{"id":2289336,"date":"2024-07-05T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-ways-feminism-laid-the-groundwork-for-transgenderism\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T03:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T07:20:38","slug":"3-ways-feminism-laid-the-groundwork-for-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-ways-feminism-laid-the-groundwork-for-transgenderism\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways Feminism Laid The Groundwork For Transgenderism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2F3-ways-feminism-laid-the-groundwork-for-transgenderism%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=2289336&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>The text discusses the roots of the trans movement,\u200d tracing it back to feminist ideology that brought about significant shifts in thinking about women.\u2062 The biological argument aimed\u2063 to \u2064make women more like men by promoting sterilization and prioritizing \u2062careers over motherhood. Language changes focused on eradicating the\u2064 differences between males and females, leading to the concept of genderless or\u2062 differently gendered \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-conservatism-must-conserve\/\" title=\"What Conservatism Must Conserve\">human beings<\/a>. Legal changes, starting with \u2063the fight for women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-lawmakers-ordered-to-redraw-congressional-districts-proposed-map-to-be-released-monday\/\" title=\"Lawmakers instructed to redraw congressional districts, proposed map to be released Monday.\">voting \u2062rights<\/a>, paved the\u200c way for gay activists to exploit the political playbook\u2064 developed by feminists. This historical context sheds light on how the trans movement gained momentum and \u200devolved over time.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The trans movement is in full bloom. Many are scratching their heads as to how we got here.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of the last two centuries reveals that it was long in the making, with deep roots found in feminist ideology, as discussed at length in my book, <em>The End of Woman<\/em>. Feminism ushered in significant shifts in thinking about women, fundamentally changing the way Western civilization considers biology, language, and law.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these shifts on its own would have been damaging enough, but like the poisonous tentacles of a jellyfish, when taken together, they were fatal and brought about the triumph of the LGBT\u00a0movement.<\/p>\n<h2>Biological Argument: Make Women More Like Men<\/h2>\n<p>One of the earliest efforts of the feminist movement was to help women with the suffering associated with fertility. It is a laudable goal, except that rather than help women as women, the feminist vision was to help women become more like men, namely, rendering their bodies sterile to enable sex without consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was to get rid of the connection between women and motherhood. Among first-wave activists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, \u201cThe woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.\u201d A\u00a0few decades later, Charlotte Perkins Gilman said motherhood made it \u201cimpossible for women to achieve their potential.\u201d And by the 1960s, Betty Friedan completed the transformation by\u00a0famously\u00a0encouraging every woman to leave the \u201ccomfortable concentration camp\u201d that is the home to do productive work. The message was clear: Career is more important than motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The biological transformation away from motherhood would not have been possible without the work of Margaret Sanger, promoter of birth control and founder of Planned Parenthood, who envisioned a eugenic utopia where individual pleasure triumphed over the family. Women, she believed, were the source of \u201cthe most flagrant of our social evils\u201d because of their fecundity, and as a result, women had not only \u201cincurred a debt to society\u201d but must \u201cpay that debt\u201d by not having more children.<\/p>\n<p>With the Pill and later <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, women could finally live the ideal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-governor-andrew-cuomo-defends-democratic-tradition-of-sexual-harassment\/\" title=\"Embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo Defends Democratic Tradition of Sexual Harassment\">consequence-free sex<\/a> by eliminating their reproductive capacities entirely. Birth control was the prophylactic, and abortion was its backup safety net.<\/p>\n<p>Erasing this essential element of women, the capacity to conceive and bear life \u2014 biologically, psychologically, and spiritually \u2014 quickly made the meaning of woman murky.\u00a0For women, motherhood was largely erased as an essential and\u00a0replaced\u00a0with a vision of womanhood modeled after a masculine ideal. To maintain this new ideal for women \u2014 the pursuit of a career \u2014 women were sold the rabid dependence on contraception and abortion that we see today. It can be argued that feminism has been transitioning women into men for decades, with few noticing because of the enticing idols of achievement and independence.<\/p>\n<h2>Language Change: Implementing the Sexless Language of \u2018Human Person\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>While feminism was pushing women to be like men, a second societal change developed: a subtle change in language. What seemed minor was, in fact, a significant change in the way men and women viewed human nature. It started harmlessly enough, with Mary Wollstonecraft emphasizing the common dignity and rationality of all human beings to distinguish women from slaves and cattle. This focus on what is common between men and women quickly undermined what distinguished them, such as the centrality of motherhood. Feminists, seeing the utility of this linguistic emphasis, have used it repeatedly ever since. Consider the following examples:<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1800s, Susan B. Anthony: \u201cThe only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 1910s, Marie Jenney Howe: Feminism was a quest for women to become \u201cnot just our little female selves, but our whole, big, human selves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 1940s, Elizabeth Hawes: \u201cFemales, as well as males, are human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, Betty Friedan: \u201cPerhaps it is only a sick or immature society that chooses to make women \u2018housewives,\u2019 not people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And in 1986 Marie Shear: \u201cFeminism is the radical notion that women are people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, no one was denying the humanity of women at this stage, particularly in cultures animated by Christian ideals. It was more of a straw-man argument adopted to eradicate the differences between males and females. Once those differences were eliminated in general at the altar of the common, motherhood was sacrificed as unimportant. This was a decided break from the Judeo-Christian vision that had always included both\u00a0the common and the distinct understanding of man and woman built upon Genesis 1:27: \u201cGod created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.\u201d Feminism emphasized the commonness of male and female at the expense of the essential ways in which men and women were distinct.