{"id":581,"date":"2020-01-10T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T20:21:02","slug":"born-this-way-or-not-homosexuality-and-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Born This Way or Not: Homosexuality and Transgenderism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A reference to Bruce Jenner receiving an ESPN \"courage award.\"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

by Reid Fitzsimons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We live in a rural and decidedly Republican area of\nNortheast, PA- our county went for Trump something like 70\/30 in 2016.  Down the hill is a little town of perhaps\n150 people, and in the 8years we\u2019ve been here a house on Main Street has\ndistinctly displayed several flags, including the US flag, a \u201crainbow\u201d flag\nthat contained the words \u201cDon\u2019t Tread On Me,\u201d and one that stated, \u201cBorn This\nWay;\u201d the flags have weathered and faded over time and have been replaced.  I have never seen the person or persons who\nlive in this house but I assume he, she, or they are homosexual activists of\nsome sort.  I\u2019ve never heard of any\ntrouble, such as the flags being stolen or anti-homosexual graffiti, but this\nis not surprising as the overall conservative philosophy in such matters is\n\u201cwhatever you do, though it might not be my cup of tea, is yours to do as long\nas it doesn\u2019t interfere with the rights of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The progressive left has certain immutable beliefs that\nparadoxically often prove to be quite fluid. The above-mentioned sentiment,\n\u201cBorn This Way,\u201d implies there is a genetic imperative connected to\nhomosexuality.  While I\u2019m fairly certain\nthere is no established \u201chomosexual gene,\u201d this concept has been a mainstay of\nhomosexual activism, which disallows any suggestion that a homosexual can\nchange, therefore any treatments or therapies (\u201cconversion therapy\u201d) are not\nonly scorned but in some cases have been made illegal.  Curiously this is in direct opposition to\nwhat is called transgenderism, the advocates of which declare that scientific\ngenetics (xx versus xy) can and should be ignored, because concepts of gender\nare merely \u201csocial constructs,\u201d specifically those created by oppressive\nconservative males of European descent. Also, curiously, conversion therapy in\nregards to transgenderism is not only allowed but demanded by activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t help but think the displayer(s) of these flags\nwouldn\u2019t mind a little \u201chomophobic\u201d action, some vandalism or the like- they\nare obviously trying to make a statement and I suspect they would like some\nkind of confirmation that they\u2019ve been heard. \nIronically for decades \u201ctolerance,\u201d which is plentiful, has been the\ncatchword of such activists, their ostensible goal, but it is really approbation\nthat is being sought, and the problem with affirmation\/approbation is that it\nis an extrinsic phenomenon that by nature requires <\/em>the participation of\nother people.  Tolerance is a passive\nlive and let live thing; approval, and the associated demands of \u201cembracing\u201d\nand \u201ccelebrating\u201d is active, and herein lies a political and social\ndilemma.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

At this time a very ugly scenario is playing out in Texas in\nwhich a mother who, to be frank, seems somewhere between a hyperactivist and\nsimply deranged, is demanding her 7 year old son be processed into a little\ngirl (who she likes to call\u201dLuna\u201d), while the father (they are divorced) is\nactively opposing this (here is a link to an excellent and detailed article\ndiscussing this situation: https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2019\/12\/09\/the-tragedy-of-the-trans-child\/<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One paragraph from this article especially impressed me, it\nmentioning a quote by the mother\u2019s lawyer from July 2019: \u201cThis case is about a\nlittle six-year-old girl. It\u2019s a little girl who knows she is a girl. It\u2019s a\ngirl who wears cute, frilly, girlie clothes. She plays with super girlie bears\nand dolls and toys. . . . [Her] self-portraits of herself show herself with\nbig, huge, ginormous eyelashes and hair down to the floor. . . . And the father\nin this case wants boys. He has twins, and the reality is, Luna, at birth, was\ngiven the gender identity as a boy, but she completely and totally identifies\nas a girl now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must confess I am vehemently anti-feminist in terms of\nwhat progressive feminism has deteriorated into- I like women to be strong,\nself-assured, capable, independent, etc- but modern feminism sees females as\nhelpless and hapless victims, perpetually oppressed and unable to do anything\nabout it. They are viewed as emotionally fragile and in constant need of\nprotection (by the government especially, certainly not by husbands, fathers,\nbrothers and other traditional male figures). They are always just a moment\naway of suffering from vapors and need a cultural fainting couch nearby. It is\nfor this reason I find the words of this lawyer so disturbing- she is in fact\ncreating a social construct that is offensive, demeaning to girls, and\npainfully stereotypical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1980s I worked for a little over three years as a\nmedical practitioner (PA) in a prison. One day an inmate assigned to clean the\nplace said, \u201cI love mopping, it makes me feel like a woman.\u201d I actually was\npleased that he felt comfortable enough to say this because he knew he wouldn\u2019t\nincur any problems as long as he did his job and obeyed the prison rules. He\nknew, in fact, that he was in an environment of tolerance: you are welcome, as\nan adult, to perceive yourself as a female as long as you don\u2019t require or\ndemand that others do also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people are dissatisfied in their lives, which I\npersonally believe is largely a function of the enormous wealth we enjoy in the\nWestern world- if one is worrying about basic sustenance they are less likely\nto worry about the deeper questions that occupy wealthy people, such as \u201cWould\nmy life have meaning if my hair was purple?