{"id":1459380,"date":"2022-05-01T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459380"},"modified":"2022-05-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T12:00:00","slug":"americas-transdemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-transdemic\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Transdemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">4<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-transdemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post__details\">\n            <span class=\"post__author\"><br \/>\n                                By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standingforfreedom.com\/authors\/william-wolfe\/\">William Wolfe<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"post__slash\"> \/ <\/span>             <span class=\"post__date\" id=\"postDate\">Friday, April 29, 2022<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA transition is never done\u2026You can never carve away enough pieces of yourself to be satisfied. You can never rid yourself of the fundamental facts of your own biology. You can never be cleansed of sin. The end goal of transition isn\u2019t self-actualization. It\u2019s self-annihilation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2013Tree<br \/>(pseudonym of a male detransitioner)<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2>The Transdemic: Gender Clinics, Big Money, and Identity Madness<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a public health crisis sweeping across America right now. A deadly contagion has gripped our population. Children, teenagers, and young adults are most susceptible to it and most seriously harmed by it. The disease, depending on the severity and how far it goes untreated, can inflict irreversible damage upon those who suffer from it.<\/p>\n<p>No, it\u2019s not COVID-19. It\u2019s worse (and COVID-19 is bad). It\u2019s the highly contagious and transmissible craze of transgenderism and trans ideology that is spreading like gangrene, infecting the minds and poisoning the hearts of our nation\u2019s children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This virus can be caught in their public school classrooms. Or from watching Disney+. Or by scrolling on their smartphones. In some cases, wicked teachers or other trusted authority figures \u2014 groomers \u2014 intentionally expose their students to the disease. When contracted, side effects can include self-loathing, body-hatred, and mental illness that often terminates in physical mutilation or even suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The most serious public health crisis in America today isn\u2019t a pandemic, it\u2019s a \u201ctransdemic.\u201d And we must do everything we can to stop it, to vaccinate our nation against it, before it infects and destroys another soul.<\/p>\n<p>To briefly position ourselves in the conversation from a linguistic and philosophical standpoint, this is what you need to know: Postmodernity plus the sexual revolution paved the way for our society to buy into one of the biggest lies in the history of mankind. What was that lie? Gender identity. The lie was that there even exists such a thing as a \u201cgender identity\u201d and that it can be separate from, or opposite to, one\u2019s biological sex. Further, in the event that this psychological, subjective category of perceived gender identity is understood to be contrary to one\u2019s biological sex, the gender identity must take precedence over the physical reality of the body. This is the core teaching of \u201cgender ideology\u201d \u2014 and it\u2019s being used to brainwash children into thinking they can be \u201cborn in the wrong body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a world\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0gone mad, your sex and your gender are essentially one and the same. But the trans movement has driven a wedge between the two. Thus, when we consider men trying to become women, or vice versa, it\u2019s arguably more accurate to refer to that effort as \u201ctranssexual\u201d rather than \u201ctransgender,\u201d as John Carpenter has argued\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theopolisinstitute.com\/the-transgender-bait-and-switch%EF%BF%BC\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. But human beings can\u2019t change their sex. They never have been, and they never will be able to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I, on the other hand, reserve the right to change my word usage in future articles. But for now, I\u2019m going to use the colloquial term \u201ctransgender\u201d to refer to the pandemic \u2014 the transdemic \u2014 at hand. That is, the massive explosion, the viral-like growth, of transgenderism and \u201ctransitioning\u201d in our youth and young adults.<\/p>\n<h2>A Growth Industry<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re tempted to doubt me, consider this staggering statistic: According to The Gender Mapper, there are\u00a0now\u00a0\u201c300 clinics that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children in North America. In 2016 there were less than 50, in 2013 there was a handful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are 300 clinics that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children in North America. In 2016 there were less than 50, in 2013 there was a handful. And we&#8217;re going to say this is about &#8220;authentic identities&#8221;. Pediatric gender clinics are a growth market! