‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ used to be the most welcome question an expectant mother could hear. I dare say a change is in the air, and one may soon be accused of transphobia for even thinking in such binary terms. Thank God so many parents are now raising ‘theybies’, which takes the responsibility out of your hands.
Pushy, middle-class parents used to one-up each other by celebrating their offspring’s eating disorders. Nowadays, a ‘trans’ baby is all the rage – and they’re getting younger. Instead of the ability to recite the ABC’s, it is increasingly becoming a child’s first duty to square the equation: XY = XX. In fact, if your next baby isn’t ‘trans’ in utero, exactly what kind of birthing person are you?
Despite the fact that up to 94% of children grow out of their transgender feelings (not to mention the devastating consequences for youngsters who end up regretting transgender surgery), the bandwagon championing children’s right to swap genders is picking up steam.
And it will continue to do so; all the while individuals benefit from pretending not to know what a woman is. The Labour Party (which to be fair, doesn’t usually know its arse from its elbow), has been particularly vocal on this issue; sniffing out votes from the unlikeliest of orifices.
David Lammy doesn’t know whether it’s transphobic to say only women have a cervix, but he knows it is ‘not accurate’. Annalise Dodds thinks being a woman ‘depends on the context’. Yvette Cooper refuses ‘to go down the rabbit hole’, while Keir Starmer insists ‘transwomen are women’.
It’s not only politicians with their hands in the till. Parents, lobbyists, influencers, celebrities and schools are all keen to get to grips with unwanted genitalia. Which is why, one school in Brighton proudly boasts 76 pupils identifying as transgender. When you consider that estimates of transgenderism range from 0.014% to 0.002% of the population, even graduates of the Diane Abbott School of Mathematics, can work out something doesn’t add up.
Those who claim their doubts about gender stem from compassion for a population they have likely never encountered, betray their political motivation when asked the simple question: ‘How come you still know what a man is?’
While ‘transwomen’ (males who think they are female) are around three times more common than ‘transmen’, it is ‘transmen’ who are more likely to undergo surgery. And yet, no one is telling men they are transphobic for objecting to women in their sports, women in their toilets, or women on their non-existent shortlists.
Of course they are not; because despite the bilge we routinely endure about the patriarchy, there is actually no benefit conferred upon women who pretend to be men – quite the reverse is true. Victimhood in terms of gender is still very much a one-way street – no one has figured out a way to monetise male victimhood, but female victimhood is big business.
Men pretending to be women benefit immediately, and not just in sport. They will suddenly find themselves twice as employable in STEM fields, as well as the warm embrace of every quota from the BBC to the Old Bill. They may access all-women shortlists, and become women’s officers. They will receive more funding for health treatments such as cancer, and be awarded higher grades at school. Their suicide and homelessness rates will plunge, while their treatment in court will dramatically improve.
Best of all, they will no longer have everyone from Gillette to the APA telling them what bastards they are because of their ‘toxic masculinity’.
The Left wants everyone treated equally of course, unless there’s a profit to be made – which is why all women are hapless victims, and all men are toxic, thick, violent oppressors. Just ask Sadiq Khan, who steadfastly refuses to deal with knife crime; preferring instead to demand an entire gender ‘Have a word’ with itself’
So, yes – we all still know what a man is, because you need someone to pick up the tab at the end of the evening. For that matter, we all still know what a woman is too. And for anyone who claims not to know, you really need to find out how they’re getting paid.
Pointing out female privilege? you will get some angry responses to that.
It would all be quite funny if it weren’t for the damage done to children, the risks in female prisons, the insertion of lie as fact across society (the idea you can change sex is scientifically illiterate, that technology doesn’t exist).
There’s a vast gulf between what you are, and what you might like to be. What you are is stamped, indelibly, in your DNA. What you might wish to be is swilling around in your brain.