\u201d \nA common characteristic of dissatisfied people is to ponder \u201cIf Only,\u201d\nsuch as if only I had this or that then my life would be great. I think of the idiocy\nin our culture that portrays women with large breasts more attractive and feel\nfor those who think, \u201cif only my breasts were bigger I would find happiness.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One basic question that I\u2019ve never seen asked, let alone\nanswered, is by what basis a person knows they will find fulfillment by becoming\nsomething they are not, especially in regards to physical traits, and more\nspecifically in regards to gender. The only obvious answer is they cannot know\nbecause they are who they are, not someone they are not. In desiring to be\nsomeone other than who they are, they are sadly, and perhaps tragically,\nrejecting him or herself, and this is not a situation consistent with good\nmental or emotional health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As alluded to above, there is a direct contradiction between\nthe activist homosexuals who declare they are biologically homosexuals and\ntherefore cannot change, and the transgender activists claim that biology\ndoesn\u2019t matter. One thing they do have in common, besides being part of the\nleftist-progressive stew, is that they seek, and demand affirmation and\napproval from others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is increasingly evidenced, and exploited by\nintellectually corrupt politicians: as when an activist goes to a Christian\nbusiness and demands they do something in opposition to their religious beliefs\nat the threat of being financially ruined; or when a mother expresses concern\nwhen a guy demands to use the same bathroom as her young daughter, or when a\nphysician is banned from practice because he mentioned in a \u201ctraining session,\u201d\nafter being \u201cconfronted\u201d with a hypothetical scenario, that he felt unable to\ndisregard his belief in the immutability of sex. This latter example is\ninteresting from a medical-legal viewpoint: would a medical practitioner be\nviolating some bizarre moral code of leftism because he ordered a PSA (a marker\nfor prostate cancer) in a male who had declared himself a female? The answer\nwould have to be \u201cyes\u201d in the warped perception of transgender activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gay \u201cpride\u201d marches, laws regarding pronouns, and even\nsame-sex marriage are not about civil rights but rather a reflect a compelling\nneed for the homosexual or transgender activist to be acknowledged by others, a\nmessage of \u201cI cannot accept of who I am, so I require (and demand) others\naccept me.\u201d Paradoxically, from the conservative standpoint, the belief is, \u201cbe\ncomfortable with who you are, it doesn\u2019t matter if I agree with your choice or\nnot, only that I treat you with the inherent dignity deserved by all people.\nAnd please, there should be more to who you are then the sex of the person with\nwhom you prefer to have sex- don\u2019t limit who you are to something so relatively\nunimportant!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost as a parlor game, the LGBQT activists try to browbeat\nindividuals, organizations, businesses, and society as a whole into abandoning\nbeliefs they may possess and forcing not just active acceptance but celebration\nof their personal sexual and gender preferences. This is similar to a bully\nreligion demanding, \u201cbelieve in and embrace our God or you will face scorn,\nbanishment, and even violence.\u201d In fact, bullying has become the sine qua non\nof LGBQT activism, which includes hateful disparagement many wonderful,\ntolerant, and compassionate people- in particular believing Christians are\ntargeted because homosexuality is viewed Scripturally as a sin, and for some\nreason this is exquisitely uncomfortable for activists.  Unfortunately the LGBTQ lobby doesn\u2019t\nunderstand the theology and somehow confuse sin with being rejected and hated,\nwhich actually is not allowed in Christian belief, an irony because hatred\nseems to be the first arrow launched from the quiver of the left when they\nencounter an opposing view or belief.\n\n\n\nOne thing we should all agree on is that inflicting\ntransgenderism on children is despicable; were I religious I would call it a\nsin. Taken to its fullest medical and surgical measure, processing a boy into a\ngirl or a girl into a boy means literally polluting their bodies with hormonal\ndrugs and mutilating their bodies, to include mastectomies and orchiectomies\n(castration). If someone believes a child is capable of consenting to something\nso life altering they are either absolutely ignorant about children, criminally\nselfish- wanting to be perceived as really hip and progressive- or truly\nderanged. If a minor can consent to such drastic measures, then certainly they\ncan consent to having sex with adults, smoking, consuming alcohol, entering\ninto contracts, and becoming prostitutes - to believe otherwise would be\nabsolutely hypocritical. No person with any reason, compassion, or humanity\nshould support children being processed into the opposite sex.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Reid Fitzsimons We live in a rural and decidedly Republican area of Northeast, PA- our county went for Trump something like 70\/30 in 2016.  Down the hill is a little town of perhaps 150 people, and in the 8years we\u2019ve been here a house on Main Street has distinctly displayed several flags, including the ...continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,7,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ynMC-9n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}