The Transgender Emperor has the wrong clothes. Caitlyn Jenner is not a female. He is Bruce Jenner who has a serious complex psychological, emotional, and spiritual problems that sex-change surgeries and medication cannot treat. Jenner et al are at odds with nature and nature’s God. Miserable under the effects of the fall, instead of recognizing the true source of discontent (and the true solution: God the Son incarnate), they blame the Creator, shake their fist at him, and go to work to reorganize themselves and all of society with them.

One of the first rules we learned in kindergarten was that the girls’ bathrooms were for girls and that the boys’ bathrooms were for boys. Fifty years later, apparently, everything has changed. Now, anyone who insists that what we knew to be true 50 years ago, what we knew to be true for thousands of years, what we knew from common (shared) human experience, from nature, is to be considered a bigot. Insisting on this difference is considered by some to be so heinous that they are threatening economic boycotts of the state of North Carolina, who recently re-asserted the traditional policy. Aging rockers Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr, to name two, have cancelled an upcoming tours to North Carolina in protest of the law. A recent video interview of some representative university students highlights the problem. Political correctness tells them (and thus they told us) that we must regard a person as belonging to whatever gender he or she chooses. To illustrate the absurdity of this position, the interviewer asked the students if they were willing to regard him (a 5′ 6″ Caucasian) as if he were a 6’5″ Asian. They hesitated. Why? Because it was obviously contrary to fact. At a certain point even politically correct university students had to draw a line, they had to stand boldly for the proposition that their sense experience is generally reliable and that sense experience informed them that their interviewer simply was not a 6’5″ Asian man.

Why, then, do they capitulate to the demand that we regard males as females and vice versa? Politics and rage. They have learned to survive in a radically, if selectivelynominalist environment, in which the relation between the sign male or the sign femaleand the thing signified as been broken. It does not take very many encounters with an enraged LGBT advocate or very many strident lectures from a prof or very many warnings from the university administration about creating a “hostile environment” or stories about kangaroo courts in which students are charged of offenses against political correctness to convince a 19-year-old to talk nonsense for the sake of getting a degree. That’s just the politics of intimidation and rage. “Affirm my self-identity or face my rage.”

Consider the widely used notion “gender assignment” as in an article in Medical Daily: “Transgender individuals do not have any sex hormone abnormalities that would lead them to identify with the sex opposite to the one they were assigned at birth.” There are four prima facie problems with this sentence:

1. There is no clear, unambiguous, fixed, agreed, or objective definition of “transgender.” Advocates more or less admit that transgender is as transgender says. So a 5’6″ Caucasian may not identify as as a 6’5″ Asian but a male (e.g., Bruce Jenner) may identify as female. Here we have a medical publication discussing an ostensible category of persons for which there is no objective definition. This is nothing if not a tour de force.
2. The article concedes that one of the claimed biological foundations for the very category does not exist. One of the pioneers in the advocacy for transgender people, Paul McHugh, has rejected his earlier position. This was never, he says, a problem of physiology but of psychology. People who seek to present themselves as belonging to the opposite sex have a psychological disorder. In this case, the North Carolina law (and others like it) is protecting us from the mentally ill who are seeking to use the wrong bathroom. How is that a cause for outrage?
3. The very phrase “gender assignment” is nothing less than a lie. It creates the impression that the physician, at delivery, arbitrarily assigns a sex to an infant. He does nothing of the sort. Obviously you and I do not remember our own births. In case you have not been present at the birth of a child since, let me tell you how it goes.

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