Self Identity and the Sacrifice of the Truth

Today I am going to address an issue that has come to pervade every aspect of our society. Self identity that does not in any way align with reality. Not too long ago if a white woman said she was black or a man said he was a woman we would have thought the idea ludicrous and labeled them delusional, or even mentally ill. Now the idea that one can self identify as anything that has no connection to physical reality is not only tolerated but celebrated. And with the marriage of this idiocy to political correctness, these deluded people have used the power of the state to force everyone to embrace their absurdity.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell

For a growing segment of society, sexual or gender identity is the defining attribute of a person. Once upon a time, sex and gender were basically synonyms and referred to the male or female of a species, including homo sapiens, based on physical characteristics and chromosomal fact. Sex still means this but has been relegated to irrelevancy. Gender has become an expansive term that encompasses not only how one identifies oneself but who one is sexually attracted to. Normal has been redefined. Now it is normal to be gender fluid and what was once natural heterosexuality is, at the benign end of the spectrum, boring, and at the other end, oppressive.

“We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.” Judith Butler

In a truly free society these aberrations would be tolerated as the choices of deluded individuals. A free society does not punish such people as long as they are not harming anyone. No one cares what you do in the bedroom or who you are attracted to. But in a free society one is not forced to associate with people one views as abnormal or deviant. One individual's self identity does not trump another's freedom of association. However, we do not live in a free society.

Today, the values and ideology of the deluded are superior to every other individual's values and they use societal shaming and political and legal force to enforce this idea. Religious values must defer to the deviant. A fundamentalist christian church must hire the transsexual youth leader and the seminary must accept the applicant in a gay marriage. Private organizations must accept individuals who scorn their values. Men claiming to be women dominate in women's sports, a slap in the face to every female athlete. A man claiming to be a woman is declared woman of the year and another wins a beauty pageant. Libraries hire men in drag to read to children to normalize their deviancy in the child's eyes. Hospitals stop putting “sex” on birth certificates assuming that the child will choose their gender later. Children are taught gender fluidity and given hormones corresponding to their impulsive choices.

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” Ayn Rand

However, this is not just a conflict between people who hold different values, it is a problem that tears at the very fabric of a society. A civilization that rejects objective truth and supports delusion loses any meaningful standards that inform interactions among people. If we no longer accept the objective and irrefutable fact that an individual with a penis at birth is a man and no amount of surgery or hormones can change that biological fact, then there is no other objective truth that cannot be assailed. How can we communicate with each other if facts don't matter and truth is based on how one feels at the moment? In order for society to work individuals need to make inferences about the future based on facts and individuals interact based on consistent behavior and a set of agreed upon values and truth.

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell

If two people look at something and their reality consists of the way they feel it should be, they way they believe it to be, and the politically and socially acceptable way it should be viewed instead of the way it actually is, how can they communicate, how can they plan, how can they solve problems? Ignoring reality is a recipe for societal disaster. It is time to speak truth and live truth no matter how precious the lies are to others.