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eMV30FLLRq\">pic.twitter.com\/eMV30FLLRq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheGenderMapper (@GenderMapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GenderMapper\/status\/1381596433363664899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Or this \u2014 in 2007 there were only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GenderMapper\/status\/1517048493457780738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two pediatric gender<\/a>\u00a0clinics in the United States \u2014 one in New York and one in Washington, D.C. Now, there are dozens all across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Driven in large part by social media and the no-holds-barred advocacy of the LGBT+ agenda, we have socially engineered our children to think what was previously unthinkable \u2014 that they were somehow born in the wrong body (they weren\u2019t). That they can consent to puberty blockers (they can\u2019t). That just because they went through a tomboy phase as a girl, or liked theater as a boy, it means they are the opposite gender (they aren\u2019t).<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, columnist Ross Douthat recently touched on this trend, this drastic uptick in case numbers across the country. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/13\/opinion\/transgender-culture-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAccording to Gallup, the share of\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/389792\/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>younger Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0has risen precipitously in the last decade. Almost twenty-one percent of Generation Z \u2014 meaning, for the purposes of the survey, young adults born between 1997 and 2003 \u2014 identifies as L.G.B.T., as against about 10 percent of the millennial generation, just over 4 percent of my own Generation X, and less than 3 percent of baby boomers. Comparing the Generation Z to the baby boom generation, the percentage of people identifying as transgender, in particular, has risen twentyfold.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let that sink in. In less than four short generations, there has been a twenty-fold increase in youth who identify somewhere along the LGBT spectrum \u2014 and the most dangerous place to land is on the \u201cT.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This contagion was manufactured in the lab of the sexual revolution and slowly released into our society and culture over the last few decades by Hollywood, Marxist revolutionaries, gender studies programs on college campuses, and the radical progressive politics of the Democrat party. <\/p>\n<p>As with all revolutions, it goes slow until it goes fast. Fueled by the redefinition of marriage under the\u00a0<em>Obergefell<\/em>\u00a0ruling in 2015, this virus has since been spreading at light speed. The slippery slope wasn\u2019t a fallacy, it was a fact.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the gender ideology industry is leading our children away, down into the depths of hell. Some may come back, but they won\u2019t ever be the same. Do you think long-COVID is bad? Try being stuck \u2014 for the rest of your life \u2014 as a stunted prepubescent male or testosterone-addled female because your parents let you dope up on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in the name of progress. As Brandon Showalter, a reporter with the Christian Post\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonMShow\/status\/1519539420260614145\" target=\"_blank\">remarked<\/a>, \u201cSome of us won\u2019t be shocked by the scope of the carnage when this mass psychosis breaks\u2026Countless young people with endocrine failure, brittle bones, liver and kidney issues, heart disease, rising rates of cancers, and many rendered sterile.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Showalter would know, too, as he has done extensive reporting on this issue. In his article, \u201cDoctors speak out: Lupron and the \u2018diabolical\u2019 push to sterilize, gender-transition confused kids,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/doctors-speak-out-lupron-and-the-diabolical-push-to-sterilize-gender-transition-confused-kids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writes<\/a>, \u201cTo many people, the sheer fact that gender has been medicalized with high-powered drugs is nothing short of horrifying, and they wonder how this can be legal or allowed to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How did this happen? In part, at least, through the once-failed, then resurrected, pseudo-science and work of Dr. John Money. Showalter writes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn the 1970s, Dr. Quentin Van Meter, a pediatric endocrinologist in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, was a fellow at Johns Hopkins where Dr. John Money began the concept of gender as an identity of one\u2019s inner sexual self. It was called \u2018transsexual\u2019 back then, Van Meter explained to CP. Prior to this, the word \u2018gender\u2019 was linguistic, generally used interchangeably with \u201csex\u201d and was not medicalized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018He had patients that he treated as adults and then he also had the pediatric patients treated with surgical and hormonal manipulations with really phenomenally bad outcomes,\u2019 Van Meter said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Atlanta doctor credits Money with dividing sex and gender in a way that has spread so much confusion, both in the lives of patients and more broadly in culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018He thought perhaps we could societally change one\u2019s gender by treating people differently, socially and with hormones. And what he found was that he was trying to change sex,\u2019 which was impossible, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The entire project collapsed and Johns Hopkins ultimately closed the program in the early 1980s. It stayed relatively dormant until 2006 when Dr. Norman Spack in Boston, Massachusetts, decided to reinvigorate transgender medicine in the United States, Van Meter explained, \u2018and from there it literally spread like a viral infection.