender identity, as William “Lia”
Thomas has demonstrated so vividly in collegiate swimming pools.
Unheralded male swimmer William Thomas became NCAA champion female
swimmer Lia Thomas—Shazam!—just by saying so.

    What a cool magic trick.
    Gone are the days when a guy had to put some skin in the game to
pull this off. Or, more accurately, pull something off to get some
skin out of the game; namely, his penis. The old carving-station
requirement for gender transition has gone the way of the rotary
telephone. Today, mere affirmations will suffice.

    “Hey, I’m a girl!” And you are.
    As Yogi Berra might say, if he were alive and not in shock:
“Only in America.”
    Since simple declarations of identity can change people more
swiftly than scalpels, what’s next after the triumph of trans-
genderism?

    Why not transnationalism?
    Visualize Lupita Martinez. She lives in poverty in Honduras. The
mean streets of Tegucigalpa keep her at wits’ end. A crime surge on
public transportation is the last macaw that breaks the branch of
her patience.
    So, Martinez joins a caravan and heads north, to the U.S.
-Mexican frontier.
    When she comes face to face with a Border Patrol agent, Martinez
says the magic words: “I identify as an American.”
    “Welcome home, Lupita!” the federal agent says with a warm smile,
as he waves this Honduran American citizen back where she belongs.

    And why not transracialism?
    Picture Ludwig Von Thannhausen, age 18. He lives in suburban
Chicago with his native German parents who brought him to America as
a baby. He has blond hair, blue eyes, and looks like a young man born
in Oberpfaffenhofen who also happens to be white.
    But Von Thannhausen can’t get enough of things black.
He is obsessed with the Harlem Renaissance. He knows the literature
of Langston Hughes better than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the paint-
ings of Aaron Douglas more than Max Ernst, and the music of Duke
Ellington deeper than Richard Wagner.
    His heroes stretch from Frederick Douglass to the Tuskegee Airmen
to Denzel Washington. He listens to everything from Motown to Par-
liament Funkadelic to Prince to Kanye West.
    He dreams of majoring in black studies at Howard University in
Washington, D.C., a historically black college. In fact, he’s apply-
ing as a black student and seeks scholarships intended for black
applicants.
    Von Thannhausen resembles a recruit for the Aryan Nation, but he
said the secret words: “I identify as black.”
    Who are we to disagree? If that’s his identity, that’s his
identity.
    And if his good grades, decent SAT scores, and impressive base-
ball record land him a spot at Howard, plus a $50,000 minority scho-
larship, then who are we to say that he is not really black?
    But what would we say to the kid who actually is black (you know:
dark skin, dark hair, etc.), applies to Howard, and misses out on
admission, a scholarship, or both? If not for Von Thannhausen, those
blessings would be hers.

    Why not transindividualism?
    Imagine that Bob Glenwood has multiple-personality disorder. He
identifies as Bob Glenwood, but also as Steve Jones, Myron Shapiro,
Jackie Washington, and Concepcion Gomez.
    So, he fills out five voter registration applications and re-
quests five absentee ballots.
    Who are we to say that Glenwood deserves just one ballot? How
dare we disenfranchise the other four people who live inside his
brain? That would be Jim Crow 3.0.

    As these (for now) fictional scenarios show, America will plunge
into ever deeper chaos if we simply let people “identify” as those
they are not and then deprive others of goods and benefits meant for
people who legitimately embody those identities.

    I identify as Walter Cronkite, and that’s the way it is.
D. Murdock
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    So when God created one man and one woman he did it for a reason.
He created races adaptable to their needs and he gave us a list of
rules to follow designed to keep us civil, empathetic, sympathetic,
and capable of loving each other and to multiply.
    I think we need to follow His commands and strive to be like
Jesus, knowing we all sin but should try not to judge each other
but to search for logical common ground.
    May God heal our nation.

Conservatively,
John