{"id":229021,"date":"2021-03-16T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=229021"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:46:55","slug":"shapiro-debunking-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-debunking-transgenderism\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: Debunking Transgenderism"},"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\">6<\/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%2Fshapiro-debunking-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=229021&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1228.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Today, we\u2019re going to discuss a very common question: can a man be a woman?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the past few years, you\u2019ve heard a lot of statements that sound like, \u201cwe must not raise boys as boys and girls as girls, because we just can\u2019t be sure that kids actually have the sex assigned to them at birth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You\u2019ve heard that some people are men and women\u2019s bodies or women in men\u2019s bodies. You may even have heard that if you\u2019re a straight dude and you don\u2019t want to have sex with a trans woman \u2014 meaning a biological male \u2014 this makes you gay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All of this is insane, patent nonsense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Males and females reproduce with one another in the human species. We\u2019ve known this for quite a while. The simple reality is that the human species is sexually dimorphic. Sex is binary. We come in two brands: male and female.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Typically, those who have the XY chromosomes are male. Those who have XX chromosomes are female. Males and females differ. They differ in size and shape, in musculature, in brain function. As neuroscientist Steven Pinker says, \u201cdifferences between the sexes are part of the human condition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are certainly people who have anomalous genetic conditions like Klinefelter syndrome, in which a person has two X chromosomes and a Y chromosome, and in whom breast development looks female while male genitalia are present.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Overall, disorders of sexual development affect one in every 5000 births. Now, the presence of abnormal development does not mean that sex is a spectrum. To suggest otherwise would be the same thing as saying that because one child in every few thousand is born with three toes, this means that the number of toes in the human being is a spectrum, or that a person with three toes might actually be a three-toed sloth human.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All reproduction is rooted in the presence of sexual dimorphism. To pretend otherwise is biologically nonsensical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s why to end a conversation on transgenderism, just ask for a simple, non-self-referential definition of the terms \u201cman\u201d and \u201cwoman.\u201d And when I say non-self-referential, I mean you can\u2019t say \u201cI feel like a woman, therefore I am a woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For advocates of biology, the answer for \u201cwhat is woman\u201d or \u201cwhat is man\u201d is simple. You can look at chromosomes, the SRY genes, reproductive systems, verifiable answers to the question. For advocates of the position that some biological men are women or vice versa, there is no standard that can be applied. A man can become a woman \u2014 or a woman a man \u2014 at any time without any stable definition of man or woman whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to our pseudo-medical activists, gender identity is completely separate from sex. The separation between gender and sex relies on a simple fallacy: that gender is entirely socially constructed and thus separate from biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gender, in this iteration, would be all the various feminine qualities that adhere to womanhood, or the masculine qualities that adhere to being a male. According to these folks, gender and sex are completely different. And all of those gendered notions of femininity? They\u2019re completely separate from being a biological female.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This Cartesian notion that you can be a woman in a man\u2019s body \u2014 a soul in the machine because your gender is separate from your sex \u2014 is utterly unsupportable at any level. Everyone understands there are some attributes that are generally considered more masculine \u2014 chopping wood, being dumb \u2014 and some that are considered more feminine \u2014 being caring, being nice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These are distinctions that do appear in virtually all cultures. Some of that is undoubtedly biologically oriented and some is undoubtedly social construction. But it is simply ridiculous to suggest that if a boy is effeminate, he\u2019s actually a girl, or that if a girl is masculine, she might actually be a boy. But this is what gender theorists argue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The origins of the gender identity movement lie with a professor of medical psychology at Johns Hopkins in the 1960s. His name was John Money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After twin boys were born, and after a botched circumcision destroyed one boy\u2019s penis, that boy was raised as a girl. By the time that boy was a teenager, the boy felt extraordinary discomfort because he was biologically male, and his parents told him the truth. Both twins ended up killing themselves in their mid-thirties.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That didn\u2019t stop John Money from founding the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic in 1965. His theory was children could identify as members of the opposite sex and that radical surgery was the proper solution \u2014 that inside, these kids were members of the opposite sex in reality, and that surgery would really make their bodies align with their identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Money claims that \u201cthe gender identity gate is open at birth for a normal child no less than for one born with unfinished sex organs, and would stay that way for at least a year.\u201d So in other words, you could have a full biological boy with finished sex organs, and his gender identity was still open. Brains and bodies were considered in direct opposition, completely separate from one another contra science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Radical feminists like Judith Butler began arguing that all gender was socially constructed, and that therefore all inequalities in outcome between men and women could be laid at the feet of an evil, sexist society. If gender is a meaningless social construct created by society, why does it matter more than sex, which is actual, real biology? And why is gender more real than biology itself? Why would anyone need to change his or her body in order to align with gender \u2014 a social construction \u2014 when gender and sex are completely separate in the first place?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gender dysphoria \u2014 which is what we\u2019re talking about here \u2014 is a serious and tragic disorder. It is also extremely rare. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual\u2019s fifth edition, those who had received a diagnosis of gender identity disorder or transsexualism and were seeking hormone treatment and\/or surgery\u201d represented just 0.005% to 0.014% for males and 0.002% to 0.003% for females. Those stats are now rising dramatically.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>People suffering from gender dysphoria \u2014 which, in its non-politicized definition, means the persistent belief that you\u2019re a member of the opposite sex \u2014 have a tragically high suicidal ideation and depression rate. The suicidal ideation rate remains tragically high after surgical and hormonal treatment. Longitudinal studies that are good just do not exist on the efficacy of these measures, and the mental health problems associated with gender dysphoria remain extremely damaging, even in particularly accepting societies. But suffering from a mental disorder does not change your underlying sex any more than believing that you are Napoleon Bonaparte makes you Napoleon Bonaparte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Transgender activists make an objective claim about reality based on subjective internal feelings. That\u2019s unsustainable. Once more, transgender activists demand that you abandon reason, biology, privacy \u2014 even the ability to raise your kids in concert with reality \u2014 in favor of a delusional quasi-religious worldview in which gender and sex are completely segregated and a boy can be a girl and a girl a boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, none of this means that anybody suffering from gender dysphoria ought to be mistreated. Anybody with any sort of disorder ought to be treated with nothing but sympathy and care, but this does mean that a society that seeks to propagandize to children that they can switch their gender is both lying to kids and doing them psychological harm and process. Unfortunately, that\u2019s exactly what our society is now teaching kids in public schools: anti-biological nonsense, including the lie that you might just be a different gender with different pronouns.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And it\u2019s not just that, but the new Equality Act.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Biden administration and the Democratic Party are seeking to promote the idea that any institution that doesn\u2019t mimic these lies has to be destroyed. Religious institutions are not exempted from federal regulations that demand that men who identify as women be treated as women. This is true in sports, in restrooms. Ironically, feminists who sought to protect women from men have now seen female spaces completely destroyed because they can\u2019t define female and male properly.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most shockingly, we are now a society that demands that parents hand over their kids to the tender mercies of political actors masquerading as medical specialists. If you have a twelve-year-old at school with a headache, the school nurse cannot prescribe to them Tylenol without calling you first, but we now have officials in states and in the federal government suggesting that if a twelve-year-old says that she is a boy, the school should be able to prescribe puberty blockers without calling the parents. That is a sick society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the end, a man claiming to be a woman is making an unsustainable claim. He can\u2019t even know what it is like to be a woman because he is not one. A man with surgeries and hormone treatment does not become a woman, nor does a man who simply declares himself a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All of this is insane propaganda that is being propagated for political purposes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So, no, a man cannot become a woman, or a woman a man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we\u2019re going to discuss a very common question: can a man be a woman? 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