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did you catch that?\u00a0<em>Like. A. Viral. Infection<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consider also the massive money infrastructure behind this transdemic. Jennifer Bilek, writing for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/01\/the-billionaires-behind-the-lgbt-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">First Things<\/a>, explains how \u201cThe LGBT rights agenda\u2014note the addition of \u2018T\u2019\u2014has become a powerful, aggressive force in American society. Its advocates stand at the top of media, academia, the professions, and, most important, Big Business and Big Philanthropy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the organization known as the Arcus Foundation, Bilek documents that it \u201chas\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2012\/04\/26\/nations-largest-lgbt-funder-changing-its-focus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">given\u00a0more than $58.4 million<\/a>\u00a0to programs and organizations doing LGBT-related work between 2007 and 2010 alone, making it one of the largest LGBT funders in the world.\u201d The Arcus Foundation has a particular interest in driving gender identity and transgenderism, even creating a \u201ccomplex system of advocacy and funding that would promote gender identity\/transgenderism in the culture.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She concludes by exposing the disconnect between the public presentation of the movement as some underdog effort to secure rights for the oppressed versus the reality of the transgender movement \u2014 a\u00a0<em>well-funded effort backed by radical billionaires around the world<\/em>. Bilek writes, \u201cAlthough activists present the LGBT movement as a weak, powerless group suffering oppression and discrimination, in truth it wields enormous power and influence\u2014power it increasingly uses to remake our laws, schools, and society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t just remaking our \u201claws, schools, and society.\u201d They are also remaking \u2014 rather, unmaking \u2014 our children as well.<\/p>\n<p>And this brings me to the story of \u201cTree.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Cut Down Tree<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve been meaning to write on this topic for a while now. As with everything, and particularly issues of this magnitude, it takes work. But tonight, I am fired up and frustrated. I\u2019m sickened and saddened. And I want to make sure to get at least some of the white-hot fury and anger I feel at the utter madness and horror that our society has unleashed on the most vulnerable among us channeled through the keyboard (who must think it\u2019s done something wrong) and onto the page so that we can begin to\u00a0<em>do something<\/em>\u00a0about it.<\/p>\n<p>This whole movement smells even worse when you reflect on how we have maimed a generation, both physically and mentally, in the name of \u201crights,\u201d \u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201cequity,\u201d and \u201cprogress.\u201d These verbal veneers hide the true violence and demonic evil of transgender ideology. They are rhetorical whitewashed tombs, housing the ruined bodies of thousands of children who have been scarred for life. Along with abortion, it\u2019s another modern-day version of child sacrifice \u2014 an even more apt description when you consider how woke parents often foist this on their impressionable children because they have been brainwashed themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They say love wins. Not this kind. This kind destroys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, whatever you do today, I want you to also do one more thing. Just one more. I want you to make sure that you take the time to read this one blog, a harrowing and heartbreaking essay shared by a \u201cmale detransitioner\u201d who goes by the name \u201cTree.\u201d On his Substack, \u201cA Cut Down Tree,\u201d he posted an article entitled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cutdowntree.substack.com\/p\/purification-rites?s=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purification Rites: An autobiographical essay<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are certainly other (and increasing numbers of) detransition stories out there, as those who pursued the Sisyphean task of going from male to female, or female to male, realize their madness and step back from the brink. Tree\u2019s account, however, is particularly moving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He writes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to be a man. I didn\u2019t want to be big and hairy. Men scared me. I\u2019d seen my mom assaulted when I was young, and I didn\u2019t want to be like the man who\u2019d done that to her. The idea of testosterone poisoning made sense to me because maleness itself terrified me. I\u2019d been bullied a lot in school by other boys, and a lot of that bullying involved sexual abuse\u2014groping, inappropriate touching, striking my butt and genitals, and verbal harassment (wolf-whistling and yelling sexual comments at me). These, I felt, weren\u2019t the sorts of things that happened to men. My suffering was only legible if I was a woman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This background made me vulnerable to the ideology of transgenderism.