Rodrigo and the tragedy of transgenderism
by Caroline ffiske, The Conservative Woman:
YOU know how we are all supposed to celebrate the new-found understanding, acceptance, tolerance and freedom that society’s embracing of trans-genderism brings? How, thanks to a major ongoing push from individuals, media, forward-looking corporations, pharmaceutical giants, global charities, and inter-governmental bodies, we are now allowed to be who we want to be, and to express ourselves in the way that feels most true to our inner selves? Transgenderism as the latest step in the progressive liberation of humanity?
Well, I am not buying it. Not one little bit.
I have a horrible feeling that transgenderism is taking us in precisely the wrong direction, harming individuals and harming society. Making us more alienated from ourselves and each other; ultimately more damaged and more lonely.
To try to explain this, I want to start with the simple question of what people want from life. I am not a psychotherapist, but my feeling is that, at core, after their basic needs for food, warmth, and shelter have been met, most people want two things. They want to be comfortable within themselves. And they want to be known and to be loved by others. Beyond these, there may be many other things to which people aspire, but these are surely at our centre.
The problem that I have with transgenderism is that it makes these things harder. Because of its denial of biological sex, of scientific reality, it doesn’t enable people to feel more comfortable with themselves. If anything, it involves an ongoing relentless running away from themselves. And for the same reason, it makes it harder for people to be known and to be loved. For if you don’t accept and love yourself how can others love you? Is it not made harder? My feeling is that many people exploring the transgender route will wake up one day and realise that it has led only to more discomfort (quite often, real pain and physical discomfort) and to more loneliness.
I present a sad and extreme example here.
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