Transgender folks have always been with us — as deluded, Gnostic alchemists

Apr 30, 2024 by Dave Doveton

By Steven Tucker, Mercator.

Modern-day gender cultists are continually telling us that “trans people have always been with us”, by which they mean spurious ahistorical caprices about cross-dressing Egyptian mummies, effeminate Vikings, or Joan of Arcreally being genderqueer. Perhaps in a certain sense, this assertion is actually true: just not in the positive way these true believers mean it.

It has plausibly been suggested that the current trans cult is merely a modern-day pseudo-medical recrudescence of the ancient spiritual creed of Gnosticism, a heretical offshoot of early Christianity with a real propensity to shapeshift into novel new forms as the centuries have passed.

Nonetheless, a few key tenets have remained broadly consistent: that the fallen physical world of solid matter around us is an illusion, perhaps created by an evil rival deity to the true God known as the Demiurge, and that adherents of the cult are the only ones “Illuminated” enough to be able to see through this deception down into the true reality of things.

The core component of the Gnostic state of mind is the seemingly limitless capacity to ignore and deny the blatant physical reality which exists before your very eyes. If matter itself is in some sense evil to you, then why not magically try and reconfigure it into a shape much more of your liking by sheer force of internal supernatural will?Once upon a time, a Gnostic-minded alchemist may have used this method to transmute base lead into gold; today, Gnostic-minded transgenderist may pursue similar tactics to transmute their penis into a vagina.

Not that the average 21st century gender-wizard would ever have heard of Gnostic sages of old like Marcion of Sinope or Basilides of Alexandria, of course: you don’t actually need to be a Gnostic to be a Gnostic at all any more. Transgenderism is Gnosticism for the ignorant and self-obsessed, almost a parody of the original faith, an ideal new creed for our solipsistic social media age.

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