7 Mar 2017
The political Left is nothing if not laughably
inconsistent. Last night, Hamilton (Ontario) City
Councillors were treated to an earnest presentation of “play-pretend.” The public is supposed to play along with a
class of people who have certain profound psychological disturbances. While playing along was offered as a human
rights issue, it was understood as being an inexpensive form of therapy, a path
of least resistance.
The political Left is forever calling for fact-based this,
evidence-based that, and castigates the political Right for being
anti-science. Except when the facts and
evidence pertain to the science of biology.
Then, suddenly, a whole new scale of values is – without explanation - introduced,
and we are all supposed to look at things differently or else we are evil,
heartless savages.
Here are a few biological and metaphysical facts: male and
female are constructs founded in reality; that the male and female are male and
female not just in macroscopic observables, but right down to the microscopic
chromosomes. No amount of surgery,
hormonal treatment and make-up can alter the fundamental reality that a person
is determined male or female at the moment of conception. Doctors don’t “assign” sex at birth, but name
it based upon observable reality. These
people who have so-called sex identity issues realize what they biologically
are, and they understand that they are trying to be something they are not. That psychological condition has been proven,
so even so-called transgendered people (who are distinct from mere
cross-dressers by degree of earnestness) understand there is game being played.
Here’s another regrettable fact: I wish I were a
billionaire, but no amount of wishing can make it so.
(However, y'all can help me out with my problem if you'll accept my cheques in exchange for tens of millions of dollars worth of goods. Deal?)
Back to reality:
The real question before council is the best course of
therapy for these people: to go along with the game of play-pretend, or to say with
greater love no, you are wrong. Do you
say to a paranoid schizophrenic that his demons are real and that people really
are out to get him - playing-pretend and going along with his fantasies? Or do you react with greater love and say
that he is wrong and needs help?
You have to wonder where the feminists are in this
debate. Feminism destroyed its
credibility by siding with Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Feminists rage on about a non-existent “rape
crisis” on university campuses, but says nothing about the rape crisis that is seizing Europe or the misogynistic tendencies of Islam. Feminism said nothing about the mass sexual
assaults that took place in Cologne and elsewhere in Germany because the perps were Middle-Eastern men. Likewise, feminists say nothing about the
prospect of allowing biological men to use women’s change rooms and washrooms. Feminism began as a movement of the Left,
and feminists today likely find themselves in a moral conundrum: not knowing
which branch of progressivism to support.
Where are the people demanding that the human rights of
twelve year old girls be respected?
There are good reasons why men should not be allowed to use
women’s change rooms and restrooms. Besides
damaging the social order in itself, far graver will be the principle that will
be invoked to justify collapsing before transgenderism and the damage that that principle will do to the social order in future. Nobody seems to care about the good of society
as a whole, but a large number of special interests all want their piece of
social favoritism. Nobody seems to care about the rights of girls not to be exposed to male genitalia.
It is strange to talk about “principles” when discussing
matters of Left wing politics, I know.
To the Left, a “principle” is like a Kleenex tissue, something you use
at the moment out of need, and then throw away at the first convenient
opportunity.
For me, one principle is that twelve year old girls have a
certain right to privacy, and that right overrides the desire of certain men to
have us play-pretend with them. Tough
love is still love, and refusing to go along with the game of play-pretend is
better both for the individual and for society as a whole.
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