Dec
17
A Look at the “Transgender Empire”
Transgender activism is everywhere these days. If we aren’t careful, we can get inured to this aspect of the Leftist agenda. We can forget what it is they promote — what they do and why they do it. Yes, I know some think that talking of such things is conspiracy-minded nuttiness. So, allow me to share from Christopher F. Rufo’s recent talk/article at Imprimis, in which he addresses this topic. In fact, rather than quoting anything from Rufo himself, the quotes below are from people that he quoted:
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From activist Rosa Lee in Transgender Marxism:
“In a different era, Marxists spoke of the construction of a ‘new socialist man’ as a crucial task in the broader process of socialist construction. Today, in a time of both rising fascism and an emergent socialist movement, our challenge is transsexualising our Marxism. We should think [of] the project of transition to communism in our time — communisation — as including the transition to new communist selves, new ways of being and relating to one another.”
Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, speaking before an audience of trans activists:
“[O]ur state government is firmly on your side, on the side of every gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer person in the state of Illinois…. Those of you in this room know better than anyone that marriage equality was never the endgame…. We’re gonna make sure that all transgender Illinoisans are ensured their basic human rights and that healthcare services are provided to them so that they can thrive.”
Dr. Maureen Connolly, a pediatrician at Henry Ford Health and metro-Detroit’s Ruth Ellis Center, describing the child sex-change process (as promoted at the Center):
“Transitioning is an umbrella term to describe the process that someone goes through to bring their external self more closely into alignment with their gender identity. For some people that might mean changing their gender expression and the clothes that they wear or how they wear their hair. It might mean using a new name and different pronouns. And that’s wonderful. For others, it can involve taking medication to make their body more closely aligned with how they identify in terms of gender — typically, that’s masculinizing or feminizing medications or hormone therapy. People can also choose to pursue gender-affirming surgeries, which are surgical interventions to bring their body more closely in alignment with their gender identity.”
She isn’t talking about affluent, independent adults but mostly about kids from the Detroit ghetto dealing with “high rates of family breakdown, substance abuse, mental illness, and self-destructive behavior.” She also doesn’t mention, of course, the many ongoing health issues that accompany and/or follow the transitioning “treatments”.
I couldn’t bring myself to reproduce the description of one of those “surgical interventions”….
A non-binary Ellis Center patient and activist:
“My name is Righteous, first and foremost. I think I might have been about eight years old when I remembered or that I recall having any thought of being transgender or gender non-conforming…. It felt like I was an outsider to this whole world of America. On top of not being, you know, a European-American, I was black…. Most of my dysphoria comes from people misgendering me. With gender-affirming care, I could get the hormones I needed for free.”
A doctor at a major children’s hospital said this about puberty blockers:
“This medication is called a ‘gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist’ and it comes in the form of monthly injections or an implant. And because it simulates the activity of this hormone, it shuts down the activity of the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is this almond-sized structure in your brain, it’s one of the most primal structures we have, and it controls all the other hormonal structures in your body — your sexual development, your emotions, your fight-or-flight response, everything…. And I always think that if someone were to ask me, ‘Where is it that you would look for the divine spark in each individual?’, I would say that it would be somewhere ‘beneath the inner chamber,’ which is the Greek derivation of the term hypothalamus. To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human.”
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This is an evil industry that feeds people’s delusions and destroys their bodies, all while declaring it to be “healthcare” and demanding support & celebration from the masses. Sadly, broken people fall victim to it every day.
P.S. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, a distinguished fellow of Hillsdale College, an author (America’s Cultural Revolution), and director of four PBS documentaries. You might also recognize him as the guy who accused Harvard University president Claudine Gay of possibly plagiarizing her PhD thesis.
