Vincent J. Curtis
18 May 2016
My hometown newspaper today published an Op-ed piece from one "Colleen" McTigue. "Colleen" looks to be a very mannish looking woman writing on the subject of the victory of transgenders for their rights. The piece was headlined, "Settlement is only the start."
RE: Settlement is only the start.
The transgender community are the own worst enemy when it
comes to acceptance.
Most people live in the world of realism. They accept,
in the first instance, what their senses tell them, and they reason on that
basis. The world of transgenderism begins by abolishing the realistic
distinction between man and woman, i.e. anatomy, and then it seeks to re-impose
that distinction when arguing about bathrooms. This self-contradiction in
argument concerns a matter in which the distinction abolished is palpably real
and impossible to ignore. Hence, reasonable people object when presented with these contradictory lines of argument.
The cause of public resistance and hostility concerning transgenders
and bathrooms arises in part from the simultaneous sucking and blowing in
argument from the transgender side. If the difference between man and
woman was one of mind only, as transgenders hold, then why are transgenders so
fixated on physical anatomy?
And why can’t they just amuse the benighted general public
and use the bathroom assigned by convention? It would be so much easier.
From the realist perspective, a transgender is trying to
present a lie. A man “presenting” as a woman is, in a manner,
lying. It is one thing to lie to one’s self, but another to lie to
others. And that is another reason for the resistance to the transgender
agenda: people, in general, don’t like being lied to.
Reasonable people understand that there are troubled
individuals who should be accommodated. But the transgendered community,
in its selfishness, fails to see that fulfillment of their agenda could lead to
greater evils than if it were not. The realist foresees that people with
other sex issues could take advantage of the transgender accommodation.
Women, especially feminists, may not like having anatomical males using their
bathroom facilities, even if they aren’t predators.
The transgendered community is lecturing reasonable people
about their moral right to be accommodated. Some reasonable people
respond by saying, “get real.”
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In its May 19 editorial, my hometown newspaper wrote that it could not image why people would oppose transgender rights. It held that there was scant evidence of sexual predation in women's bathrooms on account of transgenders.
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