New York Times On Transgender Changes In Public Schools, Social Media, And More: Cultural Decay With "The Freedom To Choose Your Pronoun"

The New York Times reported on September 30, 2011 that there are "semantic variations" that "are part of a nascent effort worldwide to acknowledge some sort of neutral ground between male and female, starting at the youngest ages." The article tells you how Katy Butler, age 16, "updated her status on Facebook with an enthusiastic shout-out for Google+, the social network’s latest rival. 'Oh my God Google! I love it! I was signing up for Google+ and they asked me my gender and the choices were male, female or OTHER!!!!! Oh ya Google!'" The article then explains that she first encountered "transgendered" indoctrination in public school in seventh grade. It was there that she learned about a "gender option at a meeting of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Allies (LGBTQQA)." Further, "[i]n the United States, the transgender movement is beginning to find advocates in high schools." The article reports that a "growing number of high school and college students...are questioning the gender roles society assigns individuals simply because they have been born male or female." Western governments are now adopting these changes as "Australia last month issued new passport guidelines allowing citizens to give their official gender as male, female or indeterminate. In Britain, the Home Office is also considering a third gender category on passports, according to reports." In fact, FoxNews.com just reported that a lesbian couple in Berkeley, California has begun subjecting an 11 year old boy to hormone treatments.

Rabbi Avi Shafran stated in June 2011 that "from the perspective of the Jewish religious tradition, a person’s sexual identity is dependent on the sex he or she is born as, assuming that the person’s genitals are unambiguous." Rabbi Shafran's opinion is clearly the traditional Jewish position, but it in fact represents the wider traditional position before alternative feminist ideas were introduced. I quote Rabbi Shafran because his position represents a much wider approach to this issue that happens to be the uniformly understood.

Does anyone really believe that children and teens, or society as a whole, really will be better off with the traditional perspective under assault, being eroded and even completely abandoned?

There are those that have been taught to believe that "gender" is not binary (unlike one's "sex" which is determined by one's chromosomes). The fact is that their are two genders: Male and Female. That is absolutely binary. That's why Google + had to add a third category, "other," because it's outside that "binary" idea. The "traditional" and always understood perspective of what makes one a male or female is exactly as Rabbi Shafran puts it. For anyone to pretend they are unaware of this perspective, or that it is not "traditional," is to pretend the absurd. As Dr. Ritch C. Savin-Williams, director of the Cornell University Sex and Gender Lab put it, “These teens are fighting the idea that your equipment defines what it means for you to be a boy or girl." Your equipment do indeed define whether you are a boy or girl. That's binary, and obviously so, and to pretend otherwise is a sign of a society turning insanity into normalcy by indoctrination.

I would point out that I took postmodern literature in college and learned about these feminist ideas (when studying feminist literature) as well. I just never bought them. The fact is that there are two genders (male and female), and that is inescapable. What is happening is advocating an the idea of telling little boys and girls that they are not boys and girls, but they are only what they feel. I don't think a person is a sum total of his ridiculous emotions. Some mornings I wake up feeling like crap, that does not turn me into a turd. There are some things that are unchangeable. One of those things are that males are males, and females are females, and that males cannot be females and females cannot be males.

It is an absolutely radical agenda "worldwide" "starting at the youngest ages" to teach children that they are not boys or girls, but that they can and should "choose a pronoun." One can discuss and debate proper gender roles for many moons, but that is a wholly different issue than teaching the "youngest ages" that "sexuality" is literally meaningless and that everything has to do only "with who you feel like inside.” There are some things that are beyond the purview of society and child education, and are a sign of a society in decay, and this is clearly such a case. Tweet