Hannah Arendt, who fled Germany in 1933, later wrote that long before Jews, Roma, gays, Communists and others could be herded into death camps, they had to be “denationalized” — excluded from the society that guaranteed their legal rights. Enlightenment thinkers had posited that just by virtue of existing, each person has inalienable rights. Arendt, however, observed that the “right to have rights” could be guaranteed only by a political community. Without a state to claim them as their own, people have no laws, no courts and no political mechanisms for protecting rights....It is a scientific fact that only two sexes exist, that they are established at conception and are immutable.A country that has pushed one group out of its political community will eventually push out others. The Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on trans people can seem haphazard, but as elements of a denationalization project, they fall into place. In his Inaugural Address and one of his first executive orders, President Trump asserted that only two sexes exist: male and female, established at conception and immutable. Trans people, in other words, do not exist. Executive orders aimed at banning any mention of transgender people in schools, banning trans athletes from women’s sports, ordering a stop to gender-affirming medical care for people under 19 and barring trans people from serving in the military followed.
The State Department stopped issuing passports with the “X” gender marker and began issuing passports consistent with the sex the applicant was assigned at birth, even if the person had legally changed gender....
There is nothing that any Enlightenment thinkers ever said to indicate that people have a right to an X gender marker on passports, or to compete in opposite sex sports, or anything like that. This whole concept of trans rights is a modern fiction that Enlightenment thinkers would have rejected.
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Much like many women who have strong political opinions about abortion without actually knowing anything about what one medically entails, I wonder how many journalists have actually gone through the trouble to inform themselves about what vile mutilation is done to a male body to cut it into a caricature of a female body? You can't treat mental illness by encouraging and promoting mental illness, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable or guilty. Pretending to confuse or 'misidentifying' an apple with an orange does not change an apple into an orange. I would also add that precious few are born intersex requiring some necessary surgery at some point, by far most of those claiming to be 'trans' are far more likely just vulnerable gay people on the autistic spectrum who have been talked into believing they were 'born into the wrong body' by idiots who have no excuse not to know better. Talking a person into mutilating their own body so they can feel helpful and politically validated is EVIL.
I studied art history and did a semester of life drawing in college. To understand how to draw the nude human figure you become well acquainted with human anatomy. At no time in the entire course did anyone ever under any situation confuse a man with a woman. Not once. Young, old, skinny, fat, muscular, or just toned, men and woman are similar, but skeletally and proportionally there are dramatic structural differences that no one can ever confuse...unless they are just not looking or they are trying to be confused.
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