It’s abortion, stupid
By Daniel Moody, GentleMind.
My book The Flesh Made Word (Expanded Edition) is, in the main, a very cold, logical extrapolation of abortion laws. But in the closing chapter, The Denial of Man, I began to point my thoughts in the direction of the undeniable spiritual dimension of the subject matter: what does it mean for man to be living under false law? This essay builds on The Denial of Man and sets out more fully my thoughts on the admittedly very dark and powerful spiritual side of the ideology named ‘gender.’[…]
[…] Finally, an illustration that takes the theory detailed so far and turns it into practice by showing why the state can stop issuing passports. Suppose I legally identify as ‘female’ and never leave home without my passport in my back pocket, and suppose I visit a theatre three days in a row. A lone security guard controls entry to the theatre’s male and female restrooms. On day one, I walk towards the female restroom but the guard, Andy, blocks my path. I show him my passport and he lets me in. On day two the guard is Bob. I head towards the male restroom, and Bob steps aside and lets me in. On day three, I again walk towards the male restroom, but Andy is back on duty. He remembers me from two days ago. So, he blocks my path, and I show him my passport. And then I say: “I am male.”
Should he let me enter the male restroom? Yes. Why? Because my gender is always self-determined. It is too volatile to be contained on a piece of paper. (In theory, I can post off a passport application form on which I identify as ‘female,’ and change my mind before the form arrives!) My self declaration is my official identity, so where there is a difference between documentation and declaration, my mind wins. The state can no longer justify issuing any form of I.D. After all, if my identity cannot be wrong it cannot be right; if it cannot be right it cannot be proven; and if I cannot prove it, then it is unjust to require me to. From here on in, my I.D. is carried not in my back pocket but in my mind.
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