Time to stop lying.
by Calvin Robinson:
People cannot be ‘trans’ gender, race or age. As a society, we really have to stop lying to each other.
A liberal might argue that people should be able to live their lives however they see fit. What goes on between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is no one else’s business, a fairly reasonable argument.
A conservative might argue that’s fine, that we are individuals with liberties worth fighting for; however, those individual liberties come with social responsibilities. We live in a society, meaning our freedoms come with duties and obligations to our communities; without understanding that basic concept, everything starts to fall apart.
The family is the first community we belong to, followed by our parish or local community, perhaps a sporting or religious community, and others right up to our national community and the worldwide human community. We cannot escape the fact that we are social beings.
Why, then, have we seemingly concluded that people can self-ID? That we can create our own identities without any consideration for the people around us? As a man, society has certain expectations of me – rightly so. Without standards and expectations, we enter chaos and anarchy. Good governance of life is about finding that balance.
To me, for a man to say he is now living as a woman oversteps that mark. It says that a person no longer cares about their place within the community, what is expected of them as a man or how they are able to provide for their family. It says to me that their personal happiness is more important to them than their place in society. That may or may not be the case, but that is my personal understanding.
Without boundaries, we do not know where to draw the line. What started with men wanting to live as women – and let’s be honest, it is mostly in that direction – soon became white people wanting to identify as ethnic minorities. And that’s just the start. The slippery slope many of us warned about is now starting to rear its ugly face:
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