Legal Sex: Exchanging the Truth of Sex for the Lie of Gender

On May 9 of this year, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch stood behind a lectern in a Washington, DC, press conference room and spoke about transgenderism. She said something with which I agree. She said, “None of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insists that a person pretend to be something or someone that they are not.” Now, when I say I agree with Lynch, what I mean is this: I would have used the same words she did. It is just that I would have used them to mean something very different. In fact, apart from her words, I disagree with everything she said.

This instance of communication breakdown illustrates the fractured times in which we live. When I use the word female, I do so in a readily understood way, to signify a particular something. When Lynch uses the same word, she does so to signify, well, something different. Alas, the attorney general and I are two people divided by a common language.

The arduous journey from radical to mainstream took same-sex sexual behavior roughly fifty years. For “gender identity,” the journey can be measured in months. Transgenderism has inundated our society with such rapidity that there has been little time to understand what it is, let alone react to its substance and consequences. It does not help that the associated terminology forever changes, with labyrinthine definitions squirming out of reason’s reach. I suppose that is the intention. We are very much in need of firm, high ground on which to stand and understand.

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