Desire and delusion didn’t do diddly to Dylan Mulvaney’s DNA

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Bless Dylan Mulvaney’s heart. I don’t mean this in a snarky or dismissive way. I mean it in a way that offers compassion and an embrace of reality. With respect for his determination, Mr. Mulvaney is attempting the impossible.

Scientifically and biologically speaking, no matter how many hormone treatments and surgeries he goes through, the chances of him becoming a woman are equal to his becoming Audrey Hepburn. Zero and zero.

The man is hardwired to be a man. His maleness is as deep as it gets. It’s in his DNA. It’s molecular. In truth, no amount of want to can make him a woman. Conversely, the same goes for Elliot Page, formerly Ellen, regarding her desire to be a man.

In truth, Dylan and Elliot are talented, charismatic, beautifully-created people who’ve been hoodwinked by desire and delusion. Neither can do diddly to change who they are, who they’re made to be.

Deepening the delusion

What is our responsibility to those who desperately want to be something they’re not? Should we enable them to pursue irreversible medical procedures with a “You do you” or “Follow your heart”? Do we do like Kamala Harris and salute Dylan’s courage to live authentically.

What happens when Dylan and Elliot wake up in 40 years and wonder what in the world they did to themselves? Lest this seems like an overreaction, consider people who regret getting botox or breast enlargements or chest implants. Why wouldn’t many who undergo gender reassignment regret something that’s irreversible?

The suppressed truth is that many “trans” people do regret their genital mutilation and hormone treatments. As they age and their bodies react to radical attempts to re-gender themselves, they deeply regret what they’ve done medically.

And for what? For an absolute lie. In truth—literally—transgenderism is a delusion. It’s an absurdity made possible by our seemingly modern understanding of truth. Here’s the hitch: One’s “truth” is utterly useless when grappling with a world built on immutable laws.

In transgenderism, subjective truth seeps into the ironclad realm of reality. When it comes to realizing one’s transgender truth, reality is rendered meaningless. Desire is everything.

Since the tragedy of the school shooting in Nashville, the de-gendering delusion—and its enabling—has deepened dangerously. Last Thursday, protestors descended on the Tennessee capitol to decry our collective transphobia—our “fear” and rejection of the impossible.

Incredulously, protestors held up seven fingers to symbolize the six victims of Audrey Hale’s shooting spree. Six plus Audrey, you see. According to them, she is a victim. A society that fears transgenderism victimized her.

Making victims of victimizers

Audrey Hale was a shy girl with a beautiful smile who stockpiled guns and ammunition. Reportedly, she hid them from her parents while undergoing emotional counseling. Then she exploded in a suicidal shooting spree.

She murdered six people, three of whom were children. How did pundits handle this story? After correcting themselves for gendering and misgendering her, they focused on Tennessee’s recent legislation that makes it more difficult for minors to get gender reassignment treatment and surgeries.

Partisan editors and journalists routinely spin such measures as “anti-trans.” They claim that trans people are being denied care. Manifoldly worse, they lend legitimacy to people who called for a “Trans Day of Vengeance.” And they label those who embrace biological reality “transphobic” and “alt-right.”

Media members suggest that intolerance may have played a role in Audrey Hale’s decision to kill children—the intolerance of people like Hale’s Christian parents.

Did legislation and parenting push Audrey to murder and seek suicide by cop? Did she truly think she had no other option? The victimizer was also a victim, you see. What serious society considers a 28-year-old who guns down six people a victim of her own crime?

Rogers and Rowling are right

Mister Rogers was right.  So is JK Rowling. No amount of desire—no matter how fervent—can make a boy a girl. Either notion would be laughable in any other reasonable time in history.

Sadly trans people feel like they belong to a gender other than the one they’re “assigned” at birth. They disagree with their own bodies, with self-evident norms for one of two genders. They feel like members of a different gender. Some women want to be men and vice versa.

Thankfully, desire is not enough. It can’t be. No matter how deeply Audrey Hale wanted to be a man, she could never alter her DNA blueprint. Even had she undergone hormone treatments and surgeries, she would’ve only succeeded in masculinizing herself.

A natural body—male or female—is beautiful. A butchered one is tragic.

