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Transgender ideology is becoming sacrosanct, taken as a fact and not permitted to be questioned or criticised. It is treated as a sacred religion by those who actually believe in it. This has implications for all of society.

I don’t think most people believe that “trans women are women”, even when they say it.

I think most people who say it are afraid not to say it.

And then there are a small group of people who say it to make those who don’t say it afraid; very afraid.

“Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women.”

Woke Confession

If you’re on social media, you would have seen everyone from the United Nations to US President Joe Biden and London Mayor Sadiq Khan repeat the phrase.

“Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women.”

It’s like a religious confession; a sacrament of woke, if you will. When you say it, you prove that you have abandoned truth in order to fully embrace the new religion. You are a believer.

Repeating the woke liturgy is a way of signalling to everyone else that you have converted and so you won’t be any bother.

No matter how ridiculous or absurd things become, you won’t question anything. You’re a loyal member of the congregation of woke. You’ll go along to get along. And don’t the Emperor’s new clothes look good!

Total Control

If you secretly yearn to control and boss others around, the “trans women are women” confession is especially appealing.

Imagine having the power to bully people on social media or to get them fired from their job for not agreeing with obvious falsities.

Up is down! And if you don’t disagree, you’re a bigot who should be run out of town.

Imagine having that kind of power!

Forced to Lie

In George Orwell’s famous novel, 1984, Winston Smith is repeatedly asked how many fingers his captors are holding up. He is tortured every time he gives the correct answer. But he is rewarded when he gives the incorrect answer.

He is trained to lie and only allowed to get on with his life when his rulers are confident that he has bought the lie and will not deviate from it.

Consider what is happening today …

• Claim 1: A man cannot become a woman
• Claim 2: A man can become a woman
• Claim 1 is obviously true, but if you say it, you may lose your job.
• Claim 2 is obviously a lie, but if you say it, you may get hired and/or promoted.

Most people are going to stick with Claim 2, right?

I say all of this to say that it’s smart to remember that when you hear someone say “trans women are women”, they probably don’t believe it. Not even a bit.

They are saying it out of fear.

Or they are saying it just to let you know they have power over you. They’re putting you on notice that if you dissent, they will hound you off social media and perhaps ruin your livelihood.

So why not just go along. What’s the big deal? And besides, if it makes people happy, then isn’t going along with it a kind thing to do?

Erosion

Going along with trans ideology is one of the worst things we can do.

If they can make everybody bow down to this foolishness, as they are in the process of doing, then this foolishness will quickly become a sacred creed that no one can question, if indeed it has not become that already.

Our children learn that 1+1=2; ABC is followed by DEF; and “trans women are women”. Within a generation, it becomes impossible to even question. They are taught “trans women are women”, not just as an unquestionable empirical truth but as a moral truth.

This has consequences.

A society that begins with a false premise will arrive at false conclusions and end up with huge contradictions. Terrible decisions will follow.

Girl’s sport will become a pantomime. A man, like Lia Thomas, will win every event. Fellow competitors will applaud while muttering under their breath, “Cheat!”

And within a few years, young girls will realise there is no point in dreaming of playing sport.

Women’s spaces will become unappealing and, increasingly, unsafe, as women are forced to share bathrooms and prison cells and domestic violence shelters with men.

This is already happening.

Fracturing

But there is something yet worse happening that no one is talking about.

Having people repeat the mantra “trans women are women” destroys the moral fabric of the populace.

When you force the population to tell lies — to themselves and to their own children — you weaken their character, and you make them pliable for worse evils.

To say “trans women are women” is to willfully distort reality. When you speak nonsense, you eventually think nonsense.

If cultural elites can make you believe that men can get pregnant or that men can have periods, then they can make you believe anything at all. Anything.

While it’s true that most people don’t believe a man can become a woman, the frightening thing is that the majority are willing to pretend that they believe it. What other untruths might people be prepared to pretend in order to get along?

Where does a society like that end up?

We are witnessing the birth of a new religion and, with it, the potential for all kinds of evil.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.
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