Transgenderism is a real and present danger to our children
by Daniel Moody, TCW:
I tend to judge a book by its index. But CJ Atkinson’s Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity? does not have an index. It only has a glossary; so I turned to it to look for two terms: sex and gender. To no great surprise, I found only half of what I sought.
The glossary defines gender as ‘how a person feels in regards to male/female/neither/both/other’. Yes, this is indecipherable; but the term sex doesn’t even make the glossary and this omission is entirely indicative of the book’s raison d’être. Though the human person is embodied as one of two sexes, which we call ‘male’ and ‘female’, this book is unconcerned with who we are. It is concerned only with who we think we are. So sex cannot be admitted into the conversation.
Our backdrop, then, is the neo-Gnostic dreamscape of self-invention.
Intended as a school resource, this slim volume tells the story of Kit, a 12-year-old girl who believes she is a ‘boy’. The story is told from her point of view, which allows the use of simple language, thereby making it accessible to children.
Kit tells us that as a trans person you might experience gender dysphoria, or not, and you might feel you are in the wrong body. Or not. You might choose to medically transition, but choosing not to does not make you less trans. Furthermore, your identity might be binary or non-binary, it might stay the same across time or it might change, and your awareness of your transness can surface during childhood, adolescence or indeed any time. There are lots of different ways to be trans and they are all the same.
We can safely conclude that there is no ‘there’ there.
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