Trump’s Instincts on Transgenders Are Right on the Money

RUSH: Now, New York Times: “Anatomy Does Not Determine Gender.” Well, what is this about? Why in the world…? We’re talking about a percentage of the population that’s not even 1% here, and yet it’s become — this group of people has become — a major, major support group of the American left and the American the media. For what purpose?

“Defining gender,” says the New York Times, “as a condition determined strictly by a person’s genitals is based on a notion that doctors and scientists abandoned long ago as oversimplified and often medically meaningless.” Are you kidding me? Determining whether somebody’s male or female as determined by a person’s genitals is no longer applicable and needs to abandoned because it has been abandoned long ago by sensible scientists?

So this is the party of science, the Democrat Party … “‘The idea that a person’s sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true, and we’ve known that it’s not true for decades,’ said Dr. Joshua D. Safer, an endocrinologist and executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Health System in New York.” So you have a baby, and your baby has male genitalia.

But we’ve known for a long time that your baby is not male. Not necessarily! By the same token, you have a baby that has female genitalia? But, no! It’s not necessarily female, and we’ve known this for decades. Our anatomy does not say what it says. So then the New York Times asks, Well, then, “what does determine gender identity”?

“[A] person’s powerful, core knowledge of who they are is not so clear.”

A companion story here that’s also in the Stack. This is NBC News. “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that transgender issues were in flux and he aims to protect the country after a report that his administration was considering defining gender as male or female based on genitalia at birth drew widespread condemnation.

“‘We have a lot of different concepts right now. They have a lot of different things happening with respect to transgender right now,’ Trump said … Asked about a campaign promise to protect the LGBT community, Trump said: ‘I’m protecting everybody. I want to protect our country.’ Under a proposal first reported by the New York Times on Sunday, the Trump administration would narrow the definition of gender to male or female at birth and it would be unchangeable later in life.”

Okay. You’re asking, “What’s going on?” Let me very simply and yet very controversially explain what’s going on here. This is all politics. Pure and simple, total politics, disguised as something else. The Democrat Party has embraced all of these various psychological disorders and abnormalities, and is in the process of trying to normalize them all by enshrining them as policy planks or issues in the Democrat Party platform.

And this is how we end up with people that represent 2/10ths of 1% of the population being given the whole weight of the Democrat Party thrown behind them to make their issue one in which the otherwise vast majority can end up being bullied into submission. I have long believed that. I just didn’t have the words. I had not stumbled across the correct way of expressing it, but I finally did.

And I really do believe that there are many psychological disorders out there that have been adopted by the Democrat Party as political issues that are then used to join the list of demands on government they can’t be government fix, that government acknowledge, that the government deal with, that government fund, that government protect.

Now, this the latest story on this, the headline: “Feds Draft Plan to Discard Obama’s Transgender Ideology — President Donald Trump’s Justice Department will soon decide if agencies must follow biology when they describe the legal sex of American women and girls, men and boys, according to a document leaked to the New York Times.

“The policy would protect Americans’ civil rights from the transgender ideology which insists that everyone has an FBI-enforced federal right to switch their legal sex — regardless of their biology — when entering sports competitions, K-12 bathrooms, hospitals, gym showers, the military, or single-sex civic society groups. This transgender ideology was promoted in 2016 by former President Barack Obama and is being imposed by many federal and state judges, despite visceral public opposition and scientists’ criticism.”

All of this… Transgender ideology? Transgender…? The reason by transgender ideology is become a big thing is because the ideology behind political, militant homosexuality has been successful. There’s not too much to fight over. They’ve got gay marriage; they’re able to sue people that don’t make ’em cakes and so forth. Can’t let that die! So transgenders and transgenderism has stepped in to replace what was the militant homosexual political movement.

It’s all part of the same thing the American left is doing to attack essentially the standard decency and normalcy of what’s been considered to be American society and to throw it into upheaval.

President Trump’s instincts in this transgender thing are right on the money. Why should transgenderism become a major political issue? We’re talking about such an infinitesimally small percentage of the American population, and yet it has its own ideology, which was planted and established by the Obama administration way back in 2016.

What happens is that people are minding their own business one day and are confronted with the fact that a guy wants to use a girls’ bathroom on the basis that he’s not really a guy, and we in society are told, “You gotta put up with it. You gotta tolerate it! You can’t discriminate against it. You can’t be biased!” “But it doesn’t make any sense. A guy is a guy.” “Well, he doesn’t think he’s a guy! That’s the thing.” “Yeah, until he gets in there.”

This has been blown up now, and what I mean is you get enough… I’m telling you, you get enough unstable groups of people and properly motivate them and convince them that you’re gonna get the government to fix this and get even with the people who are mistreating ’em, and you can create — if you think of it this way — a group large enough to join the rest of your coalition that they’ll go out and help you win elections. There’s no doubt what this is, and Trump’s instincts on this are right on the money.

The idea that you can’t determine gender by genitalia is absurd!

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