“I wanna fly like an eagle,” sings Steve Miller. But no matter how much he wants to fly to the sea, he can never be a bird. He’s a human being and a talented musician. He’s also a man—genetically and deep in his DNA.

Dylan Mulvaney is a popular singer, actor and influencer. He exudes charisma. But though he can look somewhat like Audrey Hepburn, he can never share her gender. He’s a feminized man. Nothing can change that genetic fact.

Should we affirm people for what they want to be rather than what they are? That’s the worst thing we can do. We should affirm them—as they’re made to be. There’s nothing toxic or hateful or fearful in affirming someone as he or she is and will always be. It’s not toxic to accept reality and reject fantasy.

Here’s what’s toxic to any society:

Toxic transgenderism

It’s toxic to denigrate courage by misapplying it to delusion and dismissing the reality that someone desperately needs mental and emotional care.

It is toxic to embrace someone’s delusion in order to pander and profit. Anheuser-Busch making Mulvaney a spokesperson for Bud Light is tasteless and tacky. It’s also poor marketing.

It’s hard to imagine their blue-collar base being energized by a dude in a dress sipping a Bud with delicately gloved hands. It looks like a bad move and a willful ignoring of their target audience.

It’s toxic for politicians to welcome a deluded social media influencer to the White House and enable him with a gushing letter of congratulations for his pretend womanhood while championing the “rights” of biological men to crush the hopes and dreams of female athletes.

It is toxic to subject women and girls to the predations of men who prowl in public restrooms and who derive sexual arousal and satisfaction from fulfilling fantasies as make-believe women. In truth, transgenderism, for men, is inextricably tied to sexual fantasy.

Gunning for guns

It’s toxic to use school shootings to target the Second Amendment freedoms of law-abiding Americans by pretending (or deluding oneself) that inanimate objects with metal and muzzles kill anyone independent of evil people aiming and pulling triggers. It’s also toxic—and divisive—to demonize good people with guns.

It is toxic to resist those who call for security guards in schools to dissuade killers like Audrey Hale. Especially if reports are accurate that she avoided one school as a potential target because it had armed security personnel.

It’s toxic for congressional representatives to tweet memes of people holding weapons and claiming to protect trans people from transphobes who wish them harm.

It is toxic to subject a society to the biological absurdity that insists that men and women can swap genders through medical modification. It’s tyrannical to try to force people to not only accept the trans delusion, but to celebrate it.

It seems cynical, self-serving and political when a political party ignores incontrovertible truths regarding gender and helps facilitate an entirely new victim group while refusing to protect children from trans ideology—and women.

It is indeed a strange new world we find ourselves in—and not a brave or compassionate one. Dylan Mulvaney and Elliot Page should be loved and offered help, not enabled. A compassionate society embraces people, not delusion.

Abortion in a pill: America’s convenient killing of its unborn IS America

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“Health secretary slams abortion pill ruling as ‘not America’”

When I read this headline, I felt a flicker of hope. For an absurd moment, I thought our health secretary had come to his senses and realized that providing women with pills to kill their babies is ‘not America’—or any other nation in a moral world.

50 years ago, an American health secretary would be as appalled as the vast majority of Americans would be by the notion of aborting unborn babies for virtually any reason, let alone for convenience. “Safe and rare” was a lie in 1974. The lie would laughable today, if it weren’t so damnable.

Clearly, abortion is never safe for unborn children. It was relatively rare when it was done to save a mother’s life, not to save men and women from the life-changing consequences of their sexual freedom. The truth is that the vast majority of unwanted children are aborted to avoid unwanted responsibility.

What about rape and incest victims?

According to a 2004 Guttmacher Institute study, the percentage of women who said they were seeking an abortion after being raped was one percent. Those seeking abortion as a result of incest was .05 percent. The study also found that these numbers haven’t changed appreciably between 1987-2004.

The health secretary is right—providing pregnant women with abortion in a pill to kill their babies is America. Sadly, it’s our world. It’s what we’ve become. We’ve embraced the lie that unwanted children are better off dead.

The health secretary is outraged not because any woman’s health is actually endangered by a judge’s ruling. He’s outraged because our sexual freedom is at stake. In his America, we must be able to end a life in order to preserve a lifestyle.