<\/em><em>\u00a0I had no friends in high school and spent a lot of time online, and I was exposed to the burgeoning social justice\/woke movement before it entered the mainstream. When I connected to the internet, I was inundated with messages about the violence of maleness. This wasn\u2019t just \u201ctoxic masculinity\u201d\u2014I saw feminists saying\u00a0all\u00a0masculinity was toxic, that all men were rapists, all men were oppressors, all men should be killed. As a white man, I was directly responsible for all of the oppression experienced by women and people of color.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In another post on another day, I should tease out the interconnectedness of the insidious messages of intersectionality \u2014 of overlapping oppressions \u2014 between Critical Race Theory (CRT) and LGBT and trans ideology. For Tree, a straight, white, male, the message was loud and clear \u2014 everything he was by birth, by nature, was wrong. He was the worst of the worst. His mere existence was a scourge on society. The mind worm of madness had begun to infect him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He goes on, asking,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIs it any surprise that teenagers (frequently autistic teenagers who take everything literally) want to transition when they\u2019re exposed to societal messages telling them \u2018men are bad, men are dangerous to women, only men have power\u2019 and \u2018you can change your gender if you want to?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether he intended it or not, his writing rings out with the undertones of the neo-Gnosticism that undergirds trans ideology \u2014 the belief that the \u201cbody\u201d is bad but the \u201cinner self\u201d is, or can be, good. He continues in very religious language, recounting that he thought:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy very nature meant I deserved pain. I couldn\u2019t remove my whiteness from myself, but maybe I could remove my maleness. The first step was to get rid of the poison coursing through my body: testosterone, the hormone turning me into an animal and a brute. I needed to purify myself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Purify himself \u2014 from himself. Cleanse himself \u2014 from the sin of being male. Purge himself \u2014 from the surge of God-given testosterone in his male-sexed body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How could he pursue this cleansing? By transitioning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tree hauntingly remarks that, \u201cMy transition wasn\u2019t driven by fetishism or misogyny. I was just a lonely, wounded child. All I really wanted was to be loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he found \u201clove\u201d \u2014 of the fake variety \u2014 in all the wrong places. He notes that, \u201cThis trans phase might have also passed on its own\u2014if it weren\u2019t for the Queer Youth Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the Queer Youth Center, they \u201caffirmed my identity, introduced me to trans activists, and encouraged me to engage in activism myself,\u201d he wrote, adding, \u201c(The activism is a central part of the trans movement\u2014these people don\u2019t want you to\u00a0<em>just\u00a0<\/em>transition, they also want you to spread the ideology. This moral drive to proselytize is part of how the movement has spread so quickly.)\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note again the religious language. It\u2019s not enough for you to catch the disease, they demand that you disciple others into the illness as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And so, with his mistaken \u201cfemale gender identity\u201d cemented as preeminent over his obviously male-sexed body by the Queer Youth Center, Tree felt like he \u201chad to transition.\u201d He would pursue the self-purification \u2014 even though he clearly didn\u2019t know what he was doing:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI wasn\u2019t old enough to understand what I was doing to myself. I didn\u2019t realize what I was giving up, how permanent these changes I was making were. But I hadn\u2019t yet made the worst decision of my life. That would come a few years later, when I decided to have myself castrated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even as he moved forward towards irreversible bodily harm, Tree realizes in retrospect what a mistake it was. He didn\u2019t need to be chopped up, he needed someone to talk him down.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI needed serious psychiatric help and deprogramming, not to have my balls cut off so I could more closely resemble the sexless angel I wanted to be.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I saw the surgery as a rite of purification. I felt that by removing a part of myself I would become whole. Years of online grooming and ideological brainwashing had made me delusional, but no one pushed back on it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What a ringing indictment \u2014 \u201cno one pushed back.