<\/p>\n<p>This designation did more than just separate women from the quality of motherhood. It created a category of embodied existence entirely distinct from male or female. The human person became a blank canvas on which other ways of being could exist, opening the door to the idea of genderless or differently gendered human beings.<\/p>\n<p>This concept of the human being might not have proven so problematic if there were not also a push in the feminist movement to erase so-called gender altogether.\u00a0As early as the 1800s, Percy B. Shelley, who promoted a \u201cwomen\u2019s revolution,\u201d presciently suggested that society would one day eliminate the \u201cdetestable distinction\u201d of sex differences. Future feminists followed his lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGender\u201d tinkering came to a head in 1949 with Simone de Beauvoir\u2019s statement: \u201cOne is not born, but rather becomes a woman.\u201d Her idea was that the attainment of womanhood was no longer exclusive to those born female. Womanhood was simply a social construct and could, therefore, also be deconstructed. De Beauvoir\u2019s existentialist vision of personal actualization and authenticity allowed womanhood to become an abstract state of mind, not a concrete way of being. With womanhood no longer limited to just biological women, feminism opened Pandora\u2019s Box to today\u2019s endless \u201cgender\u201d confusion and creation.<\/p>\n<h2>Legal Change: Civil Rights Fight<\/h2>\n<p>Feminists developed a political playbook for women\u2019s voting rights that, once refined in the 1960s, became masterfully exploited by gay activists. After the Civil War and the newly granted right of freed slaves to vote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton compared the plight of black men with a woman\u2019s right to vote. Cady Stanton <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/IwB6J\">saw<\/a> the 15th Amendment as an opportunity to finally get the vote for women, although she lamented that the men she thought beneath her had a right she did not have: \u201cThink of Patrick and Sambo and Hans and Yung Tung, who do not know the difference between a monarchy and a republic, who cannot read the Declaration of Independence or Webster\u2019s spelling book, making laws for Lucretia Mott.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>If not for Stanton\u2019s rampant racism and resulting internal squabbles and scandals within the suffrage movement, the strategy might likely have won the day. (She was long dead when the 19th Amendment finally passed in 1920.) When the civil rights debate reignited as African Americans fought for the end to segregation in the 1960s, feminists again attached themselves to the public fight as other victimized minorities. Thus was born the still-common phrase \u201cwomen and other minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cvictimized minority\u201d category\u00a0is exactly what gay activist Franklin Kameny recognized as the key to advancing so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-trump-doj-officials-prepare-attacks-on-his-appointees-during-election-year\/\" title=\"DOJ Officials Plan to Target Trump Appointees in Election Year\">-called gay rights<\/a>, so he rebranded homosexuality as \u201can oppressed cultural minority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kameny developed the slogan \u201cGay is good,\u201d fashioned after the popular 1968 chant, \u201cBlack is beautiful.\u201d He helped found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-library-says-book-teaching-masturbation-to-ages-7-12-will-stay-on-childrens-shelves\/\" title=\"Arkansas Library Says Book Teaching Masturbation To Ages 7-12 Will Stay On Children\u2019s Shelves\">gay activist organization<\/a> the Mattachine Society, which focused on repealing sodomy laws. Kameny also invited the lesbian group Daughters of Bilitis to join his effort, to move the debate and focus away from male sexual promiscuity. His goal was to normalize homosexuality and make it appear equal to heterosexuality. Before this, homosexuals had generally eschewed the heterosexual lifestyle and saw flamboyance and decadence as the way to banish the bourgeois and smash cultural taboos. Kameny\u2019s more pedestrian vision has been wildly successful, culminating in the 2016 Supreme Court approval of gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Kameny\u2019s effort was also deeply aided by the societal changes taking place because of the feminist push for contraception and abortion, mentioned above. The arrival of the Pill and other modes of birth control slowly but steadily changed heterosexuals\u2019 view of sex. There was a massive psychological shift away from viewing reproduction as the primary purpose of sexual activity to focusing solely on sex for personal pleasure. This move made it intellectually difficult for heterosexual couples who used contraception to fundamentally distinguish their relationship from that of a homosexual union. Both, albeit for different reasons, were sterile.<\/p>\n<p>These three essential changes in biology, language, and law have devastated the Judeo-Christian vision of society, family, men, and women. They created the understanding of sexuality our culture embraces today, where sex differences are as essentially nonconsequential as black and white (or pink and blue). Together, these changes have made the human body a blank canvas onto which a whole rainbow of colors can be applied, none of which would have been possible without feminists leading the way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Carrie Gress is a fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center. A mother of five, she is the author of 10 books, including \u201cThe Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity.&#8221; She is the editor of the online women&#8217;s magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/theologyofhome.com\/\">Theology of Home<\/a>. Her latest book is &#8220;The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transgender movement has gained momentum, leaving many wondering how it came to be. Looking back over the past two centuries, it becomes clear that the movement has deep roots in feminist ideology, as explored in detail in the book &#8220;The End of Woman.&#8221; Feminism brought about significant changes in how Western society views biology, language, and law, ultimately paving the way for the success of the LGBT movement. The feminist movement aimed to make women more like men, focusing on eliminating the connection between women and motherhood. This shift was facilitated by figures such as Margaret Sanger, who promoted birth control and abortion as means to separate women from their reproductive capacities. Additionally, feminists emphasized a common humanity between men and women, erasing the distinctions between the sexes and paving the way for the concept of genderless or differently gendered individuals. The feminist movement also utilized political strategies to advance women&#8217;s rights, which were later adopted by gay activists to push for LGBTQ rights. These changes in biology, language, and law have fundamentally altered societal views on sexuality and gender, leading to a culture where sex differences are seen as inconsequential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":2289337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/14536760251_44e050d034_k-e1719928918877.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14678,33417,5331,33971,12837],"class_list":["post-2289336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-feminism","tag-gender-identity","tag-lgbtq","tag-social-movements","tag-transgenderism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/14536760251_44e050d034_k-e1719928918877.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289336","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}