Instead of focusing on phantom rights to abort unwanted children, our health secretary should safeguard the health of those are routinely—and conveniently—denied their health and freedom.

The Respect for Marriage Act disrespects marriage and family

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At first blush, the Respect for Marriage Act seems reasonable and fair—even needful. After all, its decency is in its name. What’s in a name? In this case, everything. When you read the bill, you’ll realize its name smacks of a marketing trick, a Machiavellian ruse.

In truth, the Respect for Marriage Act will federally force respect, not for marriage, but for the redefinition of marriage, created by the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing gay marriage .

In their rush to rush to codify gay marriage federally and force states to recognize same-sex marriages, the bill’s backers fundamentally disrespect the institution. Worse, they further fray the tenuous fabric of the family, which will surely hurt children the most.

The Respect for Marriage Act, known as the RFMA, was named and written to assure quick passage before democrats lose the House of Representatives. Its disingenuously clever nomenclature makes it more difficult to vote against. After all, if one does, isn’t he or she disrespecting marriage?

Apparently, 12 republican senators considered this question and chose to support the bill. To be fair, they may actually think the RFMA is fair and needful legislation and that it respects marriage. Does it?

Is marriage respected when one of its most essential functions is removed?  If one views marriage as simply a way to seek happiness and not necessarily for procreation and family building, a redefinition makes sense logically, but not practically—or morally.

This is not all the Respect for Marriage Act gets wrong—or right—depending on one’s cultural goals.

Targeting traditionalists

The RFMA green lights litigation against virtually anyone who opposes the redefinition of marriage. For example, photographers, cake makers, church leaders, and faith-based nonprofits who refuse to participate in same-sex weddings can be sued despite their conscientious objections.

Concerning nonprofits, those that operate based on traditional marriage values stand to have their tax exempt status revoked for discrimination.

What about states that do not accept any other definition of marriage other than between men and women? When this bill becomes law, they could face federal repercussions because the RFMA requires that all states recognize same-sex marriages regardless of their positions on traditional marriage.

The RFMA also endangers faith-based social-service organizations that work with the federal government. If they challenge provisions of the act in court, the hill to winning their he cases based on religious freedom and free speech will become that much steeper.

Additionally, objections need not be faith-based. A secularist can respect several millennia of precedent for traditional marriage, based on common sense and the complimentary natures of men and women, and consider same-sex marriages far less beneficial to society. Is this disrespect for marriage?

What the RFMA is not

The Respect for Marriage Act is not a codification of Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Supreme Court invented a constitutional “right” to same-sex marriage—as they did for the “right” to abortion in Roe v. Wade.

Backers of the bill portray it as such in order to ensure smooth sailing through the house and senate. They hold that the Obergefell decision settled the argument. It did not. Many Americans, as with Roe v. Wade and abortion, are not in favor of same-sex marriage.

Because the constitutionality of same-sex marriage is founded on a phantom, the issue isn’t any more settled than the right to abortion was. If it is indeed settled, why the rush? The RFMA is being whisked through congress out of fear that the Supreme Court could overturn Obergefell.

Who will suffer most?

Children. Eons of human history bear witness to the essential importance of traditional family for the healthy development of children. Science, common sense and millennia of experience unequivocally show that children do best with fathers and mothers.

The family is vital to any healthy society. Is it any wonder that crime, drug use, poverty, and now gender confusion—virtually any and all relatively recent ills of American culture—stem from the denigration of the family?

The undeniable truth is that a man and woman, designed and created with complimentary strengths, give children the best shot to grow and develop into healthy, happy adults. All one need do to affirm this self-evident truth is to honestly contrast and compare the health of society from decade to decade.

Sadly, the Respect for Marriage Act is a further slide down the slippery slope. It’s dishonest and destructive. A more apt and respectful name would be the Redefinition of Marriage Act.

No matter its name, if the RFMA becomes law, its provisions will endanger those who hold traditional marriage values and deeply hurt families and children. It’s is simply a misguided attempt to ensure “fairness” based on yet another redefinition of an institution that underpins all healthy societies.