\u201d He continues:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe doctors were happy to go through with it, and they had medical degrees. So I took two weeks off work, went into the hospital, and had my balls cut off.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He immediately regretted the surgery. But there was no going back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>I hadn\u2019t cleansed myself, I\u2019d ruined myself, and I\u2019ll never get back what I lost.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For many people, transition is an obsessive quest to compulsively eradicate one\u2019s own sexed characteristics. It\u2019s born from ideology, self-hatred, trauma, and grooming by online strangers. Gay, autistic, mentally disabled, and gender non-conforming teenagers, as well as victims of sexual violence, are the most affected. Pharmaceuticals and plastic surgery investors are getting rich off of the butchery, mutilation, and mass sterilization of these vulnerable and traumatized populations. Doctors and therapists who assist people in transition aren\u2019t providing care, they\u2019re enabling self-harm and practicing eugenics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A transition is never done. There\u2019s always more surgeries, new treatments, more work to do. You can never carve away enough pieces of yourself to be satisfied. You can never rid yourself of the fundamental facts of your own biology. You can never be cleansed of sin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The end goal of transition isn\u2019t self-actualization. It\u2019s self-annihilation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Call to Present Action and the Hope of Future Wholeness<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If your blood isn\u2019t boiling and if your heart isn\u2019t breaking when you finish a story like this, you, too, might need help. You might\u00a0<em>actually<\/em>\u00a0need to purify yourself because you\u2019ve grown cold and unconcerned about one of the most pressing ethical, moral, political, and religious issues staring down America, like a leering Goliath, today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But assuming you are moved by the same pathos that I am for this man, then logically the next thought must be, \u201cWhat can we do?\u201d What can\u2013what must\u2013be done to help put an end to the writing of such tragic stories?<\/p>\n<p>Lord willing, this June may bring the end of the holocaust of abortion in our nation as we currently know it. So, as I read this account of a young man\u2019s attempted self-annihilation, I would argue what we need to do is this: As soon as\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em>\u00a0falls, Christians across the nation must put all of their political energy, at every level, into purifying our society of trans ideology. It must be banished from the public square, the public schools, and our public imagination.<\/p>\n<p>We need a shutdown \u2014 of all gender clinics. We need a lockdown \u2014 of all \u201cQueer Youth Centers.\u201d We must do what it takes to stop the gender ideology-driven trans madness that is maiming and killing our kids. So-called \u201cgender-affirming\u201d surgeries for minors must be made illegal. Doctors who transition teens need to be jailed. Pro-transition speech aimed at kids must be banned. Whatever it takes \u2014 that\u2019s what we must do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In order to fight this righteous war, waged for the bodies, minds, and souls of the next generation, we must be armed. To that end, let me recommend four resources that you can begin using to inoculate yourself, and others, against this deadly \u2014 this demonic \u2014 virus.<\/p>\n<p>As atheist and evolutionary biologist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swipewright\/status\/1235302606819467265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colin Wright<\/a>\u00a0put it, \u201cI\u2019m frequently asked why I focus so much on the nature of biological sex. It\u2019s because in my view this may be reality\u2019s last stand. If this undeniable fact can be denied en masse, then we become hostages to chaos. We simply cannot afford to lose our collective tether to reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reality\u2019s last stand. Will Christians let atheists outfight them on this front, on the battle lines of \u201creality\u2019s last stand?\u201d I certainly hope and pray that would not be the case. Because we know more than just physical reality, we also have God\u2019s revelation of truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In light of that, while we must hate the ideology and those who are willing to push it on children for their own nefarious agenda, we must also have great compassion and love for those who have been made to suffer under it. As we fight, we must hold out gospel hope. At the heart of the trans sickness is the same sickness that has infected mankind from the beginning: sin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remember, when the world had just started spinning, God reached down into the dust of the earth and made man, Adam. Then he reached into man, took a rib, and made woman, Eve. In the beginning, He made them, male and female. This is who we are. It\u2019s stamped into our very DNA. We can no more change from male to female than blue can change to red.