No, Federalists. We transpeople are not being totalitarian.
What is it that fear of transgender people is called? Oh, yeah. That would be transphobia. But you know what? Calling writer Stella Morabito at The Federalist transphobic for the article she produced...from whatever orifice it may have emerged...would not make me totalitarian. The designation neither robs her purse nor breaks her leg...and has no legal consequences.
Morabito is worried...about a lot. She's worried that transpeople can have children and thus redefine what it means to be a father or mother. She cites Thomas Beatty giving birth to 3 children during his transition from female to male. She worries that somehow how Thomas, and the rest of us transpeople identify somehow affects how other people are identified.
It’s not an overstatement to say that ENDA is a huge step, mostly under the radar, to codify a new definition of humanity.
--Morabito
She worries so much about this that she is searching for false analogies to apply in order to denigrate transgender people. For instance, she has written something called, If we can pick our gender, can we pick our age?
Yes...Morabito is one of those people who believes gender is defined by biology at birth. Basically, in other words, she doesn't understand what gender is...or how it differs from sex.
The legal destruction of gender distinctions will inevitably dissolve family autonomy, thereby uprooting freedom of association. Free expression becomes “hate speech” if one doesn’t fall into line with the directives of the transgender lobby or its pronoun protocol. Freedom of religion takes a direct hit any way you look at it.
--Morabito
Yes! We seek to destroy families! People will no longer be able to associate with their children!
And that pronoun thing! People will be jailed for not using appropriate pronouns!
What? The pronoun thing is about what is rude or not...not about what is legal or illegal? That doesn't occur to the writer at all.
More options of how to be human is not what will happen, according to Morabito.
Rather, it’s the setup for a gender vacuum. As you enter this vacuum of gender-neutrality, less and less separates and protects you from the State.
--Morabito
See! We told you! Totalitarianism! Maybe even antidisestablishmentarianism!
If gender distinctions are erased in law, all marriage will become legally obsolete. The elites pushing same-sex “marriage” have known this all along.
If we agree to change language to suit the transgender lobby, we ultimately agree to destroy in law the entire basis (sex distinctions) for the only union that can result in autonomously formed families. The implications for privacy and personal relationships are vast, and we need to understand that.
--Morabito
They told us so! Marriage will be destroyed!
Why? Because people will have choices.
The legal erasure of gender distinctions, especially as they relate to the conception, gestation, and birth of children, would effectively cut us off from our spouses and children in the eyes of the law. How can it be otherwise? Yeah, maybe in the bargain we’ll retain the right to “freely” call ourselves male, female, or other. But once we’ve in essence sold our birthright, this is nothing more than a bowl of pottage.
--Morage
Pottage, I say! Pottage! What the hell is pottage?
Pottage is a thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, grains, and, if available, meat or fish.
It was a staple food of all people living in Great Britain from neolithic times on into the Middle Ages. The word pottage comes from the same Old French root as potage, which is a similar type of dish of more recent origin.
Pottage commonly consisted of various ingredients easily available to serfs and peasants and could be kept over the fire for a period of days, during which time some of it was eaten and more ingredients added. The result was a dish that was constantly changing. Pottage consistently remained a staple of the poor's diet throughout most of the 9th-17th-century Europe.
--Wikipedia
Everyone will be serfs and peasants! Stone soup! End of civilization as we know it!
And this will all happen if transgender people are allowed to exist as human beings who are treated fairly.
Morabito's biggest fear, of course, is the quotation mark shortage. She will be severely restricted in her first amendment rights if their are not enough of those to place around the pronouns she uses.
There’s no end in sight. On the surface, the transgender package, with its assortment of gender identities, to many still resembles a fringe movement, or a passing fad. So lots of folks have been duped into thinking that the purpose of it all is to grant equal rights to a minority demographic. But it’s really about changing the language, and thereby redefining us all.
If gender distinctions are erased in law, all marriage will become legally obsolete.
Indeed, “civil rights” is always a nice line. It works well to stop debate. There’s lots of emotional blackmail involved because of the social punishments (labels of “hater” or “bigot”) heaped upon anyone who might question the agenda.
--"I am not a hater" Morabito
Linguistic fascism!
These convoluted lexicons foisted upon a docile public are daunting. And they’re no doubt meant to be. Interestingly, use of such linguistic gymnastics happens to be an essential device in teasing out a cult mindset.
--Morabito
We've reached cult status! Amazing!