Transgender Politics is the Easy Way Out

Anyone should be able to do whatever they want, regardless of the stereotypical confines of their biological sex, as long as it does not harm others.

This is a maxim that both liberal feminists and radical feminists would agree with. The solution should be to eliminate the stereotypical confines. However, this is not possible in 2018, so rather than try to move toward that end, liberal feminists have invented the concept of gender in an attempt to mitigate the effects of the stereotypes for certain fringe individuals (while paradoxically strengthening the stereotypes for society as a whole). The concept of transgender is a much easier pill for middle America to swallow than the possibility of gender confines being pointless nonsense.

Consider a hypothetical: a biological male working at a law firm decides to wear a skirt to work. Law is a rather conservative industry, so the dress code does not allow men to wear skirts. The attorney’s boss gets annoyed and asks him why he is wearing a skirt. The most earnest answer would be “because I want to, and the dress code is stupid,” but that is just going to anger the boss further, and interfering in such tedious office politics is not traditionally the end goal of many political movements. So the attorney instead says “because I am a woman, and women are allowed to wear skirts.” The boss doesn’t actually understand this either, but it doesn’t annoy him as much as the first answer would, and the political movement tells him “transwomen are women,” so he can carry on with his day silently wondering if he’s the only one not smart enough to see the emperor’s new clothes.

Therefore, the transgender movement is a way for the most feminine biological males to wear whatever they want wherever they want in 2018. Is this a laudable achievement? Sure. But should it come at the price of everyone else? Should “masculine-presenting” women be considered to be men, unless they tell us otherwise? Should children who don’t like the right color of clothes be injected with hormones? Probably not.

And then the liberal feminists get themselves tangled up in their own fake logic (or perhaps more cynically need to keep the coverup going so that no one catches on), so people who eschewed the stereotypical demands of yore—anyone from Dante Tex Gill to Joan of Arc—are labeled transgender instead of the true renegades who said “I want to, and the dress code is stupid.”