Transgenderism Must Be Eradicated
By Declan Leary, American Conservative.
–They may indeed be coming for your kids. But in the end, they are coming for reality.–
The world is unhappy with Michael Knowles. From the mainstage at CPAC earlier this week, the Daily Wire commentator stated the obvious.
“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism,” said Knowles.
“It is all or nothing. If transgenderism is true—if men really can become women—then it is true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false (as it is)—if men really can’t become women (as they cannot)—then it’s false for everybody too. And if it’s false, then we should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people. If it is false, then for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”
A decade ago, Knowles’s position would have been uncontroversial. A decade earlier still and it would have been nearly unanimous across all but the fringiest sections of American society.
That rapid and dramatic change is proof as good as any that the man might have a point. The only direction for the ideologues is forward; they cannot even conceive of any other. In the uproar over these common-sense remarks, Knowles’s most strident critics have hurled his central premise violently back at him: There can be no middle way. It is all or nothing.
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