“Gender dysphoria” is the clinical term describing the feeling that “one’s emotional identity as male and female to be opposite to one’s biological sex.” Although this term may very well incorporate subjective feelings of inadequacy, shame, or anxiety that may be debilitating, a man, if such is the case, continues to be nothing other than what he biologically appears to be, a man. Our biological makeup is decisive in our presentation to others, notwithstanding incongruous fantasies or feelings we may experience.
A transgender male or female may have a rightful claim on our understanding and commiseration as a fellow human being. The transgender community may even accept our condolences, but to demand unfettered access to public facilities (e.g., bathrooms, changing areas, and showers) different from their biological sex, is beyond the bounds of reason and human decency.
Somewhere along the line we’ve lost our capacity to distinguish between what is normal and what is an aberration. It is likely the case that this tragic turn of events took place when the American Psychiatric Association abandoned all scientific pretensions and became politicized and “politically-correct,” the net effect of which was to normalize what is commonly understood as perversion.
Nevertheless, the most egregious and disorientating development has been the de facto expulsion of religion from the public square which, among many other things, prevents us from calling things by their proper names. Public institutions arrogate to themselves prerogatives for which they have no competence as, for instance, transmuting that which is indecent and foul, i.e., government-sanctioned exhibitionism, into that which is virtuous and good. Further, the government’s imposition of the well-publicized demands of the transgender community is diabolical in its concentrated malice against those who wish preserve their modesty in defense of purity, particularly our children.
Frederick Becklo
Florence