The root of transgender fanaticism?

 

David Cole offers his thoughts.

The core belief of trannyists is that children are born genderless. Doctors make a guess—they “assign” a gender—and until kids “discover” their true gender (i.e., until an adult leads them to it), they’ll be condemned to a life of misery and suicide.

This game runs on the Scientology engine. Hubbard’s the template: We’re all born with “thetans” inside us, and that’s why we’re unhappy. But Scientologists can pry the thetans out (for a fee). And then we’ll be blissful!

Now, there was another mania that used the Scientology template, and by studying that mania, we can answer the question about women and trannyism: the 1980s child molestation panic (and the adjacent Satanic ritual abuse panic).

For most Americans today, that period is either a distant memory or something that happened before their birth. At best, people know the vague details. There was a mass psychosis in the ’80s and early ’90s that led to teachers and day-care workers being falsely charged with outlandish molestation crimes including sacrificing children to Satan and raping babies on altars.

The molestation/abuse panic was rooted in a “truth” that mirrors trannyism almost exactly. Your unhappiness is caused by the fact that you were molested as a child. This is cart/horse stuff. It’s not “I was molested therefore I’m unhappy,” it’s “I feel unhappy therefore I was molested.” Children who acted up or out, who seemed distressed, sad, distracted, or who did poorly in school, must therefore be molestation victims. And it was up to child psychologists, therapists, and behavioral experts to extract the memories of that abuse.

As in trannyism, the mania was built around the “discovery” of (and blind belief in) a false principle.

The trannyism craze: “An unhappy kid indicates a kid who was assigned the wrong gender at birth and I must suss out their true gender in order to save them.”

The molestation craze: “An unhappy kid indicates a kid who was molested and I must suss out the molestation in order to save them.”

Here’s where the trannyism and molestation crazes deviate from the Scientology template: Scientology is all about money. Trannyism and molestation mania are/were largely about mindless do-goodism.

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But there was a problem, and this is why the molestation panic flamed out within a decade while the tranny craze won’t: The molestation panic pitted two female-dominated professions against each other. Child psychologists/behaviorists vs. elementary school teachers and day-care workers (80 percent female professions). Of the innocent people arrested in 1980s/90s molestation panics, most were teachers/day-care workers, and many were women.

Drove the teachers’ union crazy! If you read articles from that era, the teachers—collapsing under an onslaught of accusations and witch trials—sound like parents today complaining about tranny propaganda. “The kids are being brainwashed! Just because they say something’s ‘their truth’ doesn’t mean it’s true! The kids are falling for a fad; their friends say they’ve been molested, so they do too! The media’s feeding the frenzy! The kids are confused; it’s the job of adults to correct them, not indulge them!”

The tranny craze will go on much longer because this time, the teachers and the child psychologists/behaviorists are on the same side, united against parents. Teachers and shrinks (predominantly women) sussing out the “secret gender” of kids (to save them! To free them!) as parents and families pay the price, everyone having conveniently forgotten that just 35 years ago the shrinks were the ones doing the sussing and the teachers were the ones paying the price.

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Male trannies are easy to figure out: They’re typically autogynephiliacs. With them it’s sexual. But it’s not sexual with the female advocates. They see themselves as rescuers of children, just as they did during the molestation panic. That makes them more dangerous ... The women possess a savior complex. Fanatics convinced they’re saving the lives of children are damn difficult to defeat.

There's more at the link.

I don't know enough about the "Satanic panic" that began in the 1980's to comment on the parallels Cole draws;  I wasn't in the USA at the time, and was cut off from a lot of the hype and hysteria about it.  Nevertheless, it's easy enough to confirm that many of the most dogmatic, intolerant and over-the-top pro-transgender voices are those of women.  One only has to look at who's saying what about the phenomenon to understand that.  There's also a clear indication that support for transgenderism is fundamentally emotional rather than intellectual.  There's no rhyme, reason or logic to it;  it's all about feelings, as this well-known tweet demonstrated a year or two back.  The response is a perfect illustration of that reality.

