I kinda feel like with this transgender stuff, the left just sort of just threw it out there, yelled, “You’re all bigots!” and didn’t even try to explain things. So Bradley Manning now wants to be now known as “Chelsea” and the left just immediately started screaming, “You have to accept this!” Okay, ignoring the fact about whether we have to respect the naming choices of someone who was dishonorably discharged for aiding the enemy, there’s a lot the left needs to at least try to explain here before calling us all bigots… and I suspect the reason they don’t is they have a lot of left-wing nonsense running into conflict with each other on this one.
First of all, isn’t Science! supposed to be important, and isn’t gender actually a scientific thing? Your gender is determined by which chromosomes you have, right? I mean this is basic biology. Gender is not an opinion or a religious concept; it’s an actual science thing. Don’t you have to at least have to try to explain around that one before calling us all intolerant?
Well, I looked up gender identity disorder on Wikipedia to look up myself whether they try to put any science behind this, and the best they have is one scientist saying that some men have a female structured brain — despite having the Y chromosome — and some women have a male structured brain — despite lacking a Y chromosome. Now what does this run in conflict with?
That’s right! The feminists! They say gender is a social construct, but now we have scientists saying that there are big differences between men and women brains. At least one of these groups on the left — the feminists or those saying transgender is a normal thing — are full of crap. Of course, I’m open-minded and willing to accept they’re both full of crap, but at least one of them is spouting nonsense and it seems like the left should have hashed that out before bringing this all up to us bigoted right.
And that’s not the only problem with the “Transgender stuff is normal and you have to accept it and don’t think about it!” It runs in conflict with a lot of the sexual preference stuff too. I mean, we have states banning conversion therapy because SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS PERMANENT AND CAN’T BE CHANGED! But… gender can be changed. And gender — of which we know what actual chromosomes cause it — is not a real thing or something, but homosexuality — cause still not determined — is a totally set thing that can’t be questioned. We’re supposed to pretend this all makes sense? Not only does this run in the face of science, it’s against basic logic.
Really, left, first get your crap together before yelling “Bigot!” at us. Why don’t you all go back to the drawing board, do some up-twinkles and down-twinkles votes, and then come back to us with some sort of coherent story on all this, okay?
Perhaps one could ask a woman if she feels comfortable naked in front of other women, like in a gym shower. Now ask her if she would feel the same way with a man naked there as well, a man who tells you he thinks of himself as a woman. I wonder how quickly the scientific definition of gender would return to biology and not sociology.
“male structured brain” vs. “female structured brain”
I’m only guessing, but would the so called male brain have mini-testicles scattered about while the female brain has little mini-ovaries all neatly arranged?
I ask because I’ve always thrown my dirty socks in the corner.
I am not wild about having to pay for Manning’s operation, unless it was one that involved a firing squad.
If he’s going to be in prison for 35 years maybe he’s just trying to get ahead of the curve.
If they had any sort of coherence they wouldn’t be leftists in the first place.
Hey, he figures he’s gonna be in a while, why not be “gay for the stay”? As for paying for his operation, I would imagine there’s plenty of people in stir waiting to slice his dick off, no charge.
Brains scare liberals. That’s why they don’t use theirs.
“That’s right! The
feminists!gal-quida say gender is a social construct, but now we have scientists saying that there are big differences between men and women brains.I would say most gal-quida members haven’t quite left the ape stage, much less developed a brain. Science!
Are these the same scientists! that preach man made global warming?
Even the liberal bastion of Wikipedia calls it a disorder.
So if bob doesn’t want to do Bubba, is he a racist? Can transweiners be racists?
If a leftist is confused, how do you tell?
The weird sex crowd might have wanted to have a slightly more…steady?…poster child. I mean, Manning must have been like “I know what I’ll do. I’ll commit espionage and then the Bureau of Prisons will give me a sex change operation. Profit!! No men’s prison will have me and no women’s prison can hold me! I’m the world’s first, fully operational, pre-op tranny criminal genius. Surely Chaz Bono will be mine, now!”
Plus, who would want the same government that built the Chevy Volt to operate on your privates?
One thing that is being missed in all this is that Bradley Manning had claimed his “gender identity disorder” was one of the reasons he broke his oath, violated the law, and committed treason. So, if this is the cause of his treason then doesn’t that mean that people with this disorder are security risks and should be barred from the military?
If “gender identity disorder” is the root cause of Manning’s treason, then people with this disorder should be discriminated against in military service
I believe we’ve established by now that the left has no appreciation for objective truth in any o fits forms, and subscribes only to the operative truth of the moment that advances their agenda. Such operative truth may be completely disregarded and replaced at a moment’s notice in favor of the new operative truth, and such operative truths have no requirement to not be in conflict with whatever other operative truths are being used at the moment, because as noted up front, the truth itself doesn’t matter, only advancing the agenda matters.
As for “science”, its a useful source for operative truth when it advances the cause, and is ignored when it doesn’t. When the left screams about “science!”, what they want is cushy grant money for left-wing tenured professors and their little academic ivory towers.
I really don’t care what Bradley Manning wants his cellmate to call him! It will probably start with a “B” and end with “itch”.
@10 Ben
“…then people with this disorder should be discriminated against in military service.”
i’m old enough to remember when being “discriminated against in military service” meant you were drafted.
Great argument!
Also, why do we allow identical twins to both vote? Seems we could have enough diversity if only one votes.
I long for the olden days when spies use to sell secrets to the Russians for a million dollars. Manning gave all that data away free. Just think, if he would have sold it to the Russians he could have paid for his own sex change operation.