Transgenderism vs. Reality
October 3, 2016
OKLAHOMA Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper at Life Site News:
“Now how in the world is it possible for anybody to be pro-woman if they now, under the Title IX ‘Dear Colleague’ letter, which tells us to deny the biological fact of the female, and give her rights — the biological female’s right to the athletic field and to her shower and to her toilet and to her facilities — give those rights to someone who fancies himself or fabricates female identity out of thin air?” Piper asked.
Denying biological reality “insults the female,” Piper said. “It dumbs down the definition of the human being to nothing but a fabrication and a fantasy rather than a biological fact. Now why would I want to do that and why would anybody who’s pro-woman — why would a classical feminist ever [want to] buy that particular line of thinking?”
Piper blasted political correctness and the prevailing mindset that universities should reward students for having opinions rather than pursuing the truth.
“You pursue truth because it’s an objective reality, it’s out there,” he said. “Go get it, embrace it, learn more of it — that’s the objective of going to college in the first place.”
— Comments —
James N. writes:
My favorite trope on this subject is “That man cannot be(come) a woman, because he was never a little girl”
One of my grandma’s favorite things to say was that there was a little girl from the 1890s living inside her old self.
Nick writes:
While I see the rational behind the rhetorical question, Piper misses something more fundamental.
A friend of mine recently made a similar remark by asking why Hillary could be a defender of woman’s rights while also supporting transgenderism.
But the problem, again, is the nihilism behind progressivism. Lawrence Auster often pointed this out. Nobody of course, to them, is born a female (or as a specified anything for that matter).They chose to identify with this or that idea of femininity, whether they consciously remember making that choice or not; and if not that, then certainly it’s that they choose to go on thinking that their sexuality is a real quality. Whatever the case might be, there is first a choice to “identify” with an idea. The idea gets confused as something real and, over time, that idea is reified.
The mission of the progressive is to set people free from the delusion that these ideas – family, race and ethnicity, sexual distinctions, religion – are in any way real or based upon or in real things. They must deconstruct these ideas and return them to the realm of “pure concept”.
Have you ever met a progressive liberal that scoffs or argues with you (or anyone) if you defend traditional femininity by first qualifying it as a lifestyle among many others? No. Because by saying this you’re suggesting there is nothing unique or more distinguished about traditional femininity; indeed, you’re denying it’s unique place within reality.
And that’s really all the progressive wants you to think. Go on with your modesty, with your chastity; with your babies and housework; with your roles and your traditionalism. As long as it is something you choose – and only a choice and nothing more – there can be peace with the progressives.
Piper misses this. As long as people think femininity – or any gender – is a choice we identify with, built around a lifestyle that’s no more rooted in reality than the next, they’ll defend them all equally, because to them they’re all equally a concept only.
Laura writes:
Piper is trying to critique transgenderism from a liberal perspective (even that takes courage these days, so I give him credit), but you’re right, it doesn’t work.
You have eloquently explained why transgenderism is in keeping with feminism even though transgenderism exalts the sexual stereotyping feminists hate.
What hubris it all is.
Dan R. writes:
My reality yesterday afternoon involved sitting at a library computer and having a large person dressed in female clothing sit down at the computer next to mine. I immediately sensed something very odd about this person and couldn’t help but be curious, as for all the talk of transgenderism, I don’t actually see many in the course of a day…week…month…year. I certainly didn’t want to make my curiosity obvious, but did steal in a couple of glances and saw a pair of hands that would be large even for a man, and a wrist noticeably larger than my own. I got a better look when she left. She was, I would guess, in her sixties, of average height for a man, but again, big-boned even by that standard. She was very social (let me state that the use of female pronouns pertaining to her is used advisedly throughout). Watching her talk with the woman at the reference desk, her voice was odd and her mannerisms stereotypically female. It turns out she is involved with the Friends of the Library, and as I was leaving just a few minutes later she was arranging some books left in a box and bag by a donor to the free book cart located at the library entrance between the two sets of front doors. I spoke with her, interested in getting a sense of what she was like. Clearly someone personable and friendly, but all the while the voice struck me. Not deep, but seemingly contorted in a way that eliminated deepness from the picture. She had the mannerisms down well, so much so that in the end I even began to doubt my evaluation, but it then struck me that throughout our brief one-minute exchange there was also the absence of any femininity other than the surface manifestations. The femininity that leaves you certain you are talking with someone “who was once a little girl!” And lastly, the irony to the situation: when she first sat down next to me I was in the process of going to the TTH page, with the Transgenderism vs. Reality post right at the top!
Laura writes:
The confusion and disorientation you felt is part of what makes this so diabolical. You have these furtive thoughts. You can’t focus on what’s before you. You are drawn to the person, trying to figure out whether your intuitions are real. You are deceived. It’s a con. The “transgendered,” whatever their psychological vulnerabilities and problems, are compulsive liars.
