{"id":1516054,"date":"2022-06-14T19:35:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T23:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516054"},"modified":"2022-06-14T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T23:35:49","slug":"my-attempt-to-explain-transgenderism-to-an-african-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-attempt-to-explain-transgenderism-to-an-african-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"My Attempt To Explain Transgenderism To An African Tribe"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmy-attempt-to-explain-transgenderism-to-an-african-tribe%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=1516054&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--><p>ABOUT FIVE HOURS into the drive we hit a rough, bumpy dirt road. We still had an hour to go, but honestly the dirt road wasn\u2019t that much worse than the paved highway we just left. My mission had brought me here, so I wasn\u2019t complaining. In fact, I was excited. I was far away from everything: far from civilization, far from air conditioning, far from running water, cell service, and people who take pictures of themselves. Most importantly for my purposes, we were far, far away from the west. I was on my way to visit the Massai people who live almost exactly the same way as they have for generations. Straddling the border of Kenya and Tanzania in Africa, these people live in mud huts with thatched roofs, tend cattle, hunt, and teach their children to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>As I had learned over the past year, gender ideology is a creation of the modern West. It masks itself as something rooted in science and descriptive of the natural condition of humankind. But in reality, it is a fantasy world with a made up language and made up rules. As I soon saw, nothing reveals just how unnatural and counterintuitive gender theory is than speaking with people who haven\u2019t been instructed in its language through the forces of mass media, popular culture, and the long reach of a homogenous education system.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I was in Africa. I wanted to talk to people who had never heard of sex change surgeries and hormone suppressors. I wanted to talk to people who hadn\u2019t yet been instructed by \u201cexperts\u201d on the difference between \u201cgender\u201d and \u201csex.\u201d I wanted to talk to people who would never think to put their preferred pronouns in their email signatures because, well, they don\u2019t have email. Maybe then I could see firsthand just how innate \u2013 or not \u2013 all of this gender theory stuff really is. Maybe here I could see if the gender theorists were as crazy as they seemed, or if I was really the crazy one.<\/p>\n<p>My translator (who undoubtedly called himself \u201cPaul\u201d so that westerners like me would know how to pronounce his name) guided me into the village. I was welcomed with great openness and kindness. Paul led me over to an elder in the village surrounded by a group of men and, after some pleasantries, I asked him what, in his mind, is a man. He didn\u2019t seem terribly perplexed by the question. The translator responded, \u201cTo be called a man in our community, you need to have a knife, secondly, a spear, a stick, and to make your own village by fencing. And you go to marry and, having a family, that you can sustain them\u2026to have cows so that the children have enough milk\u2026.You need to sustain your community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To them, manhood seemed to be determined by certain roles someone plays, which is something a lot of gender theorists would agree with. So I asked the men if a man could just decide to do the roles of a woman. \u201cIn Massai community he cannot,\u201d my translator relayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan a man become a woman?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about a transgender?\u201d My interpreter looked at me not understanding. \u201cTransgender,\u201d I repeated.<\/p>\n<p>He tried explaining the concept to the Massai man I was speaking with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo\u2026if you want to become a lady but you\u2019re a man, you have something wrong in your mind, something wrong in your family, something wrong in you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about if someone is non-binary?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Paul looked at me, his brow furrowed in confusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, non-binary\u2026\u201d I went on. It struck me that he had no idea what \u201cnon-binary\u201d meant. And why would he?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not a woman, you\u2019re not a man?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, someone is neither. They\u2019re something else,\u201d I said. I realized that when you have to put these ridiculous concepts into basic words, it doesn\u2019t actually make any sense. Gender theorists have created an entire dictionary to describe things that nobody else in history ever thought needed to be described.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s saying we have never seen things like this,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I moved into the gender theory lingo a little too quickly. I decided to go back to the fundamentals. \u201cHow do you know if you\u2019re a man?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>I realized that when I had first asked them what a man is, they responded telling me a man\u2019s role in society not because gender is only a matter of fulfilling certain duties. Rather, they presumed I was talking about social roles because the biological reality of being male or female was so obvious to them. The idea that people could believe they are a different sex than how they were born simply didn\u2019t make sense. Once they knew I was asking about something more fundamental, they didn\u2019t hesitate to answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a newborn is born,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT FIVE HOURS into the drive we hit a rough, bumpy dirt road. We still had an hour to go, but honestly the dirt road wasn\u2019t that much worse than the paved highway we just left. My mission had brought me here, so I wasn\u2019t complaining. In fact, I was excited. 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