Speaking of lives upended
Mother Jones is way into trans ideology.
Three months into President Donald Trump’s second administration, anti-trans hatred has become inescapable for families like Kai’s, even in more liberal states like Connecticut. Parents—many of whom have spent years learning, advocating, and finding ways for their trans or nonbinary child to thrive—say their lives have been upended by a series of executive orders and actions targeting their children’s health care and support at school.
The actions from just the first week of April, gives an idea of the flurry of attacks. On April 4th, the pro-wrestling-executive turned-Education Secretary Linda McMahon launched a Special Investigations Team focused on keeping transgender girls out of girls’ school bathrooms and off
ofgirls’ sports teams.
So…it’s bad to keep boys out of girls’ school bathrooms and off girls’ sports teams?
Are we sure about that? Could we maybe pause for just a minute to think about it? Could we not possibly help kids who are unhappy about being male or female without harming girls? Could we not manage to remember for a single second that letting boys play against girls is in fact not fair to the girls?
And in a proclamation recognizing April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Trump declared that “gender ideology”—an empty signifier for anything related to trans people—was “one of the most prevalent forms of child abuse facing our country today.”
Stop right there, assholes. Much as I loathe Trump, “gender ideology” is far from an empty signifier. You buffoons are purveying it right here in this pathetic reporting. It is indeed an ideology to think and teach that unhappiness with one’s sex equals being the other sex. It does require an ideological bridge to leap from “My kid hates being a boy” to “my kid gets to play on the girls’ teams, thus ruining the girls’ sports.” It does take an ideology to be that coldly indifferent to the wants and needs of the female half of the population.
Well said, OB.
But under trans ideology what is meant by ” learning,” advocating, “finding ways,” thriving,” targeting,” “health care” and “support” is something completely different than normal English usage, just like “man, ” “woman,” “boy,” “girl,” and “science.” Everything they say needs a translation guide to explain what they really mean, and a shovel o unearth what they’re desperately trying to bury.
Ooops.
“…a shovel to unearth…”
By a fortuitous coincidence, I was reading this essay today (“On the ‘Natural Order’ of Things”) by Jane Clare Jones, a prominent left-wing gender-critical feminist.
She has some shrewd comments on the Trumpian sexist right, the gender-identarian left (as personified by that “Mother Jones” article) and how left-wing gender-critical feminists can challenge both factions.
https://culturewarblues.substack.com/p/on-the-natural-order-of-things#_ftnref2