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the trans movement acts as if Romans 1 is a list of instructions to be followed, and not the ringing indictment of sin that it is. The trans movement is the apotheosis of self; men and women seeking to play God over their plastic bodies, as they now reach down into their flesh, trying to turn men into women and women into men. In the transgender act, humans strive to be both the Creator and the creation, to remake mankind after our own, twisted image. It\u2019s ultimately an act of high-handed rebellion. So whatever else it is, it is a sin \u2014 and so we need a Savior to solve it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Praise God that a Savior is provided in the form of a God-man, who took on flesh for us. Far from demanding that we purify ourselves, which always was an impossible task, Christ instead bore the wrath of God so that we might be made pure, be made holy, through Him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trans movement is also a satanic inversion of the logic of Isaiah 53. The Suffering Servant comes to bear our sins in His body, and it is by His stripes, by His wounds, that we are healed. Sadly, those like Tree seem to think they can be healed by carving the wounds into their own bodies. But such things cannot be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We cannot transcend our embodied nature, as men and women. This is how God made us, how He made humans. We may kick against the goads of creation, but surely we cannot topple the architecture of the One who laid the foundations of the heavens and the earth. And we cannot redeem our fallen nature, as sinners, without humbly asking for a heart of flesh that only comes through the new birth by the Spirit. In that sense, Tree was onto something. He needed to be remade, reborn. Not on the outside, but from within.<\/p>\n<p>To miss this grave distinction, and to try to undo the embodied reality of being a man or woman, is to pursue not a path towards becoming a new creation, but rather an act of undoing. Tree realized this, as well, in his closing sentences. Amazingly, they almost perfectly echo an observation I myself had made a few weeks back about what the effort of transgenderism truly entails.<\/p>\n<p>He said, <em>\u201cThe end goal of transition isn\u2019t self-actualization. It\u2019s self-annihilation.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right. I had reached this conclusion as well recently while reading J. Budziszewsk\u2019s commentary on how freedom means living according to \u2014 and not against \u2014 our nature in his book\u00a0<em>On the Meaning of Sex<\/em>. I had\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/William_E_Wolfe\/status\/1516084644789297160\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTransgenderism is a form of self-annihilation. Couched as an act of \u2018freedom,\u2019 it is quite the exact opposite. We are not \u201cfree\u201d to pursue existence contrary to our natures. A man seeking to be a woman doesn\u2019t become a woman, but rather destroys his nature as a man.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I\u2019m confident Tree hadn\u2019t seen my tweet. But the point is accessible, general, and deeply important. Because the most serious symptom of the transdemic is the manifestation of its final form, the act(s) of self-annihilation found in elective mastectomies, \u201cbottom surgeries,\u201d and the like. Procedures like this must become unthinkable. But in the meantime, they must be made illegal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I fear much ground has already been gained by the annihilators. Still, Christ is King, and we are His subjects, willing or not. And He is a gracious King, who may yet bring restoration now even as we await future redemption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, this is the King who had a word of hope specifically for eunuchs, to those like Tree, who feel \u201ccut down\u201d or \u201ccut off.\u201d A word of promise that they can, in fact, be made whole. Perhaps not entirely in this life, but most assuredly in the life to come, in eternity. This word also comes from Isaiah, and with it, we will close:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet no foreigner\u00a0who is bound to the\u00a0Lord\u00a0say,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2018The\u00a0Lord\u00a0will surely exclude me from his people.\u2019<br \/>And let no eunuch\u00a0complain,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2018I am only a dry tree.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For this is what the\u00a0Lord\u00a0says:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018To the eunuchs\u00a0who keep my Sabbaths,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0who choose what pleases me<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and hold fast to my covenant\u2014<br \/><strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>to them I will give within my temple and its walls<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a memorial\u00a0and a name<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0better than sons and daughters;<br \/>I will give them an everlasting name<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0that will endure forever.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 56:3-5<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p><strong><em>Follow William on Twitter!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/William_E_Wolfe\" target=\"_blank\">@William_E_Wolfe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Wolfe  \/ Friday, April 29, 2022 \u201cA transition is never done\u2026You can never carve away enough pieces of yourself to be satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}