‘A BOY twirled [in my office] and said to me, “You see, I’m a Prius . . . I’m a boy in the front, and I’m a girl in the back”. I started meeting a whole bunch of other gender hybrids. And so we have the gender Prius, we have a gender Minotaur. And most of the kids who are gender minotaurs love mermaids. So make sure you have a lot of mermaid books. If you really you think about it, it works.’
These words are taken from a Nordic Times interview with trans ideologist Dr Diane Ehrensaft, chief psychologist at University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital and professor at the UCSF School of Medicine, California.
According to Ehrensaft, children are driving what she calls a ‘gender revolution’ where they can be ‘gender hybrids, changing gender according to the season or have multiple gender identities at the same time’.
A couple of days ago, in the Spectator, Icelandic MP and chairman of the Centre Party Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson gave an account of how he helped salvage a conference hosted by a newly founded organisation campaigning for the rights of gay and bisexual people by offering them the party headquarters for their event. The organisation had been denied the use of two previously selected venues following threats and harassment by trans activists. The activists immediately started harassing Mr Gunnlaugsson and other party leaders, trying to force them to throw out the gay rights conference. It seems the gay rights campaigners’ opposition to men claiming to be women being allowed into women’s private spaces and women’s sports, their sceptical stance towards explicit sex education for toddlers, and their reluctance to support gender change treatment for children is what won them the blue-haired activists’ unbridled fury. But Gunnlaugsson and his people didn’t budge and the conference, featuring among others a human rights law professor at King’s College London, eventually went ahead.
Reading Dr Ehrensaft’s comment on the child identifying as a boy in front and girl at the back, illusion unavoidably comes to mind. Here we’re not talking about the ancient philosophical idea of external reality as an illusion, as a veil, the great maya hiding the ‘true’ nature of the world, but the illusion that our own delusions can replace it. Since we cannot imagine reality away, succumbing to this illusion we end up by contradicting ourselves. Just like Ehrensaft does, talking about a child being simultaneously a boy and a girl, while at the same time acknowledging that he is in fact a boy.
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