“What is a Woman?” is the title of a very recent feature about transgenderism in New Yorker Magazine. It focuses on a bitter debate going on between transgender activists and radical feminists. The trans activists would have you believe that being a woman is something you can define for yourself. They’d say a man is a woman if he believes himself to be so. “Not so!” retort the radical feminists who reject that idea pretty much as just another example — quirky but more insidious than ever — of male chauvinism. The latter call themselves “rad fems” and seem to be a remnant of the feminism of the 60’s. Rank and file feminists of today have marginalized and abandoned them, choosing to fall in line with the trans agenda.
If you have the chance to read the New Yorker piece at the link above, you’ll want to ask yourselves these questions: What do the trans activists want? What do the rad fems want? What exactly is going on here? And what has it got to do with me? On the last point I would say it has everything to do with you. This is not a debate we can chuckle about on the sidelines. For those not tuned into the gender wars, this may seem amusing.
But I personally see nothing amusing about it. There’s something seismic going on beneath the surface and we ought to be very aware of it. What is really at stake here is not merely a matter of defining what a woman is. There is a hidden and much bigger question at stake: “What is a Human?” And that’s the question the trans agenda really intends to settle for each and every one of us. It’s intended to define all of us and all of our personal relationships.
Let’s pay attention . . . to be continued tomorrow.
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