Ignore facts;  ignore medical science;  just make a claim and repeat it ad nauseam, drowning out the voice of anyone who tries to disagree.  I see a lot of that in the transgender field, just as I've seen it in the race field, and the progressive politics field, and the criminal corrections field, and many others.  Whenever emotions dominate, fact and reason tend to fall by the wayside - usually with disastrous results.

That's not to say that all women are dominated by emotion, of course:  that would be ridiculous.  Men can be just as emotional about causes that are important to them.  However, in the transgender field in particular, it appears that women activists far outnumber men;  and it appears that emotions dominate and override intellectual discourse.  That's my personal impression, anyway, based on what I see in the news and social media.

There's one inevitable conclusion that I believe must result from all this brouhaha.  Transgender activists, transgender fanatics, appear to be fundamentally dangerous.  Having abandoned logic and reason and adopted emotional overload as their preferred approach, they'll shout down - even physically assault - anyone who disagrees with them.  The school shooting in Nashville two weeks ago appears to be another (extreme) reflection of that same instability, despite attempts by the news media and pro-transgender pressure groups to deny that or turn attention away from it.  Therefore, those of us who encounter such extremists should be prepared for such danger from them, and be ready to defend ourselves against them if necessary.  That's the reality of our present situation.  There's no other safe alternative.

Tucker Carlson appears to agree.

This is a group that has for years been committing acts of violence at rates much higher than you would expect across a cross-section of the population. To give a few examples, last year, a trans girl tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home. Then a self-described nonbinary shooter, also a member of the cult, murdered five people at her Colorado nightclub. In 2019, a trans teenager shot nine people in a high school, killing one, that was in Denver. In 2018, a mentally ill transgenderist shot up a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland. That massacre killed four.

So you can see where this is going, and you shouldn't be surprised by it. Mental illness leads to violence. This is a species of mental illness and there's no mental illness greater than the delusion that you are God. And that's exactly what this cult teaches its adherents, you are God, you can change nature with your will. ---- Now with the endorsement of the Biden administration, the terrorism that is the inevitable result of this belief system is accelerating. Police just arrested a man called William Whitworth, he's a transgenderist that uses the name Lily in the state of Colorado, apparently had a kill list and a manifesto. He was planning to attack three schools and churches and apparently some talk show host, too. So it would be nice to see this manifesto or the kill list, but of course, you can't see it because the authorities are, as they have in Nashville, hiding it. Now, why are they hiding it? Because they have to. When your religious views violate the unyielding laws of nature itself, you have no choice but to hide things. You have to. Deception is mandatory, and it will soon be reflected in the law. That is already happening in Canada, which is in some sense the new California. If you want to know our future, look north, not west. In Canada, transgenderism will soon be the justification for suspending all freedom of speech. A new law will ban speech that offends transgenderist near drag performances. So you can't complain.

So here's a rule of thumb that is worth tacking on your refrigerator because it explains so much. If the people who claim to be victims are working to oppress you, they're not actually victims. They are oppressors. And once again, with this cult specifically, that is inevitable. Because at its core is a provable lie, defied and revealed by the unchanging laws of science. We do not have the power to change our sex. It is in our DNA. It is in our bone structure. You dig up a fossilized skeleton thousands of years later, and you can tell its sex. We can't change that much as we might want to. Much as we might feel deep sympathy for those who want to, we still can't change it. That is true. And so, of course, they have to criminalize your observing that it's true because that is a challenge to the core of their faith. These are religious extremists on a jihad against the population. And in order to win, they have to force everyone to lie, period.

Again, more at the link.

Andrea Widburg sums up:

... there is no science to support the claim that people are “born in the wrong body.” If the only thing that can align the brain to the body is to receive hugely expensive toxic drugs and mutilating surgeries, the problem isn’t with the body, it’s with the system ... This is pure evil on the part of the leftist activists behind this movement.

More at the link.

What say you, readers?

Peter